Abu Taymiyyah – Madinah Reflections & Lessons Pt. 1 aadh
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My dear respective brothers and sisters,
Ola, it's an absolute honor to be sitting
in your presence. It's so lovely to see
all of these brothers
with glowing faces.
Waark Allah Faikum, MaasanAllahu Waikum. And JazakAllahu Khayran
for the Masjid,
who were happy to facilitate
this lecture
on such
short notice as well, because I only came
back yesterday and,
our brothers, may Allah reward, every single one
of them were trying the utmost best to
get a program together.
So may Allah Azzawajal bless every single one
of you, and everyone who was involved
in setting this up.
The lecture for today,
as you may have seen,
on the poster,
our brother,
he asked me
to
speak about some of the lessons that I
took away from
my stay in Al Madinah.
Some reflections,
hoping Insha Allahu Ta'ala
that
the upcoming Jeel,
the upcoming generation of brothers
and sisters
who want to take this path of seeking
knowledge more seriously,
can benefit from,
can take heed from.
Before I speak about my stay
in Al Madinah,
and some of the benefits
that I took away
and what I learned, some life lessons,
I want to quickly
take a moment out to
mention something that happened,
which was the reason as to why
I said enough is enough.
I need to now
really be more serious with myself.
A lot of us, at times, we might
wait for something
that will possibly
set us on our journey.
I know there's brothers here, had these discussions
while we're in Umrah together.
There's waiting for that spark, if you wanna
call it that.
They're waiting for that one thing
That ever happens, then maybe insha Allahu Ta'ala,
they will start.
And there was something like that,
that happened for me as all.
And I think it's worth mentioning in this
gathering,
with all of these
many wonderful,
faces and brothers that are here.
Going abroad to study was always an idea
that my parents would speak to me about,
Because my father and my mother, may Allah
bless them both and have mercy upon them
both.
I was just with my mother right now.
May Allah
honor her.
Like everything
that
happened in my life,
firstly, of course, is my
Lord, my Rab.
And secondly, my mother,
and then my father.
They had a very big role to play
in that.
My parents, they had a dream for us
to all memorize the book of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Something that my father always wanted.
This is why they would always take us
to madrasah.
I remember SubhanAllah,
when I was still a young kid in
the Netherlands,
still vividly
the places that my father would take me,
even though I was maybe what, 5 years
old, 6 years old, I can still remember
it.
Still until this very day I have these
flashbacks from time to time.
Even the madrasah, where I was, where I
was sitting, the table,
still remember what color it was.
SubhanAllah.
A lot of things we forget.
The reason why the Insan, look at this
word Insan which means a human being, what's
called an Insan is because he forgets.
It comes from
the term
Because if we remembered everything that happened in
our lives, I think we'd be,
struggling mentally.
We'd have a lot of trouble. Saha,
imagine you didn't forget anything. It's actually a
blessing
that we might not necessarily look at as
a blessing.
And some things may stay with us,
that sometimes really cause us to reflect.
So that was my father's dream, for us
to
memorise the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So we was in London,
a huge incident happened which was,
a friend of mine being shot in the
head on the streets of Camden,
which was the reason why so many brothers
ended up leaving the streets. Some brothers moved
to Egypt, some brothers went to Yemen, some
brothers,
they just moved to a different area.
Alhamdulillah, my parents, they moved me at a
time to Lestar,
and it was one of the best things
that happened to me. It really
was.
Year 11,
I was finishing off my GCSEs,
going to
just a random
secondary school,
and I was going to Madrasah as well.
I was going to Madrasah,
memorizing Alhamdulillah,
slowly slowly,
but memorizing in the UK depending on how
much effort you're putting in.
If you're not
giving it out to your all, and this
is a general principle when it comes to
just seeking knowledge.
Okay. You have to give it your all.
If you think you're going to attain knowledge
by just,
let me give it a little bit,
let me see what I get out of
it. As Imam Azuhur Rahmatullahi a'layhi mentioned,
you're not going to come out with much.
So you really have to give your all.
