Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sultan Al Ulama Izz alDin ibn ‘Abd alSalam
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There was this practice a bit there. There was a bit of called
salatu Raha during the 15th of Shaban. So the Sheikh was really
outspoken against it that this is wrong, even though there were
other famous scholars at the time who decided not to say anything
not to not to kind of rock the boat, you could say, and not to
cause problem further problems. Maybe it was just the situation of
the time, but check is at the end. He was fearless. He just made it
very clear this is completely wrong, and he strongly opposed it.
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mashallah, it's wonderful to be with our beautiful brothers here,
under this arch, and Masha Allah Allah subhanaw taala bless this
masjid and bless everybody here. And Allah subhanaw taala bless our
brothers and relieve our brothers wherever they are. Today we're
going to speak about a very, very, very inspiring individual. I'm
inspired by him because whenever I read his story, I first read it in
shakable has an ad in his book called the saviors of Islamic
spirits. Or the
Teradata ultimate original name of it is study that with our team at
where he discusses some of the main people of the first five, six
centuries and he is one of them.
So, we're going to start from the time and Salahuddin Allah UB
Rahim, Allah has taken mercy Luxa and many of the lands that had
originally been taken by the Crusaders, and he managed to take
all of those back and brought back a lot of peace and stability to
the Muslim communities there. And he then reintroduced the true
teachings of Islam everywhere, because a lot of the lands that he
took, he took over from the Fatimids the Fatimids had been a
shear dynasty. And they are obviously spread far timid, thick
and
against the Allison novel jemar. So he managed to bring it all back
and
managed to have all of this spread
among his realm, along with a lot of educational institutes.
So
Masha Allah that he managed to re start and re rejuvenate a lot of
education for Muslim scholars and for people he started to patronize
a lot of Muslim scholars and madrasahs and Institute's, and
such other organizations.
Now, among the people who rose during this time among the
scholars who became very well known, who studied under this
tradition and then became very well known and mashallah managed
to really help manage to really do something is is that the nib? No
Abdus Salam, so he's a product after all of the reforms that
Salahuddin Rama hula had made in in the Muslim lands. Now this is
the Dean Abdul Abdus Salam, some of the main features as we're
going to be discussing in sha Allah, some of the main features
of his life is obviously his profound learning, his deep
insight into the different aspects of Islam, his piety and his
courage. What amazes me is that along with all of that the courage
that he had was amazing, and he never compromised himself that is
one of the very, very distinct features and may we all learn from
this. Firstly, he was born in 578 Ah 578 Ah, which is you can say
late 11th century 1200s. Around that time, that's when he is born
just after Ghazali has gone. Imam Reza de Rahim, Allah is left. So
this is when he is he was the student of seven of very famous
several very famous scholars at that time of Damascus, so he's
born in Damascus in Syria. And he is a student of Fakhruddin,
ignore. Asaka Rahim Allah sayfudine al Amedee Rahim Allah I
mean,
maybe a lot of you won't know who that is. But the scholars they've
definitely heard these names of Amedee and ignore Serkin. These
ignore circuit families and amazing families. Some of them
were linguists, some of them were historians, and these are the
kinds of people he studied under, along with other people as well.
He actually started studies quite late. He didn't start as usually
you know, people start in young age he actually still
arted later, later on in his life, and but soon acquired amazing
proficiency he was just very erudite, very very, mashallah
very, very intelligent.
Such that, mashallah the amount of
knowledge that he gained in a very short amount of time, you could
say his contemporaries started to pay tribute to him, his
contemporaries started to respect him now with orlimar anybody can
call himself a scholar. But really, the way to find out if a
scholar is who is an at a good height is if others also respect
them, and show that just like with doctors, as well, everybody claims
to be a doctor. But if lots of other doctors consider somebody to
be a specialist, and really good at what he does, then that really
means something otherwise, you know, we could deceive a lot of
people except the professionals in the area. So for example, ignore
the key killer eight, and I'm putting out a lot of a lot of
names to you, but it's wonderful to speak of these pious people of
Allah subhanaw taala, who are responsible for our deen reaching
us today, right with all of their work. So IGNOU de Ke Ke there's a
great scholar. And
he called he called him soltanto orlimar.
