Abu Taymiyyah – ‘From Dammaj to Madinah Seeking Knowledge’ w Jeylaani
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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,
I just want to mention a, very important
point.
And me and Sajid have been sitting here
for the last, 25 minutes going back and
forth in how to go about, you know,
recording this video. The initial plan was, and
it still is, but
I think mentioning these 10 bihat is very,
very important
to kind of, like, talk about how I
started seeking knowledge and
where I am currently now. My brothers and
sisters need to be aware of, very important
thing, and that which is something that really,
really touched me,
that was mentioned by the great scholar that's
currently living,
the teacher of Sheikh Salih al al Usayni,
Sheikh Abdul Karim Al Khudayr.
Who is a
an encyclopedia of knowledge. For those who know
him,
will bear witness to this.
Okay.
He mentioned a very, very important point about
some other scholars that we all know about.
We know the famous Mandoma,
Mandoma tulbayhuni.
The author of this Mandoma, this poem, the
ulama, they differed in regards to his name.
And in some scholars, they mentioned his name
was Taha. Some scholars, they mentioned his name
was Muhammad.
Even Sahibullah Jirumia,
the naho that we all study when we
start, you know, seeking knowledge and start learning
the Arabic language.
Likewise, their Tarajum wasn't known.
Their,
lives, their biographies wasn't known. The let alone,
you know,
the ins and the outs of their of
their lives.
Okay. And Sheikh Abdul Karim Khudair,
he mentions
that
They used to exaggerate and try to hide
themselves just so they're not known by the
people. And this is an example of being
very extreme when it comes to Ikhlas.
Extreme in Ikhlas,
sincerity, trying to hide yourself as much as
possible. And this was the way of the
scholars. And he also mentions the hadith of
the prophet
The best prayer
of an individual is that which he prays
inside his home,
except the obligatory prayers which, you know, you
know needs to be,
established and carried out inside the Masjid.
And why did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
mention this? Because it is better for the
Khlas of a person. He becomes more sincere.
It's just only him and his room that
he's currently in. Okay. Making that prayer to
try and maybe establish that, you know, Ibadah
in the most sincere way.
Okay. I remember also when Sheikh Salih al
Fawzan
was asked to speak about his life,
he started speaking in 3rd person,
You know, and the and the problem that
we have today is because there's so many
speakers
out there on social media,
on YouTube.
Okay, it's very hard to differentiate
between who we should take knowledge from and
who we shouldn't.
And this is the point that our brother
Sajid was trying to make me understand that
today, because there's so much confusion, people will
actually make it into a bigger issue of
not taking from you because simply
you are not necessarily known.
And making the people aware
of where you studied
is actually vital because it makes a person
comfortable in taking knowledge from that person.
Okay. So,
Insha'Allah, I just want to, you know, upon
the request of our brother to speak about
some things maybe we went through in the
past.
Hopefully, it can be as an inspiration for
you all.
Okay. And,
brothers and sisters, also another point is that,
you know, the the kasth, the purpose is
not to
advise you of who we are
or trying to connect yourselves to our students
of knowledge because that's not the
main goal. Okay. For those brothers who know
me, every time the Moshayah came to where
we were, I would cancel my lessons in
order to connect them to the scholars. And
this is our main objective.
We should be trying to be like the
scholars
who try to live their lives like the
people of the Salaf, the Quran and Mufalda
Allah. As the prophet mentioned,
Okay. The best of the people
is my generation. And those who came after
them, the Tabi'in. And then those who came
after them, the Tabi'in.
Okay. So,
we should try and be like them, try
to seek knowledge like them, try and go
out to seek knowledge how the Salaf,
used to, do, you know, the sahaba, the
tabi'ayn, the tabi'ayn,
and this is our main purpose. And we
are just here trying to show you that
way of how the scholars sought knowledge,
and, also how the Salafi used to go
about seeking knowledge. Like for example, Imam Bukhara
he has a chapter in Asahi,
You know, exiting to go out,
to seek knowledge.
And he used as an example
when Jabir ibn Abdillah radiAllahu ta'ala,
month's distance,
to go and seek 1 hadith from Abdulai
ibn Onis. Now I've got another video on
this on my channel if you check it
out. It's called he drunk his urine 5
times.
You know, if you go to that video,
I mentioned many many examples of how some
of the Salaf, the scholars of the past,
the struggles, the difficulties they went through when
it came to seek a knowledge, you know,
and hopefully that should be an inspiration to
us and not necessarily
being connected directly to the Tullab al Amd.
They just hear as Tayam mum. You know,
when you don't have water, you do something
called Tayamom.
Okay. Where you clean yourself with turab,
with sand or dirt
as a cover for the wudu that you
don't have. Naam is something that, is known
in the religion
by necessity.
Once we don't have the scholars, you know,
the
people seek knowledge from the but when the
scholars come,
The
is no longer there as a replacement for
the Duh. The scholars should be taken from.
You know, we have many scholars here that
the people can benefit from, hence why the
brothers
in Britain have tried so hard to bring
the scholars
many many
times. You can go into my channel, you'll
find many, you know, the conferences that have
taken place with the scholars, the likes of
Shahsad Hsaimi,
Sheikh Bara Ismail.
Also you have Sheikh Ibrahim Raheli,
you know, and many other scholars that have
previously come down. Sheikh Waseela Abbas,
the great Indian scholar that is currently
a teacher in the pro in the in
the in the haram of Al Makki.
So,
going back to the first question,
my name is Mohammed,
known as Abutaimia.
I was born in Holland,
and I resided most of my life in
Britain.
And,
for a very long time, I was trying
to
memorize the Quran in Britain.
You know, I I really thank my father
who used to
always
push me to trying to memorize the Quran.
You know, wherever he went, a lot of
concern
that he would try to give is me
trying to memorize the Quran, and I realized
the benefit of his Naseeh later on in
my life, you know.
Wherever we went, one thing he gave a
lot of concern to was memorizing the Quran
because brothers and sisters, that's the asl. You
know, I remember when I was in London,
he would try to,
pay from his own pocket, you know, for
a private teacher to come to the house
to teach the Quran.
I remember he took us to some madaris
in Finsbury Park to go learn, just to
memorize the Quran when I was a young
kid, even when I moved to Leicester. And
it became part of our lives,
and I always kind of through that had
this connection with the Quran before I left
to seek knowledge.
And this was the main reason
why I
decided to go out,
and seek knowledge, to go and just, you
know, learn the Arabic language,
you know, because I didn't know the Arabic
language.
I wanted to memorize the Quran and also,
to learn the Arabic language, stay in in
Yemen for 2 years, and then come back,
then go straight to university.
And what happened was was, when I was
in secondary school, I was memorizing the Quran.
I was going to this madrasah near my
house.
And,
subhanAllah,
you know, for a very long time in
my life, I couldn't go past 5 juz.
