Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Way Ahead Specialisation
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I have this unfortunate task of being the buffer between your food
and so inshallah this is all beneficial Marshall I'm really
grateful to all of our speakers and also to mana Bilal who came up
I mean, I only mentioned this to him about two days ago and he came
and
inshallah this will be a great source of inspiration for most of
us. The whole reason why this event took place is because you
get students who will come and ask you there in the third year, the
fourth or the 50 undressing? What should I do shave? I was just in
Dundee. And one of the students here I think he's in Buhari or
something, he says, shake What should I do after I finish? I
said, I don't know.
I don't know what you shouldn't do. I'm not your shake. I don't
know you. Why should I tell you what to do? Right, you need to
find your place, I can give you ideas. And everybody you don't
even know what you will do yourself. You just have to have 10
ideas, identify gaps of don't just copy what other people are doing,
oh, he's doing let me do this as well. It's not a business. Right,
you can do that you can go to another area, but also identify
gaps. So now to start with the hustle salt.
The Hustle Savatage means specialization, if TA and academia
all of that is lumped into one because essentially, this is not a
career. So what I want to clarify here is that while going into
madrasa teaching this time, the other that can be a career, this
is not a career, this is just specialization, you could be doing
this. And you could be doing all the other things that you you
know, that we've mentioned already. The whole purpose of this
is to specialize in a particular field over and beyond the general
Olim class study. So alhamdulillah, if you go through
the Aryan class study, then you learn a bit about the field, a
good amount of Hadith, also Hadith, some sort of save some
aqidah,
a lot of fic, you know, hopefully, and so on and so forth. That does
not make you a specialist in any of those subjects. Right? It
doesn't make you a specialist, you need to really focus and dedicate
a few years to each one of those subjects to become a specialist
unless, you know, you are literally reading day and night.
It's just a very, very complicated thing. Why would you want to do
this?
You see, if you want to leave something in the world, after your
death, if you look around, generally, if you look at all of
the great scholars that we say Rahim, a hula to their name after
their name. They are somebody who have left an intellectual,
something an intellectual contribution.
You know, one is that you're a great bond giver, a great speaker,
you will inspire a lot of people, but somebody who leaves an
intellectual heritage, generally in the form of writing and to be
able to write something or contribute in that sense, you need
to specialize in it before you can put pen to paper otherwise you
will be torn to pieces. So the hustle side are very important. It
LSAT is not a career on its own, it's just further study to then
further go into aqidah into tafsir into Hadith, or whatever it may
be. It can be undertaken exclusively or along with a
vocation such as employment or other work. You just have to fully
dedicate yourself you can either do personal study under the gun
under the supervision of another scholar or go and travel for that.
Right. These are the general types. I mean, this is again, not
exhaustive, but these are generally the Donita has suicide
that I've focused on here. So you have the Iftar the move the horse,
which I probably think out of all of these, the Mufti course would
probably be the most well known and this is what mostly Okay, we
have mashallah numerous of these. When I when we speak to, you know,
somewhere, I went somewhere and somebody said, this is Mufti so
and so from the Oh, you are the Mufti of England. Because if you
look in Syria, in Egypt, in Jordan and all these countries, they only
have a few of these one is the Mufti of the country. One is the
Mufti of the armed forces. One is the Mufti of Damascus, right? It's
a special position. It's not doesn't reflect your knowledge as
such. And mashallah, we have mashallah many of these
Hamdulillah. So that's if of course, I'm not denigrating I'm
just explaining the differences. The hustles fill Hadith, we really
need this in the UK. This is not sufficiently catered for. Then
what you have is people who haven't studied much sorrel Hadith
except Nakamoto figure or whatever, and a few other books,
and then they start giving certain we have a big challenge basically,
in this regard.
The Hustle is filled Cara. Right. That's quite important just to for
the continuation of because every single camera out of the seven is
supposed to be equal. Right?
I'm just I'm
Just going really fast is the hustlers fit of SEO, this is
really important. Unfortunately, I can't recall at this point in time
where at the SEO course, where there is a suite of SEO course
that I can recommend to you, the hustlers will Aqeedah. Again,
another very important point, especially moving into modern
philosophy, not just knowing the *, you know, just not just
knowing your shuffle applied Well, or your Kalam well, but also
understanding the modern challenges
Shala we were having a book written on that subject dealing
with all the modern philosophy, so inshallah Tada, the judiciary
course. Right? That's very important. And the reason for that
is, you know, these, when husband and wives have issues and the
husband won't give dollar for this and other marital conflicts, these
things are very much needed. Master's and PhD, right. So you
can take that route to specialize in something through a masters or
a PhD. Right, suitability, what kind of a person you need to be to
do any of this.
Let me just ask a question. How many of you want to do some kind
of the hostels after you finish?
Right, okay, that sounds about right. Because what you need is
not everybody's going to do it. It's not everybody who goes to an
unnamed course, unfortunately, right is going to be wanting to
spend another few few years afterwards right. You need to be
extremely studious. You have to have a certain type of
intellectual acumen you know, you really want to you have to be you
have to have a certain category of that. Have a lot of curiosity you
want to know more high aspiration, you definitely that and if you
want if anybody likes high inspiration, read the seydel heart
of YBNL Josie Rahim Allah, he'll, he'll give you that and a number
of other books, firm resolution
and divine enablement. Sophie.
The benefits of this role, huge intellectual fulfillment, believe
me as Imam Shafi says that if the the Moluccas if the rulers of the
world knew what we had in the our research and our understanding,
then it is more, it is more pleasurable than sleeping with
virgins. Right? And if you think that's an exaggeration, then
Subhanallah that's not an exaggeration. Yes, we need
leadership of the Muslims, it's going to be people who will do
certain the hustle sites will become specialized in things that
will hopefully be able to lead the community fulfilment of a fourth
key fire, that's very important, a communal obligation, we need to
have within every community, somebody who is specialized in all
of the subjects. So the normal imam in the masjid he has he is
the doorway, the gateway to all of this, somebody's going to come and
ask a strange question about Aveda. He doesn't know about
apostasy, Richard Dawkins, you know, Some, somebody's come with
their daughter with their son, 15 years old, they've got issues, we
don't know how to deal with it, somebody's come with evolution, we
need somebody with some muscles to be able to deal with this.
And train others after qualify a qualification. So at least provide
an understanding, even if people won't specialize, you can actually
come back to London, for example, Leicester, wherever you want to
go, and then at least make people aware of whatever specialization
that you have, okay.
Generally, the challenges of this role will be you know, if you
really are committed, and you really want to do it, that's the
biggest hurdle. But there will be costs and funding. A lot of this
is going to require plane tickets, it's going to require you to go
and maybe stay somewhere. It's not that you know how much your
mother's has charged. Now they're 2000 a year or something. What's
the mother's fees?
Two and a half now, right? This could be a lot more because you
have to go you have to travel different countries, look for a
place, spend money, spousal support, you want to get married,
your parents want you to get married, or you need to get
married, right, then does your wife want to travel you want to
go? I remember when I finished the room when I was finishing down
linbury I was supposed to get married three years after that.
But then mashallah some opportunity came up. And I got
fixed while just a few months or so before graduating. And there
was a friend of mine who knew I was going to travel who I wanted
to travel and study for three more years. And then when he found out
I got fixed our business, forget it. You're You're finished now.
Right? But oh, hamdulillah it worked out. I did travel for three
years. And after the first year, we had a child as well, right? So
it worked in you need the commitment, but you definitely
need to make a lot of dua that your spouse is going to support
you otherwise, if she's crying, right, and you've taken it to
South Africa to study
or you've taken it to India, Pakistan to study and she's saying
I want to go home, I want to go home, your life will be miserable.
Right? So if you want this if you want this path, you need to find a
spouse who also wants that path. And if you both have it, Allahu
Akbar, that will be the most wonderful thing. So traveling
requires a lot of travel. And of course you have to come out of
your comfort zone you have to do strange things to go and do this.
Right? That has this will Hadith Mala haolam Saharan poor
and that will be obviously very difficult for
it's easier for Indian people of Indian background but for
Pakistani background, unfortunately, that's difficult
I'm not sure is Does anybody know if there's a tussle still Hadith
program in Karachi or somewhere in Pakistan? It's in Karachi
currently in Newtown, okay, well that I need to add to that then.