The Sultan of the scholars he called is the Dean ignore Abdus
Salam he called him Sultan, Allah, Allah ma, right, the Sultan of the
scholars, meaning the king of the scholars, and that's where he's
well known as Sultan, Allah ma.
Now, he did this when he migrated to Egypt. So he was in Damascus,
but then he went to Egypt after that in 639. So you can see is
much older now. Right in 639, because he was born in 578. So it
is good 50 You know, 6070 years old by this time. This is where,
when another great scholar called Hafiz Abdul Azim al Monthsary.
Abdul Azim al Munzee, who's the author of the Hebrew, the Hebrew,
another collection of Hadith, he when he, he was in Egypt, and when
a study in Ignagni Salah moved into Egypt, imagine it like
somebody moves into
into London or East London, and the Mufti sub that says, I can't
get fatwas anymore. Abdul Azim almondsbury che he said I can't
give fatwas anymore. He suspended giving fatwas When asked why he
said it doesn't behave any jurist. It is not appropriate for any
jurists to give legal opinions. When is the dean is present there
you go and ask him for fatwa nobody else can give it to her
community was a lot more closer together and was much more
organized in the in those days unlike today, right? So that's
another thing. She had a gem Sheikh Jamal Rudy nibble * was
of the opinion that in fiqh in Messiah ill in rulings is the dean
of no Abdus Salam was actually greater than Rosario as well. In
fact, at least in Rizzoli, as well. Imams the hubby was a great
historian and a Muhaddith well known well known historian and had
the sorry putting out a lot of names for you. Right.
But just pretend they're footballers names right? I'm just
joking. So these are mashallah, these are some of the greatest
people that you know, if you start studying the deen in in detail
you'll you'll come across these name, Imam Xavi writes in his
famous book called labor labor. That in his knowledge, meaning in
the knowledge of in is the dean of Nam, the salam in his knowledge,
Fick
devotion to religion and all of Allah he had attained the degree
of absolute completeness, completion that makes one capable
of he had interpreting the reveal law of Allah and deducing new laws
from it. So he had a lot of respect for him as well. He became
the Chair of the professor for a long period in the madrasahs.
Zawiya has Alia in Damascus, he was the chair the the main teacher
of the madrasah of the Zawiya rozalia in Damascus, along with
being the Hatim meaning the one who gives the hotbar and the Imam
of the German OMA we, the Jeremy Aluma. We have had hamdulillah the
absolute honor of having studied there, which is the big mosque in
Damascus, Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned that
even though it did not exist in his time, he mentioned that that
is the masjid where essentially Salam will descend on its eastern
minaret. So Imam Ghazali had gone and stayed there for a while and
observed the retreat. And there was a mother of Saudi and I
studied in that very same mosque and maybe around that same area as
well with the great Sheikh Khalid Sheikh Abdul Razak al Halaby
Rahim, a hula and this was in 1998. Before before the whole
problem has started in before at least the recent problems have, of
course such a chaos down there. Another great historian a Shafi
historian, whose name is Shahabuddin, Abu Sharma, Sheikh
Shahabuddin Abu Sharma is actually written a wonderful book on by
Basically the history of the Ayyubid of Salahuddin ubit. His
descendants and and their rule and so on. He's written about the dole
about $1.10. Basically, he's a historian. He says that the sheikh
completely opposed that there was this practice a bit there. There
was a bit of cold salatu Raha during the 15th of Shaban. So the
Sheikh was really outspoken against it that this is wrong,
even though there were other famous scholars at the time who
decided not to say anything not to, not to kind of rock the boat,
you could say, and not to cause problems, further problems, maybe
it was just the situation of the time. But check is at the end, he
was fearless. He just made it very clear, this is completely wrong.
And he strongly opposed it. Now, at that time, the rulers so you
have to remember that the various different lands, the Muslim lands
after Salahuddin in the UB had been distributed among his sons
among his family. So Hala, the north of Syria was under somebody
Damascus on somebody else, then you had somebody in Egypt, and so
on. So you had people around the different areas. So here it was a
medical camp, that's his title, medical camp, and he was the one
in charge, he insisted that the Sheikh is the dean of no Abdus
Salam take the position of the judge.