So when you're trying to memorize the Quran
and you've got another 101 commitments,
I call it British memorization.
British memorization.
But at the time, I was focused memorizing
1 Jews, 2 Jews, 3 Jews. And then
when you get to the 5, you've already
forgotten so many, so you have to start
again.
And then you go and then you start
again,
right?
And it seemed like
I was always going to remain on these
5 years. So this is me
finishing off my GSCCs while at the same
time I want to memorize, I want to
succeed in memorizing the Quran.
And then I started
college.
As some of you may know, I have
a little bit of a football background.
Even some brothers had the audacity to,
I don't think it was this Umran group.
It was the brothers on the
Bukhari TV tours.
They said, Ah, we heard you play football.
I want to try you.
When we go to the isteraha,
we're
gonna play together. And
then the brother who was talking the most,
I not begged him twice.
So,
at the time, I was a bit of
a superstar basketball team, football team, table tennis.
I was pretty quick as well. Sometimes used
to play on the on the wing, left
wing, or in that hole.
The one who sets everybody up.
You want to train us all?
So
as you guys can imagine, I got very,
very busy. Very busy.
And
I would even start coming late to madrasah.
At the time I was going to this
madrasah called Masjid Farah,
right under my house, even where I live
now.
May Allah
reward my teacher.
So,
I would come late,
and I'd be irritating him. Me just walking
in late.
Right.
And then still I wouldn't read
the way I should be or the way
he knows of me. Right. Because he's used
to me now doing it properly. Even if
it was something small, I'd do it properly.
I remember our teacher. He had a very
big miswak.
You guys know what miswak is?
Right?
And this wasn't the ordinary one that you
see people just giving out, the little skinny
ones that they carry in their pockets,
rolled up.
He had a very, very thick
one. And he would use that sometimes on
us if we weren't behaving.
I weren't reading our Sabaqa, they call it
sah. Or in Asian community call it Sabaqa.
Laahi.
That didn't help. So what did he do?
He coated it with leather.
Wallahi coated it with leather.
And that really hurts now.
He's hitting us with that. He's hitting us
with that siwak or that miswak.
And it hurts.
Really does.
Doesn't seem to be benefiting
some of us, right?
And then our teacher,
Sheikh Sha'ib, may Allah bless him.
As he's seen me just continuing in this
way,
he said something to me, my brothers
and my sisters, wallahi, I
wish Well, at the time,
I wish that he just
beat me the worst and he could instead
of him saying that to me.
Wallahi.
He said something to me that really, really
hurt me at the time. He really did.
You know what he said to me brothers
and sisters,
he said, You, Muhammad, you, and this is
after he got tired of just hitting us.
First, he was just the miswag, then he
got coated
with leather, still mangan fash.
Still not working.
He said to me, You Muhammad,
you're never going to memorize the Qur'an.
Wallahi brothers and sisters.
That hurt me so much.
And I just couldn't get over the pain.
I really couldn't.
He said, You're never going to memorize the
Quran.
Lie.
I remember I went home
upstairs,
sat on the bed,
and I think I just burst into tears.
Olaai.
That really, really hurt me.
Him saying to me, you're never going to
memorise the Quran because our father
and our mother, she really instilled within us
the importance of memorizing the Quran and the
love of the Quran. It was something that
we became so used
to
from a very young age, and it's something
that they really wanted us all.
So what happened? He said that,
that really tore me apart.
I remember I just sat there.
And by the time I looked at that
time, I think maybe a couple of hours
went by, just literally
in the deep thought.
Al Qadarullah my shafaal,
at the time I said,
I think I really need to just now
go.
Because remember when I said to you brothers
and sisters,
there was always an idea, Sah,
of going abroad
memorizing the Quran, learning Arabic 1 year, one
and a half years and then coming back.
This was an idea.
Okay?
But when that happened,
Allah,
it's like mountains came. It started coming down
on me.
And sometimes my brothers and my sisters, and
perhaps maybe this is the first benefit that
we
could take away. Your teacher might be a
little bit harsh with you. I'll take that
back. I won't even say a little bit
harsh. He might be really harsh with you.
