Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Upholding Your Spiritual High & A Brief History of Naqshbandi and Chishti Paths
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
wa Salatu was Salam ala say you did more saline while he was we
are Baraka was a limiter, Sleeman Kathira en la Yomi the Ummah bad
as it is we have to solve it is
a way that has been
developed through the experience of many machines of the past. And
that's why you have the different, different Silsila as have
developed over the centuries, they developed in a particular way
by the Messiah by the scholars who had concern for spirituality had
concern for taking people to Allah subhanho wa taala. Now what
happens with a within a Silsila is that
Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani Rahim Allah,
he may have told his students, his Marine is aspirants that okay, do
this, this is what I'd like you to do. This is what I found to be
beneficial. So that I that I must be one of those things that he
must have told her.
So those are the basic things that they've said that if you do a word
of if you repeat over and over again, you will be benefiting from
it. Personally, the way I look at it is that the words that were
given to do every day, the amount of Morocco the amount of vicar,
the amount of reading, etc. That's just the basis of just keeping
strong inside and keeping your battery recharged at the end of
the day, we take our phone, and we go and put it on charge.
Now, what happens is that sometimes mashallah the phone, the
charge remains all day, and even at the end of the day, you still
have a quarter of a battery left, sometimes half a battery left,
depending on how much you've used. Depending on how much you use.
If you've used your data, internet, Wi Fi, made calls a lot,
you've used it a lot, then it would be expected that your
battery will deplete accordingly. And if there was a very silent
day, when you had your phone fully charged in the morning, and you
hardly used it, nobody called you you didn't have time to check your
emails on your phone or anything else for that matter. And you just
kind of looked at it once you know every few hours or something like
that, you may have taken a small call, you'll find that by the end
of the day you have 40% battery left or 50% or even 60% battery
left.
So at the end of the day, just doing these basic of God for the
day your Quran, reading your essay for your salawat and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the thicker etc, then that is purely
just to get that basic battery charge. Now, what we'll understand
is that if we use ourselves more what I mean by using ourselves
more in comparison to using the phone as a battery, you know, to
deplete the battery, is that what's going to happen with us
using ourselves more is that on certain days, we're going to
definitely need much more to do that because our fortification and
strengthen Iman and the nor that come from our thicker etc, that is
coming is going to deplete faster because it's you know, we've been
confronted with more haram and more wrong and more problems. You
may have had an argument with somebody, you may have to have
confronted something of that nature. It may be something haram
that just came in front of us, it may be something like that, that
we've had to deal with some kind of fitna issue some dispute with
somebody an argument or something like that. So at the end of the
day, you're going to feel much more wrecked. So if we know that
that's going to happen, then we're going to have to do a lot more to
strengthen that. But basically, these are the basic things that
the aroma have told, because these things are found in the Hadith in
general, but they're not the like hadith is not going to say okay,
do these six things a day. It's the Hadith, that hadith the
Prophet sallallahu told us to do many, many, many, many things,
which obviously is very difficult for most of us to do every one of
those things, and do all the cards that are mentioned in Kitab
Wulfgar. There's, you know, hundreds of ADKAR mentioned in all
of these dollar books, very difficult for us to do that. So
the Masha have said that okay, these are the basics that you must
do. Now, what happens is that somebody later on, after five or
six machines, if you know, Grant students have the original shape,
you know, who may have codified the way or develop this particular
order and system,
they will decide that okay, we think adding this is a bit more
important now, or taking this out or not, you know, that's there as
well. But you don't have to focus on that too much. There's this
which I found to be even more effective. So this is kind of like
a renewal, or you can say a kind of a slightly change in the in the
system, that the roots and the causes are the same, you know, the
Bata cards that they have received from the same machine because
that's what they benefited from. But then they have a right to
adapt as they want to now, there's obviously going to be very schools
in that regard. There's going to be various different
perspectives in that regard. What's going to happen is that
some
Alama are going to be very Puritan. They're going to say, no,
we want to stay with the soul of the Nashville lease, because
that's who we are. We want to stay with exactly what check Majid of
attorney said. Now if you really want to be a Puritan, you probably
have to even go back to shake behold the next month's time,
right, like exactly what he said, but obviously Sheikh Majid Al
Thani, he did. He made a major development within that. Now
what's very interesting is that if you look at this subcontinent
specifically, where I would say most of us sitting here today are
from right, the Asian subcontinent,
Islam and faith there, you can say, can be the advent of the
faith, the introduction of the faith and Islam into the
subcontinent can be considered a feat of the justice because Sheikh
Moreno Dean chesty is probably responsible for the majority of or
a large chunk, at least of the Muslims of the subcontinent,
because what you had is you had
you had Mohammed bin Qasim, etc, who came from
who came from the Middle East. From the you know, from the
Beloved's to India, to the subcontinent, they came to sinned.