He don't want to take the position of being a judge is a very
difficult thing in in one of those rules, because then you have to
give judgments according to what the ruling, what the ruler wants
sometimes, and you can't do it, you have to literally then come
you have to really then come against a ruler, in some cases,
especially if you're very true to your words. I mean, you've seen
how we've got cases where certain politicians, certain groups, I
mean, they they're forced to vote a certain way, they can't vote
according to their real conscious or even what their people of the
area, say, for example, it's just complicated once you get an
official position like that, so he refused. And then after that, he
agreed
with some conditions. So he put a few conditions. And
so he was appointed by a medical camel as also an envoy to the
abutted caliphate. So you have to understand this, the ambassador
caliphate started after the Umayyad caliphate had had been
taken down in 132, Hijiri,
132 Hijiri, is when the Abbasids began. And they lasted until about
six hundreds. However, initially, they were the ones governing
everything, but slowly, slowly, others would govern like the
Seljuks would govern the you bits would govern. And the mum, Luke's
would govern, and they were just considered the the people in
charge in Baghdad, and these others who would actually do the
proper governance, they would just have a relationship with them,
understanding that they are the beliefs, but we actually rule the
land. So the ubit were ruling the lands, at least these lands,
right, while you had the sell jokes on another side, and then,
and then soon, you're gonna also have, and it started to Google has
already come on the scene around this time, right? And then the
Ottomans are starting after the sale jokes are dying, right. But
on the other hand, you've got the units who are eventually taken
off, right. But anyway, this is the time that humans are there.
And
so he was appointed the envoy and the ambassador from the court of
medical camel to the basilica even in, in in Baghdad, that's where
the center of the caliphate still was. So they were still down
there.
He was held in high esteem by everybody, very religious person,
very righteous. And he was held in high esteem by everybody. And
so a lot of these governors and ministers and so on, used to come
and visit him, but he would never visit the king himself. He would
never visit the Sultan himself. Right. But he would advise them,
he would advise them to be beneficial to Islam. That was his
constant advice that look you need to do what's right for Islam. That
was his usual his usual advice. Now, another one of the Ayyubid
leaders was a medical Ashraf right America so he is the Dean has been
on the medical camel, biomedical Astra from another area, right? He
was he in * up so he was in northern Syria. He called he
called him once even though he had some misunderstanding about is the
dean of Nagisa he had some misunderstanding about him because
it heard things and people say all sorts of things. So
despite that, he called the sheikh. Right. And when it when he
called him he Alhamdulillah. After the meeting, a lot of the
misunderstanding was was clarified. The Sultan then
requested for Him to forgive him requested the Sheikh is within the
salam to forgive him
and asked him for some advice. So now look at the way he approaches
izzadeen Ignore this alarm said that so far as your request for
pardon, meaning to forgive.
I forgive everybody with whom I have any kind of displeasure, any
problem. As soon as the sun goes down, or before the sun goes down
every day, I've cleared my heart, I forgiven everybody. And I don't
have any animosity towards anybody.
I desire my recompense only from Allah subhanho wa taala, my reward
only comes from Allah subhanho wa taala. And when you're telling me
to make dua for you, then I pray for your well being, because in he
was a bit sick, I think, he said, I pray for your well being.
Because if you get better, then it is good for the welfare of the
Muslims and Islam. And as far as advice is concerned, the advice
I'm going to give you is that I know that you the Sultan is very
well known and reputed for his valor and bravery and his
brilliant victories that he has won. But there's one thing that
you're missing, which is that the Tatas, the Mongols are making
inroads into the most into these lands, it already caused a big
hassle in other lands. They're going they're making, they're
making a lot of inroads and into all of these lands. And as you
know, with the, you know, the the early the Seljuk, the later
Seljuks, that eventually they were basically, you can say, made
defunct by the Mongols, and that's why the Ottomans started. So this
was around that time. They're making inroads into the many
Islamic territories, and they have become emboldened. Now why? Why
were they able to do this? Right? Because you had Seljuks. On one
side, you had a huge on YouTube, it's on the other side, and you
had Mamluks and others. So why are the Mongols able to do this? So he
was telling him he says they've become emboldened by the fact that
the Sultan has pitted arms against medical camel,
they were against one another. The two Muslim
factions were against one another, and you have no time to face the
enemies of Allah. Al medical commonly is your elder brother.
