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