So you that's why from about 150 years history, but a 50 150
history, you have a sin the scholar, right? You have a sin,
the scholar abou mashallah Cindy, who's a hadith Narrator as well.
So you have actually somebody represented from the Indian
subcontinent, even among the scholarship,
because the Cyndi's they got their faith much earlier than the rest
of the subcontinent. That's why you have a lot of these Sindhi
scholars who have studied in MK Kumbhakarna. Madina, Munawwara,
you know, they've gone up because they had no place to study in the
subcontinent. Later on, then, you know, Islam spread throughout the
Chishti is you could say, have been the machico of the church to
have been considered to be those who started the faith in the
subcontinent who brought it because when Sheikh mine was
interested, he came from Baghdad, originally he was from church, but
then he stayed in Baghdad for a while. And then it was in a came
to the subcontinent. And just 1000s of people became Muslim made
his hands, that's that's the power of the heart. When a person
develops the heart, to that degree connected with Allah subhanaw
taala, then it's not going to be devoid of benefit. That's that's
very powerful. So then Islam spread throughout, but then came a
time
when
Akbar became the ruler of India,
and initially he was a very decent person, very knowledgeable, very
religious, and so on as well. And he was on the right track. But
then for some reason, he had this strange idea of
bringing everybody together. So you know, India has always been
predominantly Hindu, huge amounts of people, huge amounts of people.
It's a predominantly meaning a huge amount. Now, India is
predominantly Hindu Muslims are a small percentage, despite the fact
that they so large in number, but they've a small percentage, but
then that time you had all these other countries together as well.
I would still say probably Hindus were more, I would still say
Hindus were always probably more because there's just a huge mass
of people. So he decided to bring everything together. So he came up
with this concept of the
the Dean Elahi, the divine Dean or something like that, which he
tried to amalgamate the main features of both. Now, that was
one of those times where you had it was an attack on Islam. If that
had it. Once the ruler starts to dictate something and then uses
persecution, etc, to impose it, then you need people like Imam
Muhammad didn't know humble to stand up to it. Otherwise it would
have been changed. That's why they say the order mentioned that there
are two people who have who have
you can say defended the faith at the most crucial crucial points in
Islam, and had they not been there. Then what would have
happened is the dean would have been changed. And these two people
they say is Oh Bakr, Siddiq Radi Allahu Anhu and the other one is
Imam Muhammad no humble. The difference being they say then
that over Cassidy, Guardiola and had a whole army with him
including Claudia Dibner elite and honorable hottub or the Allahu
Anhu. But when it came to Imam Muhammad, you know, humble he
literally was single, was a single man who did this, because many of
the other orlimar just kind of hit their faith, or just to stay away
from persecution or from being killed because a number of people
were killed in that time under the Inquisition, under my mana regime,
but he got flogged for it. But after that, once he made that
stand, Allah subhanaw taala brought about the downfall of the
martyrs Allah and MUHAMMAD RASHID died and then
Moto Cymbala died and, and so on and so forth. So similar to that,
but you can say more confined because you see a bug that would
have had ramifications around the world because that was double
Khilafah. That's why Muhammad was that would have had ramifications.
Likewise, if the apostasy the people who had started to
personalize their faith, and also began to apostate some people have
posted a size, others didn't the pasta size but they lost their
faith. Or they tried to personalize their faith by saying
that okay, we'll accept this, that and other but we won't accept
zakat. So that's why Ubercart acidic Rhodiola went against him
again, that would have had massive ramifications if they couldn't do
anything and in the face of it, or they didn't put up a major
challenge. When it comes to the subcontinent, obviously, it was on
a smaller scale, it was restricted to that area. But still, it was a
major thing. So in that time, that's when SHEIKH AHMED sir Hindi
stood up to that and he was imprisoned. And what they noticed
in the prison is that all the major criminals because he was put
with the worst criminals within a few years those major criminals
become earlier. Right and that's noticed and he was
which Alfie Thani was the was the teacher of
either John good or his son, orange, orange.
Orange zebra lady, or, or Shahjahan one of those two.
Because it's Jehan gave them Shah Jehan, and then it's Aurangzeb.
alum he Rahmatullah hurry. So obviously, he had his benefit on
Aurangzeb RMP Rahmatullah as well. But then after that,
he took the next one the way, and the teachings that have come down
from the machete. And he kind of revived them explain certain
ambiguous aspects and so on. So the subcontinent has a lot to pay
to, you know, has, has a lot of respect for these two topics that
you see in the next one be because of that, and the Kadri Silsila
within the subcontinent is probably, you could say, a
precursor even to the, the next the next one. descender Chishti is
obviously because
the Kadri is the oldest Silsila in a formal in a formal setting. And
then it spread around in other in other areas, and it had its
benefit as well. Probably earlier on, but shake my head and then
just his way it was just more effective in the sense of the way
how many people converted, and so on. And today probably the biggest
study in the subcontinent is the GST Italica though you have many,
many, you know, pockets of nationalities, you don't hear as
much of So what are these anymore, but that used to be in Bengal and
Milton there was a major machete of the Sahara water this at that
time, even though the sword over the came through the cloud, that
is the end of the day. So it's kind of interesting that these are
reformed. So now what you have what you have is, you have the
Chishti way. Now today if you look at the GST machinic There'll be
different GST Meshech will be focused on emphasis on different
things. For example, if you look at his monarch Shefali Tonry
Rahmatullah Ali and the people who are linked to him today, his
qualify etc, what you will find is that
they're very strict on many things, they're very strict on
many things and it's more about you're allowed me to be very
particular because Monisha autonomy on social etiquette was
very, very strong, you know, that would be very important for him.
And of course, you know, your your car of the day etc. But then
beyond that, it was more about just being very strict on your
what um, a lot with people and just being very good with your
time and so on and so forth. Then
then you have the shaker yada yadi you have these are the major you
know, manifestations today, you know, you had many other great
machinic Like Sheikh Abdul Qadir, riper Ribery and mana Rasheeda
hyung can go here is a precursor to precursor to all of them and so
on and so forth. So for example, in our Chishti Talica we have
our hazard Manets Metalla Saba then his his shake his mana as
shiksa carrier holiday then he Sheikh is more likely llama Tsar
on pootie around a lot in his shake his monitor sheet, I'm gonna
go round the lady and his chef is hace la de la Maharaja Mahajan
lucky now shake hygiene dato la Mahajan. McKee was very
interesting. He was the next one be first at a shake and then after
that he became a trustee. Right. And
so now he was not an acronym, but he you can say is the father of
much of the Deobandi to solve in the subcontinent. In fact,
maybe even some of the barometer so because they even look up to
him.
So
* endowed, Allah was actually from Tana bone
where Monash returned to us some say his room is there a very small
room very interesting. It's a very small
room, it's probably like this room, you could probably get about
23457 of those rooms in here. They literally like, just like a
cubicle, is just like a cubicle. And I'm just wondering how they
would just sit there and do their liquor in the heat.
So hard. Of course, they were more used to it than us. So they had
that much more of a tolerance factor. But it's it. And then what
you had is, so all of these great scholars of the time and this is
forming.
They're going to hygiene dadullah.
Mala Rashid, I'm gonna go his was very interesting, was very
interesting, because he went from Congo, which is from Tobon,
probably about today, I don't know, 45 minutes to an hour's
drive, because the roads aren't so great. So you would have taken a
few hours to go and some animal or some other rickshaw or whatever it
was that they used to use.
He'd gone to Tarnovo. And to debate with somebody.
He'd gone to turn around to debate with somebody. He thought on the
way that before I go to the debate, let me just go and visit
the screen shift. That's their hygiene, blah, blah, blah. So you
went to visit him. And they just clicked, as we'd say, today, and
* Abdullah said, Why are you going there for it's no need for
them? So he, he decided, okay, fine, I'm not going there. And
then he stayed for 40 days, ended up staying for 14 days. Amazing.
If you read his biography, it's, he said, after a few days, I would
say, I'll go tomorrow. Because the whole idea was to go there for a
few hours a day or something and then go back home. But then I
ended up staying there a few days. And then I'd say, Okay, I'll go
back tomorrow. And on some days, the sheikh would say, you know,
don't go today, go tomorrow. So every time we decided to go, I
didn't say, I'll go tomorrow, instead of today, I'll stay
another day, or she was like that 40 days or 43 days could even. And
then eventually, when he did you know when it did, they did decide
that he was going to leave, he received this kill off it as well,
you know, and then he went back and then Subhan Allah. So
at the same time, you had monocalcium nanopi.
