Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Diligence of Our Righteous Scholars
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Respected listeners.
This is a topic which gets down to the absolute fundamental aspect of
our deen and our life in this world.
There are two things the world over which are respected
regardless of what faith and person comes from. And regardless
of what
it's to do with, there are two things which people respect just
by the nature of who we are as human beings, Allah subhanho wa
Taala has kept the love have these things in the hearts of people in
general. Now, think about it, there's a person who's not very
wealthy.
Wealth is something that many people would respect, but that's
not what I'm speaking about. There is something that goes beyond
money and wealth. It goes beyond position. It goes beyond anything
that you would have to maybe be put in a position for. What I'm
speaking about is two things. One is knowledge and the other one is
a flock and character.
Even if there's a an absolute Popo, but he has good character,
he'll be respected for that. You would respect that person.
The love of such a person would enter into your heart whether you
like it or not.
Because the character the interaction because character, it
demands interaction with others. So you would love such a person, a
person who's always pleasant, even if trying to correct you or trying
to guide your rights, they do great wisdom.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had the ultimate
character.
What's very interesting is that the Allah subhanaw taala reveals
the nature of human beings and in revealing the nature of the human
being, he also shows the greatness of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
racisms Allah subhanho wa Taala says, you know, Quran one oh kunda
511 Evil Colby Landford Dohmen how Nick for under whom was still
fiddling with Shall we are humbled
for either Airism DevaCurl Allah Allah
you know, the love that the Sahaba had for Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. There are other Hadith that make it so clear.
There's a hadith in which he mentions somebody relates their
observation that they saw the profit center Lauridsen doing will
do at one in one instance. And the Sahaba around him would not even
let a single drop of the water that was flowing off his limbs
while he was doing will do to reach the ground. They were all
there rushing to try to get some of that water, and they were
trying to put it over their faces and over their bodies.
That's the respect they held. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
salam
and this is not just a few this is the general understanding of all
the Sahaba and the way they put Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam in their hearts.
Allah subhanho wa Taala still says though, that all messenger
Muhammad Salah
All right in your salon had you been harsh,
hard hearted
and not very pleasant essentially saying that if you had had a
brash, rude, harsh, hard hearted hearted attitude, then fuck doing
holik, then these people would have strayed from around you, they
would have dispersed they would have gone away from around they
would not have stayed with you. For offline homeless stuff alone
make it safer for them overlook their, their wrongs, forgive be
more forgiving, be more pleasant, like luck and character is very
important. Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam depicted the highest
character. So one is a HELOC. The other one is knowledge. Somebody
with sound knowledge is also respected, regardless of what
their person what that person's background is. And knowledge is
something which can take a person just in a matter of a few years
from being nothing to be something that people have great respect
for. That's not the purpose of studying knowledge. That is not
the purpose of studying knowledge.
The purpose of studying knowledge is that a person gets closer to
Allah subhanaw taala. Regardless of what knowledge it is just the
world over people have respect for such people. The reason we have
respect for PhDs The reason we have respect for doctors we have
respect for people with other expertise is because they've spent
some time we've got respect for the fact that they have spent time
trying to understand trying to get to the bottom of that subject,
regardless of what subject it is.
When it comes to Islam, when knowledge is considered to be a
great objective, and absolutely essential for the stability of
this faith, the preservation of this faith, then in Islam, we've
got even greater not greater respect for knowledge. There are
so many Hadith about knowledge. In fact, that is the legacy of
Rasulullah sallallahu.
As related by Imam telemovie, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said in the middle ADAMA, what are central AMEA the real
Allah are the inheritors of the prophets.
And then he says, What in the Gambia lamb you were rethrow dinar
on what did Herman that prophets do not leave behind as their
legacy been ours that their homes essentially money in cash and
assets.
You and I, when we pass away, whatever is ours will go to our
inheritance. That's what we leave behind.
The Quran tells us exactly how to split that up. The prophets are
unique in the sense that they leave behind knowledge, who are
the inheritors? The inheritors, as the prophets of Allah, some said
will be the other man
will be the Redeemer those who go and try to study this knowledge.
They will be the inheritors, who truly take from rasool Allah,
Allah, Allah, Allah yourself. But
the great thing is that when a person dies, now, if the
inheritors, if the inheritors of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam were his blood, relationships, his kin, then there
would be no possibility of anybody else becoming part of that. And
thus, you and I, if you're not from the descendants of
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, some cannot become a family of
Rasulullah sallallahu. That's not an achievable goal for somebody
who is outside of the outside of the line. However, we can become
inheritors of Rasulullah sallallahu. And that is open for
all. You go and study and the more you study, the greater you are the
inheritor. It is available for all people, the greater you are the
inheritor. And if you're an inheritor, and you're taking
something, and that's why the prophets of Allah then said, from
an other who are other we have the noir theory, that whoever does
take this up and become a scholar, become an acronym. To take this
knowledge, they have taken a really full full share.
The share that you could take of anything in this world, he's
saying have have them means a share.
Normally, when you distribute, it says the academia will have their
own vein, the mother will get one sticks, the white wife, if she has
if they have children will get one eight, the children will get this
much and so on and so forth. Each one has their in Arabic will you
call it health? Juice, an amount, a division, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is saying here, that the one it's open, it's not
distributed, in the sense that okay, you only get this much and
you can't have any more you can take this inheritance is
different. This is where the inheritor can take as much as he
wants because there's enough for it to go around, and it will not
decrease anybody else. Anybody who takes any part from Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam of the Divine, the sacred knowledge, it will not
decrease anybody else's Share.
Everybody can take as much as they want. And this is something in
which you can compete.
And knowledge is such a thing.
