Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Series Hasan al Basri
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My dear respected friends.
History is an extremely important part of any human beings life.
Because we as human beings with our very nature of being in sun
and human being, we're not the first to come into this world. We,
as a generation have come after numerous generations, many, many
generations passed by before us, maybe in terms of what we're
dealing with outside externally in terms of the technology that we
deal with the advancements that we enjoy. And everything else that we
indulge in, that seems to be very unique, our mobile phones and just
the whole fact that this is being recorded, and then inshallah
broadcasted for many more people to benefit in sha Allah. Maybe in
that sense, were unique. But as the insaan, we are not unique at
all, many, many insan many humans pass before us. So we've got a lot
to learn. And although the actual products that we're dealing with
the material products, that we're dealing with the technology, etc,
maybe that's different. But in terms of
the human emotions, we have the same emotions, we have a
challenge, to deal with greed, we have a challenge, deal with
enmity, anger,
the concepts of love, affection, emotion, all of these things are
nothing new to us, they weren't invented. These are part and
parcel of the human being right from the first man until us and
they will continue. So we can learn a lot. So although external
things may be a bit different, but we can still learn huge amounts
from people of the past, and especially in terms of us being
Muslim. And in terms of us living in this particular time, which
seems to be a time of a bit of a low.
We are at a time when it's a bit of a low unfortunately, it's a bit
of a challenge. Muslims everyday there's a smear campaign, whenever
in Ramadan, Subhan, Allah Ramadan was so beautiful this year, it
started off so beautifully. And then suddenly, within a few days
into Ramadan, I put I wasn't looking at news, but I just
happened to the app opened on my phone, I press the button and
three articles of bad news, Tunisia, and I don't know
somewhere else and somewhere else. It's just extremely, extremely
depressing. But so what do we need? We need the stories of the
past to keep us going during this time, anybody who is a product of
this time, and he only looks back 1520 years, and just kind of gives
a prognosis of what's going to happen in the next 10 years with
all the depression that you see. Then they feel extremely
depressed, they feel despondent, they feel that there's no mercy
anymore. Where are we going? Where are we going? This is how people
feel. But if you go back before 20 years, if you go back a few 100
years, if you go back a century, if you go back to the time
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and you read that history, and you
read about the ebbs and flows, the highs and lows, the starts and
stops, the pitfalls, and mashallah the times of elevation, then you
will see that this Amma has an IG fortitude, like no other, any
other OMA that has gone through what we have gone through and what
we are going through, it would not be able to survive, but Allah
Subhana Allah has given this ummah, this religion and iG
resilience, that yes, it will go down it will take a beating in a
sense, but it has the ability to come back up. And Allah subhanho
wa Taala uses individuals in this regard because it's humans that
make a change in this world is Allah subhanaw taala uses humans
to make certain changes in this world, it gives Sophia to certain
beings, Allah subhanho wa Taala enable certain people he inspires
certain people, certain groups, certain nations, and certain
individuals. And this is how it is when Allah subhanaw taala brings
wants to bring somebody down as mentioned circle Israa as well. He
mentioned the same thing that Allah subhanaw taala says that
Amarna mudra via Professor Kofi ha her for hochkar and Al Cole, for
her, Carly Hello, Cole. If we want to take some area down, then all
we need to do is we just command the people have access in those
communities, and then they begin to commit facade. And then after
that, the decree comes upon them. And then they are seized, and then
they are destroyed. So it's humans. At the end of the day,
humans have natural failings. So there's the ups and downs because
of that. So today, what we look at is we look at a quite a early
period, a very early period. We look at the time of Hudson
bacillary Rahmatullah Halley. He comes after Omar Abdulaziz. He
comes around that time just after Omar and Abdulaziz just after the
turn of the century
meaning that's when he becomes more famous, though. What happens
is
I'm going to not realize he is was an anomaly. And he becomes the
Khalifa despite the fact that he was not supposed to be in the
line. But his predecessor Subramanyam, Abdul Malik was on
his deathbed and his children were too young to be the next leaf. So
his advisor Raja ignore however, he whispered in his ear, or he
gave him some advice. This is what about your cousin, who is the
governor of Madina? Munawwara Omar, Abdullah Abdul Aziz. So he
thought that was a good idea. So then he said, Okay, fine, he's the
next leaf. So he became becomes the next leaf. And within two
years and four months or so, he manages to make a massive change
in the OMA. He gives back all the conflicts, confiscated lands, and
articles and commodities and everything that the omegas had
been stealing from the people or confiscating from the people, or
taking from the people thinking it's theirs and using the beetle
man as they wanted, he gave all that away. And of course, he
became hated within his own family ranks. His wife was the sister of
many beliefs that this is the daughter of Abdulmalik number 114.
I've been to Abdul Malik brothers. We've named them Malik Salima
Dibner Abdul Malik, he sham nabbed American all of these so she was
royal, he was married into the royal family and he was a cousin
of theirs as well. But he even took he even had her take her
ornaments and everything and and give it an her jewelry and
everything and give it back. So now the the people who are at the
greatest sense of loss were his extended family and his tribe. So
it says that it was plotted against him and he was killed
after him. It goes back into the omitted line. And it went back to
as it was after the death of Omar Abdulaziz. Things went completely
the whole state policy reversed again to what it was if not even
worse. And they Joe Hillier returned, essentially Joe Hillier
returned, you see the second, he took full advantage of the
situation, he took full advantage of the situation. And he
he allowed his whatever demands of his kinsfolk his family members,
they allowed them to go through. And likewise were his successes
was the same thing. During the rest of the Obama years, there
wasn't much promise that was shown at this time, the pursuit of
pleasure, it kind of replaced religion. Now you have to
understand that whoever is at the top, generally the effect of this
comes down to the bottom, there's a top down effect. There's also a
possibility of a
low to too high effect as well. But generally the more powerful
effect is up to down. So for example, it says that during the
time of Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, during his Khilafah people were
interested in architecture. So everybody was speaking about
architecture and building and ornaments and adornments and
beauty and all this kind of stuff. Because he is the one who's
responsible for building the great Jamia uma we in Damascus, may
Allah protected and Jerusalem mercy Luxan next door is the
Marwan all of that he is responsible for a lot of the good
architecture. The one that's very famous after him is Suleiman the
Magnificent ottoman, he's the one who's known for his architecture.