The founder, they say, of the Dalton duben. Although he was
actually part of one person and five, in a group of five, though
he's the most famous of them. That came into the show. In fact, they
say that there were others that actually decided to do that at
cosmonaut he was brought in, and then they decided to establish
this model. So what then happened is Monica Sinhala Synology was
also linked to hygiene, Lola. So you had those two, then you have,
so you have one receiver that can go home on the Casio naughty, then
you have one activity Tonry he Sheikh was also Harjinder de la,
he was in the same city anyway. But then eventually, I dreamed
Adelaide con to McComber karma and move there.
Because of the British hygiene law. The law was quite an amazing
individual. I read in one of their biographies that once he was in,
he had to he had to leave Tobon, etc. Because Britishers were after
him. Our government at that time
was after him. So they eventually he went in to he went to
somebody's found that he knew and he hid in a barn.
So the person relates his entire incident and it's quite amazing.
It released this entire incident that he said the inspectors came,
because they they had were told that he'd be here somewhere. So I
said, No, he's not in the house or anything like that. And then he
said, can he be in those bonds? He says, you know, he kind of
kind of been what you said he didn't tell a full untruth. But at
the same time, you know, he had to do 30, as they say, which is to
kind of
try to change the direction of the,
the gist of the what he was saying. So for some reason, the
person went to that particular bind he was in.
And this person thought now that's it. Because if you were caught to
be harboring a criminal you would be you'd have a major problem
yourself. And this person was actually linked to the government.
So he was actually part of the civil service. So that would have
made it even a bigger problem. Anyway, so he's doing all the door
he's doing and then the person goes up to the bony opens the
door, and there's nothing there.
There's nothing there. And this person knew that he was there.
You know, the host knew he was there. door opening. That's it.
And he opens the door and does nothing. Right. So mama had just
disappeared.
Now
That's not going to happen all the time. This is just the Kurama that
happens sometimes if they want to be caught because a lot of them
were caught in Santa Monica Santa McBurney Mufti Muhammad Allah
Hassan Sheikh Mohammed de la semana Maha Mudra Hassan. He was
they were sent to Malta in the prison. So this is just Kurama
that happens at sometimes. Allah Kasim nanopi He was such a
carefree kind of individual, that
he was only like 40 something when he died. Very young, but amazing
scholar, he was like in terms of an intellectual, absolute genius.
So on one occasion, he was told to hide because they were often
a shell a perfect background sound as well to them.
So
he was told to hide and so finally after they really pushed him, his
his followers, you know, his people who liked him, they said,
Look, you know, just hide you don't want to be caught and
so then he went into hiding for three days.
And then the fourth day, he's they find him walking around again.
What happened? He says, why you're outside for they asked him, he
said, Well,
we follow the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, he hid in the cave for three days. That's the
Sunnah. I can't hide for any longer than that.
And on one occasion, it says that
one of the
inspectors or detectives or their men came to look for him. And they
literally came up to him now he was a very unassuming individual.
Very, he didn't look like a big Molana at all. So like a simple
guy. In fact, at one time, he kept very long hand they had to really
force him to cut it. I mean, his his federal Olamide, etc. He was
just into his deen and that's it he didn't really care about how he
looked at cetera it's very simple kind of looking person. So the
person came up to him thinking that he's just some kind of you
know, Bedouin from the you know, from the villages said, you know,
this Monica snotty, so what he did was, how'd you get out of that
one? He can't tell an untruth. Although to save yourself from
being killed, you probably could, but in this case, he took a few
steps. Like, you know, he took a few steps and then he said, you
know, he was standing here a short while ago.
So the person said, okay, he said, he was standing here short while
ago he must be here on somewhere, and the person went and he
disappeared. Right? So that's obviously just tacked the mind to
from Allah subhanaw taala to say that, but the point is, that today
I asked
one of our sheiks that come here, that, you know, how do you define,
you know, the soul because he is one of my teachers most of the
time was my Mufti teacher. And so on board. He's a Khalifa of Mufti
Mohammed Al Hassan.
Not mufti, not the Sheikh will hint a whole lesson the earlier
one, the later Mufti Muhammad Hassan Ganga He, who was
a Khalifa, the main Khalifa, the big Khalifa of mana.
shiksa, Korea, Lachlan Talalay.
So he's come to England a few times he passed away in South
Africa is very there. But
amazing individual. Absolutely amazing individual very quick
witted, very intellect intelligent again. So he was between the urban
sauna or sometimes he would he stayed for many years in the urban
taught there so many years. He stayed in, so nobody taught there.
But he was a graduate of the urban.