Now, if you if were to understand, because you see today, with the
fact that most of the media that we are constantly in touch with,
whether that be on radio that be in print, whether that be on our
phones, or on the Internet, most of the source of that media is non
Muslim. It's not Muslim media that we're dealing with, on a day to
day basis for our news for our worldly events, our affairs, even
for any other research that we're doing. It's mostly non Muslim news
that we're joining. Not that there's anything and not that
we're saying that you can't benefit from this. What I'm trying
to say, though, is that because of that, we're not really able to
understand the level that our scholars of the past have gone
through so that the dean is with us today. And that needs to be
appreciated.
That needs to be appreciated. I have a friend who's a scholar,
who's also a medical doctor, and a pathologist, he mentioned, he
mentioned to us the state of his supervisor is his teacher, his
instructor, the pathologist that is above him. Very interesting.
And when you you know, you can make your own judgments about
this. He says his his teacher, who's the very high ranking
pathologist, he is so dedicated to his work, he is so diligent about
his work, that he hardly takes a holiday. He's constantly doing the
work,
constantly doing the work.
And eventually, when his wife will persist, and eventually, when he
has to agree to take a holiday for the sake of his wife. This is what
he does. He will he lives in America, May in mainland America,
he will call a
hospital that's close to the beach in Hawaii.
And he will say Can I speak to one of your junior pathologists? This
guy's a high ranking pathologist. Can I speak to one of your junior
pathologist, one of the guys that have just started off? And then
the sacred hill asked him, we'll get him on the phone and say, Do
you want a holiday? So personally? Well, what do you mean, he says,
If you want a holiday, take a holiday, I'll come and work in
your place. So he makes an agreement that he will work in
place of that junior pathologist, the hospital doesn't mind. They're
getting a high ranking pathologist to work for free in that place. In
that time, the other guy goes off, he goes with his wife, his wife's
at the beach, and he's working at the local hospital.
That's diligence. That's why he is who he is today. That's serious.
That's diligence.
Now we hear stories about this all the time, the diligence of people,
the persistence of people to achieve what they do constantly in
the media, we're reading about how high achievers are achieving many
of them are about role models that we don't really want to emulate
about music stars and dancing, and we don't want to emulate them. But
with others, you hear a lot about a certain architect, you hear
about a certain designer, you hear about, you know, a certain
filler, philanthropists, or some other media person or some other
software, software or some other type Could you hear about their
humble beginnings, you hear about their diligence, night and day,
they're putting into one to be able to achieve what they achieve.
And we say subhanallah whenever you hear stories about this gives
you encouragement to do the same thing. You hear the story about a
person who made millions, starting from nothing. You're told in week
in and week out in the apprentice that Alan Sugar came from nothing.
Right? People that want to be like him, that oh, if he if I find
nothing, and he was nothing and now he's what he is today, and why
can't I be there's the same thing. When you hear the stories of
achievement encourages you to be like the mischievous nature. It's
just the way we are. We hear about somebody else's achievement we
want to emulate whether you like it or not, that's just the way
things are normally.
We are. Unfortunately, the problem is that we just don't have enough
stories around us of what our other man did to achieve what they
did. And for the dean to have reached us today. Because believe
me if they were not even happy as they were, we don't know what
formed the dean would have come to us today. That's the thing to
understand.
You think the Dean came to us today that we have access to the
sources that are the MA have explained the ahaadeeth they've
explained the Quran, we've got numerous tuffa See, which is
commentaries of the Quran. We've got numerous commentaries of the
hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, we've got an
entire thorough, complete science that explains all of these things.
We've then got the sciences that are formulated those of laws of
Arabic grammar so that a person can understand the Quran and the
Arabic language to better understand the Quran. There's the
fifth, there's the theology, there's the Arpita. I mean, if all
of these things have not
been pursued by the amount of the past we would we would not have
our deen the way we have it today. Despite the fact that I'm sure
there's been a denigration, no doubt, there's been a
degeneration, there's been a loss over the years. Clearly our
knowledge can never be like the knowledge of the Sahaba and the
web, there's definitely been a loss throughout the years.
But still, we have to, we owe it to our scholars of the past. And
we have to learn more about them, then only we will learn to
appreciate, believe me, there are people today who will criticize or
the mom because they don't know their history. And they see these
great achievements of people outside
non Muslims, because that's what we're bombarded. It's not it's not
a conspiracy. It's just the fact we're living in a world that is
dominated by Western media.
And we're, and we're in the West, we are in the West. So that's what
we're hearing, it's not a concert, it's just a fact. It's just the
way it is. So until we don't start to understand and recognize what
our scholars did, were we going to get that enthusiasm, okay, if
we're 50 years old, or 60 years old, and we don't see ourselves
going and dedicating ourselves to knowledge, maybe we can be
encouraged and inspired enough that we dedicate our children, the
best of our children for it, not the children that doesn't work at
school, that is playing truancy. That is not cool. That is getting
low marks. So we send him into a mother into a seminary, so that
maybe they'll sort him out. You're not giving the best of your mind's
eye you. You're not giving the best of the people. Whereas money
can be made with or without qualifications. Allah subhanaw
taala can give to whoever he wishes, but the theme cannot be
preserved without serious qualification. Allah the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allah subhanho wa Taala will
not
just take away knowledge in Allah Lyons, you will in this light as
you will, in discern what Kenyans zero who mean, in this era Dhamma,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he said that Allah
subhanaw taala doesn't just extract knowledge, just like that,
the way knowledge is taken away from the world is by the
disappearance of scholars, they pass away and there's nobody to
replace them. Great scholars are passing away, year in and year
out, are there enough new scholars coming up to replace them so that
they can continue the work, there will always be some, but we need
to ensure because it's to our benefit, and to our gender, our
progeny is benefits. We are responsible for sowing the seeds
for the next generation, we can't expect the next generation to do
it. And we have a very unique situation in the West. Because
we're still in first and second generation, we've got a lot of
building to do. Because it's our fathers, the first generation that
came to countries like this in the West, and tried to protect the
dean. Now there needs to be an understanding of the theme, there
needs to be a preservation of the theme in these countries. And
everybody is responsible for that is the common folk on the street
that do not consider themselves scholars and under scholars,
everybody is responsible and everybody can play their parts,
you cannot leave it to just a few. Let me give you the understand.