You know, the Quran is split into 30
parts,
you know, and you have 5 parts, and
I couldn't go past that. Every time I
may have reached the 5th juz,
something would happen, and then we might get
busy with all things, or we might move,
and then I would start again, you know.
So alhamdulillah, when I went to this madrasah,
I managed to reach 8 and a half
juz parts of the Quran.
So what happened was when I reached 8
Azza, I
entered into college.
I entered into college,
and,
because then I was a bit of a
superstar when it came to, sports.
I was very good at football, basketball as
well. But I don't think Sajid is going
to agree because the Americans are,
you know, one step higher when it comes
to the British, and they'll probably take me
out as well. I was very good at
these sports, also table tennis, and I became
very very busy. You know, normally the madras
is after, you know, the school that you
go to.
And I started going to them and I
seen that it was conflicting and my teacher
saw this as well.
And one statement that really tore me apart,
and this was the reason why I wanted
to leave everything behind.
He said something to me that, Gaius Walahi,
it was the reason why I left everything
behind.
When he saw that I was getting very
busy, he said to me that you, Muhammad,
you're not going to finish the Quran.
You are not going to memorize the Quran.
I went home that day and I sat
upstairs and I still remember. I can see
exactly how it happened.
I was sitting there depressed
and,
it just tore me apart. You know, this
is when, you know, I had this discussion
with my parents, and my dad wanted us
to go and seek knowledge as well. I
just wanted to leave everything behind and
and just memorize the Quran, and learn the
Arabic language.
And SubhanAllah, then I see how my dad,
when I looked later on,
at what Imam Nawa Rahimullah Ta'ala he mentioned.
Imam Nawa Rahimullah Ta'ala he mentions that once
a person becomes solidified in memorizing the Quran
and knowing it,
and also
becoming very strong in the Arabic language. The
rest of the funun, the different fields in
Islam that one can learn, it opens up
for him. And SubhanAllah, my dad was always
trying to
make us learn these two things. So my
dad inquired about a few places, and he
was made aware of an institute called Dar
al Mustafa.
Dar al Mustafa, guys,
is an institute based
in Hadhramaut, Southern Yemen.
K.
My dad went to check it out and
then he came back, and then we made
decision to go out
and learn the Arabic because we heard that
in that place,
they give a lot of consent to memorizing
the Quran and also memorizing Realsalihan,
and there's a good Arabic program.
Okay. But we didn't necessarily know about the
aqa'i, their beliefs, and some of the things
that they propagated.
Okay.
So,
we headed towards,
Al Yemen to that place.
And also another point that, guys, I wanna
mention is,
at that time a lot of people were
saying to me, you're going to fall behind
in your studies.
Everyone's going to surpass you. You know, you're
going to be studying with little kids when
you come back, You know, when it comes
to the academic level, college, university and things
like that. But, you know, I
didn't know anything. But one thing that I
did know, guys, is this hadith that I
used
to hear much on the tongues of the
people. That time I used to hear this
narration called,
Whoever leaves something for the sake of Allah
Azzawajal, Allah will always compensate for him with
that which is better. But when I looked
into this alfa loft, this this wording of
the hadith, there's absolutely no origin of it.
I found another one that was graded as
sahih by Sheikh Mookbib bin Hadidil Wadeye, narrated
by Imam Ahmed Orhim Allahu Ta'ala.
Where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
to a Bedouin who was walking with him.
You don't leave something out of taqwa for
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept that he will
always give you that which is better, you
know, and give you more than
that. And this is something that stuck with
me. Every time I try to move and,
you know,
make a decision in my life, I don't
hesitate. Why? Because I know the Prophet saying
this and the promise of Allah
he never fails in his promise.
And wala brothers, I never regretted it one
moment,
when I started seeking origin. I came back
after,
with what some of the things that, you
know, that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed me
with.
And,
I was approximately,
I think, I was 17 at the time.
I was 17 at the time, Naam.
And I went there and I didn't know
anything.
So,
you know, there was a lot there was
a vibe there that the teachers there are
from the oliya,
the saints of Allah
Some brothers say to me, and I actually
started believing this,
that they have information of the unseen,
like, when they are not there, they are
watching us,
which is a very very big problem, guys,
which is a very very big problem. I
wouldn't say to you and it would be
oppressive to even oppress them by saying that
they taught us this. No. But this was
something that was very widespread amongst the students,
and I started believing this to an extent
where if I'm inside the marques, I would
think twice of doing an action because I
felt like the one of the teachers would
be
watching me and he would think bad of
me. When the reality of the matter is,
guys, Allah
is the only one who is Sameer and
Basir, who can see,
that which other people can't see. Okay. And
to actually believe there is a shirk in
the,
rububi of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, where a
person singles out Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
his lordship, what he can do, what he
can see, and also in his asma'wassifat.
And that the reason for this is where,
you know, when
you give a characteristic
to they specific to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to, other than Allah azza wa jal. Only
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is sunni al Basir
and, his lordship, and that which Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala gives, that which Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala does
is specific for Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, as
we know in his lordship.
So it's actually a problem.
And
other things that was taking place were and,
you know, I don't want to necessarily expand
on this is because I've already got another
video on this when I one time visited
a woman after I lost my phone.
You can check this out on my channel
anyway. It's called my it's one of the
most popular videos on the channel, my visit
to the magician.
And, I even, you know, used to go
to graves and pray there. It was one
time one of the heads of the marqas,
that institute,
his
his
great granddad,
he was buried. I think it was a
distance of an hour, and his grave was
inside a masjid.
Okay. We prayed there, and we started offering
prayers there. Even Qabarhut,
you know, and,
they believe that, you know, the Qabr of
Hoot
is buried somewhere in Hadarmouth. And they would
travel there. I went there, and I prayed
2 raka' in front of the graves.
And, when the reality of the matter is
that we don't know
anywhere
where any of the Prophets are buried except
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Wa hada makturan bih, you know.
So, yeah.
What actually happened was,
the decision by the administration
of the institute
came to me telling me that I need
to go back to Britain
And, and then I need to enter through
a student visa, which was a problem for
him because it really hurt me. I didn't
wanna go back. I just wanted to carry
on seeking knowledge.
So actually was crying, shedding tears when I
was leaving.
They told me I need to go. So
alhamdulillah, when we left on our way back
to Britain,
because we have Yemeni
origin,
you know, we was able to
gain some residency staying in Al Yemen. This
is because we are from Aqabeel Akud Bay
Alawi, which is from,
the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. So, you know, to cut a long
story short, we managed to gain residency and
was able to stay there without having to
go back.
And Alhamdulillah, when I was in Sana'a,
this is when,
SubhanAllah,
I became so confused.
I became really, really confused. Everyone was telling
me, you need to stay away from that
place. Why? Because you do shirk.