But earlier on, it was really didn't Abdulmalik when it was
today, man, if God didn't make his he was more into indulgence, he
was that he was a nicer person. But he was into more indulgence,
everything like that. So that became now that became kind of the
talk on the street and the trend SubhanAllah. Today, the government
is always talking about market economy and capitalism. So that's
what we're all in it. And especially if you live in London,
it's a massive craze for the property markets know where it's
gonna go. Everybody wants a piece of it, and people who aren't in
it, they feel depressed, that everybody else is in it, and we're
not in it. Everybody wants a piece of the pie. Right? And the lucky
ones apparently are those who are here, you know, many years ago and
bought lots of property on mortgage, may Allah subhanaw
taala, protect, protect them. So hair, that's these are just
different challenges of the time that humans deal with in different
places.
So that's what became the pursuit of pleasure, replace religion and
the masses, their main pastime became opulence, indulgence,
things of that nature. That became the big thing for them. There was
a massive moral transformation from the environment of nerve
disease. There was a massive moral transformation that took place it
degenerated. And, again, Islam was seen to have gone to the edge just
did had done before Omar Abdulaziz had come Rahimullah to to lead the
people again. It seemed like because when the when the rule was
When the leaders become corrupt, then as I said, the influence
comes down, then what's going to stop the people from also becoming
corrupt? So Masha Allah in that time, Allah subhanho wa Taala
always provides a savior, Allah subhanaw taala always provide
somebody. So at that time, you see the Prophet sallallahu Sallam had
for total this periods, the brothers, a lot of them said,
because when he saw that many, much of the wealth and the booty
had come from Bahrain, and he saw that the Sahaba, who are very
hungry and in need at the time, became very excited about it. And
the prophets of Allah Salam remarked about this, that I fear
that a time will come when you will vie with each other compete
with each other, after the pleasures of this world, the
materialism of this world, and you will be destroyed like the people
before you were destroyed. But then after Suha, you will vie with
each other about it. So this was a manifestation of that time, this
hadith in Sahih, Muslim very famous Hadith. However, it was
through unflinching resolve of certain individuals within that
time that Allah subhanaw taala had inspired. They had a steadfast
zeal, a very strong ambition, unflinching zeal in their sermons,
their lectures, their teaching the discourses that kept the Ummah
from degenerating into that situation. And from acquiescing
into that degenerated state, that Allah subhanaw taala used these
individuals, these individuals at the time, the famous names of the
time, they were many, but the more famous names of that time, maybe
you will be able to relate to some of them, say Dibner, Jubail was
one of them, Rahim Allah, Muhammad, even of serine it was
not just somebody sitting at home or sitting in an office,
interpreting people's dreams. He was an officer. He was a mohawk.
He was a great scholar, a great faculty, and he was also a wild
and a preacher and somebody who was worried about the spiritual
degeneration, the spiritual enhancement of the people rather.
So it is Muhammad Yunus sitting there was Imams shabby, and of
course, there's Hasson bursary, Rahmatullah. Here. It has an IGNOU
Yasar al bursary. He they're the ones who saved the people from
acquiescing to an utterly agnostic, characterised
spiritually in feeble existence. They're the ones who Allah
subhanaw taala used to protect the Ummah and we pray to Allah
subhanho wa taala, that Allah subhanaw taala give us the likes
of these individual. One of the main purposes of doing this series
is one is to revel at our role models, because when people have
role models to revel that it inspires them. It is not that
okay, these are people who came in who went, these are people who
came in but their pots. But what are we to do in that situation?
The benefit of knowing about these people is that they act as role
models, and in the absence of others. And today, in fact, when
our role models are being replaced by other role models, or the types
of role models, then we need to know about these people so we can
say yes, Islam has been glorified before. This is a forgotten
history. This is the last history. This is a crucial history that
needs to be had today that needs to be repeated and narrated today.
And may Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofik was born in 2001. Ah,
so that's not too far. Not that's not too distant, and not too much
of a distant time after Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
departed this world. And the most interesting thing is, his father
was Yesod, who was an emancipated slave of Zeytinburnu turbot on
great with a Syrian great writer of the Quran Zaid immunotherapies
Rahim Allah Allah so his father was an emancipated slave of his
and
his mother used to work in the house of almost Santa Maria Allahu
anha. So for for a number of years of his infancy he was brought up
by OMO Santa Maria Allahu Allah, because his mother was a slave for
almost an amount of the Allahu anha she would send her out to on
different chores, different activities. And when Hassan
bacillary Rahmatullah Haley as a small child and an infant would
would become agitated when it'd be in need of his mother get hungry,
or whatever it was, almost selamat er, the Allahu anha obviously a
widow Omaha of the Omaha mumineen. She would offer him her *,
just for that and for, for him to seek comfort from so in that
sense, you can see how much benefit he got from the household,
the blessed household of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. In fact, there's one statement about him in hijab of no
use of
there's there's a number of there's a number of things about
between him and hijab, even the use of but once
he was
hijab, hasn't boxing himself. He says that her judge once said to
said to me, ma Ahmed, aka Hassan, what is it that gives you your
strength? You know, where's your energy from?
Hamid duck in that in that means mothered in that means assistance,
help energy, you know, what keeps you alive, what gets you going?
What is it that benefits you and gives you the strength that you
have Muhammad Acharya Hassan, and he said Senator animal Khilafah to
your Amara, Senator Neiman Kayla Fatima, the two years that I spent
with Amara, the Alana here in his time, because this was
when he was being brought brought up almost no matter the Allahu
Ana, you know, she knew all the Sahaba etcetera, so she would take
him with her. So he would meet all of the Sahaba at that extremely
important time. And he went she he or she also took him to Amara
Amara, the hola Juan Omar Abdel Fatah Rania Lavon, and he made a
special dua for him. He said Allahumma ecofit been Allahu Allah
photography Deen will have been who in a nurse now the first part
of it is the same Dr. Su Allah someone gave to ignore bacillary
Allah Varna I'm going to be able to give it that Dr. To him. Oh
Allah fucky who fit been give him a true understanding of the deen
and making beloved to the people. And truly he was beloved. And many
people many of the Sufi chains today they they take their chain
all the way back to hustle and bustle and they feel that's a
great honor to do that. to Hasson bossy, Rahmatullah hear it.
