Abu Taymiyyah – ‘From Dammaj to Madinah Seeking Knowledge’ w Jeylaani

Abu Taymiyyah
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The importance of learning the Arabic language and memorizing the Quran is emphasized, as it is a source of knowledge and a way to find the right person to ask for. Personal experiences and blessings, including former students with struggles, are also discussed. The importance of setting standards with the best, being humble and sincere, and being a strong member of the royal family is emphasized, along with other examples of people who have successfully established standards. The speaker advises the audience to benefit from these brothers and use their knowledge to help others, and to use their knowledge to help themselves.
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Before I start,

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I just want to mention a, very important

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point.

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And me and Sajid have been sitting here

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for the last, 25 minutes going back and

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forth in how to go about, you know,

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recording this video. The initial plan was, and

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it still is, but

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I think mentioning these 10 bihat is very,

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very important

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to kind of, like, talk about how I

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started seeking knowledge and

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where I am currently now. My brothers and

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sisters need to be aware of, very important

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thing, and that which is something that really,

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really touched me,

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that was mentioned by the great scholar that's

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currently living,

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the teacher of Sheikh Salih al al Usayni,

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Sheikh Abdul Karim Al Khudayr.

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Who is a

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an encyclopedia of knowledge. For those who know

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him,

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will bear witness to this.

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Okay.

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He mentioned a very, very important point about

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some other scholars that we all know about.

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We know the famous Mandoma,

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Mandoma tulbayhuni.

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The author of this Mandoma, this poem, the

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ulama, they differed in regards to his name.

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And in some scholars, they mentioned his name

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was Taha. Some scholars, they mentioned his name

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was Muhammad.

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Even Sahibullah Jirumia,

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the naho that we all study when we

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start, you know, seeking knowledge and start learning

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the Arabic language.

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Likewise, their Tarajum wasn't known.

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Their,

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lives, their biographies wasn't known. The let alone,

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you know,

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the ins and the outs of their of

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their lives.

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Okay. And Sheikh Abdul Karim Khudair,

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he mentions

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that

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They used to exaggerate and try to hide

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themselves just so they're not known by the

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people. And this is an example of being

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very extreme when it comes to Ikhlas.

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Extreme in Ikhlas,

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sincerity, trying to hide yourself as much as

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possible. And this was the way of the

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scholars. And he also mentions the hadith of

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the prophet

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The best prayer

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of an individual is that which he prays

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inside his home,

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except the obligatory prayers which, you know, you

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know needs to be,

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established and carried out inside the Masjid.

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And why did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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mention this? Because it is better for the

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Khlas of a person. He becomes more sincere.

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It's just only him and his room that

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he's currently in. Okay. Making that prayer to

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try and maybe establish that, you know, Ibadah

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in the most sincere way.

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Okay. I remember also when Sheikh Salih al

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Fawzan

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was asked to speak about his life,

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he started speaking in 3rd person,

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You know, and the and the problem that

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we have today is because there's so many

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speakers

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out there on social media,

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on YouTube.

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Okay, it's very hard to differentiate

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between who we should take knowledge from and

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who we shouldn't.

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And this is the point that our brother

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Sajid was trying to make me understand that

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today, because there's so much confusion, people will

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actually make it into a bigger issue of

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not taking from you because simply

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you are not necessarily known.

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And making the people aware

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of where you studied

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is actually vital because it makes a person

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comfortable in taking knowledge from that person.

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Okay. So,

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Insha'Allah, I just want to, you know, upon

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the request of our brother to speak about

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some things maybe we went through in the

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past.

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Hopefully, it can be as an inspiration for

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you all.

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Okay. And,

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brothers and sisters, also another point is that,

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you know, the the kasth, the purpose is

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not to

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advise you of who we are

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or trying to connect yourselves to our students

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of knowledge because that's not the

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main goal. Okay. For those brothers who know

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me, every time the Moshayah came to where

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we were, I would cancel my lessons in

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order to connect them to the scholars. And

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this is our main objective.

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We should be trying to be like the

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scholars

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who try to live their lives like the

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people of the Salaf, the Quran and Mufalda

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Allah. As the prophet mentioned,

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Okay. The best of the people

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is my generation. And those who came after

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them, the Tabi'in. And then those who came

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after them, the Tabi'in.

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Okay. So,

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we should try and be like them, try

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to seek knowledge like them, try and go

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out to seek knowledge how the Salaf,

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used to, do, you know, the sahaba, the

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tabi'ayn, the tabi'ayn,

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and this is our main purpose. And we

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are just here trying to show you that

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way of how the scholars sought knowledge,

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and, also how the Salafi used to go

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about seeking knowledge. Like for example, Imam Bukhara

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he has a chapter in Asahi,

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You know, exiting to go out,

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to seek knowledge.

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And he used as an example

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when Jabir ibn Abdillah radiAllahu ta'ala,

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month's distance,

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to go and seek 1 hadith from Abdulai

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ibn Onis. Now I've got another video on

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this on my channel if you check it

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out. It's called he drunk his urine 5

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times.

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You know, if you go to that video,

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I mentioned many many examples of how some

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of the Salaf, the scholars of the past,

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the struggles, the difficulties they went through when

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it came to seek a knowledge, you know,

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and hopefully that should be an inspiration to

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us and not necessarily

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being connected directly to the Tullab al Amd.

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They just hear as Tayam mum. You know,

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when you don't have water, you do something

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called Tayamom.

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Okay. Where you clean yourself with turab,

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with sand or dirt

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as a cover for the wudu that you

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don't have. Naam is something that, is known

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in the religion

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by necessity.

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Once we don't have the scholars, you know,

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the

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people seek knowledge from the but when the

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scholars come,

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The

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is no longer there as a replacement for

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the Duh. The scholars should be taken from.

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You know, we have many scholars here that

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the people can benefit from, hence why the

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brothers

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in Britain have tried so hard to bring

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the scholars

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many many

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times. You can go into my channel, you'll

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find many, you know, the conferences that have

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taken place with the scholars, the likes of

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Shahsad Hsaimi,

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Sheikh Bara Ismail.

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Also you have Sheikh Ibrahim Raheli,

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you know, and many other scholars that have

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previously come down. Sheikh Waseela Abbas,

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the great Indian scholar that is currently

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a teacher in the pro in the in

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the in the haram of Al Makki.

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So,

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going back to the first question,

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my name is Mohammed,

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known as Abutaimia.

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I was born in Holland,

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and I resided most of my life in

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Britain.

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And,

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for a very long time, I was trying

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to

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memorize the Quran in Britain.

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You know, I I really thank my father

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who used to

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always

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push me to trying to memorize the Quran.

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You know, wherever he went, a lot of

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concern

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that he would try to give is me

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trying to memorize the Quran, and I realized

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the benefit of his Naseeh later on in

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my life, you know.

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Wherever we went, one thing he gave a

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lot of concern to was memorizing the Quran

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because brothers and sisters, that's the asl. You

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know, I remember when I was in London,

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he would try to,

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pay from his own pocket, you know, for

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a private teacher to come to the house

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to teach the Quran.

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I remember he took us to some madaris

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in Finsbury Park to go learn, just to

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memorize the Quran when I was a young

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kid, even when I moved to Leicester. And

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it became part of our lives,

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and I always kind of through that had

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this connection with the Quran before I left

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to seek knowledge.

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And this was the main reason

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why I

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decided to go out,

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and seek knowledge, to go and just, you

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know, learn the Arabic language,

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you know, because I didn't know the Arabic

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language.

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I wanted to memorize the Quran and also,

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to learn the Arabic language, stay in in

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Yemen for 2 years, and then come back,

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then go straight to university.

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And what happened was was, when I was

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in secondary school, I was memorizing the Quran.

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I was going to this madrasah near my

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house.

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And,

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subhanAllah,

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you know, for a very long time in

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my life, I couldn't go past 5 juz.

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You know, the Quran is split into 30

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parts,

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you know, and you have 5 parts, and

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I couldn't go past that. Every time I

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may have reached the 5th juz,

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something would happen, and then we might get

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busy with all things, or we might move,

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and then I would start again, you know.

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So alhamdulillah, when I went to this madrasah,

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I managed to reach 8 and a half

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juz parts of the Quran.

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So what happened was when I reached 8

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Azza, I

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entered into college.

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I entered into college,

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and,

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because then I was a bit of a

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superstar when it came to, sports.

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I was very good at football, basketball as

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well. But I don't think Sajid is going

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to agree because the Americans are,

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you know, one step higher when it comes

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to the British, and they'll probably take me

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out as well. I was very good at

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these sports, also table tennis, and I became

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very very busy. You know, normally the madras

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is after, you know, the school that you

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go to.

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And I started going to them and I

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seen that it was conflicting and my teacher

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saw this as well.

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And one statement that really tore me apart,

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and this was the reason why I wanted

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to leave everything behind.

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He said something to me that, Gaius Walahi,

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it was the reason why I left everything

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behind.

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When he saw that I was getting very

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busy, he said to me that you, Muhammad,

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you're not going to finish the Quran.

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You are not going to memorize the Quran.

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I went home that day and I sat

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upstairs and I still remember. I can see

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exactly how it happened.

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I was sitting there depressed

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and,

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it just tore me apart. You know, this

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is when, you know, I had this discussion

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with my parents, and my dad wanted us

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to go and seek knowledge as well. I

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just wanted to leave everything behind and

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and just memorize the Quran, and learn the

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Arabic language.

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And SubhanAllah, then I see how my dad,

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when I looked later on,

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at what Imam Nawa Rahimullah Ta'ala he mentioned.

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Imam Nawa Rahimullah Ta'ala he mentions that once

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a person becomes solidified in memorizing the Quran

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and knowing it,

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and also

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becoming very strong in the Arabic language. The

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rest of the funun, the different fields in

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Islam that one can learn, it opens up

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for him. And SubhanAllah, my dad was always

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trying to

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make us learn these two things. So my

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dad inquired about a few places, and he

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was made aware of an institute called Dar

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al Mustafa.

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Dar al Mustafa, guys,

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is an institute based

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in Hadhramaut, Southern Yemen.

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K.

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My dad went to check it out and

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then he came back, and then we made

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decision to go out

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and learn the Arabic because we heard that

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in that place,

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they give a lot of consent to memorizing

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the Quran and also memorizing Realsalihan,

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and there's a good Arabic program.

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Okay. But we didn't necessarily know about the

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aqa'i, their beliefs, and some of the things

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that they propagated.

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Okay.

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So,

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we headed towards,

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Al Yemen to that place.

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And also another point that, guys, I wanna

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mention is,

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at that time a lot of people were

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saying to me, you're going to fall behind

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in your studies.