When he's advising you,
do you really think that
he feels some sort of utter joy
making you cry or
getting angry at you? It's only out of
care and consent.
Umar
ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he would say,
Rahimallahu
man ahada ilayaa yubi.
May the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
be upon the individual who gifts me my
shortcomings.
This is Ameerul mumineen,
the leader of the Muslims, Umar ibn Khattab
radiAllahu ta'ala.
Some of the serifs, they would say,
man ahabbaka
nasahk.
Whoever really loves you, He will advise you.
And whoever just, you know, beats around the
bush and he's always there to just
smile in your face,
doesn't tell you the reality,
this person is not your friend.
He's deceiving you.
He's actually deceiving you my brothers and sisters.
How do you say friend in Arabic?
Sadeq. Oh, sahib.
Sadiq, right? I think everybody's heard this term.
Familiar with it? Sadiq.
Where does this who knows the root letters
of
siddiq?
Which means
to be truthful.
Your friend is only a proper friend to
my brothers and my sisters
if
they are advising you in that which is
going to bring you closer to Allah.
Otherwise that individual is not your friend.
And they just do this out of care
and concern.
Sometimes they might be stern,
they might be harsh,
Again, it's because they care about you.
Your parents care about you when they try
to advise you.
You see,
even the poet he says
Whoever is not patient,
being humiliated,
right,
for an hour.
Tajarra aqatsaljaniqurahat.
For
the rest of his life he's going to
be drinking ignorance.
That harshness, that sternness at times,
can Allah be the best thing that happens
for you?
It comes from a place of care and
consent.
I call it tough love.
It's tough love, right?
So I, one of the scholars says,
Faqasali is Dejiro.
Faqasali is Dejiro.
SubhanAllah.
He was harsh when advising you.
And whoever wants to really be merciful to
others,
then let him be stern at times,
with those that he loves.
Recently, he has no study I've seen, right?
And it really touched me that he said
this, Wallahi.
Me, him, and Imran were together.
And he was saying
that, Ah,
I got to know Abu Tamia.
Right? And what he was saying was, Abu
Tamia is really tough at times with those
that he really, really loves.
Because he does this to me sometimes as
well.
Right?
Even though Mashallah studied his scene, he studied
with scholars, he's studying with Kibar, with the
major ones,
and sometimes you may need to advise one
another.
I'm a little bit older than him, Sometimes
he advises me, sometimes I have to advise
him.
Because I love him so much, sometimes I
might be a little bit
And he was telling Imran like, he doesn't
mean anything bad
when he does that.
Right? Stud Imran because I know he's your
teacher.
The point in the matter is sometimes
your teacher is like that.
The worst thing that you can do is
talk back at him. And this is what
we are used to, right? This is the
kind of environment that we come from, that
if you don't talk back, it shows a
weakness.
Oh, he was quiet.
That's how you talk like in school, sir.
Oh, he didn't say anything.
Look at this guy.
We're living in this society where they teach
you to talk back.
They teach you to respond.
Aliskedalic, isn't that so?
That kind of environment.
A lot of worse things that you could
do is talk back at your teacher or
get angry,
and in reality he just wants good for
you. Remember
Dhahbir Rahmatullahi alaihi
When speaking about
Al Imam Al Hakim,
some of you may be acquainted with Al
Imam Al Hakim.
Sometimes find him at the end of a
Hadith
graded as
Sahih by Al Hakim or narrated by Al
Hakim. It's like you have Bukhari Muslim but
of course
you can't put him in the same Tabakar,
in the same
category as Imam Bukhari Imam Muslim.
But Alakul Ihar,
he was one time
debunked,
rebuked
for that which he authored in a book.
And Imam Dhabir Ahmad Tullahi a'layhi mentions this,
I think either in his tarjama or in
the tarjama of Abdul Ghani bin Said,
Bil Said he says
When I rebuked him, debunked him and some
of his mistakes in that which he authored,
he sent me a Messenger.