There's numerous things about hustling bustling, he was an RGB
individual, believe me, and this is from experience I'm saying, if
you look at the books of FCM, pick up the CW cathedral of Sierra
imagery in poverty, or any of these great tafseer that quote
from the society here and you will see Carl Hasson Carl Hudson Hudson
says Hudson says which Hudson is this has an bursary In fact, I
think that in literature has an bacillary is more famous than
Hudson, ignore it, you know, the Allahu Anhu he's more well known,
doesn't make him superior to him has certainly hasn't ignored
either the Allahu Anhu is a Sahabi has an Al bacillary is a tabby. So
there's no comparison in that sense. But from a perspective of
who's mentioned more, who's more famous. In fact, there are many
people who know Hassan bacillary, he is the Hassan Khan, Al Hassan.
And believe me, you pick up the books of fic, the original fatawa
books, it will be talking about personal adversity, he has
opinions in jurisprudence. And if you pick up the books of Hadith,
he will have opinions in in Hadith, and you pick up the books
of depths of the soul. And again, you see the same thing. If you
pick up the books of aqidah he features prominently, because when
you have Watson Ignatov the first project the first you can say
who's been responsible, they say for starting the air design the
whole group of martyrs zeolites they say that Watson because he
used to attend the circles of Hasson Busey Rahmatullahi alley,
and there was one question that he posed Hudson bussing after like
gave a specific answer. And about where people who commit major sins
are going to be. And it's an or who people who commit major sins
What is their state is obviously the aquifer. And he came up with
the idea this was a liberal thought appears to have come up
with the idea that any Muslim who any believer who commits a major
sin, he is no longer a believer. So is here Catherine said no, he's
not a Katherine either. He's somewhere in between the two,
which is achieved kind of a hybrid situation because we say that even
the biggest sinner is still a believer. As long as he doesn't
reject his belief. Yes, he's a big sinner. He Is he is he he can be
punished, but he is still a sinner and a believer, whereas they said
no, let's take him out of belief. But he's not a full kafir either,
but he will be in hellfire somewhere. So this was a live No,
it was in the circles of Hassanal bossy Rahmatullah. God hasn't
bossy. ajeeb I mean, one of those ajeeb jam comprehensive
individuals. And that's why if I for example, take the opinion of
the hobby Imam the hobby he mentioned Imams or hobby tells us
who Imam Hassan bossy was, he says Can Orajel and Tom Mashallah. He
was a person with complete form, perfectly form. Like he was a very
beautiful individual, very handsome, Thomas shackle,
beautiful features. Molly has Sora extremely beautiful in his in his
complexion, and in his facial features, but he and shining,
shining individual of all that newer taco shining, what can I
mean a Shuja en el mo su foon. And yet, with all of that he was also
from among the most bravest of them, he was from among the most
bravest of them
shabby says
he was speaking to somebody and he said to him, he then authority
Isla edge either an authority Isla Raju in Edge, Mala al basura
you're speaking to somebody who's gonna go to bizarro, he says when
you see a person who will see him
Like the most handsome man of Butler to you, what a yerba whom,
and yet with the greatest or and dignity about him for who Al
Hasan. He is hasin bacillary fuckery hoomin is Salam give him
my salaams what a description. When you go to London, you're
gonna see this man who's like this, give him my Salam Subhan
Allah, he must have been so distinctive for him to have been
given that description.
That's why most of us are a allein, one of the great scholars
of Syria of recent times, he wrote a biography of Hassan basally.
He's a biographer of his, he says, For who will Imam will fill up
either he was the imam in aqidah, for whom Imam will fit I've seen
in the F series, the imam in hadith is an imam. In fact, he's
an imam. So he's not just I know a bit from here there another like
our other Mark today, you know, we know a bit about everything and
maybe a bit more about something else hopefully. Right? No, he was
a must seen all of these subjects. While he was an Imam, and while he
was awarded a preacher, he would make you cry by now. Subhanallah
hikma in hikma, he was a master who wisdom used to just roll off
his tongue alarm edible marijuana he and munkar he was the commander
to the to the right. And he was the one who would prohibit from
the evil. And at the same time Elijah he refused to fulfill
jihad. He was also the warrior in the battle ranks al Houthi rebel
MUFA with Phil Phil Halfhill. He was also the great orator who was
known but you know, to, to, to to rise up the to rise up the
gatherings and that's that's great man that he speaks about.
Jehovah Jehovah is one great Arabic literature scholar. He was
known to be great for his writing, when he was when he was asked.
He mentioned for Amalfi top when it comes to discourse when it
comes to lecturing when it comes to giving a talk about Yom Kippur
but for in Alana and if I hadn't yet put them on Hassanal bursary
her, we don't when it comes to that subject with that field, we
don't know anybody who can go beyond advanced beyond Hasan
Basri. In that subject.
It says that Abu Ammar Al Abdullah, either one of the self
Saudi him he mentions that Mara Ito Salman, Hassan Al Basri. Well,
Wamena hedging the use of I've never seen anybody more eloquent,
eloquent, more
articulate
in their speech,
more articulate in terms of the way the the role, the words roll
off their tongue, the choice of term, the choice of words, as you
know, as they say, in order to scale and fast get zero bump, say,
right now Schabel for us say, you know, this, Auto has an IG, but
Arabic is even more Jeep and all the takes from that Arabic. See,
the great thing about Urdu literature is that it can take
from the best of Hindi, it can take from the best of Urdu, from
sorry, from Persian from Farsi, and it can also take from the best
of Arabic And now maybe to its detriment, it can also take from
the best of English
because it's a mixed up language is made up of all of these things.