So then
I asked Makita himself about it. And
basically, what you've got is different. The soul wolf
orders, they focus on different things, because there are many
ways to get to Allah subhanaw taala. One, what we have to do,
and this is the main gist of what I'm saying is that the main thing
is that everybody needs to do the basics. So the basic means you
follow it, and stay away from the haram. That is the MCSA. That is
the objective. That is the goal. Now, how do you do that? How do
you make that easy? How do you make sure that you're doing all
your follow up, and you're making sure that you don't commit the
Haram and you're abstaining from the challenges of the world, that
is by the fortification of the heart and by subduing the knifes.
So that is the MCSA. That's the objective. And the methodology you
use is to strengthen the heart and to subdue the knifes that's
basically the objective and the methodology. Now, how people
achieve this is what's different in the 30. Because otherwise, all
the 30 because the objective, any valid political and alter egos
will be valid, except that you'll have certain individuals within
each study who would have focused on a very less important thing and
sometimes to the detriment of the most important thing. That's how
they become corrupt. Because there's no hierarchy. There's no
you can say, college that gives or a certifying bodies
Isn't etc it's one shake gives the chair next to shake passed away
that one of the holder became problematic. And now you know the
others have complained about him but this guy's got a large
following because very influential, you know he's speaks
very well he can convince people is very deceptive, etcetera,
etcetera. So this is how things can become corrupted the end of
the day. That's why the way to look for a Sheikh is to make sure
that he's somebody that others will also recommend and will also
respect otherwise he was just some isolated individual, then that's a
problem.
So now, the objective is to reach Allah subhanaw taala through
abstinence from the Haram, fulfilling of the obligations of
the Sharia and everything, and basically a full, you know, full
acceptance of the Sharia and full adherence to the Sharia. And the
methodology is, is to strengthen the hearts by doing earth god,
etc, etc. Now, what kind of God are given to you to strengthen the
heart? What kind of moolah do people do what kind of a regimen
that is where they all differ? So where some will focus on making
you do great, strenuous exercises of staying away from, you know,
going into Attica for a month, or staying out there somewhere or
going and doing some strenuous kedma of someone or working hard
or something like that, or nowadays, it's very difficult. For
example, when we went to tunnel bone, Montana, the person was
showing us around he showed us this by the grave of monetary,
which wasn't a grave at that time. It was just an orchard at that
time, where he's buried now, right? It's not in the cupboard of
Stan, it's not in the macabre. It's separate is on his own land.
He was buried there for a reason. There. There's all kinds of
buildings I said, What is this building? He said, This is where
some of the breeds of Monash have returned. We will be sent spent,
sorry, sent who? Whose Islam could not be done in the main Hunka they
were the tough ones. Right? They Islam was a Monday so they be sent
here for 40 days given a bit of food every day and the students
are told to do thicker.
You said the Corinthians I was sent here as well.
Right? So
Monica carry tape. He says about himself that when I went to town
about to do his law, I was told
the sheikh told me Monash of the country he said that I want you to
straighten the slippers. When people come for Salah, I want you
to straighten the slippers.
And
so he said that was very difficult for me. He's coming from Dubai and
he's the mahtim him the principal of the biggest institution there
well revered, etc.
So,
he said I found it very difficult to do that.
So now if you if you if you see in the Indian subcontinent,
people are poor, and they must have been very poor. I remember
when I went first to study I had the sandals, Teva sandals, and I
must have got them fixed about four times in the year, every time
a strap would break or something I would get it fixed. And they just
like, you know, do get get it sewn up, crude, you know, sewing, it's
not even, like perfect, and so on. So that's the way it wasn't the
cheap slippers and dirty, they've just come from the fields, etc.
Because I would do the good ones first. And I would didn't touch
the other ones. I couldn't pay myself to touch the other words.
So the sheikh saw that next day he said that no, now tomorrow, I want
you to do all the dirty words. So he said the next day when I went
down begrudgingly to do that all the cable and all the arrogance on
my heart went away. So this is what the shakes make people do.
Right? But there's other ways as well, that people have used just
extra extra sugar, vicar, etc. So this is the different ways that
aroma, some say just focus on the salsa or some and just fulfill the
Sunnah as much as possible. And that's enough, and it is enough.
Right? So all these things are enough completely. It just depends
on what they are. But you have to follow one because that helps the
supervision aspect. Because without supervision, then again,
you're left to your own discipline, you left your own
discipline, that's the difficulty. So when you're under suddenly
supervision, then you have to do what they tell you to do. Right?
And that's where the benefit comes. But this is the way they
how they all valid. That's what I'm trying to say. So one must
never think that I'm better than somebody else. At the end of the
day. The Maqsood is Allah subhanaw taala
Allah give us a trophy.