Wallahi.
He sent me a Messenger. Messenger meaning, you
know, when you send a message with somebody.
Knocked on my door,
and this Messenger
was saying, Oh Abu Abdullah Al Hakim,
He's making du'a for you.
And he's thanking you for all of these
mistakes that you pointed out to him.
Laahi, this is, my brothers and my sisters,
the tawadah,
being humble,
lowering yourself to the truth.
Right?
Even Abu's hakal albiri and his mandumah,
He writes
mandoma, a poem,
where part of it,
the teacher is advising the student.
And then what happens is the theme changes.
The teacher the student starts
advising the teacher.
But it's all one person who's writing this
poem.
And that is Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Masuruk.
Why is he writing in this way? Because
he's trying to remind himself.
This is why after the teacher advises Surah
Al and it's all just one person
who's writing all of this.
He says
You've only just uncovered some of my mistakes.
O Abu Bakr.
Wa'aktharahu
wa'malabamuhusatarta.
The majority of it, indeed you've kept it
hidden.
And then he says,
And he says, Say whatever you need to
say.
Say whatever you need to say about me
when advising me.
Even multiply it, he says.
Indeed, by you just mentioning some of these
points,
the reality is that you've praised me.
Look at that response.
Point of the matter is, look at this
kind of response, brothers
and sisters,
and now put that into perspective with the
kind of
situation we live in, how we respond, how
we might sometimes walk around with an ego.
How can this individual respond to me like
that? Or how can he speak to me
like that? When in reality the brother really
cares about you.
And sometimes it might be that
when being advised, you're looking at his flaws
and his shortcomings.
He's telling me this, but he's like that.
Ibn Uqaym when speaking about
how everyone who advises is a sinner advising
another sinner.
It's always a sinner advising another sinner.
Just because you see us giving lectures that
don't think we don't sin.
Said,
every son of Adam is not just someone
who errs, but he excessively and continuously
errs all the time.
But the best of those who continuously Azz
are those who
continuously go back to Allah.
So he says, umin shurot lintifai.
Umin shurot
lintifai.
Bima wa'ilatinaarsahi.
From the conditions
of you now,
maximizing
in your
or maximizing
and taking away from that which this Nasah,
this advisor is saying is
Alama Al Aibih
is that you overlook his shortcomings.
Otherwise you walk away with nothing. Oh look
at this guy.
Put his mistakes to the side, he's advising
you of something.
And it's going back to what I was
saying.
A teacher said that to me.
He said, you're never going to memorize the
Quran.
But like I said to you guys, Wallahi,
I wished at the time that he hit
me in the way that he really beat
me or just dragged me or done something
instead of him saying that to me.
Wallahi,
it was a turning point.
It was one of the best things that
were ever said to me.
Because I said halas,
it's time to go and study.
It's time to go and study.
It's time to fulfill
what my parents always wanted.
And perhaps InshaAllah Ta'ala Allah will open doors.
And when I was leaving,
a lot of people said something to me.
You know what they said?
Akhi, you just started college.
I remember I'd just done my January exams
and perhaps it was Khair that I got
very bad marks.
Alhamdulillah,
for GCSEs, I got something like
11 GCSEs between A to C or A
star to C. I think 4 or 5,
8 stars or something like that at the
time. But in January, at a time, I
got something like Ds and Es and
I'm thinking,
Keif.
And perhaps
if I didn't
get these bad marks,
it would have been easier for me to
stay.
Sometimes things happen in life my brothers and
my sisters.
Right?
We think that,
why is it happen?
But we don't realize that this is actually
a blessing in
disguise.
Wallahi.
So blessing in disguise. And we don't realize
this blessing in disguise
except later on down the line. A couple
of years go by.
Oh SubhanAllah, if that happened,
I probably wouldn't have this today.
We've been in these kind of situations scenarios
before, right?
We really want something. We're trying to
attain and acquire this one thing that we
think is the best for us.
It might be a sister that you're pursuing.
You think that she's the one.
No one else will be better than her.