And if you really hear great audio, you will be inspired
Subhanallah you will be inspired if you see the great writers of
the past like I will Kalam will as well. Kalam, Azad shortish
Kashmiri, and would you call it
Ebola Cheb hurry Rahmatullah hurry, you will be amazed they
will speak from Fisher to from Asia to Fajr and keep the crowd
alive.
You know, for us, we get tired in one hour there that he thought was
was on a different level. Anyway, let's get back to our history.
So, Amber YBNL, Allah says, I have not seen anybody more articulate
and eloquent for see effective in their speech than has an bacillary
and hodzic new use of amazing hjem new use of was a tyrant killed
huge amounts of people, huge amounts of people, hundreds of
1000s of people, we're talking about people who shudder
In fact, he could make a blind man see again.
What do I mean by that? He couldn't do that. But he did it
once. He went by this man who was making dua to Allah subhanho wa
taala, a blind man who is making dua to Allah subhanaw taala Oh,
Allah, give me back my site, give me back my sights. So he called
him gave him a jerk. He gave him a push and he said, Do you know who
I am? says no, who are you? I'm judging the use of I'm going to
displace when I come back by the evening, I'm going to ask you and
if your site hasn't come back, you're dead.
And the person started making dua. Now he started making dua, when
her judging the use of came back the guy was seeing again
plus
it says this is exactly why I told you to do this your two hours
nothing you do our speaker this is our dog today. We make go Allah
help the OMA help the OMA change us do this for us do that for us.
That's the door.
So when he knew he was going to die, he started making serious
door. May Allah give us two feet for that kind of dua that makes
the person who's blind. See, again, subhanAllah, let's have
judging the use of for you. He had some good points, he had some very
good points. So despite that fact, when he would speak to his crowds,
he could make them guilty for thinking bad about him.
That's how eloquent he was. His speech was so Sahana was so
magical, that he could make you feel guilty that you even thought
bad about him. He could justify what he's doing. That's how
eloquent he was.
A politician and a half.
However,
about Amarin law says, I've not seen anybody more effective in
their speech than these two individuals hasn't been three and
her judging the use of somebody that asked him if you were to make
a choice between the two, for a you will know kind of Officer,
which one of the two was more eloquent. And he said Hasan Basri,
has an boss, he also had the heart that was doing its part as well.
Hasn't boss, he knew that as well. He would say, my speeches do not
lack anything. He would say, my speeches do not lack anything. But
it's you people who are asleep.
And today, in those days, he said we're sleeping. Today we say
people are dead, it's impossible to even wake them up. That's what
some people have said, May Allah not make it like that. May Allah
just keep it sleeping, and not dead completely, because at least
then we can be woken up
ajeeb ajeeb individual, so he's brought up in this pure household,
with almost no matter the Allahu anha. Now you could see the Sahaba
of the pious, the good company. That's why take your children, to
the pious people when they come get these pious individuals to put
their hand over, you know, pass the hand over their head make dua
for them. These are the prophets and why do I say pasta, it's not a
cultural thing I'm speaking about this is from the Sunnah of
Rasulullah Salah isn't the Prophet sallallahu Sallam passed his hand
over a child's head. And then after that child, you could smell
him wherever he was.
There was a jeep, he didn't go around, putting his hands on every
single childhood necessarily, but this was one of the things that he
did do. So that's why among the Obama this is what they do. When
you have a child come they they put their hands over their heads.
Make dua for them, put them in their company. All of this is of
benefit. The benefit is through induction.
And we understand induction very well you have induction cooker,
there's no heat that you can't feel the heat, but the heat is
being felt inside the pots Sergiev. We live in a jeep times
that reveals many things for us.
Now when as he grew up, he grew up with great character, great
erudition, extreme intelligence and insight, spirituality ajeeb,
the soft heart, a powerful hearts, and extreme prudence and wisdom.
He excelled all the scholars of his time, the fuqaha of his time,
people would turn to him for many answers, for many solutions to
problems. He was aware of the ills of the society, because remember,
he had seen the time of the glorious time of the Sahaba is
born in 21 Hijiri. And he died at an old age of 80 or 90, after the
100 after the first century, so he had a huge amount of time, and he
saw everything. And he was a man of a heart who really understood
things and analyze things, and really understood the perspective
behind things. He had some idea of how to bring the community back
around. He gave certain solutions. Those who listen to his solutions
obviously succeeded. And that's what kept the OMA from
degenerating because of the leadership. It celebrated or ayto.
His people would be spellbound.
The people who would be listening to him would be completely
spellbound when they're listening to him. They wouldn't they
wouldn't be looking elsewhere.
And when he spoke about the his best features were about the
hereafter. We're about the past days of the Sahaba the character,
their character, and the days of the hereafter. It says
that Robbie ignore us says that I stayed with him for approximately
10 years. And every meeting of ours I would learn something new
from him. Now 10 years you stay with somebody you know
All about them, how much are they going to say? Whatever they said,
they'll say it in two years, they'll lose, you know, they'll
they'll finish up their supply says no, for 10 years, I continue
to learn new things from him. Because once you get beyond a
certain amount, then Allah subhanaw taala inspires you with
great analysis, great understanding of things. And
you're able to say many, many things. And
this is something that is not magic. It's not a job. It's quite
normal for people who are in the vocation. Sometimes you're
teaching Hadith and you're preparing and you don't understand
something very clearly. It's happened so many times you ask any
of the Hadith teachers, they go and they start teaching. And when
you get to that path, suddenly you understand it better than you knew
it before. And suddenly, you're able to explain it in a way that
you're surprised yourself. Where does it come from? It's the
Barakat of that place of being
an inheritor of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam of continuing
that legacy. So if that happens to sinful people like us, then can
you imagine what hasn't bustling was getting any more legendary
from Allah subhanho wa Taala what inspiration he was receiving. It
mentions that
there's a consensus, Imam Ghazali mentioned that there's a consensus
of opinion that Imam Hassan Imam hasn't been through his teachings
and his conduct reflected that of a surah Allah salAllahu Salam. So
he was in everything that he did. He, he was, it seemed like he was
doing everything that sort of Lhasa Lawson would do full
emulation of the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, I'm going to before we end, I'm going to just read out to
you one of his sermons and give you the translation, it should
take an entire lecture on its own right to go through the sermon in
detail, but just to get give you a flavor. I'll mention that
when he gave his sermons, because that's what he's most well known
for. And that's what's come down to us and that's the benefits that
we get from him. His voice would become very forceful, sparkling
with the fire in his heart, and the sorrow that he felt of the
degeneration of the Ummah, he used to criticize the changes quite
openly, he didn't beat around the bush was very clear in what he
said. And due to the eloquence of his sermons, his sermons today
have found a part in Arabic literature. So if you are a
student of Arabic literature, of those omega times, you'd have to
read his pieces. And they are amazing.
