Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Want to be the New Leader on the Block

Then he says at barrel murshid El Carmen Sol Hamas at Barrow shaken

I riffin called Celica called sadaqa tariqa Lillahi wa ala Yadi

shavian Karateka Illa Yun de la sala he sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam.

He says, basically, you're going to have to find somebody who

recognizes this path, who's know who's

who's gained knowledge and awareness of Allah subhanaw taala.

who has,

who has trodden the path of the people of Allah, himself, also

under the tutelage of somebody else.

And likewise him to someone else, him to someone else, until they

get to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So we were

speaking about a blessed ID chain. We're not speaking about the new

kid on the block. Somebody who comes randomly studies here and

there starts to criticize everybody, all of the organized.

And

the traditionally established massage and and organizations,

right.

Okay, they've got weakness with them, right? Everybody has

weakness. So these are the established ways of doing things,

the established modalities, the established massage, and that

stuff, they've got weaknesses, everybody has weaknesses. You

haven't proven anything yet. This new kid on the block hasn't proven

anything yet. He hasn't shown anything yet. But he does know how

to criticize, and he knows how to write. So he criticizes. For what?

Why don't you first develop a stream, or a series of

alternatives, and then criticize, then maybe we can see what's

better, you're speaking with no experience. It's easy to

criticize. And then, because they're quite savvy in the way

they discuss things. And, you know, I think this is a

temperament thing.

Some people are just naturally inclined towards radical

individuals, because they themselves just want to be

different.

Initially, they were different, because they want to be different

from their community. So that's why they may have gone into the

wrong things. Now, they may Towba. From that shaytaan is just giving

them another fish to hook in the wrong way.

Allah protect us from this. Because if you've got a radical

bent, it could be very positive in the sense that you will actually

see things that others don't, if Allah guide you, you'll be able to

fill in gaps that needed need to be fulfilled. But If Allah doesn't

guide and you're not looking for guidance, you're just looking for

fame and gain, then you will be radical, you will start something

new, or you will take the newest idea on the block, and you will

get messed up.

Just remember, that's what it is. Some of us are just prone to that,

to take the weird things. Because maybe we had some bad experience

with the status quo. Because of one individual, we're just going

to discount the whole thing.

Which is quite normal. That's why understand this, this is very

important to understand.

And I'm saying this after years and years of observing this stuff,

and maybe being part of some of this myself and being burnt, you

know, and hamdulillah Allah, I pray Allah is protected. Right?

And Allah protects us. But that's why you have to be very careful

about just new people who claim things. Right? Because where did

they get it from? You think if somebody comes to me and tells me

that for 1000 years, and there was a claim like that, nothing about

1200 years, some of the main terms of Islam, some of the main

religious terms of Islam, were misunderstood by about 12 years of

Islamic scholarship and common people. And now I'm going to tell

you what they really are, the way they were in the time of

Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and 1200 is they've been lost. So I'm

the next Prophet on the block. You might as well say you're the next

Prophet, right? If you're going to claim something like that for 1200

years, 1100 years.

Nobody knew these most important terms of Islam that our deen is

based on somebody actually made that claim.

Can you believe it?

Right just sounds upset. But for some people, wow, man, this guy

knows his stuff is the next best thing out there.

There's a lot of reasons why people get

attached to people a lot of different reasons. If it's not for

the right reason. And if the right things are not underlying it, it's

a massive, massive form of deception. Because Shakedowns

always there to mislead

and I think everybody's trying to be the interpreter for

for the self nowadays, aren't they?

I give you the best interpretation, or the best

representation of what the Sahaba did, or what the earliest

generation did. That's where the fight is. That's where all

argument is, like everybody's claiming that they've got the best

representation of that. The way I look at it is for me, it's quite

simple. Right? It's quite simple. I know it's confusing, but it's

really quite simple. Why is it quite simple? Just look at, right?

Just look at chains of transmission.

Just look at traditions that have gone up. Yes, there will be

weaknesses in many of these. I'm not saying that the perfect thing

No, right. Because we have weakness, the further we go away

from us, all of us, and we're going to be more weaker, right?

We're gonna have weaknesses. But that doesn't mean that you need to

totally do away with this system, take the best from it. And even

among them, there will be some that will be better than others,

you just have to find the better ones. That's all. Just because

you've had a bad experience with a weak link doesn't mean it's all

bad.

Doesn't mean you have to do something else.

I don't want to take names and things like that, because I wanted

this to be generic so that we can understand that I want to limit it

to something. But I hope you can interpret this in your whatever

challenges everybody's having, or have had, that you can interpret

this for yourself, just so that we are clear in what we do and we

don't get misled in life. You have to be very careful. You have to be

very careful because it's one life that we have right in this world

and it governs the next life.