Let me let's let's just look at just some idea, get some idea of
the amount of the past and their diligence and what we owe them.
If you for example.
You'll see the value the value that they had of this knowledge.
Nearly every scholar of the past you will see that he traveled
he traveled from one place to the other in order to seek more
knowledge. He did not suffice with what was available there. They
traveled spending their entire livelihood, Scott as a key member
Hardy, for example. And many others who are known that they had
inherited a certain amount. They spent that entire amount to go out
and study knowledge around the world. When they would run out,
they would work they will do something and carry on. That was
the way they studied. I know it's not something every one of us can
do.
It's explained it's just to show us the value of the knowledge and
this is not just an isolated incident, one of the sheiks of
Imam Buhari his name was Mohammed Abdul Salam and became the one of
the one of the teachers of Imam Bukhari when he was young and he
was studying.
His pen broke.
Right? Just imagine it your pen ran out of ink, and you're writing
down
and the teacher is carrying on because there's other students
there. You're just one of the students. He needed a pen. His
friend is not going to give him a pen because he's writing for
himself. You know what he did? He told one of the guys make an
announcement up here
dinar for a pen. I pay a dinar for a pen.
20 dinars today is the gold nisab
which is a few 1000 pounds. So I would say who who who's willing to
sell their pen for 100 pounds, even 50 pounds, would you pay 50
pounds today, you would if it was something so valuable to your
heart.
So when that announcement was made, who was got a pen to sell
for 50 pounds, many pens came flooding in, he had the choice,
whichever one you wanted to buy, the fact is who's somebody willing
to pay 50 pounds for that. And that's not an isolated incident.
There's another scholar of bulk, one of the earlier Hanafi
scholars, he saw a new user, same thing, his pen broke, couldn't
find another pen, he was willing to pay 50 He was willing to pay a
dinar for a pen and he purchased it just so that he could write, he
could he could not he will not miss what he studied, missed the
what his what his teacher was teaching, and that he could record
it.
The encouragement here as well is that when we start studying, when
we do study, we should actually keep a little notebook. Most
people have smartphones now you can take little notes. And then
when you hear something that is useful and beneficial that you can
reflect over afterwards, you should write it down.
You should not always take lessons to be just inspirational lectures
that you just are inspired for that moment you go out the
inspiration remains for a while and then it disappears. It needs
to be more sustained form of study that we need to be undertaking.
And I'm especially speaking to the younger brothers as well. And the
younger sisters that are listening,
that we need to have a more sustained plan of study. If you're
only joining in certain Halaqaat certain rules, certain lessons,
and you're taking certain courses don't just go there just to listen
be part of the company, take a notebook, take notes and come back
and review them. It's related about Imam nawawi. You might know
he most people should know him because he wrote the real study in
which Allah subhanho wa Taala accepted to such a degree that
it's famous the world over. It's a collection of Hadith. You wrote
the among many of the other scholars that collected 40 Hadith
collections. His collection is probably the most famous. He was a
scholar of Syria, who studied in Damascus, coming hailing from the
south of Damascus. It says he never married he died at the age
of 45. Allah subhanho wa Taala took him from this world. He died
at the age of 45. And yet it mentioned he never married. He
studied he studied everyday 12 lessons and explains exactly what
lessons to lessons in this. One lesson in. In Hadith Bukhari and
Muslim another lesson in this subject 12 lessons a day. He was
studying that these are the 12 lessons he studied with teachers.
And each lesson couldn't have been just half an hour had to be at
least let's just say an hour. So that means 12 hours of the day are
spent just studying with the teacher, where it's an interaction
with the teacher and teachers teaching his answering asking
questions is clarifying things, then there are times Other than
that, when obviously he has to re review what he studied. Because he
would spend time reviewing wasted. It says that there was a time when
he first came to study for two years, his site did not touch the
bed.
If he slept, it was probably sitting down just slumbered away,
when sleep overcame and there are a number of scholars like that,
who never slept, as a purpose will sleep. They would just sleep and
sleep overcame them. If a Muhammad a che Barney's related about him,
that he would, he would keep a number of different books around
him. At nighttime, you're going to get tired. So when he would be
bored of one book and get tired, he would throw some water on his
face. And he would take another book and start reading another
subject. Because you know, you refresh it and people get bored of
things very quickly.
But you must know him for two years, his side did not hit the
bed. He slept in other positions just when sleep over came in. He
only ate once. And he drank once. He ate after Asia, and he drank
only in the morning. And that was it is that because food it creates
laziness in your bones. It creates laziness in your way softens out
your body. So that is the persistence even then diet. Can
you imagine regulating your diet for your studies?
Right, you know, today's the time of Red Bull. Today it's the time
of these other caffeine infused drinks that keep you up these
people on the natural diet.