He would say after his sermons that they lacked nothing
for the utility of the people, but the people had just lost the
warmth of their heart, and that's why they weren't receiving it. How
can you be so confident in making that statement?
He was disturbed, distinguished for his moral courage. He will
speak out even against the Khalif of the time. He has, he didn't
Abdul Malik even spoke out against her judging the use of probably
one of the only people who spoke out against him and still got away
with it. And her judge was so you can say, astonished by him that he
asked him Where do you get this energy from? He says I get it from
the two years that I spent in the rain, the final rain the final two
years of armored Nahata the Allahu adjudging The use of just to give
Prince effective 150,000 people had been put to their deaths by
him. And 50,000 people were in prisons when he died, they were
just left the turrets
the lightning success of the OMA yards army had conquered many
lands because mashallah Margaret during while we are the Allah one
time after we gain some peace of the idea of the Allah one whose
time and all the turbulence during the end of Earth man with the
alarm Steinman the entire time of value to the Allahu Anhu. And then
after that you had all of these other problems, when it came to
morality along the time, that's when the OMA came back together
again, and mashallah they were conquest of the conquest, Islam
spread far and wide, into the Roman into the Roman lands and so
on. So now what had happened is, people had come into the faith,
people in those areas that come into the way I'll give you the
perfect example for this. Today.
Even if somebody hates a particular superpower, like
America, for example, they still on an official level, allied
themselves to it. There's only benefit in doing that from a
worldly perspective, right? There's only benefit in doing that
from a worldly perspective. Because you benefit from the
dominant power. Islam had become the dominant power. So people had,
whether it be convenience, they had brought the faith, but they
weren't enough teachers to go around as they were in Townsville,
allah sallallahu Sallam to go and really educate the people and take
out their baggage, their culture, their previous religious
inclinations, ideology sometimes, and for them to come fully into
the faith. So you can see
What what what the issues were
so much of the elite at that time, they had adopted the ways of
ignorance. They were engrossed in their self indulgence, vanity,
jealousy, lust for wealth. These are human failings, even today you
have them, somebody can claim to be a Muslim. But a faith is only
as good as the person who's following it. A faith is only as
good as the person who's following it for that person is only as good
as you follow it. It could be the greatest faith in the world. If
you don't follow it. It's not the greatest faith for you. Right? So
there's human weaknesses of greed, selfishness. And these are human
failings. They come across the board wherever you go. They they
don't see religion or whatever they, yeah, a person would have to
really get into his religion for them to eradicate his jealousy,
his greed, discontentment, and so on and so forth.
Although most people think that the hypocrites I'm gonna 15 are
restricted to the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and those Nephin of Madina Munawwara
unfortunately, that was not so with these people, because they
had come into the faith. They didn't know what it was to be a
Muslim, though, today, you have many, unfortunately, our new
generation is like this, in many parts of the world, where they are
brought up in the house of a Muslim, but they haven't been
taught. They haven't been to mock them. They haven't been to
classes, and thus they know La ilaha illAllah. Maybe they know
Friday, just about and they know and EUR good clothes, and enjoy
yourself. And they know that in wedding, you were on the red and
golden green. Right? And, you know, you you look kind of ghastly
and all the rest of it, they know those things. And that's what they
think religion is they think Indian culture, Pakistani culture,
that's Islam. Because that's all that has been shown to them by
their parents, believe me, I've seen people like this in America
was the imam for eight years. There's many, many places that
have not had any Muslim in their community or a scholar in there,
right from the beginning. So it's just a few enlightened doctors and
engineers of the community that give the hotbar and poor guys
they're trying their best, but what they're going to do if they
spent most of their time learning engineering, or medicine, they're
not going to have the same kind of Islamic knowledge as a scholar,
even a scholar who's not very intelligent, but it's just been
through. He's still the baraka that he has is not there.
Subhanallah and this is a massive problem. Today, we get so happy
that a new brother becomes Muslim, a new system becomes Muslim, and
you say it could be La Ilaha illa Allah, but Subhanallah as many
people are leaving, you'd be surprised as many people who are
doubtful, they don't even know whether they believe it or not.
That's another case. This is the massive the fitna of today is
atheism, the fitna of today is atheism is agnosticism. This is
what the problems are of today. People don't know because of the
way the dominant ideology that is propagate propagated outside.
So
Huson bacillary still believed that hypocrites existed in his
time. He had the right to make this statement. We don't generally
somebody once asked him
Do hypocrites still exist? The Mauna Kea has in Medina today
still exists. And you know what he said? If the hypocrites were to
desert the streets of Basra you'll find it hard to live in the city.
What a blatant statement, what a bold statement. But not anybody
can make that statement. You'd call them crazy if they made that
statement. But that's what he said.
He believed that people a lot of people paid lip service to Islam.
He didn't really they don't really let it enter their hearts. What so
right he is so right he is, And subhanAllah even our pious people.
I'll tell you how we don't allow it to enter our hearts. We do. But
we could do much more. If I am to ask today how many of us know
Surah Fatiha by heart? It's a dumb question. And please forgive me
for it. How many of us know Surah Fatiha by heart? Please raise your
hands.
Make sure you do otherwise we'll have to start classes.
How many of us know cervical Fatiha that the translation of it?
Now we don't have all the hands. And we have people who've been
praying for 50 years. First off.