He's the elder brother of the Sudan and you have a problem with
him.
I request you to give up the idea, stop fighting against him and turn
your enter a turn your turn your armies to face the enemies of
Islam. And this is the days of illness for you. Because the Sudan
was ill at that time. He said, This is the days of illness for
you. So this is something that you really should do. Because if it
turns if you win, it is good for you. Otherwise, otherwise, you'll
still get your reward for it you're gonna die anyway. The
Saddam thanked is the Dean ignore Abdus Salam and turned his forces
towards the Mongols. Thereafter, he said give me some more advice.
So he came back for some more advice. And it's been said that
the Sultan is bedridden. Right so you're in bed because you're sick.
However, your chiefs are having rounds and bouts of pleasure
they're enjoying themselves in wine and other wickedness so
they're drinking and other things while Muslims are being burdened
with while the regular Muslims are being burdened with taxes, heavy
taxes, and your your ministers and everybody they just enjoying
themselves. Hence the most valuable thing that you can do is
to stop this and be just make justice available for everybody.
I'll medical Ashraf not only acted on this, but he thanked him saying
that may Allah reward you. And then he said, allow me to be your
companion. Look how much respect you had for him. He said, allow me
to be your companion in paradise. Allow me to be your companion in
paradise. And then he presented to him 1000 gold coins, but isn't the
Indignados Salam refused them. And he said, I did this for Allah. And
I do not want any worldly temptation to pollute this in
addition to this, I'm doing it purely for the sake of Allah.
So not only was he so courageous in giving advice, but he was
really really he was really really open to giving
criticism whenever it was due. El Malecon Ashraf, finally died, and
he was succeeded by Salim Ismail Salah is married. He, in order to
fight against another Muslim faction, he sought help from a
Christian groups against Egypt. So Egypt was also ruled by, you know,
Muslims and Muslim ruler, but he wanted to take over that area. So
he tried to he made an alliance with some of the Christian rulers
of the time.
And in doing so, he gave them a few lands and some forts, one of
the forts of sight
Seder. I think that's what it's called Sir Keefe and some other
forts he gave them so that they could help him. This is our
history. Unfortunately, this has been history, right? It's just
really sad.
The Christians also then started to buy, they were sold arms, they
were sold weapons, by some of the Muslims of Damascus, as the dean
got really, really angry and he condemned the sales, saying that
most likely eventually they're going to be used against the
Muslims. So then what he did was he gave up making dua you know, he
he's the hottie, he's the Imam, he gave up making dua for the for the
Sultan, not gonna make dua for him anymore, on Fridays on Juba, now
that in Muslim countries, even today, and traditionally
throughout, the Imam making dua for you is like one of the
greatest honors of you being the leader, for you to be on the
coins. Right. And for you to be you know, the habit of having a
hotbar in your name. So it didn't stop give us stopped making dua
for him. And in fact, he in started to invoke the Wrath of
Allah subhanho wa taala, on the enemies of Islam.
He kept it as the enemies of Islam.
So the king got a bit angry, the Sultan got angry, and he he had
him imprisoned.
He had him imprisoned. And then after that, there was a meeting in
Jerusalem, from Damascus in Jerusalem. So he had him in prison
there while he was there as well. So this Salim Ismail, with Al
medical Minh sort of homes, so homes is actually between Damascus
and Hala, it's in between. So they're together against the hub
against Egypt sorry. So I'll medical monsoon is the ruler of
homes, and the salah who is married is the ruler of Damascus,
right.
And the Christians, they all came together in Jerusalem to fight
their battle. And he was feeling guilty though, he was feeling
guilty that he had actually imprison the main scholar of his
time, the biggest color of his time. So what he did was he gave
his handkerchief to one of his very close ministers. He just
wanted an excuse that if the Dean does something, I'll forgive him,
gave him this handkerchief and he told him to go to is the dean of
no Abdus Salam, and tell him that look, all of your previous posts,
and everything will all be reinstated. All you have to do,
and actually the ruler holds you in high respect, he has a lot of
honor, and a lot of respect for you. But all he wants you to do,
right is that you should kiss his hand and give him some courtesy.
