Abu Taymiyyah – Imam Ghazali And The Thief

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			Something very funny that happened in the time
		

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			of Imam Al Ghazali
		

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			Imam Al Ghazali
		

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			one time he was robbed by bandits.
		

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			Summarization
		

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			to try and get as much
		

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			in
		

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			in this
		

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			small period that we have.
		

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			Imam Al Ghazair The boxes that he had
		

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			was robbed by some highway bandits. And Imam
		

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			Al Ghazair
		

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			is running behind them.
		

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			He's saying to them all that which is
		

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			inside these boxes that you've knicked
		

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			is my books that I traveled for.
		

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			And that which I have documented, please give
		

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			it back.
		

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			So
		

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			a thief is running away and he's hearing
		

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			Muhammad ibn Muhammad Al Ghazali
		

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			saying this
		

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			and he stops.
		

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			So there was a bunch of thieves, the
		

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			biggest of them
		

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			started laughing at him.
		

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			He said to him,
		

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			How is it that you can claim
		

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			that you have knowledge?
		

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			Okay? But when we in fact took these
		

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			boxes of yours,
		

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			all of a sudden you became somebody who
		

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			did not know anything.
		

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			And you remain there without any knowledge.
		

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			The thief is laughing at him.
		

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			And then he felt sorry for him and
		

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			he gave him the boxes. He goes, go
		

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			take it.
		

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			Al Khazali said,
		

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			This is a man who Allah Subhanahu Wa
		

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			Ta'ala made him speak.
		

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			To give me guidance
		

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			in my affair.
		

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			So he said he went
		

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			back, and for a whole 3 years he
		

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			started memorizing everything that he documented.
		

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			So, if in the future,
		

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			highway bandits
		

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			ended up robbing his stuff again,
		

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			he wouldn't necessarily mind. Take it.
		

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			My ilm is with me in my chest.
		

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			A thief
		

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			was the reason as to why Imam al
		

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			Ghazali
		

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			and he had knowledge. Of course in his
		

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			kitab ihiya al lumedin, there is quite a
		

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			number of issues in there. And some scholars
		

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			they spoke quite negatively about a kitab, but
		

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			without shadow of a doubt.
		

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			His kitab al Mustasfa,
		

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			the Ibn Qudam
		

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			really benefited from that we study today.
		

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			In JAMA'at al Islamiyah, sometimes very very tough
		

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			to understand, was taken from the Mustafa of
		

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			Imam Al Ghazal
		

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			He was somebody who was very very knowledgeable.
		

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			He was guided
		

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			because of a thief.
		

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			In doing,
		

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			that which is best for him.