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Everyone's going to surpass you. You know, you're

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going to be studying with little kids when

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you come back, You know, when it comes

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to the academic level, college, university and things

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like that. But, you know, I

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didn't know anything. But one thing that I

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did know, guys, is this hadith that I

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used

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to hear much on the tongues of the

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people. That time I used to hear this

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narration called,

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Whoever leaves something for the sake of Allah

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Azzawajal, Allah will always compensate for him with

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that which is better. But when I looked

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into this alfa loft, this this wording of

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the hadith, there's absolutely no origin of it.

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I found another one that was graded as

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sahih by Sheikh Mookbib bin Hadidil Wadeye, narrated

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by Imam Ahmed Orhim Allahu Ta'ala.

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Where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said

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to a Bedouin who was walking with him.

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You don't leave something out of taqwa for

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept that he will

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always give you that which is better, you

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know, and give you more than

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that. And this is something that stuck with

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me. Every time I try to move and,

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you know,

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make a decision in my life, I don't

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hesitate. Why? Because I know the Prophet saying

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this and the promise of Allah

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he never fails in his promise.

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And wala brothers, I never regretted it one

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moment,

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when I started seeking origin. I came back

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after,

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with what some of the things that, you

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know, that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed me

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with.

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And,

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I was approximately,

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I think, I was 17 at the time.

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I was 17 at the time, Naam.

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And I went there and I didn't know

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anything.

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So,

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you know, there was a lot there was

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a vibe there that the teachers there are

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from the oliya,

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the saints of Allah

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Some brothers say to me, and I actually

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started believing this,

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that they have information of the unseen,

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like, when they are not there, they are

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watching us,

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which is a very very big problem, guys,

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which is a very very big problem. I

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wouldn't say to you and it would be

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oppressive to even oppress them by saying that

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they taught us this. No. But this was

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something that was very widespread amongst the students,

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and I started believing this to an extent

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where if I'm inside the marques, I would

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think twice of doing an action because I

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felt like the one of the teachers would

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be

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watching me and he would think bad of

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me. When the reality of the matter is,

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guys, Allah

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is the only one who is Sameer and

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Basir, who can see,

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that which other people can't see. Okay. And

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to actually believe there is a shirk in

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the,

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rububi of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, where a

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person singles out Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in

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his lordship, what he can do, what he

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can see, and also in his asma'wassifat.

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And that the reason for this is where,

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you know, when

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you give a characteristic

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to they specific to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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to, other than Allah azza wa jal. Only

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is sunni al Basir

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and, his lordship, and that which Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala gives, that which Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala does

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is specific for Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, as

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we know in his lordship.

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So it's actually a problem.

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And

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other things that was taking place were and,

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you know, I don't want to necessarily expand

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on this is because I've already got another

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video on this when I one time visited

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a woman after I lost my phone.

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You can check this out on my channel

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anyway. It's called my it's one of the

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most popular videos on the channel, my visit

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to the magician.

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And, I even, you know, used to go

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to graves and pray there. It was one

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time one of the heads of the marqas,

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that institute,

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his

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his

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great granddad,

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he was buried. I think it was a

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distance of an hour, and his grave was

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inside a masjid.

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Okay. We prayed there, and we started offering

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prayers there. Even Qabarhut,

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you know, and,

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they believe that, you know, the Qabr of

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Hoot

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is buried somewhere in Hadarmouth. And they would

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travel there. I went there, and I prayed

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2 raka' in front of the graves.

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And, when the reality of the matter is

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that we don't know

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anywhere

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where any of the Prophets are buried except

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the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Wa hada makturan bih, you know.

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So, yeah.

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What actually happened was,

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the decision by the administration

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of the institute

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came to me telling me that I need

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to go back to Britain

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And, and then I need to enter through

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a student visa, which was a problem for

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him because it really hurt me. I didn't

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wanna go back. I just wanted to carry

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on seeking knowledge.

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So actually was crying, shedding tears when I

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was leaving.

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They told me I need to go. So

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alhamdulillah, when we left on our way back

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to Britain,

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because we have Yemeni

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origin,

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you know, we was able to

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gain some residency staying in Al Yemen. This

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is because we are from Aqabeel Akud Bay

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Alawi, which is from,

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the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam. So, you know, to cut a long

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story short, we managed to gain residency and

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was able to stay there without having to

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go back.

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And Alhamdulillah, when I was in Sana'a,

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this is when,

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SubhanAllah,

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I became so confused.

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I became really, really confused. Everyone was telling

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me, you need to stay away from that

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place. Why? Because you do shirk.

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Other people are telling me, you know, it's

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better to go to Jamiat Il Iman, which

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is a Ikhwani,

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you know, Muslim Brotherhood Institute.

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And, their, you know, beliefs and their ideology

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is very well known

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not to be in line with the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wasallam's tradition

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and that which is in line with the

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Quranic verses.

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So I became so confused. There was even

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times I used to walk,

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you know, on the road.

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And Anindi even one time got hit by

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the car thinking, like just thinking about where

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is the haqq, you know.

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And, you know, one of my uncles kept

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on advising me, make dua to Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala.

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That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you the

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right haqq, you know. And he used to

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tell me to make this dua.

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You know. Oh, Allah, show us the Haqq,

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and,

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you know, give us the ability to follow

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the Haqq,

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you know. So I used to try and

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make this du'a a lot,

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in my prayer at night.

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And then just one time, subhanAllah,

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because I had younger brothers, and I remember

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my little brother was someone who used to

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mess around a lot, and he wasn't serious

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with his studies.

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And we heard in a place called Mahabar,

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they really put the kids straight. You know?

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They really put the kids straight.

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And the kids, they come out, you know,

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very, very,

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where they are, you know, good mannered,

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and they start taking their studies more seriously.

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So my mom just decided to go up

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to a place called Ma'abar,

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which is run by Sheikh Mohammed

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Al Imam,

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one of the Mashaikh of Aleman.

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So we headed there

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with all our family, my brothers and my

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sisters, my parents.

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And, subhanAllah, we was invited by this Somali

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brother, which I still make dua for,

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who is a person who lives in, Dubai

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Emirates.

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And he was there. He sat us down,

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you know, really fed us, really hosted us

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in a, you know, nicely, masha'Allah.

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And he advised to go to the Maaj.

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He advised to go to the Maj. Why?

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Because there's a lot of there's a lot

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of Westerners there.

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And it's a place of knowledge. And every

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time he finds the opportunity

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and he's free from his other secular studies

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that he was doing, he was trying to

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combine between the 2,

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he would go there to try and, you

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know, cover through cover some books

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and he would head towards the Majd.

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So we stayed there for one day and

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we just headed.

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After Rabaktasana,

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we packed our bags and we just headed

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straight to the Maaj,

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You know. And this is after Allah of

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Dua,

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asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to show me

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where the right path is. And you know,

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guys, this is a lesson.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran,

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Your Lord has said, you know, call on

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to me so I can reply back to

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you. Allah

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says,

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and when my servant asks me and then

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I'm close.

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Okay? And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he

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said,

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Allah is shy,

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and he's generous that when his

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servant puts his 2 hands off to him,

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he doesn't send him back empty handed, you

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know. He's shy from actually sending him back

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empty handed.

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You know, in the Ayat are many that

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala won't refuse

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the 'Abd. And some of the scholars, they

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even say that a person doesn't put his

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hands up to Allah Azzawajal asking him, except

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that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to respond

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back to him. You know, this is something

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that we've been trialed with, especially living in

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the West. We become so connected to the

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makhluk,

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the creation.

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As soon as we become bankrupt or we

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lose our jobs or we become ill, we

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turn straight away to the creation.

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You know, we become ill. The first place

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that we turn to is the GP

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or the hospital.

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No one is saying don't take that as

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bad or, you know, as soon as we

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lose our jobs, we run to the job

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center, you know, asking them to provide for

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us straight away. You know, this should be

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secondary, guys. The first thing that we turn

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to is Allah asking him to open doors

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for us.

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And then after that go and, you know,

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take the asbaab.

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So alhamdulillah, I ended up, I came to

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the Majh

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and,

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initially, I thought to myself, like, you know,

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the place saw just it just looks very

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rugged,

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you know, because in the middle of Jibal,

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village.

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And but somehow I said to myself, all

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these people from around the world,

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they came to this village in the middle

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of nowhere for what?

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You know, why would they leave their luxurious

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lifestyles? Because in Britain, guys, you know, we

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have everything at our disposal.

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Money, jobs,

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you know, everything that we want is there.

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Why would the people so I said to

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myself, there must be something here that,

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you know,

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really,

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made the people patient upon this lifestyle that

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they are currently living.

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And,

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SubhanAllah, I remember, so I saw

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everybody walking into the Masjid with their shoes.

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I said to myself,

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why on earth

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are the people praying with

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their shoes?

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And then after that it became clear to

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me that this is actually a prophetic tradition.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he mentioned

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hadith

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of Abu Saeed al Khudri

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,

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comes into the Masjid

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and, he's wearing sandals,

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then let him check out his sandals. You

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know, if there's any dirt on there, alihim,

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remove it,

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And then after that, prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam said,

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then let this person after that pray with

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his sandals. Okay. Also in another hadith

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he's wearing his leather socks,

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and there's, you know, he stands on anything

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dirty, then let him remove the dirt on

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it, then let him pray in it. There's

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another hadith in Bukhari and Muslim as well.

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Shaikh Mohammed bin Hadid Wa Adi he compiled

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16 or was 18 a hadith in Irrisala

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about Mashru'ayat

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Salatifi al Khufain or Na'ilin, sorry.

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The permissibility of praying with your nial, with

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your sandals.

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It became clear to me after obviously, I

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don't say to the brothers now just because

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it's a prophetic tradition,

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go to your local mezzanine America or Europe

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or, you know, Britain,

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and start wearing your sandals or your shoes

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in front of everyone. Because obviously people aren't

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ready for that.

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Even Sheikh Mokbel, he mentions a very funny

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story that in the Haram once,

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a man started wearing his shoes.

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And because obviously the Amma, the general common

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folk, they don't know that this is a

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prophetic tradition.

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So people surround and he started calling him

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a kafir.

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They started making takfir and Sheikh Moob, basically

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looking at them like in amazement and looking

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at the guy as well. It's not necessarily

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from Hikma,

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from wisdom to be doing something,

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you know, between the Amma, especially if they're

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not ready for it, you know. That place

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was a place where there was only students

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of knowledge.