And he'll He'll forgive you. And he also told this guy probably
half knowing that he is not going to follow through that if he says
no, then bring him and imprison him in a tent close to where I am.
Right? It's amazing. So, of course, when
that minister came, and he relayed the admiration of the king to him
and everything and everything he said, he said
La ilaha illallah I mean, very few examples can be put forward like
this, you know, you hear use of Ali salaam story when he's in
prison. And he insisted that the truth be told, and you know, very,
very few examples when given of these fearless expressions. So as
the dean replies that What a fool you are, what a fool you are you
expecting me to kiss the hands of the king, while I don't even want
my own hands to be kissed? I don't want you in my hands to be kissed.
Why should I kiss his hands? My friend you are living in a world
other than mine. Praise be to Allah Praise be to Allah, that I
am not pray to the temptations that have captured your soul. So
then he was in prison near that where the king was in a tent. Now
he used to read Quran. And from from there, you could hear his
Quranic reading would be heard. So once one of the Christian
monarchs, their Christian kings were there along with the king. He
asked, Who is this? He was told that this is literally the Mufti
and the greatest scholar of the Muslims. And, and the reason he's
been imprisoned is because he has shown opposition to our alliance
with Christians.
Right, so he tells the Christian king that the Christian said that
the way you describe this man, if I had such a man as my bishop,
then I would have felt just honored enough to just sit by his
feet.
You know, when he heard a description of who this I didn't
repeat all of that to you, but that's what he said shortly after
the solid smile was defeated. Right. And he was killed in an
encounter
is the Dean was then honorably taken to Egypt now, so now this is
when he gets to Egypt, right?
because they lost the battle, right? So he he was taken to
Egypt. This is the first time he's going to Egypt now, right? So on
the way they pass by the town of Kerak character today I visited
last year is in Jordan Kerak is in Jordan. And I think that is the
same place where it was where to move to place right near there.
That's where it took place. So the governor of character requested is
the dean of new Abdus Salam to settle here. Why don't you settle
here, and I'll come and be the resident scholar here. The Imam
here, as they say is the Dean says, this small city of yours is
not befitting my learning.
It's too small for me. Swan Allah.
I'm sure he didn't say it in arrogant means just like look, I
can't stay here.
Now he's in Egypt.
He was received by the by the ruler of Egypt, Al Malik, asylum.
He's old medical. So these are titles by the way, is there was an
edge Medina up, his name was Nosworthy. You know, you'd like
the others. They also had names but they were given titles. So
this is a medical Seiler the righteous king
with great reverence and honor, and he was appointed the Hatim of
the main mosque of Cairo at the time, which was Masjid Amerindian
us that the Allah one, the one that was established by Henri
Placidia, when he conquered Egypt, and he also became he was also
appointed as the Grand kadhi. Of, of Egypt. Egypt here means Cairo,
right because that was the center. That was the center. In fact, the
Cairo had just been established and by the Ottomans just before
that, anyway, right as a city, but otherwise just called Egypt.
Anyway, he was also interested on the rehabilitation of the deserted
mosques around the area that that was his job, and also teaching
Shafi in the Madras asylee. Here, Madras society here which was
actually
founded by the by the ruler. So his name was Al Melaka, sila
najman, Dina up, had a mother established something called a
madrasa, Sally here. I think maybe the remnants of that madrasa might
still be around today
is the dean of the Salem was fearless. So some of the events
that took place during this time, were absolutely amazing. There was
a guy called famotidine Earthman. This is always the case that you
get somebody
who becomes an undercover agent, or somebody who has other ideas
and they get somehow close to the ruler. It's just the history of
the world essentially, right? The iron, what is it called the horse
of Troy, the the hollow horse, whatever it is just always like
that. You had that with the abovesaid you had that. So he had
gained this guy called Fakhruddin Earth man had gained a lot of
influence over the king and he wasn't a very good guy. He, for
some reason, had a drum house constructed over one of the
messages is the Dean had it pulled down in a yak Yahara like what's
going on here? He had it pulled down. And he declared Fakhruddin
to be an unrighteous person, as somebody who has no reliability or
witness in law, so he's not a reliable person anymore. He's he
deemed him to be unreliable.
