Abu Taymiyyah – DOCUMENTARY When We Visited The Scholars In KUWAIT 2016
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What's the situation after? Yeah?
Running late to your emperor as usual. Sir,
have you got a passport?
At
the airport right now, and we're heading off
to meet the scholars.
Good. We got some very important questions to
ask, and we're gonna keep posted in Sharva.
Assalamualaikum, warahmatullahi wa barakatuh, brothers and sisters. InshaAllah,
what we're doing now, we're traveling,
to the scholars in order to get a
few,
questions answered.
What we're basically trying to do is bring
back to life what the Sahaba used
to do. When an issue pops up and
there's something that we don't understand that we
refer it back to, that's called especially the
contemporary issues and the stuff that are revolving
around us. Imam al Bukhari
has got a whole chapter in a
Sahih where he says
The chapter
of traveling when a contemporary issue, the current
issue pops up and also to try and
teach your family after you get the answers.
Brothers and sisters, it's not new news that
the Muslims are suffering around the world, whether
it be in the east or the west.
And we're already at that stage where our
safety and our security
is actually being threatened. What does the Quran
tell us to do in this situation?
When we go to surah al Nisa, we
actually find that Allah
specifically says
that when issues of security and safety
and fear may come to us,
when this news of safety and security and
fear
reaches us. Allah said if only
if only they took it back to their
messenger
and
the scholars who are placed in authority
amongst them. That's why we're going to Kuwait.
We're going to speak to the scholars, the
ulama,
who are gonna sit with men that have
studied this religion
for years years years.
Okay. So we landed in Kuwait
in the morning,
and brother Mubarak,
may Allah preserve
him. He was our host,
prepared a really nice meal for us.
And straightaway, I started to see something unique
about the people of Kuwait. I noticed that
these people,
they take
hospitality
extremely seriously.
One particular incident that I remember inshallah for
the rest of my life was the brother
Mubarak was driving us around his neighborhood
and
there was an uncle
and He was basically holding some food that
he just probably got for himself. Saw us,
realized we're foreigners, didn't know that, you know,
we're any YouTube guys or speakers from the
UK. Nothing like that. Just random foreigners to
them for they know we have nothing to
do with that or just random guys. And
he's like no, my food is your food.
Please take it. Please come inside.
This is we're random strangers but he wants
us to come in and he wants to
accommodate
us.
So obviously
we basically planned
this trip,
to actually travel and go meet some of
the Mashaikh in Kuwait.
And Wallahi, to be honest for me this
was like a first time experience.
I mean, being in the UK,
where you have people that can teach the
religion of Islam, I've never actually known how
it feels to really strive and struggle
to go and seek knowledge like we hear
about the salaf from the past. You know,
they would travel for months days weeks,
to go from one city to another city
just to hear one hadith
of the Prophet alaihis salatu wasalam.
So for me you know, I was actually
very excited. This was my first
ever experience
going to visit
the scholars.
The scholars of the religion
are the most important
and most virtuous people on the face of
this Earth today
Allah SWT said that He lifted the believers
in rank amongst everyone else and from the
believers Allah lifted the scholars, the people of
knowledge.
And the reason that we're going to the
scholars
is because these are the people that we
learn our religion from, people who've studied the
religion for 40, 50 years.
1st, Sheikh that we went to go see
was, none other than, Sheikh Faisal Al Jassim.
And, wallahi,
I've heard so much, and for me it
was a pleasure to know that I was
actually going to meet him. So the first
question that we wanted to ask the Sheikh
was,
Sheikh,
who's a scholar?
Like how do you identify what a scholar
is? Because in the UK everyone claims to
be a scholar. So all the general people,
they cannot say who's scholar and who's not
scholar.
The people who know the knowledge,
they know who's the scholar.
Scholars,
you can know them through many ways.
First of all,
you can know them
from their
past.
The scholars
produce colors.
Who are their teachers?
From where they they get their knowledge?
Who know them from the big major schools
in Islam.
You can have the scholars
through their books,
Even though you sometimes you don't know him.
Or where is he? Is he in in
in our time? He is in the past,
but from the books,
you know that he's yes. So the people
the scholar says, okay. Just write
and give.