Other people are telling me, you know, it's
better to go to Jamiat Il Iman, which
is a Ikhwani,
you know, Muslim Brotherhood Institute.
And, their, you know, beliefs and their ideology
is very well known
not to be in line with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam's tradition
and that which is in line with the
Quranic verses.
So I became so confused. There was even
times I used to walk,
you know, on the road.
And Anindi even one time got hit by
the car thinking, like just thinking about where
is the haqq, you know.
And, you know, one of my uncles kept
on advising me, make dua to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you the
right haqq, you know. And he used to
tell me to make this dua.
You know. Oh, Allah, show us the Haqq,
and,
you know, give us the ability to follow
the Haqq,
you know. So I used to try and
make this du'a a lot,
in my prayer at night.
And then just one time, subhanAllah,
because I had younger brothers, and I remember
my little brother was someone who used to
mess around a lot, and he wasn't serious
with his studies.
And we heard in a place called Mahabar,
they really put the kids straight. You know?
They really put the kids straight.
And the kids, they come out, you know,
very, very,
where they are, you know, good mannered,
and they start taking their studies more seriously.
So my mom just decided to go up
to a place called Ma'abar,
which is run by Sheikh Mohammed
Al Imam,
one of the Mashaikh of Aleman.
So we headed there
with all our family, my brothers and my
sisters, my parents.
And, subhanAllah, we was invited by this Somali
brother, which I still make dua for,
who is a person who lives in, Dubai
Emirates.
And he was there. He sat us down,
you know, really fed us, really hosted us
in a, you know, nicely, masha'Allah.
And he advised to go to the Maaj.
He advised to go to the Maj. Why?
Because there's a lot of there's a lot
of Westerners there.
And it's a place of knowledge. And every
time he finds the opportunity
and he's free from his other secular studies
that he was doing, he was trying to
combine between the 2,
he would go there to try and, you
know, cover through cover some books
and he would head towards the Majd.
So we stayed there for one day and
we just headed.
After Rabaktasana,
we packed our bags and we just headed
straight to the Maaj,
You know. And this is after Allah of
Dua,
asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to show me
where the right path is. And you know,
guys, this is a lesson.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran,
Your Lord has said, you know, call on
to me so I can reply back to
you. Allah
says,
and when my servant asks me and then
I'm close.
Okay? And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
said,
Allah is shy,
and he's generous that when his
servant puts his 2 hands off to him,
he doesn't send him back empty handed, you
know. He's shy from actually sending him back
empty handed.
You know, in the Ayat are many that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala won't refuse
the 'Abd. And some of the scholars, they
even say that a person doesn't put his
hands up to Allah Azzawajal asking him, except
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to respond
back to him. You know, this is something
that we've been trialed with, especially living in
the West. We become so connected to the
makhluk,
the creation.
As soon as we become bankrupt or we
lose our jobs or we become ill, we
turn straight away to the creation.
You know, we become ill. The first place
that we turn to is the GP
or the hospital.
No one is saying don't take that as
bad or, you know, as soon as we
lose our jobs, we run to the job
center, you know, asking them to provide for
us straight away. You know, this should be
secondary, guys. The first thing that we turn
to is Allah asking him to open doors
for us.
And then after that go and, you know,
take the asbaab.
So alhamdulillah, I ended up, I came to
the Majh
and,
initially, I thought to myself, like, you know,
the place saw just it just looks very
rugged,
you know, because in the middle of Jibal,
village.
And but somehow I said to myself, all
these people from around the world,
they came to this village in the middle
of nowhere for what?
You know, why would they leave their luxurious
lifestyles? Because in Britain, guys, you know, we
have everything at our disposal.
Money, jobs,
you know, everything that we want is there.
Why would the people so I said to
myself, there must be something here that,
you know,
really,
made the people patient upon this lifestyle that
they are currently living.
And,
SubhanAllah, I remember, so I saw
everybody walking into the Masjid with their shoes.
I said to myself,
why on earth
are the people praying with
their shoes?
And then after that it became clear to
me that this is actually a prophetic tradition.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he mentioned
hadith
of Abu Saeed al Khudri
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
comes into the Masjid
and, he's wearing sandals,
then let him check out his sandals. You
know, if there's any dirt on there, alihim,
remove it,
And then after that, prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said,
then let this person after that pray with
his sandals. Okay. Also in another hadith
he's wearing his leather socks,
and there's, you know, he stands on anything
dirty, then let him remove the dirt on
it, then let him pray in it. There's
another hadith in Bukhari and Muslim as well.
Shaikh Mohammed bin Hadid Wa Adi he compiled
16 or was 18 a hadith in Irrisala
about Mashru'ayat
Salatifi al Khufain or Na'ilin, sorry.
The permissibility of praying with your nial, with
your sandals.
It became clear to me after obviously, I
don't say to the brothers now just because
it's a prophetic tradition,
go to your local mezzanine America or Europe
or, you know, Britain,
and start wearing your sandals or your shoes
in front of everyone. Because obviously people aren't
ready for that.
Even Sheikh Mokbel, he mentions a very funny
story that in the Haram once,
a man started wearing his shoes.
And because obviously the Amma, the general common
folk, they don't know that this is a
prophetic tradition.
So people surround and he started calling him
a kafir.
They started making takfir and Sheikh Moob, basically
looking at them like in amazement and looking
at the guy as well. It's not necessarily
from Hikma,
from wisdom to be doing something,
you know, between the Amma, especially if they're
not ready for it, you know. That place
was a place where there was only students
of knowledge.
They were ready for it and
it wouldn't necessarily cause a fiasco if a
person was to do it. And the Sheikh,
Sheikh Yahya,
Sheikh Mokbel, they wouldn't they would advise the
people, obviously, not to go and cause,
And it's just something, you know, you will
learn in Usul Fikh, also Makhasr al Sharia,
you know, the importance of weighing the masalih,
the benefits, and also the harms that could
come out of you doing a certain action,
you know.
And if you're going to disapprove of a
certain action, if it's going to lead to
a bigger evil, then you don't necessarily do
that. How this is not Muslim, but many
holy light. Anyways,
we don't want to go into a lesson
of us.
But yeah. You know, in the in the
beginning I found it very weird. Why are
they doing this? And it actually put me
off. But then later on, you know and
this is what knowledge does, guys. When you
learn,
it removes the jahl and you start worshiping
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the ilm.
Okay? And he, you know, puts a lot
of pieces of the puzzle together.
Alhamdulillah.
And then SubhanAllah I saw that the sheikh,
all he taught was Bukhari,
Muslim,
jamiras Sahih, tafir,
and all the books on the site. Okay?