And in protest, he also resigned to being Cobby and judge, I'm no
longer the call the judge, I can't do this. This is blasphemy.
However, the king didn't put him back there insists he just still
had enjoyed the esteem of the king. But he wasn't made the
coffee again. Still, every fatwa he gave even privately without
being the official judge Accardi as the Mufti he they were still
active upon
once the ruler of Egypt sent an ambassador
to the
the ambassador to Baghdad to the Khalif,
you know, with some special message, and
he rejected the Khalifa rejected that Ambassador saying, Why isn't
a pseudonym? No Abdi salaams Sealander
because it was missing the seal of a pseudonym and Abdus Salam.
He refused to refuse to entertain the ambassador who went there.
Once the sultan was holding court with all of his dignitaries, now
remember, the Sultan likes him a lot, right? So he's in his court
with all of his dignitaries on his right and left and people were
saluting him and you know, it was that whole position of respect and
honor and everything like that, when suddenly the king hears a
voice from behind him a you
what will your reply be to Allah when he will ask you whether
Egypt's was given to you so that people could enjoy and indulge
openly in drinking bouts
and enjoy these kinds of public receptions?
So the king is suddenly hears the voice and he starts to shake and
he's like, is that a
Fact, is that what's happening? Is that what happens? he blurts out,
yes, wine is being sold freely.
Wine is available everywhere, and other vices too.
So he says, It's not my fault.
This is from my father's time he taken over his father. So what is
it in the cinemas response to that?
The shakes so Oh, so you're one of those who say, but we're jitna
Abba and Allah Almighty, we're in either authority him after doing
homework, the dune. So you're one of those who say that, Oh, we
found our forefathers acting this way. So we do the same thing.
Which is in reference to the Jahi people of Makkah, and other people
and other nations who did not want to listen to the Prophet.
The Sultan gave orders to stop it immediately.
Now, as he's returning from the court, one of his students asks
him, he's just amazed, his students are just taken aback.
He's just still trying to come to terms with what has just happened.
And he said that, why did you raise this question so openly? Why
did you like tell him off so openly? Say he said, When I saw
him with all of this pomp and all of this entourage, and everything
I thought that is going to get to his head is going to get to his
heart. So the best way to sort him out is to admonish him openly,
where you're not cease with fright. When too frightened to do
that his student asked him, he said, I was just so much seized by
the awe and glory of Allah, that the Sultan just seemed to be like
as meek as a cat in front of me.
So G IG, nobody else would do that. But then he is so focused on
Allah, He has absolutely no care of what anybody else is saying.
Just about focusing on Allah subhanaw taala. Unfortunately, the
dissension among the Muslim factions at that time, made it
again possible for the Crusaders to look to attack attacking the
Muslim lands. After this was the probably now going to be the Third
Crusade Because salah Hoogeveen Rahim Allah had managed to finish
off the earlier crusades.
So they were they were they they look to attack man. Surah mon
surah is another town, slight distance away. Some distance away
from Cairo, right it's in Egypt is the if not the salam took part in
the battle to retrieving the talent the city of man surah and
mashallah, his doors were answered and they gain victory. And they
managed to take this take this town back.
What happened is his doors were accepted because the ships of the
Crusaders, they were overcome by a gale and they couldn't attack.
Now, President Abdus Salam this is when he does his really big
achievement, which is against the Mongols. Remember, the Mongols
have taken many other towns, Egypt has not been taken yet. And their
name, their renown, their fright that all is in everybody's is in
everybody's mind that you don't mess with the Mongols. Right? Is
it then started encouraging the Sultan to go and fight with the
Mongols. The Sultan's was very frightened, he'd heard the stories
that they just come and lay waste to everything of a whole city.
Only 1517 people survive. Can you imagine it? Right?