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They were ready for it and

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it wouldn't necessarily cause a fiasco if a

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person was to do it. And the Sheikh,

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Sheikh Yahya,

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Sheikh Mokbel, they wouldn't they would advise the

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people, obviously, not to go and cause,

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And it's just something, you know, you will

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learn in Usul Fikh, also Makhasr al Sharia,

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you know, the importance of weighing the masalih,

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the benefits, and also the harms that could

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come out of you doing a certain action,

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you know.

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And if you're going to disapprove of a

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certain action, if it's going to lead to

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a bigger evil, then you don't necessarily do

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that. How this is not Muslim, but many

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holy light. Anyways,

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we don't want to go into a lesson

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of us.

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But yeah. You know, in the in the

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beginning I found it very weird. Why are

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they doing this? And it actually put me

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off. But then later on, you know and

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this is what knowledge does, guys. When you

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learn,

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it removes the jahl and you start worshiping

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the ilm.

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Okay? And he, you know, puts a lot

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of pieces of the puzzle together.

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Alhamdulillah.

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And then SubhanAllah I saw that the sheikh,

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all he taught was Bukhari,

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Muslim,

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jamiras Sahih, tafir,

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and all the books on the site. Okay?

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They would just be studying a hadith day

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and night. They're just studying a hadith,

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you know, and and this really, really made

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me attracted

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to this place

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and want to remain here because this is

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knowledge, guys. The Quran, the Sunnah and then

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upon understanding of the Sahaba. And even the

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Sheikh would say to us like don't follow

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me. If I mention something to you that

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has no proof, is mere of any proof,

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then ask me for the daleel.

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And this just like added more

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love,

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to the place, you know. That, yeah, and

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he gave me more, SubhanAllah, love and affection

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to this place.

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And this was, you know, SubhanAllah, I thanked

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Allah

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They led me to a place where everything

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is just Quran and sunnah. You know, you're

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actually very comfortable.

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You have a lot of trust with what

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you're learning because they're not teaching you their

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understanding. They're teaching you the companions,

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Nam.

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I was in, I was in the previous

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place for a year

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and then I ended up staying in the

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match for 3 years.

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Okay. I spent 3 years there.

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Altogether, I was in Yemen for around 4

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years.

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Now, subhanallah,

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you know, guys, I don't know if I

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can actually put this into words, but and

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I don't even think

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that, I don't know if you're even going

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to believe

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me when it comes to describing how the

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marriage was.

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But it's just like one of them

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stories that you might read in the ancient

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books of how people used to live in

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the past.

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You know, it's basically you're between 4 mountains.

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Four big mountains,

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and it's just Purab,

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it's just sand there.

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SubhanAllah, and you have mud houses.

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Yeah. Mud house. People are living in mud

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houses.

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The water comes,

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twice once every 2 days.

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The electricity is only on

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some parts of the day. Okay? So if

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you wanna charge your phone, you have to

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try and get that hour of the day

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or the few hours of the day, otherwise

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you're going to be without a phone,

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you know.

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I remember some people, when I came to

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Al Medina,

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some brothers was like to me,

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you're going to really struggle in Medina, living

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with the students and Well, I turned around

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to one of the masters, but I will

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not mention his name. He's probably gonna laugh

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when he sees this.

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I said to him, Akhi, we have running

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water. We have running electricity.

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What do you mean I'm going to struggle?

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You know. And you know the Prophet has

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always told us this. He said to us,

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Do not look at those above you, look

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at those below you.

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You know, it makes a person more grateful

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and thankful of the blessings Allah gave him.

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If you are a person now who is

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used to not having much water,

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sometimes,

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not being able to shower every day. The

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electricity, you don't have electricity all the time.

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Sometimes I used to have I used to

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pay 20 riyals

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to and obviously it's not the same as

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a Saudi currency. But I used to pay

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money to charge my phone,

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you know. You become really, you know, grateful

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of a situation that one becomes,

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subhanAllah, and your life was like that. Sometimes

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you have to go, the water runs out,

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you go to the Masjid and you're carrying,

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you know, buckets of water.

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And, and I lived without fridge,

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you know. There was no fridge. People had

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fridges, but they were very rare.

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Only few people, you can just about, there

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was 1,000, approximately there was around 10,000 people

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in that village.

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You can maybe just count on your 2

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hands the amount of people that had fridges

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because the motor wouldn't be able to Ilay

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Khademil, you know, he can't bear the power

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that the fridge,

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you know. And there was no TVs at

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all because that would just end up blowing

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the

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people there. They just didn't watch TV. They

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were just, you know, straight into knowledge.

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Oh my, guys, I don't I don't necessarily

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wanna tell you about myself, but what I

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can do is try and give you the

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standard of some students of knowledge so we

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can try and be like the best.

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Okay. There was people guys

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who would wake up for Fajr.

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Okay.

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All the way to Duhr,

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they would be memorizing and revising the Quran.

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That's a long time. You wake up at

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5 o'clock,

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Duhr is around 12.

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Okay.

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So in that period, they're either attending lessons

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or memorizing Quran or they're doing moorajah of

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the Quran.

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Okay. And then after Duhr, they would take

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the kailullah.

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Okay. They would take the kailullah. This is

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something that the companions do. You have the

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hadith of Salim al Sa'ad.

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He said

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We never used to have a kalula

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in the time of the prophet

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on the day of Jum'ah

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and also have a Gada.

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You know, have, the food that we eat

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in midday,

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except after Duhr,

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except after Duhr. So it's called the thing

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in the English language they call a power

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nap. You know, a power nap

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that a person has because he's awake for

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so for such long periods of the day.

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Okay. You know, they will have that. After

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Asl, they will be back into in the

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Masjid, sitting there,

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knowledge, you know, attending lessons, again back to

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Quran.

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Bad al Maghrib, you would have to attend

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the sheikh's lesson. You had to attend the

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sheikh's lesson.

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Sorry. Badal Asar, you had the lesson of

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Bukhari that you had to attend.

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And the sheikh, subhanAllah, he went through a

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lot

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of a hadith

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while I was there, teaching us Sahil Bukhari.

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After,

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Maghrib, you had the lesson of Sahih Muslim,

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and also the kitab of ibn Abdul Bar

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al

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Malik,

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you know, that he used to go through.

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He also went through the kitab of

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which is a kitab in sira. I didn't

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manage to study that because I came just

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as he was finishing that

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Pajama.

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Covered a lot of that while I was

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there.

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And, also by the door, I forgot to

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

mention, used to go through tafsir in the

00:31:05 --> 00:31:07

Kathir, that a person has to And the

00:31:07 --> 00:31:09

only beautiful thing about it was that all

00:31:09 --> 00:31:10

the dakakin,

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all the shops and the markets would be

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closed at a time of the sheikh's lesson.

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These were lessons that you had to go

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through. They were mandatory lessons.

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And this is was the life of the

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Surah of Knowledge. Some of those who strived.

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There was people who wasted their time, you

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know. And then you find, you know, in

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every place that you go, even in Medina,

00:31:26 --> 00:31:28

even in Damaj, you have people who always

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waste their time. A student of knowledge will

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try to count every minute

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and,

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try to benefit from his time as much

00:31:35 --> 00:31:38

as possible. And people really regret it, you

00:31:38 --> 00:31:39

know, some of those who wasted their time

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and never benefited, never finished the Quran,

00:31:42 --> 00:31:45

never memorized the hadith, never benefit from the

00:31:45 --> 00:31:47

Sheikh's Duroos. Maybe they were skiving. They really

00:31:47 --> 00:31:50

regretted this, you know. So this was why

00:31:50 --> 00:31:52

Talib and some brothers even Jum'ah,

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Fridays. This was the only day where, you

00:31:54 --> 00:31:56

know, you could have like a holiday.

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I'm not saying you don't have breaks. Of

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course, you need breaks. You're a human being.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:03

But don't make it where, you know, you're

00:32:03 --> 00:32:04

actually,

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

you know, making having more breaks than that

00:32:07 --> 00:32:08

which you're actually studying, you know.

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

Nam.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:13

Alright, guys. I I didn't wanna leave. I

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

wanted to perform Hajj

00:32:16 --> 00:32:18

and and, come back because alhamdulillah,

00:32:19 --> 00:32:22

my father has his own hajj and umrah,

00:32:23 --> 00:32:25

you know, company, where and alhamdulillah, I used

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

to help him every year. Year. So every

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year while I was in the marriage, I

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used to go and perform Hajj with my

00:32:30 --> 00:32:32

father, and I used to come back. So

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what happened was, I left for Hajj, and

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I left all my stuff, my books,

00:32:36 --> 00:32:39

which was very expensive as well. My all

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my goods were there.

00:32:40 --> 00:32:41

I left and,

00:32:43 --> 00:32:46

I left on Ramadan time, in between Ramadan

00:32:46 --> 00:32:47

and Hajj, like 2 months.

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So as we're going to Hajj,

00:32:51 --> 00:32:52

my dad finds out that, you know, there's

00:32:52 --> 00:32:54

a a war has just breaking out.

00:32:55 --> 00:32:56

And the Houthis,

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the Shiites

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of Yemen,

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

who are, you know, pumped by,

00:33:04 --> 00:33:05

you know, Iran.

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

They wanted to destroy this place. They really

00:33:07 --> 00:33:08

wanted to destroy this place because they could

00:33:08 --> 00:33:11

see guys, a person who doesn't know nothing.

00:33:11 --> 00:33:14

He comes out, memorize the Quran, knows the

00:33:14 --> 00:33:16

sunnah. He's able to give khutbas. He's able

00:33:16 --> 00:33:18

to teach and benefit the people. And because

00:33:18 --> 00:33:19

they really disliked,

00:33:20 --> 00:33:20

the sunnah,

00:33:21 --> 00:33:22

you know,

00:33:22 --> 00:33:24

they wanted to destroy this place from its

00:33:24 --> 00:33:27

roots. Even Sheik Rabi Ibn Hajd al Metghali,

00:33:27 --> 00:33:28

he was one of the mashaikh of Al

00:33:28 --> 00:33:30

Madina. He would say that studying in the

00:33:30 --> 00:33:32

match for 1 year is equivalent to 3

00:33:32 --> 00:33:33

years in Al Madina.

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Okay.

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So,

00:33:36 --> 00:33:38

this is why they know if they destroy

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

the place from its origin,

00:33:40 --> 00:33:41

then there wouldn't be anything left.

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

You know, but Lilayl Hikmatul Baligha,

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

the wisdom of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

00:33:47 --> 00:33:48

you know, is ajeeb, is a'lim, you know,

00:33:48 --> 00:33:50

is something highly great.