They would just be studying a hadith day
and night. They're just studying a hadith,
you know, and and this really, really made
me attracted
to this place
and want to remain here because this is
knowledge, guys. The Quran, the Sunnah and then
upon understanding of the Sahaba. And even the
Sheikh would say to us like don't follow
me. If I mention something to you that
has no proof, is mere of any proof,
then ask me for the daleel.
And this just like added more
love,
to the place, you know. That, yeah, and
he gave me more, SubhanAllah, love and affection
to this place.
And this was, you know, SubhanAllah, I thanked
Allah
They led me to a place where everything
is just Quran and sunnah. You know, you're
actually very comfortable.
You have a lot of trust with what
you're learning because they're not teaching you their
understanding. They're teaching you the companions,
Nam.
I was in, I was in the previous
place for a year
and then I ended up staying in the
match for 3 years.
Okay. I spent 3 years there.
Altogether, I was in Yemen for around 4
years.
Now, subhanallah,
you know, guys, I don't know if I
can actually put this into words, but and
I don't even think
that, I don't know if you're even going
to believe
me when it comes to describing how the
marriage was.
But it's just like one of them
stories that you might read in the ancient
books of how people used to live in
the past.
You know, it's basically you're between 4 mountains.
Four big mountains,
and it's just Purab,
it's just sand there.
SubhanAllah, and you have mud houses.
Yeah. Mud house. People are living in mud
houses.
The water comes,
twice once every 2 days.
The electricity is only on
some parts of the day. Okay? So if
you wanna charge your phone, you have to
try and get that hour of the day
or the few hours of the day, otherwise
you're going to be without a phone,
you know.
I remember some people, when I came to
Al Medina,
some brothers was like to me,
you're going to really struggle in Medina, living
with the students and Well, I turned around
to one of the masters, but I will
not mention his name. He's probably gonna laugh
when he sees this.
I said to him, Akhi, we have running
water. We have running electricity.
What do you mean I'm going to struggle?
You know. And you know the Prophet has
always told us this. He said to us,
Do not look at those above you, look
at those below you.
You know, it makes a person more grateful
and thankful of the blessings Allah gave him.
If you are a person now who is
used to not having much water,
sometimes,
not being able to shower every day. The
electricity, you don't have electricity all the time.
Sometimes I used to have I used to
pay 20 riyals
to and obviously it's not the same as
a Saudi currency. But I used to pay
money to charge my phone,
you know. You become really, you know, grateful
of a situation that one becomes,
subhanAllah, and your life was like that. Sometimes
you have to go, the water runs out,
you go to the Masjid and you're carrying,
you know, buckets of water.
And, and I lived without fridge,
you know. There was no fridge. People had
fridges, but they were very rare.
Only few people, you can just about, there
was 1,000, approximately there was around 10,000 people
in that village.
You can maybe just count on your 2
hands the amount of people that had fridges
because the motor wouldn't be able to Ilay
Khademil, you know, he can't bear the power
that the fridge,
you know. And there was no TVs at
all because that would just end up blowing
the
people there. They just didn't watch TV. They
were just, you know, straight into knowledge.
Oh my, guys, I don't I don't necessarily
wanna tell you about myself, but what I
can do is try and give you the
standard of some students of knowledge so we
can try and be like the best.
Okay. There was people guys
who would wake up for Fajr.
Okay.
All the way to Duhr,
they would be memorizing and revising the Quran.
That's a long time. You wake up at
5 o'clock,
Duhr is around 12.
Okay.
So in that period, they're either attending lessons
or memorizing Quran or they're doing moorajah of
the Quran.
Okay. And then after Duhr, they would take
the kailullah.
Okay. They would take the kailullah. This is
something that the companions do. You have the
hadith of Salim al Sa'ad.
He said
We never used to have a kalula
in the time of the prophet
on the day of Jum'ah
and also have a Gada.
You know, have, the food that we eat
in midday,
except after Duhr,
except after Duhr. So it's called the thing
in the English language they call a power
nap. You know, a power nap
that a person has because he's awake for
so for such long periods of the day.
Okay. You know, they will have that. After
Asl, they will be back into in the
Masjid, sitting there,
knowledge, you know, attending lessons, again back to
Quran.
Bad al Maghrib, you would have to attend
the sheikh's lesson. You had to attend the
sheikh's lesson.
Sorry. Badal Asar, you had the lesson of
Bukhari that you had to attend.
And the sheikh, subhanAllah, he went through a
lot
of a hadith
while I was there, teaching us Sahil Bukhari.
After,
Maghrib, you had the lesson of Sahih Muslim,
and also the kitab of ibn Abdul Bar
al
Malik,
you know, that he used to go through.
He also went through the kitab of
which is a kitab in sira. I didn't
manage to study that because I came just
as he was finishing that
Pajama.
Covered a lot of that while I was
there.
And, also by the door, I forgot to
mention, used to go through tafsir in the
Kathir, that a person has to And the
only beautiful thing about it was that all
the dakakin,
all the shops and the markets would be
closed at a time of the sheikh's lesson.
These were lessons that you had to go
through. They were mandatory lessons.
And this is was the life of the
Surah of Knowledge. Some of those who strived.
There was people who wasted their time, you
know. And then you find, you know, in
every place that you go, even in Medina,
even in Damaj, you have people who always
waste their time. A student of knowledge will
try to count every minute
and,
try to benefit from his time as much
as possible. And people really regret it, you
know, some of those who wasted their time
and never benefited, never finished the Quran,
never memorized the hadith, never benefit from the
Sheikh's Duroos. Maybe they were skiving. They really
regretted this, you know. So this was why
Talib and some brothers even Jum'ah,
Fridays. This was the only day where, you
know, you could have like a holiday.
I'm not saying you don't have breaks. Of
course, you need breaks. You're a human being.
But don't make it where, you know, you're
actually,
you know, making having more breaks than that
which you're actually studying, you know.
Nam.
Alright, guys. I I didn't wanna leave. I
wanted to perform Hajj
and and, come back because alhamdulillah,
my father has his own hajj and umrah,
you know, company, where and alhamdulillah, I used
to help him every year. Year. So every
year while I was in the marriage, I
used to go and perform Hajj with my
father, and I used to come back. So
what happened was, I left for Hajj, and
I left all my stuff, my books,
which was very expensive as well. My all
my goods were there.
I left and,
I left on Ramadan time, in between Ramadan
and Hajj, like 2 months.
So as we're going to Hajj,
my dad finds out that, you know, there's
a a war has just breaking out.
And the Houthis,
the Shiites
of Yemen,
who are, you know, pumped by,
you know, Iran.
They wanted to destroy this place. They really
wanted to destroy this place because they could
see guys, a person who doesn't know nothing.
He comes out, memorize the Quran, knows the
sunnah. He's able to give khutbas. He's able
to teach and benefit the people. And because
they really disliked,
the sunnah,
you know,
they wanted to destroy this place from its
roots. Even Sheik Rabi Ibn Hajd al Metghali,
he was one of the mashaikh of Al
Madina. He would say that studying in the
match for 1 year is equivalent to 3
years in Al Madina.