For your hand, we've been in that situation
before. That should be everybody.
Hassain number 1.
That happens all the time.
We think that this is the one,
but you're held back from it.
You may feel like you're being deprived.
Years go by,
Allah blesses you with that which the mind
couldn't imagine and you think, oh SubhanAllah.
If that didn't happen, I wouldn't have this
today.
That's why I always say my brothers and
my sisters,
trust Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to open the right door for you at
the right time.
Trust Allah Azza wa Jal to open the
right door for you
at the right time.
Waasan Taqrahusayyan
Waajaa Allahu feee khayran kathya.
Everybody was saying to me,
you just started college,
right?
And
all your classmates are going to surpass you.
All your classmates are going to surpass you.
You're going to fall behind.
There's only some walaif, they make it look
like, oh it's either this or that.
Lord plan of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
and what
Allah is capable of is something that the
mind
just can't imagine.
You're gonna fall behind, all your classmates are
going to surpass. They're going to take all
of these jobs that are available. Allahu Akbar.
4 years down the line, he's giving me
a fatwa now.
At the time, I can't remember who taught
me this hadith.
There was this one hadith that I knew.
And it wasn't the actual wording of the
Hadith,
but it's very similar meaning.
You guys heard this term before?
Right? But the correct wording is Inna kalantada
a shayan
Itiqaalila
Ila Ataka Allah Khirrimin.
At the time I knew this one hadith.
Somebody taught me this and may Allah reward
that individual. I don't know who he is,
ask Allah Azzawajal
to to give him the highest part of
Jannah.
Because this hadith, my brothers and my sisters
really changed my life. And some of you
guys may have heard me mentioning this quite
frequently in videos.
You don't leave something for the sake of
Allah
fearing him except Allah will give it a
wush is bad.
I said, you know what?
Prophet said this, let me just go ahead
with it.
I didn't, I don't think I knew any
other hadith at the time
that I memorized other than this one.
So I made the decision, we left.
I made the decision and we ended up
leaving.
Wallahi brothers,
they say, right,
that you're going to fall behind, you're going
to be deprived. What job are you going
to have? How are you going to be
able to provide for you, for yourself?
And they paint this picture.
What I always say to the brothers and
sisters, and I don't want to go too
deep into
what ended up happening after I came back
and what Allah Azza wa Jal blessed me
with and whatever have you.
I always say this one point,
brothers
and sisters,
we see Allah Azza wa Jal providing for
those who have graduated from secular universities, right?
And he's never perhaps
ever studied his Deen.
You ask him how to make wudu, he
probably doesn't know.
But Allah is providing for him.
Allah is Ar Rahman and he's Raheem, he's
providing for him.
But you who went out to learn about
his religion,
Allah is going to abandon you.
You went to learn about
how to fulfill
your sole reason of existence.
Because we've only been created for one purpose
and that is, wama khalaqdul jinnah wal insa
laniabudun. I didn't create the jinn and the
insa except to worship me alone.
And you cannot fulfill that main
or sole reason of existence except why?
Studying.
Are we gonna be like the Christians,
who just worship Allah
You see
the church just comes out with
random things from time to time,
And they just worship Allah Azawajal like that,
worshiping him upon jahal and ignorance.
Are we going to become like that? So
you have to worship Allah Azawajal with, passiara
with insight,
knowledge.
Right? Allah is going to abandon that brother,
that sister.
Come on brothers,
sisters.
Has our
level of bad thoughts of Allah as well
reached that level?
He's going to provide for that liberal,
right,
who graduated from university with all these doubts
and even
doubting the religion.
But he's very well
educated
academically.
But you went out to study, Allah is
gonna abandon you?
Come on, brothers.
Bilalik, really?
So Allah azza wa jay zaraim.
He's very merciful. Sometimes me who study Yaseen
when I visit him in Makkah,
sit down in front of the Kaaba and
we should look at one another,
Right?
And we say, Oh, Allah is so generous.
Right?
Alhamdulillah.
