Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Value of the Alimiyya Course
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Has it ever crossed your mind that our
deeds are sometimes abstract ideas?
Our deeds are not always like in the
form of a book, or in the form
of a physical thing.
When we say, subhanAllah, how is that captured?
Where does that go?
When we say, الحمد لله الله أكبر, how
is that captured?
How is that gonna go in a scale?
How do you put subhanAllah in a scale?
Unless you write it down and put it
in there.
You understand what I'm saying?
So, some people, they actually denied the scale.
The Mu'tazil was a group.
They were rationalist, they said, you know, we
don't believe in the scale because how can
you measure abstract phenomena that are not tangible,
that are not physical?
And I think they were writing at a
time when there were no barometers and thermometers
and things like that.
Now you can measure all sorts of stuff,
can't you?
You can measure the waves in this room.
We can't see them.
You can measure the heat which we can
only feel, but the thermometer measures that.
Right?
You have the ultrasound that through sound can
tell you what a fetus looks like.
Just using sound, it can form a picture.
It's amazing.
So, just upgrades in technology have brought a
reality to this that subhanAllah, that scale is
gonna be a very smart scale.
In modern understanding, that's gonna be a smart
scale.
It'll be able to figure out exactly.
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brothers and dear sisters and dear graduating class,
dear teachers, parents and everybody else, I'm not
sure if you really understand the significance of
this occasion, especially for South London, it's really
really significant.
Imam Bukhari, you've been hearing his name, this
is the Khatam of Bukhari or the completion
of Sahih Bukhari, that's what you've been speaking
about, many of you may be just here
because your daughters or your family member, one
of the girls is graduating, so you're just
here for that occasion, just to give support,
you have no idea maybe what you're here
for, some of you will know the significance
of this.
So what the significance is this, some years
ago, about five years ago I think, we
got an opportunity to go to Bukhara and
Samarkand in Uzbekistan, present day Uzbekistan, where Imam
Bukhari was from.
We were in the masjid where Imam Bukhari
taught and there's a madrasa next to it
and then there's a masjid kalaa, they call
it, the big masjid, the grand mosque of
Bukhara, it's there.
And interestingly, we were with a number of
scholars, Mufti Taqi Usmani, we were very honored
to be with him and Mufti Shabbir Sahib
and there were others with us as well.
So the local scholars who you could say
are descendants of Imam Bukhari, descendants of this
little town called Bukhara, which I don't think
anybody would have known around the world had
it not been for Imam Bukhari.
The whole world knows that town's name, but
they don't know much about the town, they
know the scholar who came from there, who
put that town on the map.
I mean it's a very good city, it's
a very good town, but I don't think
anybody here would have known.
Have you guys heard of Khiva?
Right?
That's also another town.
Khawarizm?
Right?
You haven't heard of that.
That's also Farhana, Namangan, you haven't heard any
of that.
You've heard of Bukhari and what came from
there.
It's amazing how they illuminate the whole world,
that town for the whole world.
Interestingly though, what we have to understand is
that Imam Bukhari was not produced in a
vacuum.
There were thousands of scholars that were studying
with him and had studied before him and
studied later under him.
He wasn't just one scholar that went from
there somewhere else in the world to study.
Much of his study was at home and
then he did travel around into multiple other
cities to study.
That means there was an amazing environment of
teaching, learning, hadith down there because he was
not the only hadith scholar.
Can you believe it?
Out of the six most famous ones, the
six most famous hadith scholars, the majority of
them are from that area.
Persian and Turkic speaking areas, not even from
Arab speaking areas.
So you've got Imam Bukhari, he's from present
-day Uzbekistan, that's Bukhara in Uzbekistan.
Imam Tirmidhi from the same country, though it's
many miles away, closer to the, it's actually
right on the border of Afghanistan.
That's where Tirmidhi is.
And then you've got Imam Abu Dawood al
-Sijistani, which is in the Afghani-Persian border.
You've got Imam Nasa'i who's in Turkmenistan,
that city is located in Turkmenistan today.
And you've got Ibn Majah whose city Qazwin
is located in Iran today.
And there you go, that's the six, they're
all Persian or Turkic.
It's very, very interesting.
A huge environment of learning and teaching, studies,
hadith transmission was going on there.
However, right now in Bukhara, they were asking
us for a chain back to Imam Bukhari,
their forefather.
There was nobody locally there who had a
chain, an existing chain, and why was that?
Now that was a place where a lot
was going on.
You'd never imagine that there'd be one day
where there'd be no madrasas, there'd be no
teaching anymore, even of the basics.