Okay.
So,
this is why they know if they destroy
the place from its origin,
then there wouldn't be anything left.
You know, but Lilayl Hikmatul Baligha,
the wisdom of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you know, is ajeeb, is a'lim, you know,
is something highly great.
You know, people laughed out when the war
broke out, you know, and it ended up
it caused everybody to leave. I have a
video as well. Brother Imran. He won't hang
on an interview with me, and it's more
detail,
of what exactly happened. You might want to
find this on my channel as well.
So the Maj was,
you know, after Hajj, I went back.
Later on, the place was destroyed.
You know, I couldn't go
because there was a war there.
Like a year after I went back to
Britain,
the place was absolutely dismantled. It was destroyed.
It was ruined. These people were,
you know, throwing bombs at the masjid just
so everybody could leave,
and, it resulted in everybody leaving,
you know. So, nam.
Why, you know, subhanAllah, I was child,
after I left back to Britain to be
living there.
It's actually a trial that I had to,
you know, put myself in a position to
give dawah,
you know, because
I didn't go back to Britain to become
a dahi and start teaching the people. I
wouldn't stay there for 2 months and go
back to Dhammaj and carry on seeking knowledge,
you know. People actually think that, you know,
studying for 1 year or 2 years is
enough for
a person now to start dawah and Khallas.
He doesn't need to seek more knowledge,
you know. But this is not the case,
guys. Wallahi, it's just the beginning of seeking
knowledge, you know. Our masha'aikh, they've been studying
for 20, 30 years,
40 years even so, like our Sheikh Sheikh
Saleh,
Sahimi, and other than them.
But subhanAllah, because the standards in Britain and
in the West is very low, you know,
people are between Jahil and more Jahil.
Okay. Some of the mashaikhtaiba say like, if
you know that the guy who's given the
khutba, he's not,
befitting to give the khutba, then it might
become wajid for you to pay yourself forward.
If you know you could actually give something
back to the community.
And all the mihadeeth that we memorized and
we studied with,
in the Majd, then, you know, we have
to at least give sadaqa by teaching the
people. How do you give sadaqa from that
which you learn by going on and teaching
the people?
And especially when you see the ignorance,
it becomes hard to actually
be patient
in not doing anything.
So I just started, you know, trying to
teach the people whatever I knew.
And alhamdulillah, slowly, slowly, slowly, things started opening
up a bit more.
More people started,
calling me to their masajid,
and they started becoming, you know, I started
going out to different cities,
nationally, you know. And alhamdulillah,
allay Allahu khair happened. And this is Muhammadu
fiqhilla billah.
Whatever I done, you know, from the books
and the the awa that we established was
none nothing other than what, you know, Allah,
blessed us with from the success. And it
doesn't go back to, any of us. And
alhamdulillah, also some of the brothers really helped
out.
Like our brother Shay, you
know, have a lot of respect for Saduna
Abu Abbas. Also, Sheikh Zulfekar,
who kind of informed the masajid about myself
to come out and give dawah. Also, Sheikh
Abu Samad Dahabi,
that most of you lot, you know, know
about, and other brothers as well.
And Hamdul just slowly started giving dawah and
teaching the people
and according to the sunnah. And the lot
of Khair, you know, happened through this.
Now,
that that's that's,
you know, another, you know, blessing that's from
the many blessings that Allah blessed me with.
I was in fact accepted in 2014.
I was in Britain for a couple of
years.
2014,
I was accepted and I was over the
moon, you know.
And,
I remember as soon as I was told
about it, I just went on seshdeshukr.
And guys,
as it came in the hadith of
Abi Bakr radhiyallahu ta'ala.
That when the Prophet was ever given a
news
of something that, you know, brought,
happiness to him, he would hasten to prostrating
to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thanks. It's a
lesson for us all. Also came with a
hadith that was narrated by Imam al Behaqi.
And the author of this hadith is in
Bukhari.
Hadith Ibrahim Azaib, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and then
Nabi Salazim Baath Aileen in Aliamin. Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, he sent Ali to Aliamin.
Islam
him. Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he wrote a
letter to prophet SAW ASSAH telling him that
the people of Yemen accepted Al Islam. So
what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
do?
Fasajjadalillahi.
You know, he went and hastened into prostrating
to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thanks. So anytime
you're given something, you thank Allah and what
happens, you're always given more. As Allah mentioned,
you
thank me and I'll give you
more.
I don't necessarily go through what happened and
why I couldn't go, but for many different
reasons, I couldn't go,
and perhaps for the best.
Because if someone wants to ask me now,
would you have preferred to go back in
2014
or now
in 2000 and, late 2016?
I would have definitely said no. Because, subhanAllah,
Allah opened a few things out for me.
I basically tasted life.
And,
it's not something that is now kind of
like dragging
me to go back because
people now, subhanAllah,
some of the things that kind of pushes
them to going back and maybe not even
finish their diaras is the issue of marriage.
Okay.
But alhamdulillah, you know, things happened
for the best. Wallahi, I I, subhanahu, when
I think about it,
even though I went through a difficult period
in my life,
well I'm really grateful to Allah. It did
happen
because I don't think that if some things
didn't happen, I would be here today.
Because there was things that dragged me from
actually coming out to Al Madina
or coming to live in Saudi Arabia. But
know, we say, Alhamdulillah.
Sometimes,
you know,
some things happen.
Perhaps you might just like some with so
much in it. And Allah says also,
Perhaps you love something but it's bad for
you. You know, and the opposite as well.
As somebody thinks to myself, SubhanAllah, I'm going
through this difficult period. Why? But anyways, long
story short, I don't want to go into,
you know, specifics of what happened in my
life,
but it stopped me from going to Al
Madina.
And SubhanAllah,
what actually made me come out was
a sitting that I had with
one of the mashaikh called Sheikh Abdul Hakad
Fukumani,
who is a scholar,
lives in,
was living in Britain. Now he's moved somewhere
else now.
And he's highly recommended by Sheikh Saad e
Chitri. Sheikh Saad e Chitri who is part
of Hayat al Kibar al Unama. I one
time, you know, went to Sheikh Saad e
Chitri when he came to Luton. I asked
him, a sheikh, why to come to Leicester?
The sheikh was like, Lester,
Knowing his Saudi accent.
He was like, you have Sheikh Abdul Haqq
there.
As long as you have Sheikh Abdul Haqq
Atulkumani
there, you don't necessarily need me there, and
that's a big test case, guys.
So Sheikh one time called me to his
house. I even remember it was quite
funny. I was like, what? You know, Sheikh,
you know, called me to his house. What's
he gonna tell me? You know?
So I went to his house.