We have people who are Dini religious everything. They don't
know what they're reading in the mass. How can that fattier go in
your heart if you don't know what you're saying to Allah subhanaw
taala Allah Houma Bismillah Muto, Aria, Al Hamdulillah Hilah, the
IANA Merton our IDI Hindu Sure, we know that da but we don't know
what it means. We get up and we say like a spell. That's why Allah
market they get hamari How do I have parrhesia T him monkey Niger
Thea. We read our two as we recite them, we don't ask them we have no
meaning in them. The heart isn't in them. It's just Baraka terbaru
Can we read it to gain baraka from the words that good words
blesseth words, that name of Allah, let's read them. That's why
I would say learn the fattier learn the last 10 Sutras of the
Quran, understand what you read in your salad, and you will see your
salad will have spirits, the rules will come into it. That's why I
say that if this is the case with us, can you imagine I mean, has
our mind never gone to that site?
So what about people who are not so religious, where's Islam going
to be compared to their hearts, aside from the fact that we have
La ilaha illallah in our hearts
and he would highlight the hypocrite critical traits of the
Ummah that infested the OMA that many wanted to keep hidden, he
would bring it up. It was difficult for the sermons, the
calls the advices, that admonitions that he would give to
be ignored by the society. When you got such a powerful heart,
such powerful ERATION. One is you have a really powerful, pious
individual, but their speech isn't as as powerful. Sometimes you have
people who are very good speakers, they don't have the hearts they
don't do enough, the vicar, right. They don't have the taqwa that
same level. When you got both of those together. Can you imagine
what this is going to be like? A Jean l just, I've sat in
mashallah, with some shampoo. And every lecture of this, you sit in,
you will cry, you just can't help yourself. Even I've seen people
who didn't completely agree with the sheikh sitting in that
gathering and crying. Because the words and the heart is so
powerful.
I've seen that today. And hustle and bustle he must have been
something else. I can just imagine, I can just imagine
Subhanallah
that's why society couldn't ignore these great things that were
coming from this man and from others. They made many people made
solemn repentance to Allah subhanho wa taala. They gave up
their previous bad ways. He would prescribe certain measures
different measures to different people to eradicate their vices
and to imbibe the true contents of the faith. This is one of the
precursors of the Sufi triggers where they give the good ones not
the exotic degenerated ones, but the ones that are serious on the
Sunnah.
As which are the Lofoten. He says, When we have the food to healthy
Madonia why do we need the food to heart and Makia with all respect
for Shakalaka with all respect, this is I'm not going to explain
it this is for the people who know what we're speaking about. Voodoo
hottie Medina, Uganda hadith of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi
salam. So he would prescribe measures different things for
different people. He spent a full 60 years of his life for 60 years
of his life, morally uplifting people. And it's total, it's
probably impossible to count and enumerate in you enough in to
count and enumerate the number to or estimate the number of people
that were reformed in that time, you know, the hundreds of 1000s or
millions of people that he was able to, he was able to now if you
read his stuff today, you still see the benefit in it, you still
see the effective, can you imagine listening to him, being a person
of that language, it hitting your ear, beautifying your mind
embellishing your heart? Can you imagine getting the experience
there, and that one is watching something on TV? One is actually
reading a report about it, than watching it on TV, watching him in
cinema and watching in real life. I'm not encouraging anything. I'm
just giving you an example. Right? These are examples unfortunately,
we can relate very well to today. Right?
And I want you to know how she said that he truly did what the
prophets do.
This is what his mission was in this world hasn't bossy
Rahmatullah he already had earned mashallah the affection of
everybody in Basra as Basler in those days, was one of the
greatest of the cities of the time. This is where Robbia li the
wheel Berseria came from it produced such a great woman as
well. This is Basra. Yes, it's known to be like a Birmingham of
this time, we had many of the problematic
sects it had all of that. But this was where Hassan Busey was dealing
with. You can see him how difficult his job was right
here and everybody's affection due to his sincerity. So when he died
in 110, he,
how old was he when he dates
8989 Subhan Allah, what an age Allah gave him. What an age Allah
gave him, because you have the people like no we and Shafi who
died before they were 50 and mashallah you have him at nine
years old Mr. Mohammed has also run with a lady who was also very
old when he passed away. Allah gave more benefits. The entire
population of Basler came out to his funeral.
And it was on a Friday and for the first time of the history of
bussola for the first time in the history of Basara. The main Masjid
remain empty. For us our prayer, because everybody was out at the
funeral. They performed it there. His students after that continued
to preach after him, and they continue to infuse the people
And that's why today you have many of the many of the lines of the
soul that go through 22 years after his death. Finally the Omega
declined and the Abbasids rose to power. And the first of the Abbas
in beliefs was suffer. He was the uncle of Abuja for an monsoon. And
Abuja for the monsoon was the brains behind it. And he's the one
who then consolidated the abutted. Empire. And yes, they had the
issues as well. But if you were to do a, a comparison, in a sense,
that Abbas it seemed to have fared slightly better in terms of in
terms of their rule. And yes, they had problems in there as well. You
think we have strange issues today? On during the Abbasids on
one Eid prayer, the Royal possession left after fajr?
Do you know what time they perform the prayer before the
after the
awesome after maghrib? Now how messed up is that? We've seen it
all you think it's Matt bad today? We've seen it all. But Allah
subhanaw taala always brings it back, always brings it back.
always brings it back. That's the resilience. That's the hope that I
want to give through these lectures, that we've had bad times
in the past. We've had very bad times in the past. But Allah
always brings things back. We want to just hope that Allah makes us
instrumental in that. How beautiful would that be, if Allah
chose us or from our progeny, for there to be those who will save
the OMA insha Allah and to be a savior that's why one dua that is
very powerful, that we should Repeat as often as possible Robina
Hublin I mean, as well as you know what the result in our Kurata
Aryan which are unknown in Burkina in mama, oh our Lord grant us from
our spouses. She said neutral dua wife can make it husband can make
it grant us from our spouses and our progeny. He doesn't say our
children only but our progeny until the Day of Judgment, those
that will satisfy and gladden our eyes, and Suhana. What comes to
mind is we're not going to see our progeny all of it. We're going to
see maybe our children and grandchildren maybe great
grandchildren may be great, great grandchildren if you're very
lucky. But what about the great, great, great grandchildren.