Right they regulated does that for who who did it do this for? What
did he get out of it? It wasn't that he would get the highest
position afterwards to to you know a high salary position in the in
the best university of the world or something or that he will
become a consultant for this firm and that firm. That's not the
point. They did it for their love of Allah subhanaw taala the value
of the knowledge, the value of the knowledge
and that was the secret
Shouldn't you hear from many of these scholars? What they would
say is that when I like Imam Shafi actually says in, he's got these
beautiful lines of poetry in which he said he's comparing his under
his study of knowledge and the pleasure that you get when you
have been able to resolve a problem. Let's just say that
there's some conflicting narrations. One scholar has said
this, and One scholar has said this, and you're trying to get to
the bottom of it. You notice many people just say, well, forget it.
What's the point? Why am I supposed to do this, but he's
trying to get to the bottom of it. The pleasure, he says, when when
you get to the bottom of a conflicting issue, it says is far
superior than lying with beautiful women. He says it's much far
superior than taking that, that drink of wine, that cup of wine,
and he gives examples with all of these things that normally people
derive their pleasure from indulgence. And he's not just
saying normal, hello pleasures. He's speaking about the most
indulgent pleasures that people take to get pleasure. He says, My
pleasure when I seek knowledge, and I resolved something is far
superior to those most indulgent pleasures.
You know, I'm not just having a good meal. He's saying those haram
pleasures, he says, I think my benefit that I get and the
pleasure I get is far superior to those things. And those who get
their pleasures from these ways should not question this should
not look at this with skepticism. It is somebody who's relating
their experience that you have not had, and you cannot deny
somebody's experience. It's very personal to them. You can try it.
And you can ask them how they do it. And then if it's after
experience, then maybe you can compare, but you can don't deny
somebody's experience.
This is the diligence of the aroma of the past.
Double use of the famous student of Imam Abu Hanifa
somebody went to visit him knowing that he was very ill terminal
illness, he was going to die very soon. And he was unconscious, when
he came to consciousness is a person going to to visit him.
As soon as possible use of chemical use of Rahim Allah opened
his eyes, he started asking him a question on faith.
And the person is saying, Have mercy on yourself. This is not a
time to do this. He said, No, there may be some benefit in what
we're saying.
Until the last moment.
Abdullah Hypno Mubarak who started off as a drunkard,
used to get drunk every week, used to play music. And once he had a
certain experience where he was enlightened, and he began to
study, and he became one of the greatest scholars of the time, the
greatest metalheads the greatest Hadith scholars.
At the last moment, towards the end of time he's still studying is
still inquiry still asking questions, and somebody questioned
him. He says laddle Kennametal. Let Ethan Ferroni Mata la lambda
baloney had to earn maybe not one statement, that one word which is
really going to benefit me, has not yet reached me. And I still
have to reach it. So this note is not for position. This was for
a quest to seek the divine, to seek ALLAH subhanaw taala and then
to benefit others.
And you you seek knowledge Allah subhanaw taala if he's intended
good with you,
may unit Allah who later on as Bukhari and Muslim relate, if
whoever Allah subhanho wa Taala wishes well with your doctor who
feed Dean, he will give them an understanding a deep understanding
of the religion,
the deep understanding of the religion.
So, anybody who has gone and studied and has had some has
studied, you must realize that Allah subhanaw taala has intended
some good with them. And the more they've studied and the more
diligent they are Allah subhanaw taala has probably intended even
greater, that's why we must respect them,
even if they have other failings, and that's the second part of the
talk. One is that we strive ourselves to learn as much as
possible.
Now, one of the things I need to clarify before I carry on is that
when you have courses for Allah ma, and when most other people
think that we cannot go and spend so many years in going and
studying this course, and dedicating ourselves 100% of our
time as such, or the majority of our time to do this, it's
unachievable, so we shouldn't have achieved anything. This is where
there's a bit of a confusion.
We're not saying to become so called formally qualified
scholars. That's not possible for everybody. What I'm speaking about
is something that everybody can take part of. It's an increase
from where we
Are you happy with what you have learned? How many things have you
learned in the five years? And you must ask yourself, how many more
things, how many things have we corrected? How many aspects of our
knowledge and our deen and our practice have we enhanced because
of something we've learned. And because something we purposely
went out to learn, that is what I'm speaking about, we must be
speed seeking Dean, we must be seeking knowledge from literally
the cradle to the grave. And in that sense, even if we cannot go
into a formal course, which is not the domain of everybody, we you
need to be seeking as much as possible. And that's why I say
keep a notebook as well. So that whatever we hear a useful point,
we write it down, we can reflect over it afterwards, we can benefit
ourselves and we can benefit our families. If the parents do it,
they will see that the encouragement will be provided to
their children. You can't expect your children to do that. If the
children see their older father, or their mother seeking knowledge
at this age. Can you imagine what they would what how encouraged
they would be? I was in Canada recently and we had an invitation
to the the house. And we were told that there's a particular scholar
there particular Ireland, and it was as a as Father's house that
where they were hosting this, this invitation, this food invitation.
So we got there and my family was with me. So normally you don't
understand what's going on behind. But Subhanallah what my family my
wife told me was that the mother, an older person that had the her
sons are married, she is going out to study the knowledge.
She is going out to study the knowledge. And mashallah she said
that every statement of her she was giving to us and she said that
in five minutes, she must have given me $50 That is the name of
Allah subhanaw taala been taken over and over again. May Allah
bless you may Allah subhanaw taala make it easy for you may Allah
grant you health may Allah grant you this that, you know, these are
the kinds of doors that are just constantly rolling off the tongue.
And she was just no ordinary woman.
She was part of the activities of that area. And she had started
what they called an early mock class at that age, she was
probably over 50 years old.