We had some shahi,
gave me some tea, and I'm just getting
butterflies of what the Sheikh is gonna talk
to me about.
And,
he started talking to me about
the importance of, you know, getting a degree
and how this could help you in your
life.
And, that you shouldn't just rely on people
to
pay your rent for you, you know.
Because, you know, sometimes when you give dua,
you get, you know, things on the side.
Even though I was never and I've never
asked, except maybe once
when that week, like, you know, it was
the week I left my job. I didn't
have anything to put in my petrol to
kind of cover my you know, but I'm
one of the people that does not ask
at all and,
I just don't feel comfortable asking in the
name of Dawah
when it comes to asking people for lectures
and hutabs and things like that.
And he said he sat me down. He
was like, you know, to,
to rely on people is not necessarily
the most praiseworthy of things.
And it's important that you get a degree,
maybe work part time with your degree, and
then you can carry on doing dawah. You
just don't rely on the creation, basically,
to pay your rent for you. And,
he even advised me of the importance of
seeking knowledge. And I said to the sheikh,
you know, sheikh, you know, I would love
to go seek knowledge, but things are not
just that simple. I can't just pack my
bags. And
and he really, you know, Sheikh gave it
to me. And, oh, I I I I
love him so much and,
that was one of the main reasons what
made me think,
you know. So what happened was
I went home and I just lied down
like Sheikh just gave it to me, like
I need to go seek knowledge and and
think about this issue. And I told him
at that time I was studying civil engineering,
and he told me to take it more
seriously as well. And subhanAllah, what happened was
I had a Khutba in South Muzdara Salaam
Masjid. So I went to give a Khutba,
and a good friend of mine who was
also studying with me in the match called
Adil,
We went together. I gave the Khubbeh. He
said to me after, you know, Khutaimy, because
you've already
taken a position and given dawah in your
you know, alhamdulillah,
you're giving dawah, why don't you try and
maybe go and seek more knowledge as well?
I said, I've been thinking about this for
so long.
And it was a Friday, guys. It was
a Friday.
SubhanAllah. You know, when Allah wants to hear
for you, he, you know, makes you walk
in that direction.
What happened was I was sitting in the
car. It was
the. I I made dua to Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala. You know the famous hadith
So there's an hour in the day that
if a person wants to ask Allah
that Allah Azzawajal will, you know, respond back
to him. And this is the last hour
of the day on yawmuljumah before Maghrib. So
I just started asking, making du'a to Allah
Azzawajal.
So I said to myself, Abu Temi was
previously accepted
in the Jamia,
let's just see if your name is still
on there.
I go online
and my name is still there. So I
thought it must be expired.
So I started asking many people, SubhanAllah, and
they were like, nah. It just hasn't been
updated
and
no new students have been accepted. Those who
were accepted in 2014, their names are still
under there, and there's still a possibility of
them going, but they just need to renew
their
their tashirat and their visas.
SubhanAllah.
And, this is when I started making phone
calls, left, right, and center. I started calling
brothers from Madinah, a brother called Hussain, Hafidullah,
Ihsan,
Sheikh Zulfiqar,
and other brothers,
you know,
who just could like, you know, do some
running around maybe to sort this out.
And what really helped us all,
something that Sheikh Abu Sam at Dehavillan.
I remember back in 2014,
2,000 yeah. 2014,
he came and gave a lecture in my
Masjid. The masjid that I pray in Masjid
Al Furqan that I normally do some of
the programs there and teach there.
He told me, give me your papers.
Sheikh Abu Sam is now gonna have now
going to have a, you know, a queue
of people queuing up at his office.
Sorry to expose you, Sheikh, but I just
have to mention this. You gotta help more
people now as well.
What happened was he told me to give
me his papers,
because he had a meeting with the Mufti,
the Sheikh Salih al Haydhan was going to
be in that meeting. Sheikh Sudais was there,
the Mudir of the JAMA was there. The
king was meant to be there as well.
I still remember what he said, the names
he mentioned to me.
So he took my papers and he took
it to them. And he told them that
this brother you know, is trying to give
Dawah and things like that. And apparently what
happened,
the King Abdullah, alayirahmatullah,
he signed my papers off.
And
I said to myself when I got accepted
2 months later, I'm sure Abu Samba is
not that good.
Abu Samba, the Habibi Sheikh Abu Samba, I
don't think he's that good. Maybe because
all these time I've been applying in my
dad, may Allah I, you know,
may Allah have mercy upon my dad.
May Allah preserve him.
Every year we went to Hajji, he would
take me to the JAMA to apply. He
wanted me so badly to go to the
JAMA'
So I thought maybe my tizky of Sheikh
Salih Sadlani, and one time met Sheikh Salih
Sadlani wrote me a tizky for the Jami'ah.
And he's like the Mudir of
the jamya in in Riyadh.
I thought maybe it was that. I don't
think it's Sheikh Abu Samah. I found that
later on that it was the king's signature
that, you know, really
made the people like, you know, sort this
paper out. And that's what Sheikh Zulfiqar told
me. When he was running around going to
some of his links,
they were asking who who is this guy
like? You know, is, you know, they started
thinking why is he some the son of
a of a king or a of a
or a queen or that, you know, the
king came and signed it off.
They I remember the Sheikh, he said it's
when you translate it in English to Royal
Mail. You know, a private joke when the
British understand. We've got a company called Royal
Mail in
Britain. So everyone just like trying to sort
it out. So alhamdulillah, when everything was sorted
out,
Allah gave me another opportunity that I've been
asking for so much.
As soon as I left the Maja, I
was begging Allah, oh Allah, make me from
those I accepted.
And the opportunity came and I thought the
opportunity went again.
And,
and then Allah,
you know, gave me another opportunity
to carry on seeking this blessed light, the
Noor,
the 'ilm,
that Wallahi,
As some of the Salaf they mentioned.
Some of the Salaf they mentioned, if the
kings and their children knew the contention, the
tranquility that we currently feel, they would have
fought us
with their thoughts. Because everybody wants that, you
know, raha, that tumahneena,
that tranquility.
Nam.
SubhanAllah,
I went to Al Madinah,
to be given the opportunity to,
seek knowledge in this blessed place,
The place
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned,
Al Madina Tukhairun lahuqanwiyaalamul.
You know, Madina is better for them if
only they knew. It's narrated by Imam Bukayr,
the place which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
mentioned.
The hadith was narrated by Bukhari Muslim and
also Imam Mohammed on the authority of Ibn
Zubair.
Okay. Praying in Al Madina
is better than praying in any other Masjid
by a 1000 times,
okay,
except Masjid Haram. And praying in Masjid Haram
is better than praying in Madina, the Prophet's
Masjid,
by a, a hundred times. So meaning, if
you put that against a normal prayer in
any other Masjid, 100,000.
Okay? And also the prophet sallallahu alaihi was
encouraged.