When you write, the people know. The scholars
will know. Do you have knowledge or don't
have knowledge?
The scholar follow the scholars.
This is also one way to know the
scholars.
This, the scholar, he cannot bring new things
that the scholar
didn't say didn't talk about.
If somebody claims something, which is we don't
see the scholars in the whole Islam, up
until now,
saying what he says. This is
right away, you know that this is wrong.
Because what does this mean?
This means that all the scholars, they were
ignorant.
They didn't know the truth until this man
comes,
and they
know the truth.
What he said,
his his mashaikh said. What his mashaikh said
is what their mashaikh said. Because Islam,
how would you how
Quran how how Quran reached us? Through what?
Transmission.
Transmission.
Same thing. How does knowledge?
Through transmission.
So Quran through transmission.
Sunnah through transmission.
The interpretation of Quran and Sunnah through transmission.
So all these
are through transitions. So because this this scholar
says, don't gain your knowledge from the books.
You have to have what? A teacher. And
this teacher has to gain the knowledge from
the teacher.
And this teacher up to the prophet Muhammad
As you said, in the west, they comes
they consider, do we have and this man
is Okay. Let me see his first 4,
let me see his past from where he
get the knowledge. Let me see his books.
Let me see here his fatwa.
Okay. Does this fatwa
are according to the ulama fatwa, or he's
bringing something new that Hazmi said? Sometimes they
say something ulama warned against it. It's very
important that we don't misplace
the title of scholar and give it to
someone that doesn't deserve it. It will cause
chaos and catastrophe. The same way if you
give the title of a doctor or a
surgeon to a person who isn't a doctor
or surgeon. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
told us
If the matters are now brought back to
other than his people, then wait for the
hour. We should be asking the scholars,
who the scholars and those who we should
take knowledge from? Sheikh, basically what it is,
I want to ask a question,
maybe you can advise us and also the
rest of the people, when you started embarking
upon seeking knowledge, what is the type of
methodology that you took? Like, what are the
steps that you took in order to,
seek the knowledge in order to maybe reach
where you've reached now,
some advice that might benefit us and the
rest of the people as well? First of
all, I'm not a scholar.
I'm not even a student of knowledge.
I'm
very interested in the knowledge.
So this questions,
I think if you ask some scholars, you
will get a good answer. But
I ask scholar Sheikh Fawazam, Sheikh Salas Hamid,
all other scholars.
But anyway, I'll tell you what the scholar
says.
Okay?
Yeah. And don't make me as an ideal
or something.
Even though I wrote some books,
but
from my life,
whatever I do, whatever I make fatwa or
publish a book, I should
get the advice from the scholars.
All what I've read, all what I've that
I've wrote, what I've published, I didn't publish
anything except
until I go to the scholars and say,
okay, read this.
And not one scholar, 1 or 2 or
3. Even though the Sheikh, he has
all the ability to answer the question that
he was just asked,
he is telling you now to refer it
back to those who are bigger than him.
The likes of Sheikh Salih al Fozan, Sheikh
Salih al Luhaydan,
and other than him who are living today
in our time. That is the humbleness
of the ahlul ahl. That is the humbleness
of the people of knowledge.
So after meeting Sheikh Faisal,
the next Sheikh that we went to go
see was Sheikh Salem.
Now,
again, you know, both of these mashaikh, they
are known to have been coming to England
quite frequently,
so they know of the affairs of the
people of the UK. Okay so day 2
we met Sheikh Salim
Abawil
and he was serving us tea.
That truly look at the etiquettes
of the people of knowledge, these are things
that we need to implement in our own
lives, you know, we start up a, you
know, a YouTube channel and we start calling
to Allah, we call ourselves da'is and sometimes
we become we start to become a bit
arrogant. But brothers and sisters, the reality is
we are nobody,
we are nobody.
If a man like him, Sheikh Salim, can
sit in a room, serve people tea,
then wallahi we're nothing.
Honestly, we're nothing.
And again you can see the Sheikh is
really emphasizing on the matter of unity.
And he's mentioning that a lot of the
disunity in the West occurs
primarily because of the lack of us being
able to access
real legitimate Islamic scholars.