00:33:51 --> 00:33:52

You know, people laughed out when the war

00:33:52 --> 00:33:55

broke out, you know, and it ended up

00:33:55 --> 00:33:57

it caused everybody to leave. I have a

00:33:57 --> 00:33:59

video as well. Brother Imran. He won't hang

00:33:59 --> 00:34:01

on an interview with me, and it's more

00:34:01 --> 00:34:01

detail,

00:34:02 --> 00:34:04

of what exactly happened. You might want to

00:34:04 --> 00:34:06

find this on my channel as well.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:08

So the Maj was,

00:34:08 --> 00:34:11

you know, after Hajj, I went back.

00:34:11 --> 00:34:13

Later on, the place was destroyed.

00:34:13 --> 00:34:14

You know, I couldn't go

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because there was a war there.

00:34:17 --> 00:34:18

Like a year after I went back to

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

Britain,

00:34:20 --> 00:34:23

the place was absolutely dismantled. It was destroyed.

00:34:23 --> 00:34:25

It was ruined. These people were,

00:34:25 --> 00:34:27

you know, throwing bombs at the masjid just

00:34:27 --> 00:34:29

so everybody could leave,

00:34:29 --> 00:34:31

and, it resulted in everybody leaving,

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

you know. So, nam.

00:34:35 --> 00:34:37

Why, you know, subhanAllah, I was child,

00:34:38 --> 00:34:39

after I left back to Britain to be

00:34:39 --> 00:34:40

living there.

00:34:41 --> 00:34:43

It's actually a trial that I had to,

00:34:43 --> 00:34:45

you know, put myself in a position to

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

give dawah,

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you know, because

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I didn't go back to Britain to become

00:34:49 --> 00:34:51

a dahi and start teaching the people. I

00:34:51 --> 00:34:52

wouldn't stay there for 2 months and go

00:34:52 --> 00:34:54

back to Dhammaj and carry on seeking knowledge,

00:34:54 --> 00:34:57

you know. People actually think that, you know,

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

studying for 1 year or 2 years is

00:34:59 --> 00:34:59

enough for

00:35:00 --> 00:35:02

a person now to start dawah and Khallas.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

He doesn't need to seek more knowledge,

00:35:05 --> 00:35:06

you know. But this is not the case,

00:35:06 --> 00:35:08

guys. Wallahi, it's just the beginning of seeking

00:35:08 --> 00:35:11

knowledge, you know. Our masha'aikh, they've been studying

00:35:11 --> 00:35:12

for 20, 30 years,

00:35:13 --> 00:35:15

40 years even so, like our Sheikh Sheikh

00:35:15 --> 00:35:15

Saleh,

00:35:16 --> 00:35:18

Sahimi, and other than them.

00:35:19 --> 00:35:22

But subhanAllah, because the standards in Britain and

00:35:22 --> 00:35:24

in the West is very low, you know,

00:35:24 --> 00:35:26

people are between Jahil and more Jahil.

00:35:26 --> 00:35:29

Okay. Some of the mashaikhtaiba say like, if

00:35:29 --> 00:35:30

you know that the guy who's given the

00:35:30 --> 00:35:32

khutba, he's not,

00:35:32 --> 00:35:34

befitting to give the khutba, then it might

00:35:34 --> 00:35:35

become wajid for you to pay yourself forward.

00:35:35 --> 00:35:37

If you know you could actually give something

00:35:37 --> 00:35:38

back to the community.

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And all the mihadeeth that we memorized and

00:35:41 --> 00:35:42

we studied with,

00:35:43 --> 00:35:44

in the Majd, then, you know, we have

00:35:44 --> 00:35:46

to at least give sadaqa by teaching the

00:35:46 --> 00:35:48

people. How do you give sadaqa from that

00:35:48 --> 00:35:50

which you learn by going on and teaching

00:35:50 --> 00:35:50

the people?

00:35:51 --> 00:35:52

And especially when you see the ignorance,

00:35:53 --> 00:35:55

it becomes hard to actually

00:35:55 --> 00:35:56

be patient

00:35:56 --> 00:35:57

in not doing anything.

00:35:58 --> 00:35:59

So I just started, you know, trying to

00:35:59 --> 00:36:01

teach the people whatever I knew.

00:36:01 --> 00:36:04

And alhamdulillah, slowly, slowly, slowly, things started opening

00:36:04 --> 00:36:06

up a bit more.

00:36:06 --> 00:36:07

More people started,

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

calling me to their masajid,

00:36:10 --> 00:36:12

and they started becoming, you know, I started

00:36:12 --> 00:36:13

going out to different cities,

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

nationally, you know. And alhamdulillah,

00:36:17 --> 00:36:19

allay Allahu khair happened. And this is Muhammadu

00:36:19 --> 00:36:20

fiqhilla billah.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:23

Whatever I done, you know, from the books

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

and the the awa that we established was

00:36:25 --> 00:36:28

none nothing other than what, you know, Allah,

00:36:30 --> 00:36:32

blessed us with from the success. And it

00:36:32 --> 00:36:35

doesn't go back to, any of us. And

00:36:35 --> 00:36:37

alhamdulillah, also some of the brothers really helped

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

out.

00:36:38 --> 00:36:40

Like our brother Shay, you

00:36:41 --> 00:36:43

know, have a lot of respect for Saduna

00:36:43 --> 00:36:45

Abu Abbas. Also, Sheikh Zulfekar,

00:36:45 --> 00:36:48

who kind of informed the masajid about myself

00:36:48 --> 00:36:51

to come out and give dawah. Also, Sheikh

00:36:51 --> 00:36:52

Abu Samad Dahabi,

00:36:52 --> 00:36:54

that most of you lot, you know, know

00:36:54 --> 00:36:55

about, and other brothers as well.

00:36:56 --> 00:36:58

And Hamdul just slowly started giving dawah and

00:36:58 --> 00:36:59

teaching the people

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

and according to the sunnah. And the lot

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

of Khair, you know, happened through this.

00:37:05 --> 00:37:05

Now,

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

that that's that's,

00:37:09 --> 00:37:11

you know, another, you know, blessing that's from

00:37:11 --> 00:37:13

the many blessings that Allah blessed me with.

00:37:13 --> 00:37:15

I was in fact accepted in 2014.

00:37:16 --> 00:37:18

I was in Britain for a couple of

00:37:18 --> 00:37:18

years.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:19

2014,

00:37:20 --> 00:37:21

I was accepted and I was over the

00:37:21 --> 00:37:23

moon, you know.

00:37:23 --> 00:37:24

And,

00:37:24 --> 00:37:26

I remember as soon as I was told

00:37:26 --> 00:37:28

about it, I just went on seshdeshukr.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:29

And guys,

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

as it came in the hadith of

00:37:34 --> 00:37:36

Abi Bakr radhiyallahu ta'ala.

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

That when the Prophet was ever given a

00:37:44 --> 00:37:44

news

00:37:45 --> 00:37:47

of something that, you know, brought,

00:37:47 --> 00:37:50

happiness to him, he would hasten to prostrating

00:37:50 --> 00:37:52

to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thanks. It's a

00:37:52 --> 00:37:54

lesson for us all. Also came with a

00:37:54 --> 00:37:56

hadith that was narrated by Imam al Behaqi.

00:37:56 --> 00:37:58

And the author of this hadith is in

00:37:58 --> 00:37:58

Bukhari.

00:37:59 --> 00:38:02

Hadith Ibrahim Azaib, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and then

00:38:02 --> 00:38:04

Nabi Salazim Baath Aileen in Aliamin. Prophet Sallallahu

00:38:04 --> 00:38:06

Alaihi Wasallam, he sent Ali to Aliamin.

00:38:09 --> 00:38:09

Islam

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

him. Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he wrote a

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

letter to prophet SAW ASSAH telling him that

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

the people of Yemen accepted Al Islam. So

00:38:16 --> 00:38:17

what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

00:38:17 --> 00:38:18

do?

00:38:18 --> 00:38:19

Fasajjadalillahi.

00:38:20 --> 00:38:22

You know, he went and hastened into prostrating

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thanks. So anytime

00:38:24 --> 00:38:26

you're given something, you thank Allah and what

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

happens, you're always given more. As Allah mentioned,

00:38:28 --> 00:38:29

you

00:38:30 --> 00:38:31

thank me and I'll give you

00:38:34 --> 00:38:34

more.

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

I don't necessarily go through what happened and

00:38:37 --> 00:38:40

why I couldn't go, but for many different

00:38:40 --> 00:38:41

reasons, I couldn't go,

00:38:41 --> 00:38:43

and perhaps for the best.

00:38:43 --> 00:38:45

Because if someone wants to ask me now,

00:38:45 --> 00:38:47

would you have preferred to go back in

00:38:47 --> 00:38:47

2014

00:38:48 --> 00:38:49

or now

00:38:49 --> 00:38:52

in 2000 and, late 2016?

00:38:53 --> 00:38:55

I would have definitely said no. Because, subhanAllah,

00:38:56 --> 00:38:58

Allah opened a few things out for me.

00:38:58 --> 00:39:00

I basically tasted life.

00:39:01 --> 00:39:01

And,

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

it's not something that is now kind of

00:39:04 --> 00:39:05

like dragging

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

me to go back because

00:39:07 --> 00:39:08

people now, subhanAllah,

00:39:09 --> 00:39:10

some of the things that kind of pushes

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

them to going back and maybe not even

00:39:12 --> 00:39:14

finish their diaras is the issue of marriage.

00:39:14 --> 00:39:15

Okay.

00:39:15 --> 00:39:17

But alhamdulillah, you know, things happened

00:39:18 --> 00:39:20

for the best. Wallahi, I I, subhanahu, when

00:39:20 --> 00:39:21

I think about it,

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

even though I went through a difficult period

00:39:24 --> 00:39:24

in my life,

00:39:25 --> 00:39:27

well I'm really grateful to Allah. It did

00:39:27 --> 00:39:28

happen

00:39:28 --> 00:39:31

because I don't think that if some things

00:39:31 --> 00:39:33

didn't happen, I would be here today.

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

Because there was things that dragged me from

00:39:35 --> 00:39:37

actually coming out to Al Madina

00:39:37 --> 00:39:39

or coming to live in Saudi Arabia. But

00:39:49 --> 00:39:50

know, we say, Alhamdulillah.

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

Sometimes,

00:39:55 --> 00:39:56

you know,

00:39:56 --> 00:39:57

some things happen.

00:40:01 --> 00:40:02

Perhaps you might just like some with so

00:40:02 --> 00:40:04

much in it. And Allah says also,

00:40:09 --> 00:40:10

Perhaps you love something but it's bad for

00:40:10 --> 00:40:13

you. You know, and the opposite as well.