People make it look like,
if you go to the university and you
get married,
halas, you're gonna be walking around on the
streets of Medina begging people to give you
money.
Allah is generous. Allah is Raheem. Allah is
a lathief from ya'ibadeh.
Right?
If I carry on speaking brothers and I
don't get to the Medina part and the
lessons, I think the lesson will be finished
because I have another class after this as
well
on the No Knowledge College.
Subhamdulillah, I come back a couple of years
after
and Allah Azza wa jah blessed
me. Allahih. I remember brothers
who graduated from university,
they were asking me things like, How can
I get the job that you're doing?
These are
university graduates,
right?
And then SubhanAllah,
when I came back, I came back extremely,
extremely disappointed
because I didn't want to leave Yemen. I
was in Yemen for 4 years studying. I
really didn't want to leave.
Right?
Allah is very painful. My plan was to
stay there for 10 years.
I was making a lot of Dua. I
really wanted to stay there for a very
long time. But because of the wall, it
was destroyed
by the Rafila, the rejectionists, those who curse
the Sahaba
and doing Kaar of the Sunnah.
For those who want more information about what
happened in that place, there's an interview, it's
online,
about speaking about this issue.
It was destroyed.
They were annihilated.
Students who would go there from all around
the world. They say over a 100000 Khafad,
memorizers of the Quran graduated from the institute.
100,000
destroyed by the Shia.
And of course Shia are of different levels,
not all of them are of this kind.
To be fair and just, O Allah is
shakassain.
In Yemen, a laqulihan, whether he agrees or
not, in Yemen,
we had different kinds, right?
You know, the Ma'at Tukhyan, whatever.
But,
those
were
the worst of them who destroyed the institute.
They completely annihilated it.
So we had to come back.
And I want to come to another point
that I really want you guys to take
away, InshaAllahu ta'ala.
For a whole year, I was making du'a
to get accepted in Madinah.
A whole year.
How many times do you think I applied
for the Jannah?
For the university? Does anybody know?
4. 5.
6. Someone said 4.
Once.
Once.
Why are you guys saying 6?
Someone
said 3.
Brothers,
I applied 6 years in a row.
6 years in a row.
My dad, may Allah
bless him and preserve him. He has a
Hajj and Umrah company. So I would always
be, even when I was in Yemen,
okay,
I,
my father,
I would go
perform Hajj, help out the group because he
needed help, right? I'd help him out.
While we're in Medina, I remember he would
wake me up and I was like, dad,
I don't want to go to the university
now. It's too tiring. It's too hot. I'm
very tired.
He would drag me.
Right? Because at the time, I'm not going
to lie, I really wanted to say in
the Yemen.
One time I read, and I used to
hear this a lot when I was in
Damaj in Al Yemen, that there's a Sheikh
in Al Medina
who said 1 year in the Majiyanal Yemen
is equivalent to 3 years in Al Madina.
People used to spread
that 1 year is equivalent to 4.
So I had that in mind, right?
So one time I walked into the library
and he has his whole Mujhmua there. He
has like a huge compilation of his books.
O Allahi brothers and sisters.
I just wanted to check it out. I
took out one volume.
I opened it
and it happened to fall on that point.
Wallahi on that point that I always just
wanted to double check.
On that very point,
and he said 3 years equivalent to 1.
Someone back to everyone, brothers, I know you
guys love your institute, and it's pretty
normal.
It's 3 years, I just read it. Right?
So stop puffing up your institute more than
what it is.
Deep inside, I just wanted to stay there
because of what I heard and being told
that you could learn better.
In Al Liman, you could pick up, you
know, Deen and books
and much more quicker than Al Madinah. And
I can testify to that now having been
to there, been to Yemen, Egypt and
and then Medina as well.
So deep inside I wouldn't stay there longer.
But my dad would take me, would go,
have an interview,
and then nothing.
6 years brothers
in a row,
sisters.
And I'll be making a lot of Dua,
a lot of Dua.
After I left Yemen, I was in the
UK, started giving Dawah.
I still wanted to go there.
Right?