Inshallah, on the Day of Judgment, you will see your entire army of
generation and they will satisfy you if this door is accepted.
Everything that came everybody that came from your loins, you
will see them on the Day of Judgment. And I believe that this
dua is transcendent beyond this world, it will also show its
fruits in the hereafter if Allah accepts it. That is a dua that
should be repeated as often it's a dua of the Quran, other prophets.
And finally, I will read to you.
I will read to you one of the hotspots of armor of Hassan bossy
Rahmatullah hear it. He says, he heard he heard, if only you could
understand Arabic. Believe me these words. They create that.
That desire in the heart, it makes the heart move. Hey, hurt, he
hurts. A Holika NASA Amani, Colm Billa Amel. Well Mara refer to him
below you the sober what Eman below your kin Malley, our
regional and water cooling water smart we'll have season one. A
nice and the huddle calm Wallah. He thought Mahara ju sama. We're
out of food and KURU waha Romo. thermistor. Hello, in the medina
haidakhan la Katherina Allah Listen, either so in a minute and
who will hisab Karna Nam what Caliban Caliban, wha Maliki are
within the power in those words, the boldness in those words, the
penetrating insights, this is his analysis of the pulse of the OMA,
he says this, he says such a regretful state, such a regretful
state, hey, hurt, he hurts, do rural in order to such a regretful
state. It is the people have been destroyed by their own vain hopes.
What is our life today? But upgrading our phones one year,
upgrading our cars the next year, upgrading our clothing the year
after that, if not in those both years. So every year is just about
what's next. What's next. What's the new thing? What's the new
thing? He says? The people have been destroyed through their own
vain hopes. They talk, they talk but they don't act.
They say the Karima they say good things. The members are full of
surprises who say good things may Allah make us of them. When they
say all of these great things, but they do not act.
Knowledge is theirs but without endurance. They have knowledge
they can't.
They can't do several other thorough sub annual Maaseiah. They
can't have endurance in
They practice. They don't have the summer they get misled. He says
faith they have but no conviction Eman they have but no your team.
Then he says Mali or our region. Why is it that I see?
Men, individuals, but I don't see mines? I don't see Uncle I don't
see mines. Look at the way he's saying this. And then he says, Why
is it I hear lots of commotion, a smell Oh ha season one or any sun.
I hear a lot of commotion, but I don't see a single soul that is
agreeable to the hearts.
Then he says
the hull como Allah He thought Maha Raju people only entered to
come back out. They've only entered Islam just to come back
out of the other door. They came in to show an excuse and then they
went right back out. Then he says,
Wow, out of Houma and KURU, they acknowledge the truth, then they
deny it suddenly, by doing weird things by doing strange things
that doesn't seem like a Muslim would do that. And he says
some hardcore Hara Musa Mr. Hulu, they make things unlawful. And
then after that, they make them lawful Allahu Akbar.
Isn't he saying everything that applies just so well to our
situation? And you've seen this in those times? Can you imagine what
he was seeing and what we're seeing Subhanallah and then he
says
Your religion is nothing but a sensual delight on your tongue.
Is that something that you use just to tell people I'm a believer
is not going into the heart, no cartoon Allah discerning just the
morsel on your tongue. If you are asked either Soo Min on under Bo
mil a Serb? If you are asked, Do you have faith in the Day of
Judgment? You say yes. What can we burn when they hear me being
gullible? Americium within, but no lie lie. It is not so.
I swear by the Lord of the word he says, This is a lie.
Then he says
then he starts to describe what a believer should be like. And he
says in Allah kill many cool words and feeding and well husband
feeling and what Iman and fie are keen. We're Illman V Hill, we're
Hillman Baron. We're case and theorist in what the German and
FIFA cutting. We're in soften fee St. Carmit in La Jolla, he for
Allah my neighborhood. When simfy Musa i the team in your head when
you miss Wella Yes, miss. What are y'all Miss Walla, Yahoo, wanna
yell who wanna yell, while I am shipping the meme? What I
attribute malaise. When I handle Hakala really
just beautiful. Inner Sal FASCO aesthetic para que bus ajeeb. It's
just wonderful stringing of these words. And yet, none of this is
superfluous. He's not just doing it to create an alliteration or an
onomatopoeic effect or some other kind of rhetorical effect. Now,
he's saying all of these words have substance. So what he's
saying is only be fitting that the lack of a believer should be as
follows that he be sound in faith, a man of conviction, his knowledge
demands forbearance, as moderation is an adornment for the learned.
He is wise, the believer is wise, but soft hearted, well dressed and
restrained, well dressed but restrained. So he is well dressed,
but he's not overly dressed. Right, you know, with all the gold
and the silver, he's well dressed, but He's restrained, never
wasteful. Even if a man even if he's a man of substance, he's
charitable, you know, in our communities. When you become
wealthy enough, do you know what the expression of wealth is in our
community for our older folk? Does anybody know it's a rather watch
when you got a rather watch it means you've made enough money now
like to buy a router watch how much Prolia algaecide Okay, when
when when somebody values his first package, but on the way he
already had * sub on his suitcase Mashallah. That's a tight
I mean, what else? I mean, you cannot Molly's up, you're not
Maulvi sub you're not half a sub then your * sir but hamdulillah
at least we have a zeal for gaining a religious lockup or
religious title. But the main thing is a rather watch
hamdulillah enjoy it. Just don't get the big chunky ones. Get the
nice fine ones they look better.
If you're going to get a chunky watch then get the Rolex they're
known for their chunk, not the Rado. What about me anyway?
Let's kill you. The popper belaboring
So never waste will even if a man of substance he is charitable and
compassionate to the destitute.