Some of the older people there, one was
the mufti or the qadi of Samarkand, he
told, he was one of those who had
to go into a basement and literally hide
himself away for multiple weeks or months so
he could learn.
Because under the communists for about 70 to
80 years, everything had become banned, including praying
salat.
Children would be asked at school, does your
father or mother do these weird movements?
You know, do they pray essentially?
Do they wake up in the middle of
the night?
Things like that.
That's how bad it'd become.
And that was a place where there was
so much teaching going on, so much transmission
going on, until time comes when there's nobody
who can continue the chain, so they have
to take it from outside.
Qadi goes outside and comes back in like
that.
Another program we did of a completion of
Bukhari, at the end of the lecture, one
of the parents of one of the girls
who had graduated, he's like, I'm discovering today
after six years what my daughter's been doing
for six years.
He didn't know what his daughter was doing,
what significance it held.
So she's just doing a bit of study
in the evening, right?
This is extremely significant.
I want you to think about this.
What's this borough called?
Croydon is the borough, mashallah.
If you come to East London, what's the
difference between boroughs like, and this is not
to show any kind of superiority, it's just
to show where we need to go.
What's the difference between Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Ilford,
Redbridge, and then Newham, as compared to, for
example, Wembley, Croydon, and other places?
Each one of those four boroughs that I
mentioned, there must be over a thousand huffaz
in all of them, each, right?
And in terms of madrasas like this, there
are at least 15 within five miles.
Why is that the case?
Why do other places not have the same,
even though Muslims have been there the same
amount of time?
It's the parents' dedication, God bless them.
So the earliest parents, like my father, for
example, he wanted me to be something else.
He wanted me to be an architect or
something.
But then he realized that things are going
not very good in England, you know, in
terms of kids are losing themselves and so
on.
He used to be a manager in Ambala
Sweet Centre in the headquarters in Houston.
So he's seen the whole cross-section of
the community.
That was the only mitai shop, right, in
like 40 years ago.
It was the only mitai shop, I think.
You know, you've heard of Ambala Sweet Centre,
I'm sure you have.
And he's seeing all of these people, customers,
and he's talking to them, he's realizing that
you know, people are losing their faith here.
So he decided, you know what, you need
to go to madrasa.
So I was about 11 and a half
when he sent me to madrasa.
I don't regret any moment of it.
I was homesick for the first few months.
I was crying and everything, never wanted to
come back.
Don't regret a moment of it.
But it was a major sacrifice, right, for
all of these.
And mashallah, you have some from South London
as well.
It's not like you don't, right?
And these are the same people of my
generation who came back.
They went to different places to study.
They came back and they started teaching.
So much so that many of the masajid
now have full-fledged alim courses, alimiyya courses,
alima courses.
So what you have in these areas is
that you are catering for not just the
children.
Mashallah, maqtabs are now in quite a few
places.
There's still some places where there's not much
maqtab going on.
Maqtab means for the children.
So alhamdulillah that's happening.
However, what's happening beyond that in many of
these boroughs, these areas of just London alone,
right, even we're not talking about Blackman and
Bolton and Batley and Dewsbury and you know,
we have a million Muslims, over a million
Muslims in London right now, right?
These boroughs, there is, mashallah, adult courses.
All the way from basic tajweed, all the
way up to Sahih al-Bukhari for male
and female.
And mashallah, this is happening in Croydon for
a number of years.
It's a beacon of light and that's absolutely
amazing.
It shows that we are a mature community.
If you can have a hifz khatam, that's
the beginning.
And if you can have a Bukhari khatam,
I think that means there's a lot of
progress.
But what is very important to understand now
is that you don't take it for granted.
Because just like Bukhara itself, where in the
whole country of Uzbekistan, there's only three madrasas
now.
And that's only the last five, six years.
After all that repressive regime has gone, there's
only three madrasas.
The last time I checked, I don't know
if anything more has happened since then.
Only three madrasas and nothing to this level.
They have to go to other countries to
study.
Alhamdulillah, now in England, Allah has given us
such amazing abilities that India and Pakistan is
benefiting from places like England.
How are they benefiting?
England has shown how you can do the
best of both worlds.
England has shown that we have in many
of the madrasas, we have in East London
and other places.
You got students who are in various different
vocations, whether that be doing engineering, medicine, dentistry,
pharmacy, and whatever it's psychology, whatever.
And in the evening, they come in to
study.
By the time they graduated, mashallah, they've got
maybe a master's in physics, PhD from Imperial
College in, I know at least one or
two people who have PhDs from Imperial College
in AI, and they're also alims.