00:40:13 --> 00:40:15

As somebody thinks to myself, SubhanAllah, I'm going

00:40:15 --> 00:40:17

through this difficult period. Why? But anyways, long

00:40:17 --> 00:40:19

story short, I don't want to go into,

00:40:20 --> 00:40:22

you know, specifics of what happened in my

00:40:22 --> 00:40:22

life,

00:40:24 --> 00:40:25

but it stopped me from going to Al

00:40:25 --> 00:40:26

Madina.

00:40:26 --> 00:40:27

And SubhanAllah,

00:40:29 --> 00:40:31

what actually made me come out was

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

a sitting that I had with

00:40:33 --> 00:40:35

one of the mashaikh called Sheikh Abdul Hakad

00:40:35 --> 00:40:35

Fukumani,

00:40:36 --> 00:40:38

who is a scholar,

00:40:38 --> 00:40:39

lives in,

00:40:39 --> 00:40:42

was living in Britain. Now he's moved somewhere

00:40:42 --> 00:40:42

else now.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:44

And he's highly recommended by Sheikh Saad e

00:40:44 --> 00:40:47

Chitri. Sheikh Saad e Chitri who is part

00:40:47 --> 00:40:49

of Hayat al Kibar al Unama. I one

00:40:49 --> 00:40:50

time, you know, went to Sheikh Saad e

00:40:50 --> 00:40:52

Chitri when he came to Luton. I asked

00:40:52 --> 00:40:53

him, a sheikh, why to come to Leicester?

00:40:54 --> 00:40:56

The sheikh was like, Lester,

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

Knowing his Saudi accent.

00:40:59 --> 00:41:00

He was like, you have Sheikh Abdul Haqq

00:41:00 --> 00:41:01

there.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:03

As long as you have Sheikh Abdul Haqq

00:41:03 --> 00:41:03

Atulkumani

00:41:04 --> 00:41:06

there, you don't necessarily need me there, and

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

that's a big test case, guys.

00:41:08 --> 00:41:10

So Sheikh one time called me to his

00:41:10 --> 00:41:12

house. I even remember it was quite

00:41:12 --> 00:41:14

funny. I was like, what? You know, Sheikh,

00:41:14 --> 00:41:16

you know, called me to his house. What's

00:41:16 --> 00:41:17

he gonna tell me? You know?

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

So I went to his house.

00:41:19 --> 00:41:20

We had some shahi,

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

gave me some tea, and I'm just getting

00:41:23 --> 00:41:24

butterflies of what the Sheikh is gonna talk

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

to me about.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:26

And,

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

he started talking to me about

00:41:29 --> 00:41:31

the importance of, you know, getting a degree

00:41:32 --> 00:41:33

and how this could help you in your

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

life.

00:41:34 --> 00:41:37

And, that you shouldn't just rely on people

00:41:37 --> 00:41:38

to

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

pay your rent for you, you know.

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

Because, you know, sometimes when you give dua,

00:41:43 --> 00:41:45

you get, you know, things on the side.

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

Even though I was never and I've never

00:41:47 --> 00:41:49

asked, except maybe once

00:41:49 --> 00:41:51

when that week, like, you know, it was

00:41:51 --> 00:41:52

the week I left my job. I didn't

00:41:52 --> 00:41:54

have anything to put in my petrol to

00:41:54 --> 00:41:56

kind of cover my you know, but I'm

00:41:56 --> 00:41:57

one of the people that does not ask

00:41:57 --> 00:41:58

at all and,

00:41:59 --> 00:42:01

I just don't feel comfortable asking in the

00:42:01 --> 00:42:01

name of Dawah

00:42:02 --> 00:42:04

when it comes to asking people for lectures

00:42:04 --> 00:42:05

and hutabs and things like that.

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

And he said he sat me down. He

00:42:08 --> 00:42:09

was like, you know, to,

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

to rely on people is not necessarily

00:42:12 --> 00:42:14

the most praiseworthy of things.

00:42:15 --> 00:42:16

And it's important that you get a degree,

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

maybe work part time with your degree, and

00:42:18 --> 00:42:20

then you can carry on doing dawah. You

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

just don't rely on the creation, basically,

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

to pay your rent for you. And,

00:42:26 --> 00:42:28

he even advised me of the importance of

00:42:28 --> 00:42:30

seeking knowledge. And I said to the sheikh,

00:42:30 --> 00:42:31

you know, sheikh, you know, I would love

00:42:31 --> 00:42:33

to go seek knowledge, but things are not

00:42:33 --> 00:42:34

just that simple. I can't just pack my

00:42:34 --> 00:42:35

bags. And

00:42:36 --> 00:42:38

and he really, you know, Sheikh gave it

00:42:38 --> 00:42:41

to me. And, oh, I I I I

00:42:41 --> 00:42:43

love him so much and,

00:42:43 --> 00:42:45

that was one of the main reasons what

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

made me think,

00:42:46 --> 00:42:48

you know. So what happened was

00:42:49 --> 00:42:51

I went home and I just lied down

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

like Sheikh just gave it to me, like

00:42:52 --> 00:42:54

I need to go seek knowledge and and

00:42:54 --> 00:42:55

think about this issue. And I told him

00:42:55 --> 00:42:57

at that time I was studying civil engineering,

00:42:57 --> 00:42:59

and he told me to take it more

00:42:59 --> 00:43:01

seriously as well. And subhanAllah, what happened was

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

I had a Khutba in South Muzdara Salaam

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

Masjid. So I went to give a Khutba,

00:43:06 --> 00:43:08

and a good friend of mine who was

00:43:08 --> 00:43:09

also studying with me in the match called

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

Adil,

00:43:10 --> 00:43:12

We went together. I gave the Khubbeh. He

00:43:12 --> 00:43:14

said to me after, you know, Khutaimy, because

00:43:14 --> 00:43:14

you've already

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

taken a position and given dawah in your

00:43:17 --> 00:43:17

you know, alhamdulillah,

00:43:18 --> 00:43:20

you're giving dawah, why don't you try and

00:43:20 --> 00:43:22

maybe go and seek more knowledge as well?

00:43:23 --> 00:43:25

I said, I've been thinking about this for

00:43:25 --> 00:43:25

so long.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:27

And it was a Friday, guys. It was

00:43:27 --> 00:43:28

a Friday.

00:43:29 --> 00:43:31

SubhanAllah. You know, when Allah wants to hear

00:43:31 --> 00:43:32

for you, he, you know, makes you walk

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

in that direction.

00:43:34 --> 00:43:35

What happened was I was sitting in the

00:43:35 --> 00:43:36

car. It was

00:43:37 --> 00:43:39

the. I I made dua to Allah, subhanahu

00:43:39 --> 00:43:40

wa ta'ala. You know the famous hadith

00:43:58 --> 00:44:00

So there's an hour in the day that

00:44:00 --> 00:44:02

if a person wants to ask Allah

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

that Allah Azzawajal will, you know, respond back

00:44:05 --> 00:44:07

to him. And this is the last hour

00:44:07 --> 00:44:10

of the day on yawmuljumah before Maghrib. So

00:44:10 --> 00:44:12

I just started asking, making du'a to Allah

00:44:12 --> 00:44:12

Azzawajal.

00:44:13 --> 00:44:14

So I said to myself, Abu Temi was

00:44:14 --> 00:44:15

previously accepted

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

in the Jamia,

00:44:17 --> 00:44:18

let's just see if your name is still

00:44:18 --> 00:44:19

on there.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:20

I go online

00:44:21 --> 00:44:23

and my name is still there. So I

00:44:23 --> 00:44:24

thought it must be expired.

00:44:25 --> 00:44:27

So I started asking many people, SubhanAllah, and

00:44:27 --> 00:44:29

they were like, nah. It just hasn't been

00:44:29 --> 00:44:30

updated

00:44:30 --> 00:44:31

and

00:44:32 --> 00:44:34

no new students have been accepted. Those who

00:44:34 --> 00:44:36

were accepted in 2014, their names are still

00:44:36 --> 00:44:38

under there, and there's still a possibility of

00:44:38 --> 00:44:40

them going, but they just need to renew

00:44:40 --> 00:44:40

their

00:44:41 --> 00:44:42

their tashirat and their visas.

00:44:43 --> 00:44:43

SubhanAllah.

00:44:44 --> 00:44:46

And, this is when I started making phone

00:44:46 --> 00:44:48

calls, left, right, and center. I started calling

00:44:48 --> 00:44:51

brothers from Madinah, a brother called Hussain, Hafidullah,

00:44:51 --> 00:44:52

Ihsan,

00:44:53 --> 00:44:54

Sheikh Zulfiqar,

00:44:55 --> 00:44:56

and other brothers,

00:44:56 --> 00:44:57

you know,

00:44:58 --> 00:45:00

who just could like, you know, do some

00:45:00 --> 00:45:03

running around maybe to sort this out.

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

And what really helped us all,

00:45:06 --> 00:45:08

something that Sheikh Abu Sam at Dehavillan.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

I remember back in 2014,

00:45:11 --> 00:45:12

2,000 yeah. 2014,

00:45:13 --> 00:45:14

he came and gave a lecture in my

00:45:14 --> 00:45:17

Masjid. The masjid that I pray in Masjid

00:45:17 --> 00:45:19

Al Furqan that I normally do some of

00:45:19 --> 00:45:21

the programs there and teach there.

00:45:21 --> 00:45:23

He told me, give me your papers.

00:45:25 --> 00:45:26

Sheikh Abu Sam is now gonna have now

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

going to have a, you know, a queue

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

of people queuing up at his office.

00:45:30 --> 00:45:33

Sorry to expose you, Sheikh, but I just

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

have to mention this. You gotta help more

00:45:35 --> 00:45:36

people now as well.

00:45:36 --> 00:45:38

What happened was he told me to give

00:45:38 --> 00:45:38

me his papers,

00:45:39 --> 00:45:42

because he had a meeting with the Mufti,

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

the Sheikh Salih al Haydhan was going to

00:45:45 --> 00:45:47

be in that meeting. Sheikh Sudais was there,

00:45:47 --> 00:45:49

the Mudir of the JAMA was there. The

00:45:49 --> 00:45:50

king was meant to be there as well.

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

I still remember what he said, the names

00:45:52 --> 00:45:53

he mentioned to me.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:55

So he took my papers and he took

00:45:55 --> 00:45:57

it to them. And he told them that

00:45:57 --> 00:45:59

this brother you know, is trying to give

00:45:59 --> 00:46:01

Dawah and things like that. And apparently what

00:46:01 --> 00:46:01

happened,

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

the King Abdullah, alayirahmatullah,

00:46:05 --> 00:46:06

he signed my papers off.

00:46:07 --> 00:46:08

And

00:46:09 --> 00:46:11

I said to myself when I got accepted

00:46:11 --> 00:46:13

2 months later, I'm sure Abu Samba is

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

not that good.

00:46:14 --> 00:46:16

Abu Samba, the Habibi Sheikh Abu Samba, I

00:46:16 --> 00:46:19

don't think he's that good. Maybe because

00:46:19 --> 00:46:20

all these time I've been applying in my

00:46:20 --> 00:46:22

dad, may Allah I, you know,

00:46:23 --> 00:46:25

may Allah have mercy upon my dad.

00:46:25 --> 00:46:26

May Allah preserve him.

00:46:27 --> 00:46:28

Every year we went to Hajji, he would

00:46:28 --> 00:46:30

take me to the JAMA to apply. He

00:46:30 --> 00:46:31

wanted me so badly to go to the

00:46:31 --> 00:46:32

JAMA'

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

So I thought maybe my tizky of Sheikh

00:46:35 --> 00:46:37

Salih Sadlani, and one time met Sheikh Salih

00:46:37 --> 00:46:38

Sadlani wrote me a tizky for the Jami'ah.

00:46:39 --> 00:46:40

And he's like the Mudir of

00:46:41 --> 00:46:43

the jamya in in Riyadh.

00:46:43 --> 00:46:45

I thought maybe it was that. I don't

00:46:45 --> 00:46:47

think it's Sheikh Abu Samah. I found that

00:46:47 --> 00:46:49

later on that it was the king's signature

00:46:50 --> 00:46:51

that, you know, really

00:46:52 --> 00:46:54

made the people like, you know, sort this

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

paper out. And that's what Sheikh Zulfiqar told

00:46:56 --> 00:46:58

me. When he was running around going to

00:46:58 --> 00:46:59

some of his links,

00:46:59 --> 00:47:01

they were asking who who is this guy

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

like? You know, is, you know, they started

00:47:03 --> 00:47:05

thinking why is he some the son of

00:47:05 --> 00:47:06

a of a king or a of a

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

or a queen or that, you know, the

00:47:08 --> 00:47:10

king came and signed it off.

00:47:12 --> 00:47:14

They I remember the Sheikh, he said it's

00:47:15 --> 00:47:17

when you translate it in English to Royal

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

Mail. You know, a private joke when the

00:47:19 --> 00:47:21

British understand. We've got a company called Royal

00:47:21 --> 00:47:22

Mail in

00:47:22 --> 00:47:24

Britain. So everyone just like trying to sort

00:47:24 --> 00:47:26

it out. So alhamdulillah, when everything was sorted

00:47:26 --> 00:47:27

out,

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

Allah gave me another opportunity that I've been

00:47:29 --> 00:47:30

asking for so much.

00:47:31 --> 00:47:32

As soon as I left the Maja, I

00:47:32 --> 00:47:34

was begging Allah, oh Allah, make me from

00:47:34 --> 00:47:35

those I accepted.

00:47:36 --> 00:47:37

And the opportunity came and I thought the

00:47:37 --> 00:47:39

opportunity went again.

00:47:39 --> 00:47:40

And,

00:47:40 --> 00:47:41

and then Allah,

00:47:42 --> 00:47:43

you know, gave me another opportunity

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

to carry on seeking this blessed light, the

00:47:46 --> 00:47:47

Noor,

00:47:47 --> 00:47:48

the 'ilm,

00:47:48 --> 00:47:49

that Wallahi,

00:47:50 --> 00:47:51

As some of the Salaf they mentioned.

00:47:56 --> 00:47:57

Some of the Salaf they mentioned, if the

00:47:57 --> 00:48:00

kings and their children knew the contention, the

00:48:00 --> 00:48:02

tranquility that we currently feel, they would have

00:48:02 --> 00:48:03

fought us

00:48:03 --> 00:48:07

with their thoughts. Because everybody wants that, you

00:48:07 --> 00:48:08

know, raha, that tumahneena,

00:48:09 --> 00:48:10

that tranquility.

00:48:10 --> 00:48:11

Nam.

00:48:12 --> 00:48:13

SubhanAllah,

00:48:13 --> 00:48:14

I went to Al Madinah,

00:48:16 --> 00:48:18

to be given the opportunity to,

00:48:18 --> 00:48:20

seek knowledge in this blessed place,

00:48:21 --> 00:48:21

The place

00:48:22 --> 00:48:25

that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned,

00:48:25 --> 00:48:26

Al Madina Tukhairun lahuqanwiyaalamul.

00:48:27 --> 00:48:29

You know, Madina is better for them if

00:48:29 --> 00:48:32

only they knew. It's narrated by Imam Bukayr,

00:48:33 --> 00:48:35

the place which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

00:48:35 --> 00:48:36

mentioned.

00:48:47 --> 00:48:49

The hadith was narrated by Bukhari Muslim and

00:48:49 --> 00:48:51

also Imam Mohammed on the authority of Ibn

00:48:51 --> 00:48:51

Zubair.

00:48:52 --> 00:48:54

Okay. Praying in Al Madina

00:48:54 --> 00:48:56

is better than praying in any other Masjid

00:48:57 --> 00:48:58

by a 1000 times,

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

okay,

00:48:59 --> 00:49:02

except Masjid Haram. And praying in Masjid Haram

00:49:02 --> 00:49:04

is better than praying in Madina, the Prophet's

00:49:04 --> 00:49:04

Masjid,

00:49:05 --> 00:49:08

by a, a hundred times. So meaning, if

00:49:08 --> 00:49:10

you put that against a normal prayer in

00:49:10 --> 00:49:11

any other Masjid, 100,000.

00:49:12 --> 00:49:13

Okay? And also the prophet sallallahu alaihi was

00:49:13 --> 00:49:14

encouraged.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:15

He said,

00:49:16 --> 00:49:19

whoever tries whoever can try and dine in

00:49:19 --> 00:49:21

Madinah can do so. How can a person

00:49:21 --> 00:49:23

try and dine in Madinah by making his

00:49:23 --> 00:49:25

ikam, a residency in Medina, as long as

00:49:25 --> 00:49:26

he can?

00:49:26 --> 00:49:29

Okay. Muhammad Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala used to make

00:49:32 --> 00:49:33

Oh, Allah.

00:49:34 --> 00:49:35

You know, grant me,

00:49:35 --> 00:49:38

shahada in your way for your sake,

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

and make my death in, you know, the

00:49:40 --> 00:49:41

prophet's,

00:49:42 --> 00:49:43

city, you know,

00:49:44 --> 00:49:46

after he came to know about the hadith

00:49:46 --> 00:49:48

of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So

00:49:48 --> 00:49:50

it's a fadilah that we should all try

00:49:50 --> 00:49:52

to try to seize. And you know, guys,

00:49:52 --> 00:49:54

what's very, very sad is that a person

00:49:54 --> 00:49:57

is given this opportunity and he then wastes

00:49:57 --> 00:49:59

it. You have to understand guys that

00:49:59 --> 00:50:02

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose you amongst billions

00:50:02 --> 00:50:02

of people.

00:50:03 --> 00:50:05

You know, amongst billions of people.

00:50:06 --> 00:50:08

On top of that, you come to the

00:50:08 --> 00:50:09

best place in the world

00:50:09 --> 00:50:11

after Allah Subh'ala's Tafaaq

00:50:11 --> 00:50:13

and then you might waste it

00:50:13 --> 00:50:15

by maybe going out to restaurants all the

00:50:15 --> 00:50:16

time,

00:50:16 --> 00:50:18

by not taking your dirasa seriously.

00:50:19 --> 00:50:21

Astafaq Allah, aasawajal, he chose you amongst everyone

00:50:21 --> 00:50:22

else.

00:50:23 --> 00:50:24

I fear that you might go under Quffur

00:50:24 --> 00:50:25

Ni'matillah,

00:50:25 --> 00:50:27

you know, being ungrateful

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

of the bounties that Allah blessed you with.

00:50:30 --> 00:50:31

Now I'm so

00:50:31 --> 00:50:33

alhamdulillah, managed to come here in 2 at

00:50:33 --> 00:50:34

the end of 2016

00:50:35 --> 00:50:37

and, to study in the jamya.

00:50:38 --> 00:50:39

Naam.

00:50:39 --> 00:50:40

A lot of guys,

00:50:41 --> 00:50:43

I try to spend as much time in

00:50:43 --> 00:50:45

haram because, you know, there's a lot of

00:50:45 --> 00:50:47

knowledge there. There's also people don't get it

00:50:47 --> 00:50:47

twisted.

00:50:48 --> 00:50:49

I remember before I came to the jamya,

00:50:49 --> 00:50:51

I used to hear to Allah, brother, saying

00:50:51 --> 00:50:54

that the jamya is a waste of time

00:50:54 --> 00:50:56

and we should only be benefiting from, the

00:50:56 --> 00:50:58

Haram. It's not necessarily

00:50:58 --> 00:51:01

correct. Wallahi, there's a lot of knowledge in

00:51:01 --> 00:51:01

the Jamiyah,

00:51:02 --> 00:51:03

just in the Mahad.

00:51:03 --> 00:51:05

Wallahi, I know many Tullahabil 'ilm,

00:51:06 --> 00:51:08

if they were to take the examination that

00:51:08 --> 00:51:10

they have in the Mahad in Mustawat Thalif

00:51:10 --> 00:51:12

and Mustawat Rabia, I don't think they will

00:51:12 --> 00:51:13

come out with flying colors.

00:51:14 --> 00:51:14

Okay.

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

Because some of the stuff they have in

00:51:16 --> 00:51:17

there, the nahul,

00:51:18 --> 00:51:18

their grammar

00:51:19 --> 00:51:21

and the morphology that you study in there,

00:51:21 --> 00:51:23

are some things in Qadr, Nada and Alfiya.

00:51:24 --> 00:51:25

So they're trying to build you up in

00:51:25 --> 00:51:26

the Mahad,

00:51:26 --> 00:51:28

you know, before you go into the kulia,

00:51:28 --> 00:51:30

so that a person has a strong foundation

00:51:30 --> 00:51:32

and he doesn't struggle when he wants to

00:51:32 --> 00:51:35

go into kalia. I even remember our brother

00:51:35 --> 00:51:37

Abu Salma, who is a PhD student,

00:51:38 --> 00:51:40

was currently back in Britain. He mentioned to

00:51:40 --> 00:51:42

me, he goes, there's so many gems

00:51:42 --> 00:51:43

in the Mahad,

00:51:44 --> 00:51:45

you know, in the

00:51:45 --> 00:51:48

Institute of Learning Arabic before a person goes.