But he had no courage. Edna is the dean of no Abdus Salam told him
that he would win
you're gonna win Subhanallah so then he said, Okay, fine. He he
trusted is that they didn't have the salam so much as a way of
Allah and a great scholar said, Okay, fine, I'll take your word
for it. He started the unit funds so he started to raise funds
from various different loans and everything is redeemable at this
time. So you know what to do? Forget that right now. Start off
with bringing the jewelry of your women folk, and tell your
dignitaries to do the same we'll sell that and if the money is not
enough, you can do gender you can do collection after that or take
loans after that. hamdulillah they complained they complained that
complaint and there was mashallah enough money right to for the
battle.
Another really, really interesting incident this is just blows me
back all the time, is that many of the dignitaries in Cairo were
officially slaves.
So they had been brought as slaves initially because slavery was was
was around at that time. And then they had started working for the
various different ministers and for the royal court and everything
and they'd gone to high positions, but they're officially slaves.
They've never been officially.
Official Manumission had never taken place and had been sold or
whatever. So they're officially slaves. So they didn't have this
alarm, obviously found out about this. And some of them were very
high position. In fact, one of them was the minister of the
Sultan himself.
He was the minister of the Sultan, he was officially a slave
is the dean of Nagisa and gave a fatwa about them that look, this
is wrong, they have to be officially neutralized and made
made free. And until then, so people stopped dealing with them.
Look at the respect the Alma had at that time, I mean, Hamdulillah
I do have some respect, but not I don't think they have this kind of
respect. Alhamdulillah they do still have respect in many places,
right? So he obviously they went and complained to the Sultan, the
Sultan tried to change is the dean of Nandi salaams mind by saying
that, look, it's okay, we'll deal with it or don't get involved in
this issue, and so on. When he did that, is the dean of the Abdus
salaam decided that I'm going to leave town I'm not going to stay
here anymore. If that's good. If the king is saying this, I'm not
staying here. So he decided to leave. So somebody comes and tells
the king the next day that look, you better go out to the outskirts
because much of your city is leaving with izzadeen Abner Abdus
Salam, they don't want to stay here anymore. So he goes out and
manages to convince is the king of Normandy that we just can't still
even, you know, think about this fully, and understand it fully.
Like why would people start leaving, and he said, your city is
going to be empty. All the big guys are going to leave your city
is going to be empty. So he went, and he managed to convince him to
come back and settled back. So he managed to come. He managed to
calm that down. Now, one of the ministers decided that you know,
what I need to put an end to this is the dean of no Abdus Salam. So
one day is the dean of Nnamdi salaams at home, and there's a
knock on the door. So his son goes out to open the door and he says
this minister with a sword, Where is your father? So he goes into
court, his father, his father comes out and said, Yes. What do
you want? The minister's hand start shaking and his sword drops.
Right. Now his son was obviously very, very afraid. But then he
called his father and then this happened. And then the minister
just said, Okay, what are you going to do to us? He said, I'm
going to sell you he said, Okay, fine. If you're going to sell us,
then you sell us make sure nobody else does, at least will be an
honor for you to set us and at least then we can have this story
sorted out
Subhanallah
his son then later asked him what you fearful once you fearful that
he had a sword in his hand, and he was he'd come there. And the
Sultan, the Sultan just said, No, there was no fear. I had no fear
of him.
So then he had them sold. Edna Sookie when he writes about this
story, he says that we've never heard anybody else who's managed
to do this, and get away with it. You know, others may have called
for it, but never have been able to actually see it through as
well. That's how powerful he was. But so rigorous, and so
particular. So Egypt had a lot of political upheaval.
And after Malik Shah, his son to Ron Shah, Al Malik al moslem
he had come into power, but then there was some Turkish chiefs and
they seize power and this was a UBS didn't last that long, you
understand?
And they also held is the dean of now Abdus Salam in very high
regard.
Now comes the mum, Luke's the mum Luke's are in charge. And the mum,
Luke's they have this, they're Turkic now, right? They're Turkic
a ubix had been Kurdish these guys are Turkic and the Turkish sultan,
Al Malika via had barbarous and Sultan Kotas. This is now their
time.
They were very this Malika via Baybars Sultan Baybars. They call
him right, very famous.
They were especially devoted to him. Now you have to remember he
encouraged them, and they're the first people to go and fight
against the Mongols and defeat them in that famous battle. So the
first one of the first battles that the Mongols lost in a big
way, was under assault on quotas, and this URL Mullica Hill Babers.