Alhamdulillah,
after something happened, Sheikh Abu Usama
took my papers.
They happened to be sitting where there was
very big personalities,
and it got signed off by the previous
King, King Abdullah.
And alhamdulillah it was Royal Mail.
Royal Mail.
The next time the names got released my
name was on there.
I get accepted.
Alhamdulillah.
I remember I thanked Allah Azzawaju wa Sajid
al Shukr. And I'm mentioning this for a
reason, tell you guys after.
The fact that I don't Sajid al Shukr.
I went to my dad to give him
the news.
My dad looked at me and he said,
wow.
You have this nice job
where you're picking up, Masha'Allah, good money,
and you want to exchange this for
840 riyals.
For you guys who just came back from
Umrah, how much is 840 riyals?
Taqrib even?
Come on, Hussein.
£180.
Something, 1.70, 1.80. Yeah.
It's not a lot.
You know, every parent, they want to see
their kids progressing,
and what they see as progression is
getting married, working,
having kids.
Right? They want to see their grandkids.
Right? I think everybody agrees,
Buying a house and so on and so
forth. Typical
parents, you know, it's just normal.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to see that.
But this is what many parents they see
as success and progression.
And my dad was like, you're not going
nowhere.
Allah said to me, you're not going anywhere.
I remember I walked into his office and
I told him this, so excited. Dad,
Halas, I got in. And he used to
take me all the time to have the
interview, Alhamdulillah happened.
He said, you're not going anywhere.
I want you now to get married, to
do this. This is a very long time
ago, back in 2014
when I came back from Yemen.
God is not going anywhere. Stay here.
Am I going to turn around and say
to him, Dad, I'm a grown man.
I'm giving Dawah.
Can't say that to me.
I'm gonna go against whatever you said.
All that knowledge that we studied, my brothers
and my sisters,
is it going to be beneficial for us
if we don't implement it?
My dad said I've been funding you for
the last 4 years.
Now I want you to move on with
your life.
Does he have a right to say that?
Have I
studied hopefully the basics of my religion,
being there for 4 years,
which according to one Sheikh is equivalent to
how many years? 12 years.
He said, no.
One of the common questions that I get
asked by brothers who are extremely
eager and Mashallah
exuberant young brothers
is my parents are saying that I can't
go and seek knowledge.
What do I do? I've told him, Khallas,
I'm leaving. I'm gonna get off.
Even not so long ago, a very nice
brother called Amar
Canada
Ottawa
had the same query.
Sat in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's
masjid, and I told him this exact incident.
Allahi.
Being dutiful to your parents and listening to
them, my brothers and my sisters,
It could either make or break your life.
Allah could either make or break your life.
Some of the Umar brothers they know I
gave them an incident or 2 incidents in
fact.
And I don't want to go into it
for the sake of time.
Of how one of the
reciters in the Haram, he's no longer an
imam anymore, but at the time
he was an imam in the Haram, Al
Makki, Makkah.
He says about himself that he was a
very naughty child,
very naughty, messing around, not listening to his
parents. And at one time what happened was,
oh well in fact every time you've done
something bad she would say to him, May
Allah make you the Imam of the Haram.
She meant she's angry.
Some parents they might do Hawar, they might
curse you and whatever have you,
but she would do that because she knew
the power of the parents dua,
Knew the power of that.
And then he ended up becoming the Imam
of the hab. And then there was another
brother who was studying Umar Khurra University, which
is an equivalent to Madin University.
He was working hard for his
finals,
you know, his exams,
and he wanted to go outside and have
some fresh air.
And he kept on insisting and his father
was like no, no it's late I don't
want you to go.
And then he used his mum
to convince the father,
his dad.
Mada Hasar, what happened? He said, you know
what? Go and may Allah bring you back.
Wallahi brothers, just to quickly, sisters, to quickly
summarize this.
His father went looking for him and then
he ended up finding him in a body
bag.
This is no road man, he was studying
at Umar Qura University,
but the father made dua against him.