He said,
whoever tries whoever can try and dine in
Madinah can do so. How can a person
try and dine in Madinah by making his
ikam, a residency in Medina, as long as
he can?
Okay. Muhammad Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala used to make
Oh, Allah.
You know, grant me,
shahada in your way for your sake,
and make my death in, you know, the
prophet's,
city, you know,
after he came to know about the hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
it's a fadilah that we should all try
to try to seize. And you know, guys,
what's very, very sad is that a person
is given this opportunity and he then wastes
it. You have to understand guys that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose you amongst billions
of people.
You know, amongst billions of people.
On top of that, you come to the
best place in the world
after Allah Subh'ala's Tafaaq
and then you might waste it
by maybe going out to restaurants all the
time,
by not taking your dirasa seriously.
Astafaq Allah, aasawajal, he chose you amongst everyone
else.
I fear that you might go under Quffur
Ni'matillah,
you know, being ungrateful
of the bounties that Allah blessed you with.
Now I'm so
alhamdulillah, managed to come here in 2 at
the end of 2016
and, to study in the jamya.
Naam.
A lot of guys,
I try to spend as much time in
haram because, you know, there's a lot of
knowledge there. There's also people don't get it
twisted.
I remember before I came to the jamya,
I used to hear to Allah, brother, saying
that the jamya is a waste of time
and we should only be benefiting from, the
Haram. It's not necessarily
correct. Wallahi, there's a lot of knowledge in
the Jamiyah,
just in the Mahad.
Wallahi, I know many Tullahabil 'ilm,
if they were to take the examination that
they have in the Mahad in Mustawat Thalif
and Mustawat Rabia, I don't think they will
come out with flying colors.
Okay.
Because some of the stuff they have in
there, the nahul,
their grammar
and the morphology that you study in there,
are some things in Qadr, Nada and Alfiya.
So they're trying to build you up in
the Mahad,
you know, before you go into the kulia,
so that a person has a strong foundation
and he doesn't struggle when he wants to
go into kalia. I even remember our brother
Abu Salma, who is a PhD student,
was currently back in Britain. He mentioned to
me, he goes, there's so many gems
in the Mahad,
you know, in the
Institute of Learning Arabic before a person goes.
And you know, SubhanAllah guys, you have
in the Haram as well,
amazing halaqaat of memorization.
Amazing, guys.
And, the sad thing is that the majority
of the Westerners, they don't give much
concentration to when it comes to Mahfudat. I
know our brother Mufti Muhammad Munir
was someone who gave a lot of emphasis
to memorization.
And I don't think I'm the right guy
to speak about
how
a student of knowledge should be adorning himself
in Al Medina.
You know, the likes of Shekhtair White and
Mufti Mahal Munir who've been here for such
a long time. They can maybe give you
a better insight.
But from what I've known now in the
last 7 months,
because I've tried to connect myself to the
best of those who are in Medina from
the non British and non Westerners.
So maybe
they can give me better insight. I can
maybe try and gain what they gained. Okay.
And this is what someone should do, guys.
You
know, the standards he should have is
the standards of the best
of the best.
I remember my brother said to me, he
goes,
I don't think I should memorize,
you know, I have sufficient,
I have that which is sufficient,
and I have that which is,
enough for me,
to kind of keep me going in Britain.
Guys, I think this is our life. I
thought to myself, hemam
Qasira.
These are very low aspirations.
Rather, we should try and, you know, set
our standards with the standards of the best.
You have people in the Haram who memorize
Sahayn. There's some halakat,
some brothers, Jazamullah Kayin, who gave me time
to read to them. Oh, I've memorized Bukhari
Muslim.
Abu Soonan Abidawood. Some of them. There's
guys in Hallakat al Sheikh Oshaydan,
you
know. What the Sheikh done to me, or
speak about it maybe another time,
he tortured me,
you know. And I really appreciate that Wallahi
every time I see him I kiss him
on the forehead. Because
he
kind of disciplined me in a way where
that a person will get the best out
of seeking knowledge.
You know, you have guys who will read
Methil and you have Bey Quni, right? Which
consists of 34 lines of poetry.
I've mentioned two lines of poetry now. What
happens is they teach them how to read
the lines backwards.
You start from 34,
33,
32. This is the kind of tarbia, this
is how they nurture some of the students
in the Halakah.
So you're going backwards, basically. You're going upside
down.
What the Sheikh made me do, I remember
I went to him. He embarrassed me in
front of everyone. He humiliated me, and he's
doing that to test your patience.
I remember he even made me read a
hadith backwards.
First, he said to me, go memorize a
150 and then come back.
You know, just expelled me from the sitting
that I was sitting in.
And he kept on saying to me, you
won't be able to handle this in front
of everyone. And people started laughing at me,
you know. And I I remember I was
crying as well, and I had to kind
of like stop myself from,
crying.
And then
every day he's just testing me, you know.
I remember the first day he said,
my student is going to test you, not
me.
First question he asked me, how many times
in this 150 hadith of Balocha Maram
is there a hadith of Abu Hurairah?
It's like, Sheikh, are you testing me in
my memorization, or are you testing me of
how many Sahabas have narrated the hadith?
I was like, Sheikh, I don't know. And
he shouts at me. He goes, if you
can't, you know, answer some of the questions
of the little ones, how are you gonna
answer my questions?
Sheikh Roshaydan is the guy who reads on
Sheikh Abdul Masih al Adbad
everyday in the Haram.
So he expelled me, and I come back
and he's testing me, you make, you have,
you hesitate twice,
you gain expelled. And you make one mistake
or you make 2 mistakes, sorry, you gain
expelled. I remember one time he made me
read 70 ahadith backwards.
The 71th ahadith basically from 150 and you're
going backwards.
149, 148, 147.
I made one mistake, he said go away.
You know, so Yani, the sheikh really helped
when it came to,
doing Ithan, mastering their hadith, and being very
solidified.
You have them brothers as well from Halakhshayin,
you have other Hutun,
you know. And,
this is something that Sheikh Saal al Usayni
gives a lot of
emphasis to. You know, I'm trying to teach
you that what the kibar,
the mashaikh,
you know, say as well. You know, he
mentions in his,
tardim al alm, he says,
Whoever thinks he is going to seek knowledge
or he is going to obtain knowledge without
memorizing, this guy is chasing after the impossible.
Even the poet he said,
You know, if a person doesn't have hebd
and comprehension,
you just gathering books doesn't benefit you. There's
a, you know, a tahdul or you're going
to come to a sitting,
with ignorance and all your knowledge is in
the warehouse,
you know. He even mentioned about, he heard
Sheikh bin Uthaymi mention, and I heard Sheikh
Salih al Usaymi mentioned this. He said,
We memorized a little bit, and we read
a
lot.