Not every unity is praiseworthy. Rather the unity
that is praiseworthy, the Sheikh is talking about,
that the Prophet is talking about, is a
unity that's upon the tawheed of Allah and
the sunnah of the Prophet
But what's the first thing that the Prophet
commanded Ma'ad was to call people to that.
So we're gonna work towards that and unite.
So the next question that we put to
the sheikh was, what advice do you have
for people who wanna seek knowledge? And I'm
not gonna lie, you really kinda,
you know, you
kinda hammered us for this one. And it
was it was it was well deserved.
We needed to hear what he said next.
So that was
a really beneficial meeting. Like I said once
again, I learnt from the manners of the
Sheikh, his humility and
how he wasn't concerned about talking about irrelevant
matters. He want to talk about knowledge based
matters. He wasn't beaten around the bush. He
was basically telling us, you know, you guys,
people always ask for advice but they don't
want to implement it. The
Sheikh gave us a good dose of reality
Alhamdulillah
That's how it should be
Now the next Sheikh that we went to
visit was Sheikh Hamid Al Hajjari
and this Sheikh in particular
is an expert in terms of Fiqh and
Islamic Finance.
So who better to put the question to
on the topic of the University loan if
it's Halal or Haram then him. I wanted
to play devil's advocate with the Sheikh. So
I tried to take the position the stance
of the people who say that the University
loan is an investment and it's Halal and
try to argue it from their perspective
to be fair because they're not there to
present themselves and like I said we are
who present what is for us and what
is against us. So I wanted to give
him the full picture from all angles
and you can see what he had to
say. Insha'Allah, I'm going to explain to you
an image of, a masala at hand that
people are discussing.
We have,
basically students who want to go to study
at universities
who cannot afford
or some of them can afford but they
wish to find external funding.
So what they do is that there are
institutes
that,
give them money to pay for their university.
The money goes directly from the institute that
is lending the money to the university.
The student never sees that money himself.
But at the end of the student's education,
the student has to pay back that money,
plus he will pay back an extra amount.
And if he doesn't pay this money back
and 30 years go by, then the entire
debt is wiped off or rather this this
this request for money is, is wiped off.
This,
dealing, does it fall into
or does it fall into
or,
But Sheikh, the,
the,
the market who's giving the money to the
student is owned by the government the same
way the university is owned by the government.
So the money is really just being moved,
some the people argue, from just one person's
pocket to his other pocket. It's the exact
it's just 1 the same government is moving
the money around.
That's the initial agreement when you take that
money from student finance that you agree
that
when you take this money in the future,
you're going to be paying that much money
and also more.
And this is a form which is.
Like, how the people would come out and
give this kind of fatwa. It is shocking
to the sheikh, as you can see. He's
just finding it very, very hard to understand
as to the angle that these people are
coming from.
The reason we did this documentary was because,
you know, we're the ones that always saying
take the matter back to the scholars. And
we're aware that, you know, scholars may not
be so accessible
to us in the West as they are
back home.
But we wanted to take the initiatives to
start this trend.
On a larger public platform like we are
doing right here to encourage you guys to
consistently
take things back to the scholars.
Insha'Allah we're going to be making many more
of these trips and these issues that are
going on. We're going to take you back
to our Ulama, and we're going to present
the answers to you just like this. Al
Allah, Allah Azzawajal said, the messengers Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said,
the mashaikh have been placed upon the face
of this earth to connect you to the
book of Allah Azzawajal the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. And what the Sahaba came with, nothing
else. That's the only occupation of the scholars
here today. Insha'Allah,
we see you next time
before I leave you totally
I just wanted to say a huge shout
out and a huge thanks
to my brothers from Akifilms
Alhamdulillah, they facilitated this documentary for us and
we have a wonderful relationship and I want
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also would love for you guys to check
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It is an online institute, an online Madrassa
Where you can study the classical works of
the scholars.
Ustad Abu Tamir who you saw in his
documentaries is one the teachers there.
Ustad Abil Abbas He's on there
and of course our beloved teacher
and Ustad
Abdul Rahman Hassan.
So check it out inshallah. Go to the
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learn
the classic way from the comfort of your
own home. In the meantime, assalamu alaikum