And a lot of that encouragement came from is a deep drag this
around. If you go to Cairo today, there's multiple sites named under
Mullica Hill barbarous where one place is where he's buried.
Another one is the grand Masjid of his right the last time I went,
one of his messages, they were actually under reconstruction. And
mashallah he's considered to be one of the big you can say,
historical figures of Egypt. Now, to continue. So, his Sultan,
sorry, not Sudan, but Sultan, Allah, Allah Ma is the Dean Abdus
Salam is a very generous person.
Very generous person. Not just generous but very ascetic, so he
sold all of his wife's ornaments. He convinced her she's like, look,
as long as I get a house in paradise, take all of this and he
gave it all to the poor.
And
she was very happy
about it for that deal.
If you had nothing and somebody came to him, he would give him a
piece of his turban. He would give him a piece of his turban. So at
least they can do something with that.
Once he made a mistake, he went and openly it was a very
transparent individual. He went and openly declared it I've made a
mistake. He announced that he was wrong. The biographer ignores
Sookie says that just absolute he had absolute fearless disregard
for the world, or power or fame and riches. unflinching, full
trust in Allah subhanho wa taala.
And He showed that he had attained a very high status of, of being
sublime in this regard.
Hypnosis he also mentioned that Sheikh is the dean of Naga salaam
was a disciple of the great Sufi Sheikh Sheikh Shahabuddin, a super
awardee from who the Sahara where the
line comes Sheikh Shahabuddin a sorority, he was also given ijazah
and Khilafah, from him granted permission, so that he can teach
others and he also for some time remained in the company of
abolhassan A showery.
He would say that the scholars weapon is their knowledge, and
just just people have to fight in the way of Allah and risk the
everything of this. So does the scholar have to do the same thing?
And then he will be commendable.
He wrote a number of great books. There's a number of great books
that he wrote.
And
after his ally, you could say after Imam Ghazali, you could say
is that he's the next scholar who wrote on the subject of the Mikaze
the Sharia of the objectives of the Sharia to reduce the Sharia
down to what are its main objectives. So Imam Hassan, he was
known to have done and then is the dean of nab the salaams name,
there's only about four or five, six scholars whose name comes out
who focused on this particular area, and is the dean of now Abdus
Salam is one of them. That's why one of the more recent scholars of
300 years ago, Shah when he Allah de Hillary, who wrote the Hoja
Tula Hill believer on this very on this subject, he says that he owes
three scholars for this book. And for a lot of that knowledge, one
is Imam Ghazali. The other one is Abu Sulayman al katabi. And the
third one is is Adina Abdus Salam. So he is no normal scholar, I
mean, as you can, as you can see, and mashallah, he lived for a long
time, and he died when he was 83 years old. He dies when he's 83
years old, he was the ninth of Jumada Lulu, in 660 H 668. So,
remember, this is after
Gilani has gone after the Tsar, he has gone right. So he dies. And
660 H. Al medica. VA had Babers he accompanies the funeral with along
with all of his chiefs and rulers and everybody else and ministers.
They were very very aggrieved by by his by his eventual departure.
And the king finally said that Verily he had won the hearts of
the people. And he was then laid to rest and Masha Allah may Allah
subhanho wa taala, abundantly reward him for all that he did,
and for encouraging this battle against the Hmong, of the defense
against the Mongols, and then finally winning that all of his
doors and everything for all the books that he has left behind, and
for being the soul, Daniel aroma and for being such an inspiration,
already, we know that he is accepted because in this masjid,
in the middle of London, we're discussing him after, you know,
how many years you know, after several 100 years, we're
discussing him, that in itself is an amazing idea. May Allah
subhanaw taala allow us all to do something special in this world
for the sake of the Hereafter. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala allow
these people to be a role model working with that one and Al hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen the point of a lecture is to encourage
people to act to get further an inspiration and encouragement,
persuasion. The next step is to actually start learning seriously
to read books to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the
subjects of Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become
more aware of what our Dean wants from us. And that's why we started
Rayyan courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on
demand whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel
a lot more confident you don't have to leave lectures behind you
can continue to live you know to listen to lectures but you need to
have this more sustained study as well as local law here and Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato