Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Need To Revive The Ummah
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to look at you and the microphone is down here I constantly had this
problem I should have told the organizers before to have a long
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And by the way, you can laugh if you want to as well it's
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Firstly, I'd like to just thank our group here, Mashallah. And
Bella Tamati and company for the good work that they've begun Allah
subhanaw taala accepted Allah subhanaw taala take it from
strength to strength. And I also think all of and I'm very grateful
to all the tenants here brother brothers and sisters who have come
on this Sunday in this cold weather, which is probably normal
here anyway,
to come and
listen to us, Allah subhanaw taala give us a topic to speak about
those things which are beneficial to all of us Inshallah, both
ourselves and hopefully, Grant is on topic to act because that's the
main thing. We're constantly being told first, Allah don't ask Allah
for Dolphy. That's very important because a speech is just a speech.
Tofik is what's really what's really necessary. I'm sure Tofik
is part of our vocabulary.
It's part of the Muslim international Muslim Bukhari is an
Arabic word, what Tofik means it's a very important word, it's a very
important term, don't fake means that asking ALLAH SubhanA wa
taala, to make our actions in accordance store He is pleased
with. So for Allah subhanho wa taala, to guide us give us divine
guidance to do those things which he's pleased with, and not just to
kind of leave us on our own. We call him forsaking someone. And
let us leave us to the outside elements, the attraction of the
dunya, and so on. So Tofik is very important. And that's why a person
who's granted Dolphy, because the Morpho is the one who's been given
given divine guidance. So Allah subhanaw taala give us divine
guidance. I think what's very important is once I was when I was
in America, we were in interfaith gathering, and a spiritual kind of
interfaith kind of gathering. And I mentioned one Hadith right in
the beginning. And this is it's a saint Hadith, I mean, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, I joven, the Emeril Bachmann
agilon The amount of men in America who could level a level
higher.
What a astonishing state, it is, for a believer, a believer has a
very, very astonishing situation. Because whichever state is in,
it's all good for him. The reason is that when we live in this
dunya, I mean, I'm sure everybody can personally relate to this,
that sometimes you have good times, we're feeling good, and it
just looks like life is just cruising along. And sometimes we
were hitting some potholes, you know, we are finding some problems
here and there, maybe it's a family issue. Maybe it's something
to do with studies, maybe it's something to do with your
application at university, maybe something to do with your grades,
right, you're not achieving your, your grades or your promotion, or
you're trying to work or whatever it is. So there's always these two
states that a person deals with, right? And sometimes you feel
really good, and sometimes you just feel like the world is
suffocating, and you don't know where to go.
And these two states of prosperity and adversity. These are these are
things that mostly all humans go through.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam made this statement in such
a way that he it's such a comprehensive statement that when
I mentioned this hadith to this group of people that were sitting
there from other faiths, they were just completely taken aback. I
mean, as a single statement, it's one Hadith from the 1000s of the
Hadith that we have, right? It's just one Hadith, but it's just so
profound and so, so penetrating it just gets to the core of the way
we
Live,
which in which the Prophet similasan continued and he said
that because if prosperity good times have you know, smooth going,
if that's what the person experiences and he thanks Allah He
does sugar is grateful to Allah subhanaw taala, then that is good
for him.
Because Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran that letting
Shackleton law as Eden,
if you are grateful will only increase you. So it's like
profitable however you look at it, that something that Allah has
given you that you're happy about. And you thank Allah and He gives
you more of it. I'll tell you a personal experience. When I was in
America, I was situated in a place called Santa Barbara. Right, I'm
sure that the whole world has heard about Santa Barbara. It's on
the West Coast, California, right on the coast Pacific Ocean, a
beautiful area, it has some of the best weather in America throughout
the year 60 to 80 Fahrenheit, right. Not sure about degrees, I'm
still getting used to that, right. But you don't need a AC and you
don't need a you don't need heaters. And you drive down the
main highway, the main critical motorways, whatever you call them,
and palm trees, mountains, one side ocean on the other side, just
absolutely beautiful.
It took me a while to get used to it. Right. And I used to tell our
congregation, thank Allah for where you are.
And seriously, because when you're driving there, you can only thank
Allah.
But I'll tell you something, I started in 2000. And I left in
2000, beginning of 2008.
And when I left, there were only about 15 to 20% of the people that
were there in 2000.
The area was just such that it was so expensive. So you either came
as a student, PhD student at the university or you came for work,
you wanted to stay there because it was just so nice to be there. I
mean, I guess the the beach was only five minutes from my house,
always sunny, but I never got the Tawfeeq to go there. Except when
I'd get guests anyway. Right, as a matter of don't feel right in that
sense. But
only 15 to 20% of the people were there. leftover from 2000 people
had just moved out, you'd work with somebody that's not coming to
the masjid. And then suddenly that disappeared and move because it
was too expensive, you lose your job, you had to leave your finish,
you know, you finished your your studies, you got a job somewhere
you moved, or you just had to leave because of whatever I give
situation, but I'm serious. You make sugar to Allah subhanaw
taala, Allah will increase you. And if you don't make sure that
eventually it stops coming, it just stops coming. So that's the
first part of the Hadith. The other part of the Hadith says, And
if adversity, difficulty or calamity
afflicts this person, and he makes someone
he is patient, then that is also good for him. So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa Salam is telling us how to deal with any
situation that may arise in our life. Because Okay, there are the
grades of prosperity and grades of adversity, you know, whether
you're right, like kind of center, just off center, extreme calamity,
but either way you make solid and shoot them. And that's the way you
deal with your life. And when you do it that way, it's just filling
up your rewards, and you're becoming closer to Allah subhanaw
taala. And even if you don't believe in a God, right, but this
as a way of life, you know, if some if there's an atheist, even
he could find wisdom in this. And if he can't, then his lines,
because seriously, that's the way to deal with it. You thank whoever
they, you know, whoever they want to think, right? And just be
patient. That's the way to deal with life. But Hamdulillah, we've
got a bit higher than that, where we've got something to look
forward to, not just about dealing with it and a current situation,
but also to something to look forward to for the way we deal
with things. And I think that's extremely important. Now, the next
thing that I want to talk about is the fact that each one of us here,
right, whether we've discovered it or not have an ability in us
that's very unique. That is given to us by Allah subhanaw taala.
Sometimes we discover that sometimes we don't, sometimes we
discover it, but we don't use it. Right? We don't use it. In Arabic.
It's very interesting that this is called Barbie ear
orbignya tavini it means ability or potential to do something,
right. You have an ability to do something, it's called carbon
here. It comes from the root letters of Thoth Babylon, right
off by them. Now there's a there's a if you look in history, and you
look at Greek people, people who made history who have gone down in
either notoriety or in terms of being
famous and renowned and humanitarian, and for whatever
other good works that they've done.
They there was something about them that gave them what would I
put them into the pages of history? Right? So let's take a
few names. You know, let's take Musa alayhi salatu salam, and
let's take his full Pharaoh, and not just Pharaoh. But let's also
take Kowloon for example. Allah subhanaw taala speaks about Koran
in the Quran as well.
You look at both of these individuals, they both had
ability, right? They both had ability. Now, look at the way they
use their ability. Pharaoh was no ordinary person. Pharaoh was no
ordinary person. I mean, you're talking about an individual who
had an entire an entire tribe of people under his command,
you know, now there is a difference of opinion just
recently came up as to whether he worked as slaves or they actually
will pay for their work, you know that there is some recent
archaeological research that's on the on the gondola or item.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that the amount that he made them
work and put at his disposal misses the entire money slot you
to make these massive pyramids and everything else. Because, you
know, if you if you've been to the Pharaonic Museum in in Cairo,
who's been to the Quranic Museum, the National Museum of
Egypt to Cairo, I forget what it's called. But it's this massive,
about 100 year old British building. And they've actually got
more treasured live, they've actually got more artifacts in the
basement that they have on display that never been put out. The
amount of stuff in there, you've got everything from a needle,
right to a chariot. And then you're going to Giza or Jesus, you
know, you've got you've got the pyramids there. I mean, just think
about how all this stuff is this stuff is fought. This stuff is
4000 years old. 2000 BC, 2000 years before esignlive salatu
salam, and we are 2000 years after that, that's 4000 years ago, and
achieve how Allah subhanaw taala had all of these things preserved.
Though in the Quran, Allah subhanaw taala says that we're
going to give you a respite with your buddy Elio. Winona, je can be
better Nick, later corner Neiman Khalifa. Right, we're going to
give you respite with your body so that you are a lesson a sign for
the people that will come after you. But not only was he reserved,
but numerous others, including a lot of the stuff that was built
under this slave labor, let's put it that way. I mean, if these
raiders really want to claim something they can claim so
because they really mean that. They they made that stuff. So get
out of Palestine don't claim that but don't move to Egypt, right?
Just take the pyramids if you want. Some I mean, if there's any
Egyptian problem with that, because that's a major, that make
a lot of money. Anyway, that's all for Onyx stuff. It's Adji of how
you go, then they're selling this papyrus, these fake Papyrus of all
Pharaonic pyramid and everything. And then on top of the Quran on
top of those under the pyramid one, and really funny, because
we're making money. It's all commercial marketing. But anyway,
fair.
But you look at this guy, this person is fair that we had isn't
that has, he's got a lot of carbon here. And there's a lot more
mentioned about him, you know, the amount of things he had under his
disposal, right to be able to build all of these things. It's
not a small matter. But the thing is, that were he had copied here,
he was missing a more important ingredient, which is Cambodia. And
it's very interesting how kuliah also comes from the same root word
from cough, but alive in Arabic, you have a copy here, and you've
got cuckoo Lea. Kabini means ability. Kabuli means acceptance.
So now, if I was giving you a club in here, as he has, each one of us
has some form of poverty, whether you can paint very well. And I'm
telling you, that is a club in here, because I just had to try
painting right now. And I got frustrated. Right, and I had a
paint on my shoulder. He was just doing it. So finally I helped him
I would I would play in the middle of the wall, and he would do the
sides. Right, because it's just so finicky to do that. That's an
ability at the end of the day, right? You can use that. You can
use it to help the Muslims. For example, there's a major Seminary
in India, one of the first after the British called darling Delmon
in a little village. And the chief I mean that the reason I mentioned
is that the the main mufti, the Grand Mufti of Darwin is passed
away the late one
of the Aziz Rahman right, he's got a friend to our collection about
22 volumes or something like that. It was only when he passed away
that people found out that it was he who used to go and he was a
very ordinary person. So he wasn't very imposing figure that people
could would recognize because he was just focused on his work. You
know, his father was going all over the place, you know,
throughout the country and other places. Very, you know, very, very
genius of a man but in the weekends when his time off, he
would actually go out simple clothing and help people fix the
roof and so on the poor people, and they don't even know he's the
Mufti was helping them. You know, the, the grand Chancellor or you
know, the chief jurists
Who is helping them only if they passed away.
So, you got cabine of anything you can help people and the whole idea
is to help humanity, Muslims in particular humanity in general.
You know, that's, that's the message the prophets of Allah has
has helped everybody. Right? So for example, when one of the
Sahaba, who became a servant as long story, I just want to get to
the main point, after he became a Muslim.
He had so much enmity towards the Quraysh that he he was he was in
charge of the trade routes. It was his caravans, right? The mother,
the mother, the mother even a third or the hola Juan, he decided
that now I'm not going to have any of my trade caravans go to Macau
I'm going to deprive them of the green and the essentials of life
essential food foodstuff, and that would have caused a major problem
in Makkah. Now remember Maca is at war, the Croatia Maka war with the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, Medina has his own the enemies of
the Prophet sallallahu, Abu Sofia and others, they come to the
Prophet sallallahu and they say, We are your brothers, we are your
kin, you know, we're a family Quraysh you know, you can't let
this happen to us. And he told that Sahabi that no, you can't
allow this to happen because this is, you know, depriving them of
fundamental. I mean, this is the humanity of Islam. This is the
humanity of Islam. So you've you know, you're you're focused on
providing a service to other Muslims, and then in humanity in
general, right.
So now,
when we get back to this car, Vidya, you go, I mean, you come
closer, you come closer to our times to the time of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam. And you've got the Prophet sallallahu.
I used him in the beginning, you may derive to Allah subhanaw
taala. Oh, Allah support this faith with one of the two hours.
So you had a Moroccan Hatha, and you had an obligation. Right, and
one of the hottub aggregation, two very capable individuals among the
people of Makkah, very capable people. And the prophets. Allah
says, Make it guy that have one of them come into Islam so they can
support this faith. Right. What happens is Omar Abdullah Jota,
goes out to assassinate the prophets of Allah, barrio
Solomon's, he's diverted to his sister, she becomes by dissolving
of Allah subhanaw taala, she becomes a cause for his embracing
the faith. And then he becomes the first immune minion, and his rule
of 10 years is the most spectacular rule that's ever been
seen.
On the other hand, you had Abdullahi Shah, who nobody even
knows his name. I mean, who knows who he shot was, I'm sure some of
you should know,
that he was able hakken before, you know that, he was he was very
judicious. He you know, he was very intellectual. But as soon as
the Robinson Alesund labeled him as a Bucha him because he didn't
get the real aspects of the IRAs and the hereafter is Jane makes
your ignorance because if you're ignorant of the of the highest
reality, then what is knowledge. So the profit and loss muscle
referred to as Bucha had once and that that name stuck and that's
what he goes down as in history, such as car Bill person, such a
such enable person, unable individual. But then finally he is
his death comes at the hands of two young kids. 1213 year olds,
understand standing next to Abdul Rahman under oath for the alarm
during the preparations for the battle. And he looks around and he
sees these two, two youth next to him is wondering, why am I
nervous? I'd rather be next to some stronger people. Suddenly,
one of them asked, Do you know of a gentleman Oh, Uncle Jr, who are
journalists? And he says, Yes, I do. What do you want? What do you
want with him? He says that today if I see him, then I will attack
him and
and I will not let him go until it's myself for himself and say
the second one said the same thing. Me the story is long. But
then they attacked him. When they saw him he pointed him out, and
they attacked him and then was fine the abdomen was screwed or
the Allahu another Sahabi who was known to be very, very frail. Once
he climbed up on a tree to pull down some biswa to CILEx you know
him to sticks and some of this how it began to just just the gesture
with him that look how thin his legs up and the rocks are awesome
said don't do that. He's a he's a he's a vessel full of knowledge.
And he was at his hands at the more general was finally killed
this this great, proud arrogant person of the Polish. In fact,
some say that he was even more arrogant then Pharaoh because
Farah is when he was dying he tried to he said, I know Believe
in the Lord of Musa and Busan Haroon, but it was too late. It
was when he saw the reality I'm gonna get to that later. You know,
the whole aspect of personal hottie man Suharto. This is
another concept which is very important. So Kabini of Cambodia
is very important. I'll give you another simple example.
In a minute
because there was a petrol station gas station, and there was an
individual that used to work with a Turkish firm. And he used to do
two jobs because he was struggling. And though he wanted
to come to the masjid, he couldn't even come for Friday prayer would
constantly go and give him that with coins going up to him and
encourage him. Right, such a nice brother. One day he started, he
made an arrangement with another coworker. That one week, you'll go
and one week, I'll go. Now, you may think that I mean, that is not
acceptable. But in this situation, when he wasn't coming at all, we
thought Hamdulillah you know, he's come once every two weeks. That's
how you start. Right?
Whenever he would come out of North California, it's normally
warm there throughout the after you come out of the solid, you
have these two crates of water, all children, cold ready, right?
And he's handing them out to the people. It is such a simple deed.
You know, it doesn't cost much it's like, it used to cost like,
what, five $6 to get those two crates, but he would actually get
them, you can chill them out him and then he would bring them this
was a ceremony every two weeks. Why didn't I think of that?
You know, thing is it's such a simple thing to give somebody cold
water in the heat. It's such a major deal. I'm standing here in
Norway now making dua for him. May Allah subhanaw taala, bless him,
how can we get people to make dua for us for all around the world.
That's what's really going to count at the end of the day.
Right? It doesn't matter what we do for ourselves, but it's what
others can do. And that's the real investment in our future. So
seriously, this small deal of just bringing this water, I'm
remembering this, I'm thanking him right now. And if Allah Allah can
accept one of those dollars, and anybody who says I mean, I mean,
imagine what's made for him in the hereafter.
It's a simple data at the end of the day, but each one of us has an
ability. And if you don't ask Allah subhanaw, Taala
photographique, then we're not going to be able to use our
ability in the right way. So for example, whether you're an
accountant, whether you're a medical student, and becoming a
doctor, where you're already a doctor, or a dentist, for example,
I had a friend who became happens with me, you know, he became
Harvard in the Quran. And then after that, he went did medicine.
And then before he went off to work, he decided that he wants to
do something for the Muslims. And according to him, many Muslims
live in tropical climates. So you understand tropical medicine. He
did a specialization, tropical medicine, just so that his his
studying is not just for himself. But his studying is for the sake
of the deen as well, when you make your studies for the sake of your
Diem, what's going to happen is that you're going to be blessed in
those studies, you're gonna have to have your studies anyway. But
why don't be blessed enough? You know, why don't we bless them and
we feel blessed in them, you will get more focus, you will get a
better achievement, Allah subhanaw taala will give you the best of
things. And he'll allow you to use that. So you'll actually feel
good, how many people are there who are very good at what they do?
Very good in a worldly sense, but they don't have contentment in the
heart. They don't feel that they're doing anything of
substance, though. They're achieving great things in the
dunya. Because if it's a believer at the end of the day is art is
going to hurt. And it's going to tremble. So if we've got Tofig to
do something for the sake of Allah, and Allah grant us all that
Tofik in one way, shape or form, then you will feel a lot better in
what you do. And I'm not just talking about the men here, we're
talking about the women as well. I mean, the women have played a
major part in our history is great women of the Muslims have played a
major part. But if you start from the if you start from the Sahaba,
is the story that's not so well known. almost surely, Cody Allah
on how she became a Muslim. She was from a noble family among the
Quraysh. And when she became a Muslim, she was a very active
woman. You know, we have some women are very active, they know
what to do. And then what happens is that because they're not guided
some some of our men and women because they're not guided, they
think that they were to achieve something they need to go out in
the forefront would do what men do, they don't understand that
women can achieve in their own realm and men can achieve in their
own way they can be complementary to each other. Unfortunately,
today, feminism has kind of made its misguided feminism has made it
so that you can only be equal if you do what a man does. If you
want to fly a plane as a woman gone through it as a woman, but
don't do it because a man does it. Do you know what I'm saying? So
that's something that we really need to understand. So then you
get women who want to lead a gym operative, right, because they're
a university professor, because they think that's the only way to
express their, their scholarship. It's just misguided scholarship.
It's just misguided understanding, we need to really understand that
because there's a complementary role that we played. And it's no
equality. It's, it's complicated. It's complementing each other.
There's no such thing. How can a man or woman ever be equal? That
just doesn't work? That's just not an equation. Right? Even two
humans can't be equal. When you look at because we all are unique.
We're distinct, if you understand what I mean by that, right.
So now what you had is that she's an active in an active individual.
She just become a Muslim, many other women became Muslim. So she
became a Muslim, and she's going through the homes, right all the
women she's making a Muslim
So in those homes, Islam came through the women and not from the
men not from the Masjid. Right. And suddenly, people find out that
way, it's all happening. You know, this person becoming Muslim, that
family is becoming Muslim, that family is becoming Muslim. So then
suddenly they traced it and found out that she was the one was
changing everybody. Now because she was from an honorable family
and you know, they have these certain rules where you can't
attack, you can't do things to certain tribes and so on. They
wanted to punish her. So they were on a trip and they, in the peak
heat, you know, nothing compared to California, you know, we're
talking about as Malanga the USA, you can fry an egg there, right in
the, in the desert of Arabia.
They left her outside while everybody retired into the
canopies and they tend to go to have the afternoons yesterday nap.
And she'd been kept hungry and thirsty for a long time. Now, on
one of these days, what happened is, as everybody had retired into
their tents, she's outside, she's completely dehydrated,
disoriented, she doesn't know what's happening, she can't even
see properly, when suddenly she sees this picture, this picture of
water, this vessel of water, just suddenly come as though it came
from the having to suspend it. She quickly takes hold of it and
drinks from it to fill it goes back and comes back. She drinks
from it again, she becomes refreshed. When everybody woke up,
they looked at it. You know, they known her situation. They wanted
to kill her, but they couldn't, right. When they saw that she was
on refreshed. They began to accuse her of stealing some of their
water supplies. Where else would they get water from? Right? They
checked all of their water supplies. And when they discovered
that none of it had diminished in the least. And she told her story.
It became she became then the cause of the entire that entire
tribe becoming Muslim. So I mean, when you look at these things, the
women played their role as long as it's guided hidayah Same with the
men the same thing, right? You just have to be guided what you
do. People talk about
January to NASA, right? We will talk about, you know, the other
university, and it being the oldest, actually about 80 to 100
years before that. The first university the first so called
University as such, right proper established kind of
works in that regard, was about 100 years before us into something
that Jeremy Taylor won in fosse in Morocco, and it was established by
a woman, Fatima Binti Mohammed Ambani because she got a massive
inheritance from a father. And she was a fokina. She was a jurist,
and she established these dormitories. You know, because the
concept before they just went to the masjid and you studied, there
was, you know, this concept of a mother as a widow with
dormitories. That wasn't an original concept. It came later
on. She was one of the first to establish that her sister,
her sister, she established the general Andalus.
These are two women imagine the rewards that they got from all of
those colors, all the words that were produced in that place,
everybody that benefited from that and are continuing to benefit from
any words that are produced in that place. They're getting a
reward for that. That's what you need to look at the car Billy you
have, whether it's monetary car video, it's a physical ability,
whatever it is, needed, Allah subhanaw taala grounds Cambodia
for that. And that's what's important. Allah gives us the
ability that is accepted by him, because then that is really what's
valuable. Then it goes beyond this world. It goes beyond dystonia.
And that's actually very important. Muslims have gone up
and down in history, but it's Allah subhanho wa Taala has
promised for this faith to live on and his nor to continue Allahu
Mata minority you are located in Iran, Allah subhanho wa Taala will
continue and to complete, he will complete his nor his light is
illumination, even though those who disbelieve will dislike that,
where Allah Allah subhanaw taala completely rejects the fact that
his Lord is not going to be coming in he will be completed something
that it's that is what Allah subhanaw taala has promised it
will happen. The question we need to ask ourselves, is that are we
going to be part of that? No. Because Islam will continue. But
where are we going to be? Are we going to stay on? Or are we going
to become something else? Because there's some major challenges in
front of us, especially today? Constantly. You've got somebody on
the train to cut something off of Islam. today. It's the niqab. It's
already happened in Belgium is trying to take place in in France,
and I'm showing somewhere else in Scandinavia or Denmark or
somewhere when they do all sorts of stuff anyway. Right.
And in England, it's a big discussion. Now some Muslims who
don't agree with the NATO, you know, for whatever reason, they
think, yeah, get rid of it. But tomorrow, it'll be the hedge.
up. And then after that it'll be any blatant or any salient feature
of Islam just like in the pre USSR states. So one must, one must
realize that let's we need to look forward, we need to act
practically not in in some kind of misguided emotion, where you just
go on a rampage and kill people and call people carefully. I mean,
that's that that doesn't work. In fact, if this guy hadn't bombed
people at all, I mean, this is kind of a strange issue, this
Detroit guy, this, this this brother from where was he from?
Nigeria, how he gone when somebody like literally took him and put
him on a plane without a passport. I mean, I love or hate me, you've
heard that story. Right? And, and then it doesn't work. It's just I
don't know, man, you know, I just don't know what's going on. But
then suddenly, these western countries are spending a ton more
money and then suddenly, you have to be more careful, we will be
worried about traveling today. Right? But we thought we have to
do it because you know, you can't sleep, you have to wake up and you
have to do things. And that's why it's very important. So people
need to understand that there's ways of this ways and other people
have done it. We must follow the sunnah of our messenger, Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam
put our abilities into use in a proper manner in a guided manner
that will be influential, that will be effective, and that will
be efficient. And the other thing that as I was mentioning, I mean,
there were difficulties sooner. I mean, the difficulties throughout
the life of the prophet Sallallahu, it was some of them.
Maca was not conquered. Maccha was not conquered just like that.
There were people in Makkah that were just waiting. They were just
waiting. They were half convinced, or mostly convinced about Islam.
But they were waiting because the people of Morocco was still the
main people of Makkah was still against the Muslims, the main
leaders of the Kurdish and because much have played a very important
position. Because if you remember just 40 or so years before that 40
to 50 years before that
Alberto had tried to come from the south with elephants and Allah
subhanho wa Taala had miraculously sent these birds and it destroyed
them. MK Maka had a very important position in the eyes of the
Muslims, especially many of the tribes. So though on the one side,
the truth of Islam had come into their hearts, but they weren't
sure yet. The day when the prophecy was walked into Makkah,
Elijah and Missoula he Wolford what our eternal said Soluna
feeding Allah He a forger. That's that's when it happened that when
the victory came that people just came into Islam group after group
training off the tribe because it just been waiting for them. When
they saw that maca went to the Prophet sallallahu sallam. That
was it. That was the final straw as
soon as the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam departed from this
world. Suddenly you had this fitna come up. And you had these people
who said, we're not going to agree with this aspect of Islam. We're
going to believe in everything. We're not going to give zakat.
We're not going to do this. We're not going to do that some people,
some people also became apostates. Abu Bakr de Leon spent his two
years and four or five months that he had after the Civil War asylum,
he spent that he spent that in trying to quell that situation.
He went through that situation and he was a Savior. I mean, he was a
true Savior. Because many of the Muslim scholars have actually
looked into history and looked at the most critical moments or times
in terms of the intensity that the Muslims have fared, where it was
about destruction, or complete loss. And one of those is Abubaker
the alarm standing up and saving it, obviously with the defeat of
Allah subhanaw taala, two years, and less than six months, and then
he passed away. And then remodeled the alarm came and what are the
inherited the the lands in a lot more peaceful. And that's why he
was able to really expand, he was able to do a lot and that was one
of the most glorious periods and then gave birth mom with your
loved one was time. And then again the fitna began, and the
turbulence began, the calamities began. And again, it became a
major state of chaos with mom with young girl for a long time. Again,
there were a number of that Islam did spread around that time into a
much more further into the Persian lens into the trans ox, the land
of the Oxus beyond the Oxus River, which is today's Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan and the summer
mojarra the whole trans oxiana and and then into Iraq and Afghanistan
and then we're talking about earlier on had already gone into
into Egypt continue to be Muslim decide I'm gonna have an answer
the Allah one who decide hadn't been worried all over. I mean,
with Amanda Do you understand it spread a lot more than it spread
beyond what it had gone to in Oman or the Allah who understand then
come annually the Allah who understand the man or the Allah
Vaughn, who is martyred, his martyred by a group of insurgents
who call themselves Muslims, right and had their interpretations of
why they did what they did. You know, we're not going into detail
history of the
But I just want to mention that if you feel that it's tough today,
it's been a lot more tough in the past. Can you imagine your belief
being martyred at the hands of other Muslims? Right people who
call themselves Muslims, right? It's a major issue then come
annually Allah or animus time and again, some major issues that the
coverage and even the Allahu Anhu Finally he's killed and he becomes
beloved to Allah subhana wa Bucha Island and he's killed by again
these coverage another group of Puritan extreme people who call
everybody everybody else go through them, you know, they're
more merciful of non Muslims than people who are supposed to be
Muslim and who read they run the cuff and if you're a Catholic from
birth, your labia you know, you're you're free, but if you're a
Muslim, and you don't follow them away, then you're worse off. That
was their idea. They tried to kill him and and morality alone and
loss of the Allah on him. But they didn't they didn't succeed with
the latter two, they only succeeded with him. Then comes
Hassan Nandi Allah one for six months, he's the belief and then
he passed it over to our we are the Allah one, why we are the
Allah would have managed to stabilize the situation. And he
brought it back to some stability after, after a long time. And
again, again, the prosperity continued. But then after that
comes your zeal. And then there's a problem again, Allah subhanaw
taala. During this entire time, he's always sending people. On the
one hand, you've got people who are looking after the healer. On
the other hand, you there are people who are looking after the
hearts of the muslimeen you've got hustle and bustle, who, for
example, has an old boss he was an amazing individual hustle and
bustle. He was someone who was brought up in the house of one of
the wives of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, it was almost
settlement of the Allah Vana. And he had seen the Sahaba he and he
had seen the people come after them, he'd seen a massive change
in the way people did. Ben did their worship and so on. And he
was so eloquent that today if you're studying Arabic literature
of that period, you'd have to study hustling bustling, smiley
rules, and what are our oh, cool and, and it's just very, very
eloquent, very eloquent individual.
Somebody asked him in Basler that other still went off you can do do
hypocrite still exist, you know, hypocrites don't have a Promise of
Allah Salam. And you know what he said? He said, that if the
hypocrites were to leave buzzer buzzer would not be able to run
anymore. So like everything dependent, dependent on so many
people. Now, obviously, that's a statement and only he can make
because he felt that people had just lost it after, after the
glorious time of the Sahaba and the prophets of Allah ism and
prophesized that the best of this ummah, of this generation on Soma
is my generation, then those who follow them, and then those who
follow them, and then he made statements afterwards about the
rest of the people. Now of course we are where we are, there are
also other statements. We mustn't feel, we mustn't feel condemned by
this because there are also other statements that the prophets Allah
has mentioned that there will be people who come after me who've
never seen me, but they will be closer to me.
They will be closer to me so we mustn't feel condemned. We still
work it's just by the by the wisdom of Allah that we are where
we are. Because had we been there in a time the prophets Allah might
not believe it would have been a lot worse off. Right hamdulillah
for Islam and Islam and hamdulillah was paragon of
preserving Allah Allah it not to deviate after he has given us
guidance or been allowed to the globe and apparently the retina
will have learned I'm in Laguna karma in the country who have
that's the draw from the Quran, which everybody should make to
keep a steadfast This is very important. Then you have Hasson
bursary, he managed to inspire 1000s of people have been busting
you at the same time. He was a professor of the Quran, he was
being concealed. And if you read any Tafseer of the Quran, any of
the classical disease, called Hassan Khan hasn't caught on
Hassan Hassan says this Heston's interpretation is this major
player intercede. If you look at fifth, his opinions are there, if
you if you look at hadith is he's in a chain of narrators. And when
you look at dealing with the hearts of people, he's also
dealing with that his it says that his his beyond his lectures, his
speeches was such that you just could not be effective. He was a
lot more effective than a number of other people there. Because he
was speaking from an Inner Inner concern that he had seen the
change and he was able to really speak and articulate that in
eloquence as well. Because if you've got somebody like hijack,
you have no use. So who is considered one of the major
tyrants of our Muslim Governors of the past have killed so many
Sahaba right. And he can have a group of people who know his
territory, but he's got such eloquent language and
articulation, the way he speaks, that he's able to meet them, make
them feel sorry that they're thinking bad about him. You know,
he was able to speak to people and make them feel bad about their
perspective of him. That's how eloquent he was. Because a promise
allows him said in the middle biannual, a sacred that, you know,
some forms of speech are magical
You know, they just get to your core he knows knew how to speak in
that sense.
If he can do that, then a person who's pious like Hassan, bustling
with the eloquence of the language, and Arabic is extremely
eloquent if you understand it in, in in Arabic, right. And so those
of our brothers from the Indo Pak and other people don't understand
Arabic You seriously need to learn learn Arabic, because then when
you understand Arabic of the Quran, you really that's when you
get the beauty of it, you know, reading a few records of tahajjud
with Quran that you understand, I'm telling you, there's nothing
greater than that Allah give us a trophy to do that often. Allah
subhanaw taala give us a tool for you to do that. So
you have has embassy then you have our own Abdelaziz, American
Abdulaziz, according to Sheikh Ahmed 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, I asked what's going on
in the in the 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, Salado voodoo, 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 forgot to 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 that, then when it comes to
philosophical issues, what they're confronted with that 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 you know, 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 now you
you're coming out of that disease.
He is a grandson of sorts of primordial Lavon. But he is from
this royal family his father Abdulaziz right if the 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 Kalif
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 me? Now tell us he's your cousin, or
uncle as he is his wife was from the from the ruling family. I'm
gonna I'm gonna knock that ISIS 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 Khalifa of 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 preceded
the Abbasids that burst it's came afterwards, after Romania domains
were first.
And as soon as he became Khalif, it's like a light went on in his
head. The tofi 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 marburo The
Allah
He had such justice after a time of major corruption, because that
means began to be known for causing confiscating properties
and just indulging and just literally the Baitul Malka, the,
the
the national treasury, right the national treasury
dipping their hands into not 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
eBay. You know, when they performed a prayer after maghrib
because he 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 and opposition 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 zakat. 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 of the 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
made his way to get out of a 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. The meaning you wouldn't use that
the candles, you wouldn't use them. He was so particular about
these things. He was just so particular, but that gave him the
justice.
And you carry on. And it's just so much more to say. You have the
people, you have the likes of sallahu Beenleigh up, you know,
you have the tortoise and you have the chances. I mean, they just
came up with a force from Mongolia. They went through Bahara
raised it to the front. I mean, when you you know when you talk
about Muhammad Khan in those days, you're talking about a glorious
period, because there's someone It's salmon, it's they were the
rulers of that area, the perasaan basically, a lot of Northern
Persia, Herat, Afghanistan, parts of Afghanistan, and all of
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, all of those Takistan all of that area.
This is where some of the greatest of our scholars came from. I mean,
let's just take a few names talking about Imam Bukhari. He
came from Bihar, which is you have the two famous number of famous
summer Pundi scholars Imam Timothy Allama Nisa, booty Nisha pool,
which is which is also that area. It's in Iran today. That's where
my Muslim came from. You've got CG Stan, which is a Buddha with the
moment without CG standing, right? You've got you've got nothing.
You've got the nurseries, you've got the Shashi is you've got the
maternities. You've got, I mean, you've got some of the greatest of
the scholars that come from that area, Hakim and Nisa booty in all
of these major scholars from there.
And if you if you've heard of the great philosopher, and he's
normally ranked as the greatest Muslim philosopher is every cell
in Messina, he was from Bihar. And he says that the samanids library
in Baja was such that it had books in there, which the rest of the
world had just heard about. And it also had books in there that they
had never heard about. This was the way they contributed to
civilization, the Samadhi Muslim empire, right, all of that were
based out of Wuhan. And I keep up every cent I mean, these were the
kind of people in the past. He said, he started studying when he
was between 13 to 70, and unfortunately, became a
philosopher afterwards, you know, in a complete philosopher, will
rank the Prophets the same as Aristotle,
Aristotle, the famous prophets, the he was such a genius discovery
that he started from between the ages of 12 and 17. And he said, by
17, I had learned anything that was going to be of use to me
afterwards. By 17, he had accumulated everything that was
going to be of use to him afterwards. After that he didn't
learn anything substantial. He just worked on what he knew. And
he developed that. Right? The problem with the problem with
these Muslim philosophers as such, was that they believed and I think
it's important because many of us study philosophical aspects of
university, I think we need to understand the reality of these
things. Right? It was quite a shock to me when I learned this,
the problem in some of these Muslim philosophers as such,
right, like, like epicenter, and
al farabi, al farabi. And the later on ignorance, she was a bit
different. What they did basically was
ignorant. He was more Aristotelian, he tried to bring
back refined Aristotelian ism. And whereas the others, they were
neoplasia Neoplatonic philosophy which is, which is a composition
of Platonic and Aristotle philosophy brought together by the
people and they develop that a lot, the problem with their
thoughts because they have acknowledged this concept of
double truth, double truth what that meant is that Allah subhanaw
taala for the common people who are not intellectuals, like the
philosophers, he gives them the Quran
And he gives them truths through the Quran, because they don't have
the intellect to comprehend them. Whereas the philosophers like
Aristotle, Allah just opens up the intellect of God or the unmoved
mover, or whatever they want to call God. Right? The non
contingent beginning or whatever it is, it just opens up for them
their mind, they don't need the Quran. So they are equivalent to
prophets, prophets of a laypeople. And these philosophers are for the
intellectual people. Right now, you had some like emerged among
them, who, though theologically and philosophically had this
thought, right, but when it came to fit and solid and pray, they
would pray. So he penned benighted wishes it was a great fucky as
well. Right. But you had others like me sent and others who,
others who became Shalabi kebab, as you call them? Right. Shamika
Bobby, have you heard that term?
Just drinking and enjoyment? Right, because it's all about
thought it's all about into intellect. So when they caught a
Muslim because they weren't from a Muslim background or from Muslim
heritage, right, that's why they and they, they gave such a
contribution to philosophy as general that people like Thomas
Aquinas, Christian philosophers afterwards, would rank them as
great Greek philosopher because they made such a contribution.
Right? I mean, they ranked Rosario is one of the great ones, you
know, with his, though he wasn't, I mean, he didn't. He didn't
purposely contribute and want to contribute to philosophy as such,
but because of his work, and his, his, his attacks on on the episode
and others, they considered him to be one of the great philosophers
because of this, to have it and so on. But you've got people like
Alicia Ireland, who rose up because you had this major problem
mine is the problems that we have to face don't just come from
outside of Islam, they come from inside of Islam as well, meaning
from people who call themselves Muslims, right people who are
Muslims. So for example, you had the monitor zeolites they were
probably the most influential group, sectarian group that we've
had, because they managed to influence the loot the rulers
Munna Rashid, the son of Haagen Dazs in the assassins, and his
brother, Mark Dawson, and his brother worth it below the three
and they persecuted many of the Roma. That's when Mr. Armando
humbles stood up, and he was the final frontier. And he didn't give
up. And you know, it's a it's an intricate issue of Islamic
theology, which I don't want to go into, but they were trying to
force him to say that the Quran is created. And he insisted that the
Quran is the kalam of Allah and it's eternal, it doesn't have a
beginning, right? Just Just keep it there because I don't want to
go into the in depth understanding of that, but they persecute him,
they put him in prison, they did everything. And he refused. He was
lashed 70 times 60 times until he fell down and fainted. And
finally, when he didn't give up, that was a final blow to them. And
since then, the participants declined with our kill Biller, the
next clip the full product he came on, he came on on the throne as
such, and he was back to the art of cinema Gemma,
Mr. Manga do not humble says that. What's the word kill biller?
Though is not a mark tessuti he's a greater fitna to me than the
others well, because he showering me with so many gifts, and he's
showing me so much, you know, so much honor that I find it
difficult to refuse him. You know, I'd rather be dealing with the
persecution of the others. These were these were the elements of us
completely selfless. When Mr. Muhammad Muhammad passed away.
800,000 people came out to his janazah in Baghdad, and 60,000
women came out. Women don't normally go for janazah but 60,000
women came out and 800,000 men came out. That was nearly a
million people. That's nearly a million people as needed the
inhabitants of of Baghdad that came up for his funeral. Now that
is acceptance. That is Cambodia. You know, so many people praying
for you after you've passed away.
Then you had you had the likes of Imam Allah Shani, who was the
marketization but then he he gets Tofik from Allah subhanho wa Taala
he was one of them, the martyrs delights they were
you can say proponents of
greater freedom of free will, they have perspectives like if the
human intellect thinks of something to be good, that Allah
has to also think that thing to be good. And if the human intellect
thinks of something to be ugly and wrong, that Allah has to also deem
that thing to be wrong. And again, it's like the human intellect is
making the decision. And Allah subhanaw taala has to abide by
that. So it really wonder how intellect are you? Right? But then
they also said that justice is necessary for Allah in a sense
that if anybody commits a sin, Allah has to punish them for it.
And if anybody does a good deed, he has to reward them for it. And
he has to reward them according to the good deeds that they've done.
And according to the bad deeds they've done, he can't he can't
give a bonus on top
Under cinoa Gemma, we say that if you do a good deed, Allah will
definitely reward you. He promised it. He doesn't go against his his
promises. But if you do a bad deed, then you are Dactyl mushiya.
What that means is that you are under the will of Allah. He has
the right out of his justice to punish you. But he can forgive
because he has a merciful nature.
But they say no, he can't forgive. If the person hasn't sought
forgiveness out of the justice that Allah has to abide by, he has
to punish him. So it's like if two people have done the exact same
one of deeds, Allah subhanaw taala Khan for one deed that he liked
that one person to have done, he can't give him a bit of extra
extra rewards. The STB is bound by a system you can't bind Allah by
system. So they have become very influential and had by force
through mon Rashid
made people subscribe to their opinions, especially with regards
to the creative creativeness of the Quran. And one person among
them who was a student of one of the greatest
and Jabari,
one of his greatest students was Abu Hassan Al Zhang, the great
machina. And he was a lot more eloquent than his teacher. His
teacher was a good writer, good scholar, but he wasn't very
eloquent. So I wasn't sure he was a good debater, he was he was very
good at carrying their message and he was going to be the next leader
as such of the martyrs delights Allah subhanaw taala granted him
tofi see Allah test the people for a while, and Allah will save his
religion. The problem are the people that fall off on the
wayside, get caught up in the fitna don't have the strength of
the team that that's what the problem is about Hassan Asha, he
turns around, he goes to the he goes to the Jami Masjid of Basra
on a Friday. And he then declares and he says that whatever I have
been professing until now I shut it off. And he took off his
garment. And he said, just like I take this garment off, I shut off
my beliefs that I held before. And now the beliefs that I hold are
found in these books. And he had a few books in his hands that
reflected the the way of personal Jamar.
And then he started to report them. And that caused the decline.
Later on about 200 years, he would have actually passed away about
three to three
200 years after that, philosophy itself through epicenter, through
the likes of kindy wasn't as extreme, but Al farabi, the
earlier raazi. And one of these.
It was pure philosophy, pure Neo, Neo Platonism, right? Pure
philosophy, right? The martyrs Allah they was just trying to
reconcile akal and the revelation or whenever the revelation would
have a problem with it, they would take the icon on top and they
would disregard many Hadith, they denied the fact that we would see
a line the hereafter, stuff like that. But the later on was pure
philosophy. Then Allah subhanaw taala gives a person who dies at
the age of 55.
Or within that life, Allah
has got so much acceptance for this man, that he makes him the
hunter to Islam, the proof of Islam. And in his free time over
the course of two years while He is the senior lecturer at the
Milania College in Bethesda. He studies the fundamentals of
philosophy in his free time. And he writes a book about it, which
later philosophers from Christian philosophers like Aquinas, really
considered to be a great contribution. Right? He was just
writing it for his own notes. And then he he deals them an attack to
have total philosophy, incoherence of the philosophers. And some
would argue that that is what caused the decline. Others would
argue that that is not what caused the decline. It did definitely
effected it, but it didn't necessarily cause a decline. It
was responded to after about 70 to 100 years by giving the rush in
the rush came after him.
He passed away in 505, which is in Gregorian terms 1111 1111
C E, which is 505 Hijiri. Right? And then
whenever there's an issue, Allah subhanaw taala brings up somebody
to deal with that issue. Then, in the Muslim lands, philosophy did
not really continue in that life was shortened, whether it was
Ghazali or somebody else, I think what happened is definitely he
dealt a blow but the good things of philosophy like logic, right,
logic, some aspects of epistemology, some physic physics,
mathematics, that was that was a simulated, they use that for the
good the metaphysics, which is the problem which is where they, they
they believe that there's God, not they don't call him God as the
unmoved mover, the first and noncontingent beginning they've
got different names. And then from him they say Kim and Uncle Andy
intellect, the first intellect. And then the second intellect the
third intellect until the active intellect is the active intellect
that does, runs the affairs of the dunya. So it's like Allah doesn't
directly run the affairs of the dunya. Right? But He does it
through these intellects can this weird metaphysical system? Right?
So conject at the end of the day, it's just conject at the end of
the day, and so he remembers that he was able to respond to that.
After that, there's just so many people Allah subhanho wa Taala
sentence, like she exactly alongside it, shaking your hydro
Alaska learning, all of these, all of these great scholars, they all
did their part, they all did their part.
And Allah subhanaw taala will continue to send these people
because he says there's a hadith narrated by my Buddha, that at the
turn of every century, Allah subhanho wa Taala sends a revival,
and we've just been revived the faith for them. I want to clarify
one thing. Imam Ghazali is considered to be the revival of
the fifth century, Imam Shafi of the second century and Omar
Abdulaziz, as well, the first century, right.
I do think about this, think about it. Omar Abdullah is passed away
when he was, I think 50 or 54. Because then he passed away 55
Shafi passed away at 50.
The amount of work that Allah subhanaw taala took from them in
such a short amount of time. Right? It's just absolutely
amazing. Now, what is the Mujaddid? Who's heard of the
concept of HD than which I did put your hands up?
Okay. See, what this is, is that there's a hadith which says that
Allah subhanho wa Taala will send at the turn of every century, a
revival will revive the faith. Now, if you compare people like
during the first century, and the second century, you will have
people who are did a lot more work, a lot more service provide a
lot more service than people who are considered the revivals of the
of that century. The reason is that the other men have kind of
agreed to a certain degree that the reviver will be that one
person even though others may have done a greater providing a greater
warm service. The Reviver is the one who is alive at the turn of
the century. And then he passes away. And he's being pointed at
meaning people are looking up to him, so does that he passed away
in 505.
Remember, sorry, pastor in 505 Imam Shafi was born in 150, he
passed away in tooth 200. And I think it was children for around
200 For that time, right? So people who are just over the
century, and they have just contributed Allah subhanaw taala
will continue to do that. Who was the witches leading of the last
century, there's a massive difference of opinion. You know,
some people say this was everybody's giving their own and
it doesn't have to be one person. In fact that Omar mentioned that
if there was one
you could provide a Allah subhanaw taala could use different people
for different things that could be a revival of Hadith studies of the
Sunnah of the Hadith narration in tafsir in social work in just
elevating the people in their in their spirituality, right? There's
different people that Allah can use. What they say is that it's
very difficult for all of those aspects to come into one person
and some have actually argued that Ramadan Abdulaziz was that one
person because above everything else, he also was the belief of
the times, which nobody else had because they didn't have nobody
else had. So though they were the greatest of the revivals of that
century, the one person who Allah subhanaw taala combined all
aspects in because I'm gonna Abdulaziz was also a great
scholar. Right. All of those aspects. Omar Abdullah is a great
candidate for that Rahim Allah, Allah subhanaw taala will continue
to send people. The problem is that we have our own lives to
worry about. You can't wait for Monday. There's people who are
saying, you know, just wait for Medina, you know, we're not told
to do that. Because if we were told to that we would have been
told when he's coming. So people think and they get depressed, that
everything is just so bad now that the day of judgment is going to
come and Mandy will come and until then we can't do anything. And
that is a fatalist kind of way of thinking. This is not what we've
been told. Because then you give up, you stop doing your own
things. Then you justify your wrongs. I remember in one place,
we're going to show them some books and some tapes that I've
been told it was an Islamic bookstore in California in Los
Angeles, right? Very close to Hollywood.
By the way, Hollywood is a dump. Just to let you know
Beverly Hills is really where everything is Hollywood literally
go the first time in Hollywood. What's what's going on? rundown
place, right? I used to give extra good lectures in West in West
Hollywood, North Hollywood in the masjid there. It's not a big deal.
I'm telling you, right. Beverly Hills looks a bit more decent
Bella and all the rest of that which is a more decent building.
Right but Hollywood
It's just it's just the name and the studios are there. But
we went to this this shop they're supposed to sell. Somebody said
they selling something books weren't in there. And it's
actually one of those. It really hit me spaces. Right? One of those
really despicable Indian movie places. They sell Indian movies
that Hindu stuff
with all the singing and dancing. I don't know if any of you watch
that stuff or have that stuff out. I'm seriously that stuff is just
so gross.
So that's just got it all over the wall. Right? And then I think he
had like this small section, we were selling Islamic books. Now,
okay, that's bad enough, right? corrupt the people through Hindu
media. You know, that's, that's bad enough. On the desk, he was
saying the volley member memorabilia. Diwali is the Hindu
to the, you know, Hindu religious celebration, you know, with all
the hands and the elephants and all the rest of it. And
I said, you know, I was just quite shocked, I didn't want to give you
my books, I was just quite shocked at the whole thing. When I saw
that I was just like, you know, I can understand all of this,
alright, you need to make money. This is the only way you find out
to me when he by the way, he owns the halal meat shop down the road.
Right? So because I went to the halal meat shop, and they told me
go there. And then I found out they both owned by the same
person. And I said, Look, I can understand all of that, right?
It's bad enough, but why do you have to sell shook stuff
polytheism you can't do that. I know, the guy looked at me as if
I'm from a different planet. He said, if you're gonna if you want
to survive in this country, you're gonna have to do this kind of
stuff. I said, I'm not what dunya you live in Hamdulillah, I'm quite
happy I make my money and hamdulillah provides, I don't have
to do this stuff. The justification that people have,
especially when, you know when when they feel that they have to
do these things. It's just shaytaan. And that's one thing
that we must realize that you can't go down that path, because
you destroy your faith for whatever you think you're making.
And we mustn't do that, because the Door of Allah will continue.
Don't think that Islam is a dying boat. Some of the Muslims are, but
Islam is continuing, and it's not going to continue. And when
there's nobody left to say, Allah, that's when the Day of Judgment
will occur.
But until there's people saying Allah, this one is going to
continue and Islam will thrive.
So let's not wait for Randy, our focus is that we must wake up for
ourselves. Because at the end of the day, we can't tell Allah that
we are waiting, providing because we might die before he comes.
And we have to answer for ourselves.
And that's why it's very important that we correct our beliefs. We
correct our practices. We correct our outlook. We correct our
dealings. Imams is only he speaks about personal hardship and
Suharto. And this is very important, because when you've
been accepted by Allah, you will get the Kenema La ilaha illallah
wa Salam silversands Lila il Allah on the deathbed, they will go to
paradise. And that is extremely necessary that is extremely a
virtue. And, you know,
I was just there's a number of deaths that took place in our
community and mashallah each one of them are saying, you know, and
so and so was there, he made him read the curry man, I'm thinking
Subhanallah this is just so much of tofi from Allah, because when I
was in America, a student that I used to teach 1212 year old boy,
13 year old boy, he was the only one in that entire house.
Who knew somewhat what to do when his grandfather was dying? All the
other guys, his parents,
extended family didn't know what to do. Finally, he wakes up and he
thinks, you know what, I read about this entirely? Will Hawk
Have you had the book containing rockets is basic book that was
taught to children, you know, and we'd covered a chapter in there
how to deal with the dying person, you know, to talking of la ilaha
illAllah. To them, he goes quickly reads it comes in it gives them
the calamine is that he saved him.
Now if that if they if they hadn't had any education, then
you imagine what would have happened.
That's why education is absolutely important. Educate we need to
really get focused on our education. It's really important
because it's very critical. At the end of the day, it's very
critical.
So personal heart and soul hard, emotional heartbreak is a good
seeming state, a good ending of your life because that's really
what matters. Because the prophets of Allah some said there's some
people are doing World War in their life, and then there's just
a span of distance between them and death. And Allah subhanaw
taala turns it around, and they become good, and they enter
paradise. And then he also says, the opposite, which is that there
are people who have done good all their life, and then they turn up
the last moment and they go to hellfire, but hamdulillah through
study through survey through statistics, it shows that that
second thing happens a lot less than the first one, right? Which
is of Hamdulillah, you know, because it just decreases our
chances of that happening to us. If we feel that inshallah we're
already on the path and Allah subhanaw taala guide us and show
us too late.
So, personal hunting is very important. What Imam has already
mentioned is that, especially when it comes to ideology, you really
need to understand what is the right ideology, don't get deceived
by the various modernity and post modernity and the various places
that that takes you to, you know, we can benefit from the good of
it. But we need to know the fullness of it, the evil of it,
and we need to abstain from that. Because what happens according to
him, bizarrely, is that when a person is on their deathbed, just
like Pharaoh, when you're on your deathbed, whatever you've been
thinking all along, when the veils were on when you can only see
things according to the way you learn to perceive things and see
things right, those veils are lifted. Allah subhanaw taala opens
up the reality of the dunya he, he eliminates the veils, the facade
is gone. And you see things as reality, you see, the truth is
truth. Now, when you look back to what you'd been thinking, and if
that is different from the reality that now you perceive, but it's
too late to adopt, you die in a state of loss and hassle. And it's
one of the greatest senses of loss that you can have. That's what you
call an evil sealing state. And Allah subhanaw taala protect us
from that. Because imagine you've been thinking strongly about
something all your life and then suddenly, on your deathbed, you
realize it's all wrong. That's why on the Day of Judgment, it's
mentioned that you will no disbeliever anybody will go to
help thinking that they've been wronged. Everybody will realize
that what they had done was absolutely wrong. They'll argue
send us back this, that and the other. Right. You never have you
see, you hear arguments from people that why is it that they've
only disbelieved a sin for 70 years, but they get eternity in
hellfire. Right? You hear that from living people? But you never
hear that mentioned in the Quran that that will be an argument that
a Kaffir will put to Allah subhanaw taala. But oh, Allah was
there for only seven years. Why do you give me so many years him and
the story, their argument will be send us back just even for a short
moment. That will be the argument. According to the our scriptures,
it's clear that they will be confessing and they will have real
reality, hit them.
That's why in order to end this, what I would advise myself and
everybody else is that it is extremely important that this
community in Norway, you've got other places in Europe to look up
look up to.
The studies show that in England, where the Muslims have been there
for only 50 years or so, similar to maybe 510 years, more than more
than here.
They've got more Muslim seminaries, where scholars are
produced, you know, whatever shape or form but scholars are produced,
right? They've got more Muslim seminaries in the UK, then the
Catholics have Catholic seminaries, or the Anglicans have
Anglican seminaries.
That is an amazing achievement in 50 years. In fact, right now,
Ireland was the place that supplied the priests throughout
America and other places. They just can't do it anymore. They
just don't have the supply.
But you look at the madrasahs. Right, well, hamdullah we had the
trophy to study in Russia, you've got a number of rhodamine this
country is a study from these places. Because imagine if you
didn't have anybody, you know, people complain Allah ma active,
not active, you don't need a critical mass before the one or
two will really, you know, shine, not every doctor becomes an
outstanding, you know, mover and shaker. You know, you just need a
critical mass. That's why it's very important. You've sent out
people to other countries to study South Africa, England, Pakistan,
other places Syria, Egypt, Saudi Medina, whenever wherever, really
need to focus on getting something at home.
Because they're, you know that right now, don't live in the
stream that no is a great place to cool with us and everything.
hamdulillah Allah subhanaw taala continue that. But it could change
at any moment. You just need some idiot to do something wrong, and
everything will change. And Allah preserved you Allah make there not
be an idiot who does something stupid. You know what I'm talking
about? Right? And then it's just bad for everybody. So
Muslims stay in the sleep and think it's all good. And it's
cool. Canadians used to think that they still think that to a certain
degree, right? But with their latest president, their latest,
the latest Prime Minister who's more used to be more pro Bush,
right? They started waking up of it. So
You need to realize, you know, you need to assist your you need to
assist the Norwegian people in general, right? Those who are not
Muslim, and you need to take the data to them as well, because the
data will came, you know, in Arabia was the people there that
converted. Right? People didn't come from elsewhere. It wasn't
immigrants, I came in the province of Allah's and converted the local
people as well. Right, you have to show them in a beautiful way. But
you don't do when I when I heard of other countries in in, in
Europe, at some places the Muslims are looked down upon because they
do all of the corruption. They commit all of the cheating and the
deceptive, deceptive things. I don't think that's the case in
Norway, but that's what Muslims need to, to stay away from because
otherwise you give an argument to someone else you give an excuse to
someone else, to persecute you and to to limit you in what you do.
Your Deen has to be strong, our deen has to be strong. But at the
same time, the main thing that we need to focus on is that when we
meet Allah subhanaw taala, we got something to show. And we need to
focus on the fact that Allah subhanaw taala use whatever we
have, for the benefit of our brothers and sisters around the
world and for humanity in general. That is very important to Allah
subhanaw taala except all of us because one teacher of mine
is very much on it's very it's been very influential. He gives
one by one and the women sent the jewelry to the masjid to donate to
the masjid. You know, you hear that about that in history, but
this is in England, he gives a Bian and then the way it works is
that on the lectures in the mosque, they are transmitted
through a through a wireless system. And the women, they just
have to put on this receiver at home and they are able to listen.
And literally they can log into tune into about five or six
different mustards in the area. Right? It's kind of very
interesting system. But after he gave a lecture, this is about 20
years ago, they sent in their jewelry, to donate to the masjid.
And I remember that he used to have a magazine, and I received a
copy of that magazine and the back of there was an advertisement that
we're going to hold an auction to auction up this jewelry to raise
the funds for the Western this was all donated by the women of the
community. It brings you back reminders of the time of the
Sahaba when the women would donate like that. Right. So we're talking
about women donating like that. Jewelry is very important to
women. You know, it's just something that's so much boob and
there's just so filthy for them. It's just as Allah subhanaw taala
mentions in the Quran, right? But if they can donate that that means
is the level of Amanda and women when women get high level of iman,
they can sometimes outdo men.
Right, in much more easily According to some scholars. It
says that women because of what they go through in terms of
childbirth and looking after their children, the struggle that Majah
had that they have to go through, they can reach Allah sometimes a
lot more faster than a man with a test B and A Tobermory set for 10
years.
Women have that ability because they can have that connection with
Allah subhanaw taala. So women women must not feel left, left
behind or use their talent in strange ways, novel ways, right?
revolutionary ways of notoriety, you know, going against the whole
system. You know, that's not that's not I mean, I know speaking
about women here because that's what we the big first in the last
510 years, but men do that as well. Allah subhanaw taala grant
us a two week, Allah subhanho wa Taala give us KUBU Leah to our
club at acceptance to our abilities, and Allah subhanaw
taala give us the ability to serve his Deen Allah subhanaw taala give
us the ability to say to serve his Deen to make ourselves worthy of
Paradise and grant us the creme de la ilaha illallah on our deathbed,
and don't let there be a sense of loss and complete failure on our
on our deathbed scams agenda for those while he would die of hunger