He is large hearted and generous in giving to his kids for their
due. Land Grab problems today plague our societies, inheritance
issues, who which family is free of inheritance issues today Subhan
Allah Subhanallah does a massive problem we have. So he says in
giving the rights to their kinfolk, tireless and unflinching
in rendering justice to others, he never crosses the prescribed
limits in favoring his near and dear ones knows that nor does he
find folco Pick out the areas of those he dislikes. He doesn't
those he has a problem with, he doesn't go and try to unearth and
investigate and pick up all of their bad points just to get a
whole array of, you know, fuel to use against them, and weapons to
use against them. A Muslim is indifferent to abuse. He is
indifferent to abuse and taunting, he doesn't care about that he
ignores it. And if you learn to ignore abuse and taunting, your
life will be extremely happy. Because there's always going to be
something or the other. So just ignore it. Just ignore it.
And games and diversions, insults and backbiting. He ignores all of
these things he never runs after what is not his nor does he deny
what he owes to others. Inheritance problems would be
would be gone if this was acted upon. And the final points he
makes what I utter was a filler over whether you shall meet Bill
fudgey it in Hallett betray while I saw Ruben Mazziotti in Nazareth,
BC WA, and many of his salah the harsh he never debases himself in
seeking an apology, no delights in the misfortune or misdeed of
others. He doesn't get happy when he sees somebody else in
misfortune. And then he says, A believer is humble and reverent in
his Salaat. That's another characteristic of a believer
will either record SRA cola who she thought was Sabra who took on
suku Ficarra. Now throw to her Ebro. He says all of these things
he says. His words he is quick to bow to bow down in front of Allah.
When he speaks, they are his words are a cure, not a problem. When he
speaks, his words are a cure. His silence is for reflection in
silent, his reflecting is not sitting idle, he sees to take
heed. He looks at things to take heed. He seeks company of the
learner to acquire knowledge when he sits with them. It's not to
argue with them or to turn them into whatever to learn from them.
He keeps silent among them to remain safe. He knows his place.
And if he does speak, then he speaks to benefit. And then he
says, Were you hired to learn them and they were asked to buy
normally ask them where they can normally avoid them. In Asana
assumption we're in step four. We're in Aruba startup we're in
Sofia, Allah He Hallam. What you call him a suburb? We're in G
Radha he Aadil la Yes, I was betrayed Allah. What is that you
know in La Villa. And he said, he is pleased when he acts
virtuously. He seeks forgiveness when he does wrong when approached
for something. When when reproach for something, he stops, he
resists.
He is forbearing with those who act foolishly with him, he proves
enduring when ill treated. He does not abandon justice, even when
treated unfairly. He never seeks protection from anybody other than
Allah never commit Sheikh he is what called on Phil Mala canoe,
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then he says, is dignified among the crowds. He is dignified among
the crowd. He praises Allah when alone, his time alone is spent in
vicar of Allah, content with his sustenance not complaining, I want
more I want more grateful for his prosperity. When he has prosperity
is grateful and rich, resigned when in distress. If he sits among
the heedless, he is written by Allah among the ones engaged in
recur. Everybody's heedless in that gathering, but he's being
written as a document. And if he sits among those who are in
remembrance, then he is written as those who is seeking forgiveness.
And then he said The final thing he said, her cover, gonna us herb
Rasulullah sallallahu this is the way this is how the companions of
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam were and a wonderful Oh, well,
every single one of them, one after the other, had to Allahu
Allah, he has a ritual and this is how they were until they met with
Allah subhanho wa Taala what however, can and will see Munna
min Salafi comma Sana and this is exactly how the believers from
your pious predecessors. Well, this is exactly
How they were, were in nama who year or become Lama Yelton. And he
tells us our reason for downfall. He says, your state was changed.
He didn't say Allah changes that he says your state was changed. Of
course Allah changes, but your state was changed when you made
the change. You took the first step, you went in the wrong
direction, you took the step in the wrong direction, and thus your
state was changed. And then he said, he read the verse of the
Quran, which I read in the beginning in Hola Hola, yo, hey,
yo, maybe a Coleman had a urinary unfussy him, that Allah subhanaw
taala doesn't change people until they make the change themselves.
First, we have to take the first step. We have to take the
initiative first, then Allah will bring the change. If you expect to
sit back and let others do it. Well let Allah just make the
change and make dua for the change, make efforts. Do something
more. Now you might say okay, this is highly theoretical. What is the
practical point from this advice from this, I can give you one
advice, which is just one
do not remain stagnant. One of the biggest problems with the OMA
today and I'll finish this off in Shaolin next two minutes.
In sha Allah, the biggest problem with the OMA today is stagnation.
If somebody has determined that the only salad they will make in
the masjid is Juma prayer, then they will do this for the next
foreseeable future. They have no plan to make any more if somebody
mashallah has the trophy to read once a lot in numbers, this is
just an example. One example. If they have decided to make one
salad in the masjid, they have no desire to make more. If a person
has decided to dress in a particular way, which is not as
Islamic, they have no idea, no intention whatsoever to maybe one
day follow the Sunnah of having a beard. They just don't have an
intention in doubt, stagnation. Yes. Do ocarina. That's the
approach. No, you need to have the desire, I need to have the desire
of what I want to do. That's why one great thing is every year,
especially when it comes to Ramadan, make one change in our
life, one improvement in our life, one enhancement in our life that
we have not done before. And keep to that, and the next year, make
one more and the year after that make one more and I say only one
but it's not restricted to one as soon as you remove the stagnation
and the passiveness from your life and this status quo of being
unmovable, right? Even water when you remain stagnant becomes dirty.
That's what the other man mentioned. Right? It's only
through movement that you get somewhere. If it wasn't for
movement, the pearls at the bottom of the ocean would never have been
valuable. If it wasn't for movement, then the Ood the halos
would the beautiful perfume from the bark, which is the fungus of
the tree. If it wasn't for movement, it would have remained
stagnant there. It's by movement that you move you move that you do
something you enhance, make a movement in your Diem. We're
making a lot of movement in our world make a lot of movement in
our deen one movement a year at least one improvement and you will
see Inshallah, that you will feel closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala
will be a remedy of life, part of the solution of the Ummah,
everything every individual done of this ummah has a bearing on the
rest of the ummah. We take it down, collectively speaking. So
don't think that you're not part of the problem. Don't I shouldn't
think I'm not part of the problem. I am part of the problem and I am
also part of the solution. Let us make ourselves part of the
solution. May Allah accept male accept male likes, working with
that