Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Caliph ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al’Aziz An Inspirational Leader

didn't have devices, I'm gonna I'm gonna have devices. According to

Sheikh Hassan, he literally he's got a very good book set of books

called saviors of Islamic spirits. And I would really encourage

everybody to read that book. The reason is that it makes you proud

of who you are. Because you see now what's happening is that a lot

of depression is out there, because we see that Muslims are

being attacked all around. So those people who don't have a firm

grounding in Islam, right, have not been brought up with a good

education of Islam beyond what Salat is, you know, like, for

example, ask what's going on in the in what are the children

taught, and the mother says, after school programs, Quran classes, so

I'm told that they taught Quran, and then after that, they're

taught how to pray, Salat, and the basics of, you know, Salah them

will do and so on. And hamdulillah that's good. That's good is better

than nothing, you know, because in America, in many places, they only

have Sunday school like the Christians do, right. And I used

to teach in one place that was about 40 minutes from my house

every Saturday, and I gave up afterwards, I said, it's like

trying to make them read a chapter of Harry Potter, once a week,

because by the time you go there, the next week, they they forgotten

the last part of the story, right. And I said, I just can't do that

you can't have your Islam being taught just once a week. So this

is great. But we need to move beyond that the children need to

grow up understanding Islam more than you know, because when a

child only thinks that Islam is not about just salaat, then when

it comes to philosophical issues, what they're confronted with at

university, they're going to think Islam has no idea about it, then

they're going to subscribe to views of content and Nisha and

Derrida and Foucault and in all the rest of them, right because

they just think there's that's all that's available because haven't

been exposed. That's why it's very important that we teach our

children an all rounded understanding of Islam from every

aspect, the more ama that aspect, the more I shallot aspect, you

know, the social aspects, the philosophical as the theology, the

jurisprudence and everything. That's very important. So you know

you you're coming from one of these.

He is a grandson of sorts of Romani. Hola, Juan. But he is from

this royal family his father Abdulaziz right into Marwan now,

what you had is he was not in line of the caliphate. It was the

uncle's family. Right.

What happens is that the Khalif preceding him, didn't have

children who are old enough to succeed him. He tried that cliff

at his deathbed, even on his deathbed even tried to address

them up to look older, but it wasn't working. So somebody on his

side did a great thing. And he said, Why don't you give it to

Omar Abdulaziz, your cousin? Oh, Ronda Rousey is his wife was from

the from the ruling family. I'm going to Omar Abdulaziz was known

to you know, like good things, being from the ruling class. You

know, it wasn't ruling party, but it was related, like good things

and so on. He passed away at a very young age, but

they made him the Salif, the honey from the Almighty. I mean, they

made in the Hanif of the Romanians, you're talking about a

major dynasty, you know, major caliphate. You know, they

proceeded the Abbasids Dambusters came afterwards, after the Omega

domains reversed.

And as soon as he became a belief, it's like a light went on in his

head. The trophy was there from Allah subhanaw taala. And he did

it two years and some months.

What none of the ones before him were able to do after Mariani

Allah.

He had such justice after a time of major corruption, because that

means began to be known for cost and confiscating properties, and

just indulging and just literally the Baitul mal de the,

the

the national treasury, right the national treasury

dipping their hands into that just using it for themselves. You know,

some of these clips you don't want to happen. Right. Like later on in

the Abbasids. You had one of them, they had a special possession on

Eid day. You know, when they perform Eid prayer after maghrib

because it just took that long. And we're just just absolutely

crazy. It was just absolutely crazy. Right? So you've got all

sorts of all sorts of stories, listen, to have a good honey,

who's the wealth and riches in a position has gone to his head. You

know, that's something really great Omar Abdulaziz. He had said

justice, that in North Africa,

there was not a person who was eligible to receive zakat anymore.

The distribution of the wealth without communism, right without

communism. Got to such a stage that everybody was decently well

off

To such a degree that nobody can accept as a curse, nobody can

accept the curse. Now, obviously, if you've got that kind of

situation, that money can then be used for other purposes. You know,

you can have prosperity in all other fields when that kind of

thing happens.

But unfortunately, he was poisoned, and it reverted back to

them. They just couldn't take because he had given all of his it

made his way to get all the jewelry back. Right, because he

said that this was gotten through ILL means ill gotten means. And

one day his children came to meet him. And he had his hand over his

mouth throughout that meeting. And his children are wondering, why is

that? And he said I hadn't. The only thing I had to eat was

onions. Because he was so frugal. He wouldn't use the money from the

government for his own letters.

Meaning you wouldn't use the candles. You wouldn't use them. He

was so particular about these things. He was just so particular

that that gave him the justice.

And you carry on, and it's just so much more to say