00:51:48 --> 00:51:50

And you know, SubhanAllah guys, you have

00:51:51 --> 00:51:52

in the Haram as well,

00:51:52 --> 00:51:54

amazing halaqaat of memorization.

00:51:55 --> 00:51:56

Amazing, guys.

00:51:57 --> 00:52:00

And, the sad thing is that the majority

00:52:00 --> 00:52:02

of the Westerners, they don't give much

00:52:02 --> 00:52:04

concentration to when it comes to Mahfudat. I

00:52:04 --> 00:52:07

know our brother Mufti Muhammad Munir

00:52:07 --> 00:52:09

was someone who gave a lot of emphasis

00:52:09 --> 00:52:10

to memorization.

00:52:11 --> 00:52:13

And I don't think I'm the right guy

00:52:13 --> 00:52:14

to speak about

00:52:14 --> 00:52:14

how

00:52:15 --> 00:52:17

a student of knowledge should be adorning himself

00:52:17 --> 00:52:18

in Al Medina.

00:52:18 --> 00:52:20

You know, the likes of Shekhtair White and

00:52:20 --> 00:52:22

Mufti Mahal Munir who've been here for such

00:52:22 --> 00:52:25

a long time. They can maybe give you

00:52:25 --> 00:52:25

a better insight.

00:52:26 --> 00:52:27

But from what I've known now in the

00:52:27 --> 00:52:28

last 7 months,

00:52:29 --> 00:52:31

because I've tried to connect myself to the

00:52:31 --> 00:52:34

best of those who are in Medina from

00:52:34 --> 00:52:36

the non British and non Westerners.

00:52:37 --> 00:52:37

So maybe

00:52:38 --> 00:52:39

they can give me better insight. I can

00:52:39 --> 00:52:42

maybe try and gain what they gained. Okay.

00:52:42 --> 00:52:43

And this is what someone should do, guys.

00:52:43 --> 00:52:44

You

00:52:44 --> 00:52:46

know, the standards he should have is

00:52:46 --> 00:52:48

the standards of the best

00:52:48 --> 00:52:49

of the best.

00:52:49 --> 00:52:51

I remember my brother said to me, he

00:52:51 --> 00:52:51

goes,

00:52:52 --> 00:52:53

I don't think I should memorize,

00:52:54 --> 00:52:55

you know, I have sufficient,

00:52:56 --> 00:52:58

I have that which is sufficient,

00:52:58 --> 00:52:59

and I have that which is,

00:53:00 --> 00:53:01

enough for me,

00:53:01 --> 00:53:03

to kind of keep me going in Britain.

00:53:03 --> 00:53:05

Guys, I think this is our life. I

00:53:05 --> 00:53:06

thought to myself, hemam

00:53:07 --> 00:53:07

Qasira.

00:53:08 --> 00:53:09

These are very low aspirations.

00:53:10 --> 00:53:12

Rather, we should try and, you know, set

00:53:12 --> 00:53:14

our standards with the standards of the best.

00:53:14 --> 00:53:16

You have people in the Haram who memorize

00:53:16 --> 00:53:17

Sahayn. There's some halakat,

00:53:18 --> 00:53:20

some brothers, Jazamullah Kayin, who gave me time

00:53:20 --> 00:53:22

to read to them. Oh, I've memorized Bukhari

00:53:22 --> 00:53:22

Muslim.

00:53:23 --> 00:53:25

Abu Soonan Abidawood. Some of them. There's

00:53:26 --> 00:53:28

guys in Hallakat al Sheikh Oshaydan,

00:53:29 --> 00:53:29

you

00:53:30 --> 00:53:31

know. What the Sheikh done to me, or

00:53:31 --> 00:53:33

speak about it maybe another time,

00:53:34 --> 00:53:35

he tortured me,

00:53:36 --> 00:53:38

you know. And I really appreciate that Wallahi

00:53:38 --> 00:53:39

every time I see him I kiss him

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

on the forehead. Because

00:53:41 --> 00:53:42

he

00:53:42 --> 00:53:44

kind of disciplined me in a way where

00:53:45 --> 00:53:46

that a person will get the best out

00:53:46 --> 00:53:47

of seeking knowledge.

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

You know, you have guys who will read

00:53:50 --> 00:53:52

Methil and you have Bey Quni, right? Which

00:53:52 --> 00:53:55

consists of 34 lines of poetry.

00:54:03 --> 00:54:04

I've mentioned two lines of poetry now. What

00:54:04 --> 00:54:06

happens is they teach them how to read

00:54:06 --> 00:54:08

the lines backwards.

00:54:09 --> 00:54:10

You start from 34,

00:54:11 --> 00:54:11

33,

00:54:11 --> 00:54:13

32. This is the kind of tarbia, this

00:54:13 --> 00:54:15

is how they nurture some of the students

00:54:15 --> 00:54:16

in the Halakah.

00:54:23 --> 00:54:24

So you're going backwards, basically. You're going upside

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

down.

00:54:25 --> 00:54:27

What the Sheikh made me do, I remember

00:54:27 --> 00:54:29

I went to him. He embarrassed me in

00:54:29 --> 00:54:31

front of everyone. He humiliated me, and he's

00:54:31 --> 00:54:32

doing that to test your patience.

00:54:33 --> 00:54:35

I remember he even made me read a

00:54:35 --> 00:54:36

hadith backwards.

00:54:36 --> 00:54:38

First, he said to me, go memorize a

00:54:38 --> 00:54:40

150 and then come back.

00:54:41 --> 00:54:43

You know, just expelled me from the sitting

00:54:43 --> 00:54:44

that I was sitting in.

00:54:44 --> 00:54:45

And he kept on saying to me, you

00:54:45 --> 00:54:47

won't be able to handle this in front

00:54:47 --> 00:54:49

of everyone. And people started laughing at me,

00:54:49 --> 00:54:51

you know. And I I remember I was

00:54:51 --> 00:54:52

crying as well, and I had to kind

00:54:52 --> 00:54:54

of like stop myself from,

00:54:55 --> 00:54:56

crying.

00:54:56 --> 00:54:57

And then

00:54:57 --> 00:54:59

every day he's just testing me, you know.

00:54:59 --> 00:55:01

I remember the first day he said,

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

my student is going to test you, not

00:55:03 --> 00:55:03

me.

00:55:04 --> 00:55:06

First question he asked me, how many times

00:55:06 --> 00:55:08

in this 150 hadith of Balocha Maram

00:55:09 --> 00:55:11

is there a hadith of Abu Hurairah?

00:55:12 --> 00:55:14

It's like, Sheikh, are you testing me in

00:55:14 --> 00:55:15

my memorization, or are you testing me of

00:55:15 --> 00:55:18

how many Sahabas have narrated the hadith?

00:55:19 --> 00:55:20

I was like, Sheikh, I don't know. And

00:55:20 --> 00:55:21

he shouts at me. He goes, if you

00:55:21 --> 00:55:23

can't, you know, answer some of the questions

00:55:23 --> 00:55:24

of the little ones, how are you gonna

00:55:24 --> 00:55:25

answer my questions?

00:55:26 --> 00:55:27

Sheikh Roshaydan is the guy who reads on

00:55:27 --> 00:55:29

Sheikh Abdul Masih al Adbad

00:55:29 --> 00:55:30

everyday in the Haram.

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

So he expelled me, and I come back

00:55:34 --> 00:55:36

and he's testing me, you make, you have,

00:55:36 --> 00:55:38

you hesitate twice,

00:55:38 --> 00:55:40

you gain expelled. And you make one mistake

00:55:40 --> 00:55:42

or you make 2 mistakes, sorry, you gain

00:55:43 --> 00:55:45

expelled. I remember one time he made me

00:55:45 --> 00:55:46

read 70 ahadith backwards.

00:55:47 --> 00:55:50

The 71th ahadith basically from 150 and you're

00:55:50 --> 00:55:50

going backwards.

00:55:51 --> 00:55:53

149, 148, 147.

00:55:53 --> 00:55:55

I made one mistake, he said go away.

00:55:56 --> 00:55:59

You know, so Yani, the sheikh really helped

00:55:59 --> 00:56:00

when it came to,

00:56:01 --> 00:56:03

doing Ithan, mastering their hadith, and being very

00:56:03 --> 00:56:04

solidified.

00:56:04 --> 00:56:06

You have them brothers as well from Halakhshayin,

00:56:06 --> 00:56:08

you have other Hutun,

00:56:08 --> 00:56:09

you know. And,

00:56:10 --> 00:56:12

this is something that Sheikh Saal al Usayni

00:56:12 --> 00:56:13

gives a lot of

00:56:13 --> 00:56:15

emphasis to. You know, I'm trying to teach

00:56:15 --> 00:56:16

you that what the kibar,

00:56:16 --> 00:56:17

the mashaikh,

00:56:17 --> 00:56:19

you know, say as well. You know, he

00:56:19 --> 00:56:20

mentions in his,

00:56:21 --> 00:56:22

tardim al alm, he says,

00:56:28 --> 00:56:30

Whoever thinks he is going to seek knowledge

00:56:30 --> 00:56:31

or he is going to obtain knowledge without

00:56:31 --> 00:56:34

memorizing, this guy is chasing after the impossible.

00:56:34 --> 00:56:36

Even the poet he said,

00:56:43 --> 00:56:45

You know, if a person doesn't have hebd

00:56:45 --> 00:56:45

and comprehension,

00:56:46 --> 00:56:48

you just gathering books doesn't benefit you. There's

00:56:48 --> 00:56:50

a, you know, a tahdul or you're going

00:56:50 --> 00:56:51

to come to a sitting,

00:56:51 --> 00:56:54

with ignorance and all your knowledge is in

00:56:54 --> 00:56:54

the warehouse,

00:56:55 --> 00:56:58

you know. He even mentioned about, he heard

00:56:58 --> 00:57:00

Sheikh bin Uthaymi mention, and I heard Sheikh

00:57:00 --> 00:57:02

Salih al Usaymi mentioned this. He said,

00:57:06 --> 00:57:08

We memorized a little bit, and we read

00:57:08 --> 00:57:09

a

00:57:12 --> 00:57:13

lot.

00:57:14 --> 00:57:17

And we benefited more from that

00:57:17 --> 00:57:18

which we memorized

00:57:19 --> 00:57:20

than that which we,

00:57:20 --> 00:57:22

benefited from that which we read. Okay? This

00:57:22 --> 00:57:24

is a Sheikh Sala al Usayni. I heard

00:57:24 --> 00:57:26

this from him. And he heard this from

00:57:26 --> 00:57:28

Sheikh Mohammed bin Saal al Uthaymin. And I

00:57:28 --> 00:57:31

don't think who are Ghaneen Anil Al Talif,

00:57:32 --> 00:57:33

Shaq bin Uthaymin, who he is, and what

00:57:33 --> 00:57:37

he became. The Mutafanin, you know. So, Alhamdulillah,

00:57:38 --> 00:57:39

you know, also a benefit I'm going to

00:57:39 --> 00:57:42

conclude with is, Insha'Allah Ta'al, and I think

00:57:42 --> 00:57:44

it's a beautiful benefit. As I previously mentioned,

00:57:44 --> 00:57:47

we should try to make our standards the

00:57:47 --> 00:57:49

standard of the best. Because once you do

00:57:49 --> 00:57:52

that, you come out with a lot.

00:57:52 --> 00:57:54

And, I'm not trying to say to you

00:57:54 --> 00:57:56

that I've come out with anything because wallahi,

00:57:56 --> 00:57:58

you know, guys, and I'm not saying this

00:57:58 --> 00:58:00

I see myself to be from the smallest

00:58:00 --> 00:58:02

of 2 of Nars Toaylib,

00:58:02 --> 00:58:05

okay, just in Britain because as, you know,

00:58:05 --> 00:58:08

Sheikh Abu Sam always mentions, he goes the

00:58:08 --> 00:58:10

one eyed man, he's the king in the

00:58:10 --> 00:58:12

land of the blind. You know, when you

00:58:12 --> 00:58:12

have

00:58:12 --> 00:58:14

people who don't seek knowledge and a guy

00:58:14 --> 00:58:16

who just studied a bit, he looks like

00:58:16 --> 00:58:17

the king, you know, he looks like the

00:58:17 --> 00:58:18

most amazing guy.

00:58:19 --> 00:58:20

But when you come to a Medina, guys,

00:58:20 --> 00:58:23

you become humbled. You come to realize who

00:58:23 --> 00:58:25

the scholars are. People who have memorized Sahihain,

00:58:26 --> 00:58:28

they just sack it there. They don't say

00:58:28 --> 00:58:29

nothing. They're studying with the scholars like the

00:58:29 --> 00:58:31

likes of Sheikh Al Abba, Sheikh Sala Wusaim,

00:58:31 --> 00:58:33

and other name, you know,

00:58:34 --> 00:58:35

really humbles yourself.

00:58:35 --> 00:58:37

The fact I wanted to mention

00:58:37 --> 00:58:39

that I this is one of the first

00:58:39 --> 00:58:41

things I heard from Sheikh Ibrahim Raheli when

00:58:41 --> 00:58:42

I came to Al Madina, when I went

00:58:42 --> 00:58:44

to stay with him. He mentioned

00:58:44 --> 00:58:45

that

00:58:45 --> 00:58:48

Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he never reached

00:58:48 --> 00:58:48

the piety

00:58:49 --> 00:58:51

and the greatness that he reached, the excellent

00:58:51 --> 00:58:53

person he became, except by trying to what?

00:58:54 --> 00:58:57

Set his standards of the best. The Prophet

00:58:57 --> 00:58:59

sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Whatever the Prophet sallallahu alaihi

00:58:59 --> 00:59:01

wasallam, he tried to do, okay, when it

00:59:01 --> 00:59:03

came to salah, when it came to piety,

00:59:03 --> 00:59:05

when it came to action, when it came

00:59:05 --> 00:59:05

to Ibadat,

00:59:06 --> 00:59:08

okay, because the Prophet was the best, right?

00:59:08 --> 00:59:09

And he tried to be like the best,

00:59:09 --> 00:59:10

Okay.

00:59:10 --> 00:59:12

And then he mentioned another example which is

00:59:12 --> 00:59:15

also very very beautiful. You have Imam Bukhara,

00:59:15 --> 00:59:16

him allahu, who was one of the best

00:59:16 --> 00:59:17

in his time. Right? And he had his

00:59:17 --> 00:59:19

student, imam Muslim. Imam Muslim

00:59:19 --> 00:59:21

didn't settle for

00:59:21 --> 00:59:24

something very low. He had imam Bukhari

00:59:24 --> 00:59:26

And because he was the best, he tried

00:59:26 --> 00:59:27

to set his standards, the standard of Imam

00:59:27 --> 00:59:28

Bukhari So,

00:59:31 --> 00:59:33

Imam Muslim never became whatever he became except

00:59:33 --> 00:59:34

by trying to

00:59:34 --> 00:59:35

be like Imam Bukhir

00:59:36 --> 00:59:38

And the third example that he's going to

00:59:38 --> 00:59:40

mention. You have Ibn Taym Rahim Allahu Ta'ala.

00:59:40 --> 00:59:41

The third example is

00:59:42 --> 00:59:44

Ibn Al Qaim, and Ibn Taymiyyah. You have

00:59:44 --> 00:59:47

Ibn Al Qaim, was one of the best,

00:59:47 --> 00:59:48

and Ibn Al Qaim, tried

00:59:49 --> 00:59:50

to be like the

00:59:50 --> 00:59:51

So,

00:59:51 --> 00:59:53

trying to do that, you'll come out with

00:59:53 --> 00:59:54

a lot, inshallah,

00:59:55 --> 00:59:57

compared with everyone else. But at the same

00:59:57 --> 00:59:58

time, with trying to be sincere in that

00:59:58 --> 01:00:01

which you do not just trying to be

01:00:01 --> 01:00:03

better than the rest of the people. And

01:00:03 --> 01:00:05

Subhanu Alaikum wa bihamdikushadu

01:00:05 --> 01:00:06

Allah ilaha illa anta astaghfirukkahuwili.

01:00:08 --> 01:00:08

Achi, guys.

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Guys, the brother's asking where can the people

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find, some of my stuff?

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What I can advise you with is some

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brothers who might be more knowledgeable than me,

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and if you do want, but,

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these brothers are foremost okay. You have the

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likes of

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our brother,

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Mufti Muhammad Munir. You type into Yusuf Hadid

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disciple.

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Very knowledgeable, masha'Allah. You can benefit from him.

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You have also,

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our brother

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Ustad Abdurrahman Hasan, who has an encyclopedia

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of books that he's gone through,

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on his channel, if you type into YuJa

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Abdulrahman Hasan.

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You also have Sheikha Tahir White. It's got

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some videos out there. You have Sheikha Abu

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Usama, who has a lot of content out

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there. You know, a lot of, you know,

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pure quality content.

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And there's many other prophets like, you know,

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Ustad Mohammed Tim Hambal, another graduate from Al

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Medina,

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good friend of mine. Our brother, Abul Abbas,

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Ustad Abul Abbas Naveed,

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you know.

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You have another brother who's currently living in

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Dammam. His name is Khalid Green.

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You can benefit a lot from him. And,

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also, Abu Saheed Bassam, if you type his

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name into YouTube, you can benefit from his

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books. You know, there's this YouTube channel called

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Criterion Productions, where there's a lot of his

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lessons on there. And, inshallah, when you're done

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with all of these, you can just maybe,

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you know, grab some benefits from,

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my channel,

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inshallah.

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But these brothers are Ola. They've been seeking

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knowledge more than me,

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much more knowledgeable than me,

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you know. So I advise you to benefit

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from them. And then once, you know, if

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you do get any time, then come to,

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my very humble,

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you know, channel. Inshallah.

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Like, guys, you know, just seek your knowledge,

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you know. Don't be put off by, you

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know, what some of the people they say

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when it comes to that you're going to

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fall behind in your life. Allah, he's not.

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If you don't take from this video except

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this hadith,

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so many people, inshallah, might make another video

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in the future talking about the experience I've

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had with some people of how they've left,

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you know, so many things for the sake

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of Allah

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and Allah always gave them far greater.

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And you know,

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and, I just didn't look back. Well, I

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just didn't look back.

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And to also,

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you know, spend a lot of time learning

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about the salif, their lives,

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you know, because these are the people that

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we're trying to be like scholars.

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These are the people that we're trying to

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attach you all to. Because if you read

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their biographies of all these scholars, because they

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are all foremost, and we just hear as

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Tayamu, trying to connect you to

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the scholars.

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You know, may Allah all give us tawfiq

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and make us sincere in everything that we

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do.

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Nam, for every step that we take, every

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move that we make, everything that we study,

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everything that we, you know, give back to

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the community.

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And and wallahi guys.

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And I'm gonna keep saying this. I'm not

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saying this.

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We have such

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in in the West. We see our scholars

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people who are not scholars. Wallahi, there's

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People who, when you ask them about they

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might be good at certain things and they're

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trying to cut you off from the scholars

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and they're trying to call to themselves by

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telling you we are the scholars even though

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they might not say it directly and they'll

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tell you that the scholars are backwards.

01:03:21 --> 01:03:22

Wallahi, that's not the case.

01:03:23 --> 01:03:24

In Britain,

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tullab, the maximum we could say about people

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is tullab,

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you know. Even Dahi,

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you know, subhanAllah,

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scholars are out here and they know a

01:03:33 --> 01:03:35

waka. You have the likes of Sheikh Falahe,

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Ismail,

01:03:36 --> 01:03:38

who I currently see as like the the

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Fauzan of Kuwait

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who has come to the west, they know

01:03:41 --> 01:03:43

the west very well. Sheikh Fayez al Jazim,

01:03:43 --> 01:03:45

you know. Sheikh Soleiman Ruheil has come to

01:03:45 --> 01:03:47

the west. They can see Sheikh Ibrahim, Sheikh

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Salih HaSahemi.

01:03:48 --> 01:03:50

How can they be backwards? How can they

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not know what's going on when they come

01:03:51 --> 01:03:53

there all the time? You know, you can

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always go back to them, talk to them,

01:03:55 --> 01:03:56

and explain to them the situation that you're

01:03:56 --> 01:03:58

in, you know.

01:03:58 --> 01:04:01

Especially Sheikh Faiz Njassim who's been studying in

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America.

01:04:03 --> 01:04:05

And as for us, we're not marajah, we're

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not references or anything like that.

01:04:07 --> 01:04:09

We've just been trialed with trying to deal

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with the problems of many people.

01:04:11 --> 01:04:13

You know, we get, like, hundreds of emails

01:04:14 --> 01:04:16

of people who are going through problems.

01:04:17 --> 01:04:19

And we're just trying to do our part

01:04:19 --> 01:04:20

because it's very difficult

01:04:21 --> 01:04:23

for the community to get in touch with

01:04:23 --> 01:04:23

the scholars.

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And please do support, you know,

01:04:26 --> 01:04:28

the scholars coming down in the future, inshallah

01:04:28 --> 01:04:29

wah ta'ala.

01:04:29 --> 01:04:31

And Allah knows best.

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