And her son, mashallah I know that the two sons one is working in a
different state and the other one is working in Toronto, and
SubhanAllah. They're doing quite well themselves. It's when parents
will do something, whatever they do that the encouragement of that
will go to their children as well. That is why the scholars of the
past they would start studying at the age of eight, nine and 10. By
the age of 1516. They could write books. And this is not an
exaggeration.
One of the scholars of the past a philosopher really even know Sina
Avicenna. He says that anything of substance that was to benefit me
afterwards, that I studied was all before I was 18 years old.
That anything of real substance that I studied was all before 18
After 18 I'd done it all, by 18 had done it all.
Even Buhari by the age of 18 had written a book
critiquing the different scholars of Hadith. That was his knowledge,
not just the commentary on some Hadith, but critiquing the
scholars will relate the Hadith, the transmitters, the chains,
Islam, a small region, that's what he was dealing with, at the age of
18.
Do you think there's been came to us other than that? Ignore Josie,
a famous scholar.
He says that when people come to me, I have to see them. And
sometimes they just sit for too long and they waste my time.
You're talking about multitasking today. He says that eventually if
they just just sitting around and you know, they don't have anything
more to say and they're just sitting around just doing loose
talk. I'll use that time to do mundane tasks like sharpen my pins
or prepare this or prepare that was straighten this up so that I'm
not wasting my time.
The famous IGNOU Tamia Rahim Allah that people speak about, he was so
diligent about his knowledge that even when going and using the
toilet when relieving himself he would have somebody sit outside
and read so that he could at least listen to it.
That was the diligence we're speaking about.
This is a book written by Sheikh Abdul Fattah Bucha Rahim Allah is
passed away now called keema, to summon in the arena, the value of
time according to scholars, and he's compiled together all of
these achievements, which really opens your eyes to show what the
how people really took. And this is not just people from the Arab
countries. These are people who have
received Islam afterwards during the time of the expansions. These
are bihon scholars, these are bulky scholars, these are these
are scholars from currently Afghanistan, currently Iran, you
know, Nisha Puri scholars. Right. So just Abu Tao, the sisterly Imam
Abu Dhabi, the famous scholar he's strong
I see Justin is located in in Afghanistan today.
Did me the Buhari that's located in Uzbekistan today.
Right Islam only went there in the time of reprimand or the Allah
one.
And Imam Muslim is from Iran, currently Iran, Nisha pool.
These are some of the greatest scholars that you know, they're
from these outlying areas. So it's about who strives because this is
an inheritance that anybody can take. But they say that they're
ill will only give you a bit when you give yourself it full when you
give your full self to the knowledge. And believe me, give
you an example
for my PhD work, and working on a manuscript, which is about 1000
years old, and there's not much information about the different
scholars because many books have been lost in the Tata invasions.
Right? Where they just run totally ravaged Bukhara, summer Condon all
of these cities, they threw so many books, they burned so many
books, a lot of our heritage from certain areas has disappeared, we
still have a lot. But can you imagine if much of what had taken
place in Spain had not been lost? In the, in the Central Asia, if
that had not been lost, we would have a lot more. So there's one
scholar that shakable later someone can be related from whose
name is Muhammad YBNL for them.
Who is this Muhammad hymnal for them.
It took me two days just to try to get an idea of who it may be. And
I'm still not resolved in who it is.
So essentially, in the 100 years that they were three Mohamed YBNL
for those that lived this just to give you an example, in the 100
years during the time of Ebola summer can be you know, when you
check the dates of death, you look into the large biographical works
of the scholars, you'll find okay, there's a Muhammad YBNL father
here, there's Muhammad Abdul Fatah, Belfie, from bulk. Then
there's a Muhammad YBNL father body. And then there's another
another Muhammad Eternal Father and bulky one was a spiritual
scholar. Another one was a Quranic exigent commentator, famous for
Quranic exegesis, although he was also a jurist as well. And the
third one was a jurist which one of this which one of these is a
bit later summer can be Rahimullah relating from.
It could be any of those three, he could have related from the
earliest one in his younger days. He could be relating from the
other one that's his contemporary, you could also possibly be related
to the one that died after him. Which one is it? You can't tell.
You have to in order to just ascertain that you have to look at
Mohammed grandfather who he relates from, you have to look at
other people in the chain that are later summer candies relating from
you have to do cross referencing, and literally it takes it took me
two days, and I still haven't resolved it. I mean, my inability
is taking taken into consideration, but it's difficult
and you still cannot resolve it. Is it the Buhari because the hubby
says this was Mohammed Abdullah Buhari that he relates from other
scholars says he was bulky. So if you if you narrow it down to this
one, but the habeas said it's the Buhari one. So is it that one
then? So there's arguments in favor of this one? There's
arguments in favor of that one? Which one is it?
Somebody has to do this work to resolve certain things. And the
amount of the past did these things, there were scholars, they
had no time whatsoever. There was one scholar who said that his
sister had to force feed him for over 20 years because he would not
eat himself.
He was so diligent in his studies, that his sister literally out of
love and care for him would come and put the food in his mouth.
Because he would not take off for that amount. So ut says that a
student needs to have three qualities. He needs to be able to
write fast, to walk fast. So you need to be fit, right? He needs to
be able to walk fast, right fast and eat fast. Because you're going
from one lesson to the other get there fast, so you don't miss
anything. Eat fast, you don't waste your time. And write fast so
you can capture everything. The teacher says this was their motto.
This was their understanding.
That's why you have somebody like like so ut
who wrote over eight 900 books.