And we benefited more from that
which we memorized
than that which we,
benefited from that which we read. Okay? This
is a Sheikh Sala al Usayni. I heard
this from him. And he heard this from
Sheikh Mohammed bin Saal al Uthaymin. And I
don't think who are Ghaneen Anil Al Talif,
Shaq bin Uthaymin, who he is, and what
he became. The Mutafanin, you know. So, Alhamdulillah,
you know, also a benefit I'm going to
conclude with is, Insha'Allah Ta'al, and I think
it's a beautiful benefit. As I previously mentioned,
we should try to make our standards the
standard of the best. Because once you do
that, you come out with a lot.
And, I'm not trying to say to you
that I've come out with anything because wallahi,
you know, guys, and I'm not saying this
I see myself to be from the smallest
of 2 of Nars Toaylib,
okay, just in Britain because as, you know,
Sheikh Abu Sam always mentions, he goes the
one eyed man, he's the king in the
land of the blind. You know, when you
have
people who don't seek knowledge and a guy
who just studied a bit, he looks like
the king, you know, he looks like the
most amazing guy.
But when you come to a Medina, guys,
you become humbled. You come to realize who
the scholars are. People who have memorized Sahihain,
they just sack it there. They don't say
nothing. They're studying with the scholars like the
likes of Sheikh Al Abba, Sheikh Sala Wusaim,
and other name, you know,
really humbles yourself.
The fact I wanted to mention
that I this is one of the first
things I heard from Sheikh Ibrahim Raheli when
I came to Al Madina, when I went
to stay with him. He mentioned
that
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he never reached
the piety
and the greatness that he reached, the excellent
person he became, except by trying to what?
Set his standards of the best. The Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Whatever the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, he tried to do, okay, when it
came to salah, when it came to piety,
when it came to action, when it came
to Ibadat,
okay, because the Prophet was the best, right?
And he tried to be like the best,
Okay.
And then he mentioned another example which is
also very very beautiful. You have Imam Bukhara,
him allahu, who was one of the best
in his time. Right? And he had his
student, imam Muslim. Imam Muslim
didn't settle for
something very low. He had imam Bukhari
And because he was the best, he tried
to set his standards, the standard of Imam
Bukhari So,
Imam Muslim never became whatever he became except
by trying to
be like Imam Bukhir
And the third example that he's going to
mention. You have Ibn Taym Rahim Allahu Ta'ala.
The third example is
Ibn Al Qaim, and Ibn Taymiyyah. You have
Ibn Al Qaim, was one of the best,
and Ibn Al Qaim, tried
to be like the
So,
trying to do that, you'll come out with
a lot, inshallah,
compared with everyone else. But at the same
time, with trying to be sincere in that
which you do not just trying to be
better than the rest of the people. And
Subhanu Alaikum wa bihamdikushadu
Allah ilaha illa anta astaghfirukkahuwili.
Achi, guys.
Guys, the brother's asking where can the people
find, some of my stuff?
What I can advise you with is some
brothers who might be more knowledgeable than me,
and if you do want, but,
these brothers are foremost okay. You have the
likes of
our brother,
Mufti Muhammad Munir. You type into Yusuf Hadid
disciple.
Very knowledgeable, masha'Allah. You can benefit from him.
You have also,
our brother
Ustad Abdurrahman Hasan, who has an encyclopedia
of books that he's gone through,
on his channel, if you type into YuJa
Abdulrahman Hasan.
You also have Sheikha Tahir White. It's got
some videos out there. You have Sheikha Abu
Usama, who has a lot of content out
there. You know, a lot of, you know,
pure quality content.
And there's many other prophets like, you know,
Ustad Mohammed Tim Hambal, another graduate from Al
Medina,
good friend of mine. Our brother, Abul Abbas,
Ustad Abul Abbas Naveed,
you know.
You have another brother who's currently living in
Dammam. His name is Khalid Green.
You can benefit a lot from him. And,
also, Abu Saheed Bassam, if you type his
name into YouTube, you can benefit from his
books. You know, there's this YouTube channel called
Criterion Productions, where there's a lot of his
lessons on there. And, inshallah, when you're done
with all of these, you can just maybe,
you know, grab some benefits from,
my channel,
inshallah.
But these brothers are Ola. They've been seeking
knowledge more than me,
much more knowledgeable than me,
you know. So I advise you to benefit
from them. And then once, you know, if
you do get any time, then come to,
my very humble,
you know, channel. Inshallah.
Like, guys, you know, just seek your knowledge,
you know. Don't be put off by, you
know, what some of the people they say
when it comes to that you're going to
fall behind in your life. Allah, he's not.
If you don't take from this video except
this hadith,
so many people, inshallah, might make another video
in the future talking about the experience I've
had with some people of how they've left,
you know, so many things for the sake
of Allah
and Allah always gave them far greater.
And you know,
and, I just didn't look back. Well, I
just didn't look back.
And to also,
you know, spend a lot of time learning
about the salif, their lives,
you know, because these are the people that
we're trying to be like scholars.
These are the people that we're trying to
attach you all to. Because if you read
their biographies of all these scholars, because they
are all foremost, and we just hear as
Tayamu, trying to connect you to
the scholars.
You know, may Allah all give us tawfiq
and make us sincere in everything that we
do.
Nam, for every step that we take, every
move that we make, everything that we study,
everything that we, you know, give back to
the community.
And and wallahi guys.
And I'm gonna keep saying this. I'm not
saying this.
We have such
in in the West. We see our scholars
people who are not scholars. Wallahi, there's
People who, when you ask them about they
might be good at certain things and they're
trying to cut you off from the scholars
and they're trying to call to themselves by
telling you we are the scholars even though
they might not say it directly and they'll
tell you that the scholars are backwards.
Wallahi, that's not the case.
In Britain,
tullab, the maximum we could say about people
is tullab,
you know. Even Dahi,
you know, subhanAllah,
scholars are out here and they know a
waka. You have the likes of Sheikh Falahe,
Ismail,
who I currently see as like the the
Fauzan of Kuwait
who has come to the west, they know
the west very well. Sheikh Fayez al Jazim,
you know. Sheikh Soleiman Ruheil has come to
the west. They can see Sheikh Ibrahim, Sheikh
Salih HaSahemi.
How can they be backwards? How can they
not know what's going on when they come
there all the time? You know, you can
always go back to them, talk to them,
and explain to them the situation that you're
in, you know.
Especially Sheikh Faiz Njassim who's been studying in
America.
And as for us, we're not marajah, we're
not references or anything like that.
We've just been trialed with trying to deal
with the problems of many people.
You know, we get, like, hundreds of emails
of people who are going through problems.
And we're just trying to do our part
because it's very difficult
for the community to get in touch with
the scholars.
And please do support, you know,
the scholars coming down in the future, inshallah
wah ta'ala.
And Allah knows best.