And of course don't do this. These places have to year to year
courses for tassels will have this which is very important to have
that of hamdullah we've got actually Monona Haroon, who did
the Thomasville Hadith in Sahara and poor and he's here so if
anybody's interested then please because it's important to
understand your region, you know your small region and everything
else. Okay? The Huddersfield era
there's obviously the mother is in the UK that have it for those
unfortunately if you've studied the mother side that doesn't have
it then it would probably require you to go out to India, Cairo and
other places. Okay, carry on. These are just ideas this is not
exhaust the hustles fit tafsir anybody have suggestion? Is there
any course anybody knows about because I know one year they had
it inside and pool if there's enough of you, I'm sure we can get
it organized somewhere. But movies are really fun in
in Karachi, and that is Phil Aqeedah. This is a new kind of a
subject which people are gaining a lot more interest in and insha
Allah make dua that locally we can organize this and some of the
other the CASA program, there is a project in mind. There is a
project in the works right now to provide the facade for graduates
in sha Allah so make dua for that. Color judiciary course Imara
Sharia Patna, Bihar India they call the Mujahideen Islam space
Rahim Allah darlin Karachi, I believe has one and also Jamia
Shafia has one, right? This is for Kedah to understand how those and
Masters and PhD now this is something that a lot of people are
interested in, I'm not going to speak about going into
engineering, or pharmacy or something else, that's a whole
different category, somebody else can speak about Al Hamdulillah, we
have numerous scholars who have gone into various different fields
in the secular side of things, I'm speaking about how to get into a
masters or a PhD, generally your Arlene class certificate,
unfortunately, does not equate to much in terms of the
accreditation. I tried both in the UK and in America, and it doesn't
amount to much. Yes, if an individual University sees your,
your son or your your certificate, and they say, Okay, you look like
a talented individual, they may make a discretion. But otherwise,
from an accreditation perspective, it doesn't. Unfortunately, it's
not equal to anything, generally what you must do, right. And if
you want to go this way, please do not go into a BA course. And go
and sit with these 18 year olds, you just spent six years or seven
years or whatever, and then you go and do a levels again, I just find
that really ridiculous. To be honest, that's my perspective, and
then have to go and sit with these 1819 year olds and do that.
Rather, the options there is try to get into particular university,
if you can, through some context. If you cannot, then generally if
you go to Cambridge, Muslim College has a wonderful course one
year, and it just gives you a great diverse, diversified
understanding of how our society works, everything, you know, from
astronomy, to anthropology, and counseling and feminism and
Subhanallah, it's really good. But the benefit is that if a lot of
people who've done that course, then they can generally jump from
the into so as for a Master's, right, so you cut out everything
else, you don't have to worry about your ba anymore. The other
option is a lot of people are going to Islamic Foundation,
whether to do something finance or some other course. And then my
sorry, Mark field, yeah, that's very smart field in Leicester
outside of Leicester, then that allows you sometimes to jump into
it does allow you to that you can do a Masters there, sometimes they
accept the autonomy, of course for that. And then of course there's
service.
Now, that's not all, if you can't do any of these things, you can't
spend the full time doing any of these things. Well, you know, a
lot of people want to practice their Arabic, try as you might in
the UK, unless you're very dedicated you find a group of
Arabs to argue with everyday is going to find it very difficult,
right? For that you need to spend some time in an Arab country to do
that practice.
And again,
private study with Allah is another thing that you can do just
because you can't go to another country or enter a course for a
proper specialization. After you're fighting, you're an Imam,
maybe maybe you're a chaplain, maybe you're wherever you are, go
and try to attend a class once a week somewhere, to continue to
refresh your knowledge. This is very important. Because believe me
our knowledge stagnates your six or seven years that you spent in
your mother, so you think that gives you the whole world. It went
in terms of Tofik it can, but really, in terms of knowledge,
it's just the beginning. It's just the beginning. It gives you enough
tools and you need to continue to add to that from any other so try
to find try to arrange or join existing study circles with Obama.
This is very important. This doesn't happen. But alhamdulillah
it has started it's been happening in London as well. We have we you
know we we've been coming
All together for the last five or six years, at least once a week,
and we've gone through a number of books. And now mashallah somebody
started this in Birmingham as well. And this just needs to
happen, because a lot of our orlimar when they finish, they
just stagnate. Then they just teaching their book or their
teaching, or mothers or something like that. And that's it. And you
have to continue to write Yeah, this is what you call taking a
sabbatical. We can't do that. So at least we do something like
this. What's next? You have anybody who's interested in the
study. So currently we are going through Pooja Tula, who bhava,
which is Shaohua EULAs. amazing piece of work, right? anybody is
interested, let us know that's after you're fired. If you know
you're in another store right now. And I just want to thank you all
for coming here. I'm gonna let one Abdurrahman deal with that for us.
But what I want to say is, don't just pick one option, because you
may not be successful in that option. Have at least three to
five ideas from what you've heard today and other ideas and ask
Allah monosodium Terrazza Damas baraka to him I remember he told
us a long time ago is and this was before he had the big Academy.
This was when he had a small one, right the house right? He's
related to me and I gone to visit him once. And he said look
everyday after Isha two records of solid Hydra
and ask Allah for acceptance. For the service of his name, believe
me, this is very powerful, have ideas and ask Allah for Tofik and
when you come out, you will take the world in sha Allah