On difficult subject, he says I've written on pretty much every
single subject except maths. And one other subjects says there are
two subjects that I can't deal with, but every other subject I've
written. And the difference in those colors, as opposed to today
is that today people must have one, they become a specialist in
one subject. In those days, it was a mastery of all subjects. For
example, you hear about hustling bustling. We're going really early
now. therebetween right. He's a derby Hustler, bossy Rahim Allah.
Not only was here the fierce guy
up. So you pick up any tafsir imageries deficit any difficile.
And you will see in there Carl Hassan Hassan says so and so you
pick up a book of fic has an imbecile his opinions are there.
Right? You pick up a book of Hadith, he is a narrator of
Hadith. So he wasn't just dedicated to one. So it's not a
PhD in one subject. These are people who would have numerous
PhDs according to modern day criteria. Mohammed Dibner, CD and
similar professor will handle this for key dream interpreter, the
famous dream interpreter, Muhammad Yunus serine, he got numerous
callers like that. So Fiona thorry, was another great
look at his diligence, diligence for knowledge.
Mohammed Dibner, fogal, another one relates, or it could be one of
the same ones that I spoke about earlier. But he wanted me he
released this in a Shama and he says Mohammed no further says that
Sophia, an authority came to visit me for a hadith that he wanted to
hear from me. It's a hadith he already knew. But he wanted to
hear the Hadith directly from me. So he came to me and he said, Can
you relate such and such a hadith to me? So I started relating it.
And he said, Can you relate it from your book, just to make sure
it's perfect, right, that you don't make any mistakes? So he
says, Okay, fine. I got abominable photos as I got up. And I was
about to go into my house to get my book. And he quickly grabbed my
gun. And he said, No, no, no, just relate it to me first. Because I
don't know I might lose you afterwards.
Right? Imagine this. I mean, to appreciate this, you probably
won't be able to appreciate it until you imagine this. Let's just
say there is
discounts going on flat panel TVs, worth 1000 pounds. For some
reason, some companies got 20 pieces that they're flogging for
20 pounds, sorry, 200 pounds. You really want one, somebody really
wants one. Right? Or with kids, they can appreciate that it's the
new gaming console. And some companies are selling them for 50
pounds where they only got 20 and you get to that place.
And you are one of the 20 that achieved one. You are one of the
20 that achieved one that get one. How would you feel
there are 1000 people who are camped overnight to get it you
know, when the latest tablet comes out? There's like these all these
all these worshippers that that wait for two, three days, right?
For that religion. Right? It's a religion at the end of the day.
That's what religion is all about. It's just a new form of religion
really? Right? Yes, use an iPod for the facility. But this thing
about getting the first piece, right when it opens up on that day
just for bragging rights? And if it's not for bragging rights, and
what is it for? To have that kind of internal conviction that I want
to get this for myself? Just so I can feel? That's like the prophets
of Allah wa alayhi wa sallam spending night in the 100 and I
shall the Allah wanna sing? Why do you need to do so much that your
feet become worn? What should I be thankful? sirven Can you see that
diligence. This is the kind of diligence people are showing for
their football teams today.
This has the same kind of diligence, adherence, emotional
attachment, fanaticism,
its religious, this is what religion is all about. And people
have replaced their understanding of religion and their attachment
to their religion with these other things. There's nothing wrong with
using a good MacBook. You know, I don't mind one, but I'm not gonna
go there and come for two nights.
But let's just say that there was something you know, there's an
there's an offer in your local Sainsbury's or whatever for
butter. They're selling for 20 Pence,
a crazy price, but it's only 200 and there's 1000 People that are
converging on those sales. And mashallah, you are the one of the
ones that managed to get a box. How will you feel?
How will you feel?
Now, imagine that feeling of exhilaration, that feeling of
elation, when you are able to achieve something this man had
come from probably from far, he'd come to Muhammad wa father to
listen to this hadith.
Right? And just to make sure he got it right. He said, Go and get
your Can you please read it to me from your book and dictated to me
rather than from your memory just to make 100%? Sure, as he was
about to do the illustrator, I've come all this way. What happens if
he dies in this next minutes?
So he cracked his clothing? And he said no, related to me
straightaway.
So he says why he says why I feel that I might lose you, whatever
that meant.
So he related it to him verbally from his memory. Then he went and
got the book. And then he dictated it from the book and he was the
same.
But that's, you call that fanaticism. You can call
Get what you like. But if it wasn't for that we wouldn't have
had our Dean the way we do have it today. That's what we need to
realize. People are using their emotion and their attachment. They
indulgence, that affiliation into other things that the world has to
offer. And thus, we don't have many questions answered today by
the scholars that we need answered.
The scholars on those who have studied don't have the same kind
of diligence, too many distractions. We all need to think
about this. We all need to focus our time on this. Because it's
only with pursuits like what I say before what I said, What I relate
that the deen can really be preserved, otherwise, it will be
diluted.
The deal will continue, but it will be diluted.
The Hadith that I read right in the beginning generation that I
read right in the beginning was very similar
Rahmani Allahu anhu, had made more than we are the Allahu and the
governor of Damascus. In Syria, that was a very important area
because that was the boundaries with the Romans and there was a
constant tussle between the Romans the Persians have been dealt with
on the Iraqi front. This was in a time of armor, the Allah one.
And there was a constant impending danger from the Romans. And that's
why why we are the Allahu Anhu was put there, as the as the governor
of Damascus to look after the Syrian front.
I'm going to be alone had also sent
a Buddha not only Allahu Anhu to be the Imam of the masjid of
Damascus, so he was the Imam and the copy of Damascus. So a Buddha
the Allahu is a Sahabi, who had been in Madina Munawwara he'd
heard directly from Rasul Allah and Allah and he was somebody.
That was something of great value.