Some of them are even muftis now, got
the best of both worlds.
In some of the countries that people come
from here, it was one way or the
other.
You either went to school and college and
university, and the Islamic scholarship was for the
poor, was for the low class.
Literally, religion is not for the high class.
We got money, we got position, we have
good houses, we don't need religion.
Religion is, as the people of Nuh a
.s. said, أَنُؤْمِنُ لَكْ وَاتَّبَعَكَ الْأَرْضَلُونَ Should we
believe in you while it's the lowly people
that have followed you?
Your followers are the lowly, the low class
people.
This is unfortunately the case in some countries.
The wealthy don't see religion for them, because
when you're wealthy, you have a false sense
of security, complacency, apathy.
I've got whatever I wanna eat, I can
wear what I want, I can live, drive
what I want, why do I need anything?
It's only when you're in trouble, when you're
struggling, I need God, you know.
So this is a bit of a fitna,
it's a bit of a challenge.
But mashallah, I'm here to tell you that
UK especially is blazing the path for the
best of both worlds where, mashallah, you've got
some of the best minds, they're getting top
A's in GCSEs, A's in A-levels, going
on degrees, and mashallah, alims and alimas.
They're becoming alims and alimas, they're becoming scholars.
That means that the vocation they're gonna go
in, pharmacy, there's gonna be an alim or
alima in there who'll have some sense of
ethics.
They won't be just toying the line of
capitalism, at least hopefully not.
That's the benefit of having ulema and alima
in those vocations.
And mashallah, our children, we have some geniuses
within our children, they have amazing ability to
remember, to understand the level of intellectual acumen
that they have.
Why shortchange them?
Why shortchange them?
Why can't we give them the best of
both as many are doing?
So I'm here to tell you that that's
an opportunity.
We have classes that you can attend physically.
We have classes that you can attend online
now.
And don't ever come up with this that,
you know what, for some people it's like,
مینے خاندان میں تو کوئی علم نہیں تا,
حافظ بھی نہیں تا, مینے خاندان میں تو
کوئی ہجاب بھی پہنتا نہیں ہے.
مینے خاندان میں تو کوئی داری بھی نہیں
رکھی کسی نے.
What are you gonna do?
You're telling your kid.
I hope you understood that.
You didn't understand that, right?
Some families say, we don't have a hafiz
in our family.
It's not part of our tradition.
We don't have any woman who wears hijab
in our family.
It's not part of our tradition.
Brother, it's your Muslim tradition.
It may have not been in your family,
but now you started off.
I can give you examples after being in
this world for like 40, 50 years now.
I can give you examples that I have
seen now myself where nobody was a hafiz
in that family.
And now every single male guy in that
family is a hafiz of the Quran.
There were families where there's not a single
hijab in that family, traditionally.
Now every single woman wears a hijab or
niqab.
And you know who gets a reward out
of that?
The first person who made that effort to
do it and had to face the music,
the criticism, they persevered.
And believe me, dedicate your children at least
if you can make them a hafiz.
At least have one hafiz in the house.
The hadith of the Prophet ﷺ in Sahih
Muslim, Sahih Bukhari, etc.
said that this world will not end until
Allah, Allah is being proclaimed.
As long as there's somebody to say Allah,
Allah, that's the nourishment of this world.
It can't be, it can't end.
Right?
That's why before the Day of Judgment, one
of the signs of the Days of Judgment
is that there will erupt a wind, a
soft wind that all the believers will feel
and they will eventually perish.
This is after Isa ﷺ, Gog, Magog, all
the rest of it.
After all of that, really before the Day
of Judgment until there's hardly anybody left to
say Allah, Allah, the world will then come
to an end.
If this entire world on a macro level
sustains itself with the name of Allah, then
how can a masjid or a small house
or a business not sustain itself with the
name of Allah?
You want blessing in your house?
You want blessing in your business?
Allah, Allah.
If you have children, there was a point
in my house where Qur'an was being
recited at least minimum five hours a day
because we were teaching on my own.
At least minimum five hours a day, huge
barakah, blessing from that.
The name of Allah, the words of Allah
are being read in the house.
That way you won't have to wait until
Ramadan for that to happen.
It'll be an everyday thing.
Believe me, the blessings of this is amazing.
There's been cases where these are the children
who then, mashallah, turned the whole family into
religious and made that environment because the barakah
came in and the blessing came in.
So today we are celebrating the last hadith
of this book.
Now, what happens in this is that students
normally start this course and it takes six,
seven years to do properly, right?
Not every course is the same.
Some are a bit kind of jaw blocks
courses where the quality isn't amazing, but in
others the quality is amazing.
As you get in, there's good universities and
there's not so good universities.
It's just like that.
Now, mashallah, our girls today, the 15, I'm
told they're graduating.
We had one of the students of this
madrasa a few years ago in our postgraduate.
So we run White Thread Institute, which delivers
postgraduate courses.
So all of these alims and alimas that
are graduating, in London alone there's over a
thousand alims and alimas, alhamdulillah, throughout the city.
What do they do after they complete?
Well, many might go to university, some girls
will just become a housewife sometimes, a mother,
whatever it is, different things.
So we thought we need to provide them
further courses so there's a continuous professional development.
And mashallah, you know, I hope the standard
is the same, but judging from at least
one of the students that we've had from
this madrasa, I don't know who all the
teachers are here, but I've always wanted to
congratulate you guys, right?
And I've made dua for you guys that
at least one of your students who've come
and studied with us, mashallah, she really did
very well.
You could tell that she was taught very,
very well.
And I am hoping and praying that the
standard continues like that.
These 15 who are graduating, I want to
congratulate them for persevering through these several years.
Their parents, whether they knew or not what
they were really going through, because it takes
parents' dedication, otherwise parents are like, you need
to go and work, right?
You understood that one, right?
Alhamdulillah.
And it's not easy, London is not easy.
London is very expensive, everybody's forced to work.
You go up north, there's many people sitting
around, they'll do your khidmat, they'll take you
around, but London, you need appointments for everyone,
everybody's busy, right?
Everybody's trying to make more money, subhanallah, right?
So congratulate the parents, and of course the
teachers, of their efforts.
So these six books that we're talking about,
so the students started with learning Arabic, some
masail, fiqh, jurisprudence, then they're going to advanced
levels, they start studying hadith of the Prophet
ﷺ, and the final year culminates in a
study of the six books, cover to cover,
as much as possible.
The benefit of doing that, we have a
tradition, our subcontinent tradition, we still have this
tradition, that every hadith of those six books
that any of our students, once they graduate,
will relate.
They can tell you, they can relate to
you and transmit to you that hadith all
the way up to the Prophet ﷺ with
a continuous chain.
This is something you may not know about.
So I'm going to give you a very
quick example of that.
When I relate the first hadith of Sahih
al-Bukhari, innama al-amalu bil niyyat, this
is how I relate it.
I heard this hadith from Shaykh Yusuf Mutala,
rahimahullah, that Maulana just mentioned.
He heard it from Shaykh Zakaria Kandhuri, he
heard it from Muhammad Yahya Kandhuri, from Shaykh
Rashid Ahmed Kandhuri, from Shaykh Abdul Ghani al
-Mujaddidi, from his father Shah Abu Sa'id
al-Mujaddidi, from Shah Muhammad Ishaq Zahlawi, from
Shah Abdul Aziz, who narrates from Shah Waniullah,
who narrates from Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
al-Qurdi, he relates from his father Ibrahim
ibn Hassan al-Qurdi, from Abdullah ibn Mullah
Sa'dullah Lahori, from Qutb al-Din Muhammad ibn
Ahmad al-Nahrawali, from Alaa al-Din Ahmad
ibn Muhammad al-Nahrawali, from Hafiz Nur al
-Din Abu al-Futuh Ahmad ibn Abdullah, from
Al-Muammar Baba Muhammad Yusuf al-Harari, from
Muhammad ibn Sha'ad Bakht al-Farghani, right?
That went from the Indian subcontinent, it went
to Herat in Afghanistan, Harari, from there it's
just gone to Uzbekistan, Farghana, Farghani, if you
notice that.
Then from there it goes, Muammar Abu Luqman
Yahya ibn Ammar ibn Muqbila al-Hatlani, from
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Yusuf al-Firabri, and again
that's to Uzbekistan, and he relates from Muhammad
ibn Ismail al-Bukhari.
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari then relates from
Humayni, from Sufyan, on to Abu Umar radiyallahu
anhu, from the Prophet ﷺ.
So every single hadith of Bukhari that we
can relate, or Muslim, or Abu Dawud, or
Nasai, or Tirmidhi, we can literally relate with
every single person in between, and that's probably
about 25 to 30 people in between.
There's nobody else who has that tradition the
way the Muslims have, and among the Muslims,
the Indian subcontinent is unique with this.
It happens in some Arab countries, but on
a very, very limited way, whereas in our
Indian subcontinent, I mean India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, you can't be known as a qualified
alim, normally mawlana, alima, if you haven't been
through the six books, with this chain.
That's amazing.
Inshallah, with the barakah of that chain, I'm
just going to say on Day of Judgment,
Ya Allah, I had this chain, put me
with these great people.
Put me with the likes, because I don't
know how I'm going to get to, you
know, it says that there's going to be
70,000 people who are going to get
into paradise without any reckoning.
I mean, do you know how difficult that
is?
Your competition is like Zazali, Jilani, Tanvi, Gangohi,
like, come on.
That's a major competition.
But we're just hoping with Allah and His
mercy is that, you know what, let's just,
we love these people, we followed their tradition,
and we did what we did.
Let us be part of that.
So now this final hadith which our Hazrat
Mawlana Ayyuzaw and our elders of this country,
mashallah, with very high chains that he has
himself, mashallah, and he's done, he's working on,
you know, mashallah, commentaries of Bukhari, of Shaykh
Yunus, rahimahullah, and other people.
So he'll be completing the hadith, but this
hadith is the last hadith of Sahih al
-Bukhari, which is usually reserved for this occasion,
that this hadith is then formally taught.
And the hadith, I'll leave it to Hazrat
Mawlana to read it, but it's basically the
hadith of al-Tasbih, subhanAllahi wa bihamdi, subhanAllahil
azeem, which is saying that there are two
formulas, two statements, two words, two statements that
are very, very simple to utter, subhanAllahi wa
bihamdi, subhanAllahil azeem, very simple to utter, aren't
they?
Right, try it out, if you haven't tried
it out before, right?
But they're going to be very, very heavy
on the scale, on the Day of Judgment.
Again, it's just, we're just including excuses for
salvation in the hereafter, ya Allah, I read
this verse, your Prophet ﷺ said that they're
going to be very heavy in the scale,
my scale needs some heaviness, I've got this,
come on.
I mean, not in that kind of bold
way, but you know what I mean, right?
Inshallah, on the Day of Judgment, we're just
trying to maximize potential to, inshallah, enter the
pleasure of Allah ﷻ.
We just want to maximize multiple things that
we can do, inshallah.
And then he said, Prophet ﷺ said, they
are very beloved to Allah.
You can tell Allah, oh Allah, I said
some of the most beloved words, and He
said it multiple times a day, subhanAllahi wa
bihamdihi, subhanAllahil azeem.
So then Imam Bukhari relates the hadith from
the Prophet ﷺ that this formula, subhanAllahi wa
bihamdihi, subhanAllahil azeem, is the one.
Before that, he discusses, the chapter heading is
about the scale of the Day of Judgment.
Now remember, the reason this hadith is there
is because it's going to be very heavy
in the scale, so the discussion of the
scale, which is the mizan.
Now, there's a lot of discussion about this
mizan, this scale.
You heard that there's going to be a
scale in the Hereafter that's going to measure
our deeds.
Has it ever crossed your mind that our
deeds are sometimes abstract ideas?
Our deeds are not always like in the
form of a book, or in the form
of a physical thing.
When we say subhanAllah, how is that captured?
Where does that go?
When we say alhamdulillah Allahu akbar, how is
that captured?
How is that going to go in a
scale?
How do you put subhanAllah in a scale?
Unless you write it down and put it
in there.
You understand what I'm saying?
So, some people, they actually denied the scale.
The mu'tazir was a group.
They were rationalists.
They said, you know, we don't believe in
the scale because how can you measure abstract
phenomena that are not tangible, that are not
physical?
And I think they were writing at a
time when there were no barometers and thermometers
and things like that.
Now, you can measure all sorts of stuff,
can't you?
You can measure the waves in this room.
We can't see them.
You can measure the heat, which you can
only feel, but the thermometer measures that, right?
You have the ultrasound that through sound can
tell you what a fetus looks like.
Just using sound, it can form a picture.
It's amazing.
So, just upgrades in technology have brought a
reality to this that subhanAllah, that scale is
going to be a very smart scale.
In modern understanding, that's going to be a
smart scale.
It'll be able to figure out exactly.
Now, remember on the Day of Judgment, what
happens is that there's going to be four
witnesses in everything that we've done.
Four witnesses.
Anybody know what the four are?
The one is the Book of Deeds.
The angels, kiraman katibin, that write the Book
of Deeds.
So, there's going to be that Book of
Deeds.
And they literally take everything.
That was so difficult to understand before.
But now, with Google literally capturing every single
keystroke, every single voice capture, every single place
it's been, and you can get this information,
you're like shocked, like you even forget.
That shows that, not just that though, Allah
has multiple witnesses.
Allah has witnesses then in the ground.
The ground will become a smart ground.
Anything we did on any part of the
land.
So, the ground is going to be a
witness that you sat here.
What's your name, bud?
Kashif Saab sat in that particular place.
Right?
Kashif Saab and his son sat in that
place for Bukhari khatam.
It's amazing, isn't it?
The ground is remembering all of that.
That's number two.
Number three, the heart is a hard drive,
capturing everything.
Allah says, وَحُسِّلَ مَا فِي السُّدُورِ That which
is in the hearts will be revealed, will
be displayed.
It's capturing everything.
Amazing.
I mean, what are you going to, can
you escape from your hearts?
Subhanallah.
Allah make it easy.
And the fourth one is the limbs.
As mentioned in the Quran.
The limbs and we're going to get angry
with Allah and say, why are you speaking
against us?
Allah caused us to speak, who causes everything
to speak.
So, there's no escape on that day.
So, everything gets, so there will be this
Meezan, this Meezan that will happen on that
day.
Now, there's been a number of other advancements
that have pretty much confirmed many things of
the past.
For example, there's an incident that took place
in the time of Umar radiyallahu anhu.
Why?
He's the Khalifa.
He's giving a khutbah.
So, it's a Juma time.
He's giving the khutbah, he's giving the bayan.
He's in front of hundreds of thousands of
people.
So, everybody witnesses this as well.
So, imagine now, I'm talking to you and
then suddenly, I said, take a left turn.
You're going to think I'm crazy.
You're going to think I'm crazy, like why
am I disturbing the bayan for?
You wouldn't think I'm crazy though that I'm
speaking to somebody else because I've probably got
an earpiece on.
That's quite normal down there.
Before, just like we had, now you have
earpods.
But now before you had the phones in
hijabs.
She's walking down the street with a phone
in a hijab and she's speaking like you
say, like are you crazy?
Who are you speaking to?
Speaking to somebody.
Now people have earpods and they're just speaking
to somebody randomly as they're walking, right?
But people now understand this because everybody does
it.
Soon, you're not going to need an earpod.
You're going to need just a little chip
here or something and you know, you'll have
everything in there.
Umar radiyallahu anhu demonstrated this without any of
this apparatus.
What happened was many many hundreds of miles
away, there was a person called Saria who
was in one of the battles and ajeeb,
it was strange.
They've taken their precaution but the enemy was
behind the mountain and they didn't know that.
And suddenly Umar radiyallahu anhu calls out to
Saria who was hundreds of miles away, watch
out behind the mountain.
Now people are obviously shocked.
When Saria came back after multiple weeks or
months or whatever it was, they asked him
and they confirmed that yes, I was in
this expedition and I heard Umar radiyallahu anhu's
voice telling me to look and take precaution
from the mountain because the enemy was there
and I didn't know that.
Today that's become a reality.
It's no longer even a miracle as such.
You can do this.
You can even watch the whole scene from
here, right?
So these modern things are telling us.
For example, there's a reporter online, Muslim reporter
online and somebody took him to task and
said that you really believe in the prophet
Muhammad, right?
And you really believe that he went on
this buraq, on this animal up to the
heavens, like trying to show you must be
crazy to believe that.
Is that really a crazy thing now to
believe?
Is that really unimaginable?
Hasn't it not entered into the realm of
possible things now that you can actually travel
into space?
Okay, you might need a spacesuit at present.
But why is it difficult to imagine that
in a few years they'll find some kind
of resistance that they'll just spray on you
and you can go into and not feel
the pressure up there as the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam went up there.
It's come into the realm of possibilities.
Nobody can reject this kind of thing anymore
because progress advancements have shown all of these
as possible.
There's numerous other cases like that.
So this is nothing to be surprised about.
The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to
hold on to a pillar to give khutbah.
And then they made a mimbar.
So he moved over from the pillar, stood
on the mimbar.
And that Friday the pillar was heard sobbing
by everybody.
I mean, that would still be a bit
strange if you heard this sobbing.
But then you think that they put a
speaker in there, right?
It was just a smart pillar.
He had intelligence.
He had a heart.
But usually these things don't speak.
But now they can because you have smart
pillars.
You can smart, you know, smart fridges and
smart things and smart shoes and all the
rest of it.
So day by day, things are becoming more
of a reality.
What I want to finish off with is
just a little poem on the legacy of
Imam Bukhari.
In Bukhara's land, where history's tapestry unfurls, Imam
Bukhari, his legacy, his cherished pearls.
From Persian, Turkic, or roots yet undefined.
Because we don't know if he was Persian
in origin or Turkic in origin.
He labored and devoted heart, soul and mind.
Al-Jami al-Sahih, that's the book name.
His monumental tone, guidance from the heaven, a
spiritual home.
Accepted by Allah, it found its sacred place.
In every corner, it is recited and embraced.
Can you believe that Imam Bukhari would have
ever imagined that somebody in Croydon, his book
would be being completed?
I don't even know if Croydon existed then,
as part of Londinium.
I don't know if it even existed.
Can you imagine the kabuliyah and acceptance of
that?
With over 100 commentaries, profound scholars delve deep
in his wisdom they found.
Today we gather in a joyous, humble quest.
Our du'as ascent, in unity we're blessed.
Year after year, this noble completion's grace, a
journey of faith, a spiritual embrace, to earn
the title, revered and pure, scholarships pinnacle they
must endure.
Shaykh al-Hadith, a mantle that's well-earned
by those who've labored and wisdom discerned.
In the footsteps of Imam Bukhari, they tread.
His legacy alive, their souls are fed.
In gratitude and reverence, we stand tall.
For the wisdom passed down, we heed the
call.
With praise and prayer, our hearts unite.
In the light of Sahih al-Bukhari, we
find our flight.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept it
for us.
Now turning to the students, you have just
finished your labor of love, inshallah, all of
these years.
Some of you may have been strongly encouraged,
in other words, forced.
Some of you may have not understood why
you're there in the beginning and then understood
that later.
Some of you, God forbid, may still not
understand, what's the big deal about this?
What have I spent all of these years
doing?
But what I'm going to say is that
you have been chosen, my sisters, every one
of you and every other sister who's studying,
you have been chosen among thousands of others
in this community to sacrifice your time and
do this.
It's not a random choice.
This is by design.
Allah has done this.
This is Allah's decree.
Now it's up to us to value it
and do something with it and ask Allah
to assist and accept us for the service
of his deen.
The Prophet ﷺ said, It's an amazing hadith
related by Imam Ahmad and Imam Ibn Hibban
from Amr Ibn Al-Hamik r.a, relatively
unknown, relatively less known sahabi.
He says, Now this is applicable to all
of us, by the way, right?
The housewife, to the taxi driver, to the
lawyer, to the businessman, to the investor, to
the alim, to everyone, right?
The Prophet ﷺ told the sahaba, he said,
He will use him.
He will employ him.
Sahaba said, what do you mean?
What does that mean?
The Prophet ﷺ said, He
will give him the ability, he will enable
him to do something before his death by
which the people around him will be happy
with him, right?
And that's amazing.
We're gonna ask Allah, so one thing I
would tell all of our students and every
one of us, that at least after one
prayer of the day, let us ask Allah,
oh Allah, accept me for the service of
your deen.
I don't know how I can help.
Some people are like, how can I help?
I don't know.
Oh Allah, help me.
Just accept me and you'll see that Allah
will employ us.
Whether with our physical ability, whether with our
occupation, whether with our skill set, whether with
our money, whatever it is, Allah will help
us.
And that way we stop living a selfish
life that we've been living.
We start doing something.
We start incurring some good deeds for others.
We start incurring the mercy of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So, number one, especially for our students, the
knowledge that you have received, you need to
use it.
That means go and find a place to
teach.
If you can't find a place to teach,
because sometimes there's so many teachers and there's
so many places to teach, go and find
one person.
Go and find a student.
After I graduated, I did mufti class twice.
I did all of that stuff.
I ended up in America in a small
community on the coast with one masjid within
70 miles and only 100 people for Jumu
'ah.
A very small community.
Here you have like 10 masjids in 10
miles, right?
Oh sorry, 10 minutes on the drive.
There's no madrasah.
There's nobody to study the deep stuff.
What did I do?
I was like feeling really bad.
I was feeling my knowledge is going.
Allah gave us tawfiq that I found a
few locals, regular workers who were interested and
started teaching them.
After ghalib we just sit in like 10
minutes, half an hour after isha, weekends, whatever.
That's how it is.
Find somebody to teach you.
Stop waiting for somebody to come to you.
Go and find the gap.
What is needed in your community?
Basically a lot of people just do what
others are doing, which is easy to do.
Find the gap.
Find what's needed.
There are women sitting in the mornings, masjids
which are empty.
Start women's classes for the housewives.
The children have gone to school.
They're doing nothing at home.
Well that's where we started in our masjid.
Maybe you've already got it going.
And mashallah, it was amazing.
It was supposed to be a two year
class.
It ended up being seven years.
They just didn't want to leave.
They had to keep adding to them.
It was just amazing.
You get hooked on to this stuff.
So go and find somebody to teach.
Number two, your knowledge does not stop here.
All you studied, you know when we studied
the six years, all we've studied is how
to learn now.
Now it begins now.
So don't think that you've studied everything.
It all begins.
Take some postgraduate courses.
And you know, White Thread is open for
you.
The White Thread Institute is open for you
to do that inshallah.
As I said, you know, we've already had
students from here.
So that's number two.
Number three, not everything has to be charged
for.
So go and volunteer your time in different
places.
You are going to be considered an alima.
Whatever you think of yourself.
So we have to then treat ourselves and
handle ourselves.
It helps us to stay straight.
And it's a sacrifice.
Your friends, if you still have friends that
do weird things, maybe doing weird things that
you can't do it, it's a sacrifice.
But eventually Allah will give you happiness within
the sacrifice.
Many, many productive ulama, all productive ulama are
happy in what they do.
Life is not boring.
It's very exciting.
A lot of people think that excitement is
only in the haram or on the edge
things.
It's not the case.
Happiness is what Allah provides.
Excitement is what Allah gives and bestows.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for satisfaction.
One beautiful du'a for that for anybody.
We're just too much into haram or wrong
and we don't feel happy about good, right?
اللهم اكفني بحلالك عن حرامك و اغنني بفضلك
عن من سواك Get your ulama to write
for you afterwards.
اللهم اكفني بحلالك عن حرامك Beautiful du'a.
Let's just say somebody's got a beautiful spouse
at home, but they're always enticed by others
and they're not then satisfied.
Or there's lots of haram opportunities for business
while Allah has given them a decent business
or income.
Oh Allah suffice me with the halal away
from the haram.
So the halal, make me suffice with that,
satisfied with that.
If we can do that, that'll be amazing.
That life becomes easier.
And oh Allah make me independent of everybody
besides you.
A beautiful du'a.
It's helped me.
It's helped me a lot.
And keep your link with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala because that's where your power will
come from.
That's where your endurance will come from.
That's where your perseverance comes from.
A link with Allah.
And that means you must have dhikr.
Certain amount of dhikr that you do every
day.
Istighfar, salawat on the Prophet shallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, a wird of la ilaha illallah, some
meditation, du'as to Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
That will keep you strong.
Otherwise, we get misled.
So again, I congratulate everybody here.
I mean, what is a congratulation?
May Allah bless everybody here, right?
Who have attended to mashaAllah encouraged these sisters.
And do you have a men's course as
well?
You have that?
Are there some graduates of men's as well?
Not yet.
When will that happen?
This guy is waiting.
What's your name?
What's your name?
Abdul Rahim.
When are you going to start your hifz?
When you finish?
MashaAllah.
Then alim course?
You don't know?
Yeah, hifz class here, mashaAllah.
So alim class means you are still orthodox?
MashaAllah, inshaAllah.
This guy is waiting.
What's your name?
Abdul Rahim.
And what's your name?
Noman.
You done hifz as well?
MashaAllah, alhamdulillah.
All the hafiz are sitting here.
That's amazing.
Alhamdulillah.
So may Allah take it inshaAllah boys course
as well, guys course inshaAllah as well.
And we just have to take matters in
our own hands to the benefit of the
community.
These same ulema, alima, then they start providing
various services to the community.
It just benefits us.
We get the benefit of it inshaAllah.
Circular, you know, it just comes back to
us.
Allah accept.
Allah jazakallah khair Mufti sahab.
Mufti sahab was, we were together in in
1998, 99.
Alhamdulillah, we studied together.
Alhamdulillah.
Assalamu alaikum.
The point of a lecture is to encourage
people to act, to get further, an inspiration,
an encouragement, persuasion.
The next step is to actually start learning
seriously, to read books, to take on a
subject of Islam and to understand all the
subjects of Islam, at least at their basic
level so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us.
And that's why we started Rayyan courses so
that you can actually take organized lectures on
demand whenever you have free time, especially, for
example, the Islamic essentials course that we have
on there, the Islamic essentials certificate, which you
take 20 short modules.
And at the end of that, inshaAllah, you
will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll
feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind.
You can continue to listen to lectures, but
you need to have this more sustained study
as well.
Jazakallah khair.
Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.