There's a man later in Madina Munawwara he studies his Deen in
the Madina, Munawwara he acquires Hadith, the knowledge of Hadith.
Now, in Hadith the way it works, right, for those who don't know,
is that nowadays, we just pick up a book of Hadith Bohan, Muslim and
others and we say, Okay, this hadith is in Muslim. In those
days, there was no berhadiah Muslim as such, it was what you
heard directly from another scholar.
So people were trying to hear from the Sahaba
because they had heard it from Rasulullah, sallAllahu, or
Yosemite. There were Sahaba, who are trying to who also went to
other Sahaba, to acquire what they had heard from allah sallallahu
sallam, because not only the Sahaba were present, when the
prophets of Allah already some related every Hadith, nobody could
be present within 24 hours.
So there was a hadith, which this particular individual had heard,
had heard from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, and the
person he had heard it from, had probably heard it from a Buddha or
the Allah one. Lady from Masuda Lhasa de la jolla syndrome. This
got this individual, the student, or the scholar, whoever he was, he
wanted to hear it directly from the latest from the earliest
living authority, which was under that Valerie O'Brien. He had
already heard it from this other person who had heard it from a
Buddha. He wanted to go directly to Abu Dhabi, where was Abdullah?
He had moved to Damascus
from Madina, Munawwara to Damascus. Today is a 14 to 15 hour
coaching journey by road.
All right, which means in those days, it took a few weeks.
About the W Allah on the thermometer in case he says that I
was sitting
in the masjid of Damascus, with a Buddha or the Allah one and we're
cathedral no case he's the narrator. He was with a with
another young man he's relating. We were sitting with a Buddha with
the Allah one in the masjid of Damascus. Suddenly this person
comes up. And he says, oh, Abdullah, I've just come from the
city of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam.
Did you come in Medina to sola Salallahu Alaihe Salam, I just
come from the city of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
About a hadith, which has reached me that you relate from Rasulullah
sallallahu Sana, maybe a Buddha who was the only narrator of the
Hadith homasote, Allah salAllahu Salam. So the Hadith was popular,
everybody knew it. But they had all gained from Abdullah he wanted
to take it from the source.
So it was not some secret knowledge that people are saying,
I know this hadith, but you have to go to Abdullah when he tells it
to people and tells you that you can't tell anybody. It wasn't
anything like that. There was a famous Hadith, people knew it. But
this diligence just to get it directly from the source to make
sure they've got it right to hear from assume allah sallallahu
Ariosa This is also the exposure of the love for Allah salAllahu
Salam they there was
one one Derby whenever he would meet an IV pneumatic or the Allah
one
and she
Take his hands, he would make sure that he kisses his hand as well.
Why would he kiss Elsa the Allah Harnosand. Because honestly, the
Allahu Anhu
was the hardest and a servant of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam for about 10 years. And he would say that the reason I'm
kissing This is because this is a hand which has touched the hand of
Rasulullah sallallahu.
So if that's the case, with that kind of a thing, you can imagine
that a person wants to hear the words directly from a Buddha. So
you came in, he said, I've come to you about a hadith. I have learned
that you relate from a pseudo Rasul Allah Almighty, He was
salam. Now,
clearly, the rest of it indicates that this was not a common
practice for people to do this, this, this will do to your field,
because it's always just going to be a few of people who have so
much diligence. Not everybody has the time for such a thing. That's
why I'm delighted either Bill had done he says that if all the world
were to become pious, people always focused on Allah subhanaw
taala and their Salaat. And aspects of the deen, this world
would not function.
There'd be no industry, there'd be no breakthroughs. There'd be no
development, that we know production, there'd be no
manufacturing, everybody's just going to do their bit just to earn
their living, and they're going to go and worship Allah subhanaw
taala. So the fact is that this world would not continue if that
happened, right. But we want to be at least that minority,
at least somewhere close to that minority. That's the whole point.
So I would totally Allahu Anhu was quite taken aback. He was quite
surprised. So he quizzed him, he said,
so you didn't come for any other business? Like this is not a
business trip. That on the side, you're also doing this, as you
know, today, if you go for bidding, you'll say well, there's
some scholars in the city let's come visit them, right good people
do that pious individuals who are good business people, they will go
for business purposes or let me go to the masjid let me visit the
local brothers. Let me visit the rhythm of the area get some baraka
from them, you know people do that. So he thought maybe this is
one of those kinds of people.
So you said much utility job when I had become for some other other
reasons, some other other other objective you had to fulfill or
some business all the way from Madina Munawwara and the person
said, magic to in lonely Harbor, this is the only reason that I've
come here.
The only reason that I've come here
so
that would that would be Allah on relate to a related to a related
that I have heard or saw the loss of a loved one, as I'm saying,
Whoever adopts a path, whoever takes a path in which you study is
knowledge, Allah subhanho wa Taala will make the ways of paradise
easy for that person.
And this is what's significant for us.
It's about taking the knowledge.
It's about seeking the knowledge, even if that is coming to the
masjid, because a scholar has come here you have monthly programs,
and to take benefit from that person. You hear about another
program taking place somewhere else, you go there, you try to
speak to your brothers and sisters around and try to understand what
is the need of your community here. You speak to your Imams and
your organizers and you say, this is what we need. This is where we
feel we are lacking. This is what we need to start some classes or
some venues of knowledge for for this particular aspect. It's a
collective effort. Don't let the aroma do all the thinking for you.
You no matter what you need and the community needs. You know what
is being discussed in your weddings and in your functions.
That's where thing, these kinds of things come up. You need to pull
this together and feed back to their Alomar and organizers so
that they could organize this this is a responsibility for every
Masjid. People sit back and wait for the scholars to do things for
them. It's a responsibility for all we need to do to mutual
encouragement. And yes, as I was mentioning earlier, that if you do
do see some strange thing happening from scholars, well,
they're human beings at the end of the day, they've just been
bestowed with this knowledge. Maybe they're still working on
their character. Maybe they're still working on other things they
have, everybody has weaknesses, that's a human failing. They're
human beings. At the end of the day, they don't change into
another, an angel for that matter. They're still human beings, value
them, at least for what they have. Yes, if they're doing something
wrong, you go and you advise them clearly. But you must not put down
scholars for one thing, for they have value at least for their
knowledge. They have spent more time than you and I for whatever
they've done. It's all relative at the end of the day, we're full
control live here in the 19 above every knowledgeable person is a
more knowledgeable person.
So knowledge may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us appreciation. May
Allah subhanaw
It'll give us the ability to look in our history, the glorious
period,
you know, there is a person of evil badali is written the history
of the city of Baghdad, the history of just one city
up to his time,
you know how many volumes that book spans over 30 volumes.
It's just the history of bada. What that means is he has
researched every single scholar that has been reported to have
entered Baghdad, for whatever reason, but that was the double
Khilafah.
But but that was the center of Caliphate, our basic caliphate. So
scholars would visited from different either to study or to
teach. For every one of those, you will find, and you know, you're
doing if you're doing any, any studies, you want to know about
any particular scholar that went to Baghdad. If you don't read her
table after the study, then you're going to miss out on a lot.
Because the amount of knowledge this person had the amount of
research he undertook
the vastness of his
reach, in bringing this knowledge together, not only does he say Oh,
such and such a person came, and you know, there was a person or
destiny who came and then he disappeared, he will mention
everything that he can about the scholar, which means he must
afflict so many pages of other books, to be able to get this
information, put it down, you have ignore circuit, you have a diary
of the mosque, because Damascus then became the rascasse was also
a great city of the time, dominions. So you have a history
of that city, and the related aspects of there, believe me, you
we haven't even touched and a small percentage, even a minut
percentage of really is out there in terms of what people have
written.
It speaks about one person, he wrote a book in 60 volumes on fic.
And then he decided this is Molina Annie, who wrote the hedaya. This
is one of the most famous, and one of the most important books to a
certain degree in the Hanafi school and fic. He wrote it in
about 60 volumes. And then he thought he was going to read 60
volumes. So he summarized the into four volumes.
In Virginia Tobin,
Imam novoline. About No, he dies at the age of 45.
And they say if you people have actually taken all the pay, if you
if you dis, if you compile all the number of pages of all of the
books that he wrote on the different subjects, and these are
not the storybooks. Right? These are not novels, they just make up
a story. Right? You know, we do have writers today who have
written so many, you know, what do you call it, novels and so on.
This is speaking about some serious research. And you split
that to your split the number of pages for each day that He lived
from the time of being able to write, you must have written at
least 30 pages a day.
30 pages a day.
That's the diligence. Now, is this pathologist? Isn't his diligence,
something to wonder about? Yes, it is. It's something to recollect.
But then we've had that as well. And there are still scholars like
this today.
We just don't hear about them.
We just don't hear about them. Because we're not in touch with
that kind of media, the media that the media that we have choices
about everything else.
And the only thing it tells us about Islam normally is somebody
killing somebody else.
So that takes a person really awake and SubhanAllah. If you
people are coming to the message, this is great. I have seen cases,
for example, in our mosque in our Masjid in Santa Barbara,
in California, small community
after the local newspaper ran an article on our masjid and the Imam
only then did one family contact us and say I have children. And I
didn't know a masjid existed. And I didn't know that you guys in
this kind of arrangement? Can we come and visit you?
Only after the media and the story. There are people today who
get their knowledge firsthand from media as opposed to from the
books. There have been cases when I've discussed with someone one, a
current contentious issue on a subject and they are coming and
you could tell that where they're coming from is from the media
propaganda. And I say to them, Look, there's this one Hadith, a
basic Hadith that says one of the most basic Hadith books right. And
they're shocked when they hear that Islam does have an answer to
it. They think Islam doesn't have an answer because of the spin the
media puts on it
and that's where they get their knowledge from firsthand. So when
they hear a hadith a simplified that simply answers the question
that obviously the person who wrote the
To go Who presented that show did not take into consideration. This
is how many Muslims are being confused today.
But it's only when
people other than scholars also become a bit more scholarly and a
bit more educated that you can.
You can get this through to people like that I'm sure every one of us
in our families have people who don't come to the masjid as much,
who don't come for burns and lectures and bruises much. Now,
it's very difficult for a single scholar of the city, the Imam or
others to be able to go into all of these places because this
doesn't happen. But if the people who are coming who are interested
if they start developing their own knowledge, they can pass some of
this knowledge on when you have your family functions. Slowly,
slowly, people will benefit. You have to act as propagators of this
knowledge because the promises of autism said in a hadith of Buhari
building or any one of
conveyed from me even if it's one verse, so it's your responsibility
to get it out to your extended family. So that we can educate
people. It's very important otherwise people in ignorance are
doing things and then then they regretted it and they come to the
other mob, to four answers.
May Allah subhanaw taala give us the tofu? May Allah subhanho wa
Taala give us understanding? May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us a
true understanding of our great history. bring us closer to Allah
subhana wa Motorolla allow us to appreciate
and not feel inferior just because of what we see around us today.
And may Allah subhanaw taala make us conveyors of knowledge and
bibles of the knowledge and guides for others. This is something each
one of us can attain. If we ask Allah subhanaw taala me accepted
for all of us, but after that 100