Being dutiful to your parents,
Allah Azza wa Jal, it connected it to
the rights of Allah Azza wa Jal. 3
3 different places in the Quran, makadarabukalataabudillahiyeaswadissawabudullahalata
shiguwajayin sultanisa,
sultananamqtaaalu
maheramarabukumalaykum
3 places.
So being dutiful to your parents is not
a light matter.
Sometimes I would hear scholars being asked about,
my parents are saying I can't go and
seek knowledge.
Right? And it would be about learning the
basics of your religion.
Because the parents cannot stop you from learning
the basics
that which is going to allow you to
worship Allah.
So in that case you might get a
fitwa from a Sheikh,
right? But after he's been looking after you
and he's been saying, yes, study, don't worry,
I'll look after you financially, and he's sending
me $150
every single month,
right? Giving me more than what I need.
And now he says to me stay and
I go against him, even if it is
in Madinah.
Knowledge is not restricted and limited to any
place in the world, whether it's Madinah or
not.
Allahi brothers and sisters, it really really hurt.
Really, really hurt.
So I just dropped my head and I
walked out.
I was like, alright, Khallas.
There was a whole year that went by,
and a lot of things happened in that
year.
A lot of things.
Which, again, I don't think we'll have time
to go in,
time to go through. But a lot of
things happened.
I was also studying civil engineering at Loughborough
University at the time.
Every time I tried to put my head
down, something would happen.
And even getting into that university, it's like
Allah is showing me.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is showing me, I'll
give you whatever you want.
It's a very hard university to get into.
They say it's top 5 for, I think,
engineering.
So hey, something like that. And it's not
far from Leicester as well, convenient.
And the way I got in as well,
got in as well, SubhanAllah.
And
every time I try to put my head
down
to past the or to just like, you
know,
something would happen.
Even just before the exam,
you guys are gonna find this a little
bit funny, but
me and one of your teachers,
I think this is most people because you
guys have been attending classes.
We started having a race.
You know, I told you guys before, right?
It used to be a bit of a
superstar, quick, left side.
And I really think it was somebody's Ayn,
due to what happened.
As I'm being him, a couple of meters
in front of him,
I just start
falling, rolling on the floor.
And the whole skin of my hand came
off.
Orla, I couldn't even sit the exam.
As all of these things are happening throughout
that year, me studying, right, trying to get
that degree, civil engineering,
I would ask myself, like, why can't I
put my head down? Is it because I'm
too distracted by different things? Am I too
distracted with dawah? Too distracted with teaching? Too
distracted with finding? What is it?
Just didn't seem to be happening. And then
I said to myself, maybe Allah Azza Wa
Jal has something else
waiting for me in the pipeline.
So I had to email them. I was
like, I can't take the exam. This is
my writing hand.
Right. And for those who want to know,
it was a stadab dhaman I was being.
Yeah. So then I fell, my skin came
off, and they've got it on camera as
well. I think Imran was recording at the
time.
It didn't happen. And I had to sit
with my father
and again try to convince him.
This is my brothers and my sisters, what
you have to do.
Try to get around, try to convince them,
try to speak to them. Sometimes they might
seem irrational.
They might even seem unreasonable to you.
It might seem like that they're not making
sense.
They might even seem backwards.
Sometimes you think that, oh, our parents are
backwards. They don't have a clue what they're
talking about. They're from Somalia. They're from Pakistan.
There's a huge
gap
between our generation and their generation.
Tell you, when you used to be a
naughty
kid,
not listening to them,
they would tell you to do certain things.
You wouldn't listen. They would keep trying, please
Muhammad don't go out, please, Abdullah,
Abu Bakr, don't do this, don't do that.
And they would really struggle.
I'm sure we can relate to this, right?
We remember there was times like that when
we wouldn't listen, We may have been rebellious
children,
sons and daughters.
Were they not patient with us?
Were they not patient with us?
Now the tables have been turned. Isn't it
our turn to be patient with them?
You want a righteous sister from a different
Kabila.
Yes. Today you can't marry a sister just
because she's not from the same Kabila,
same tribe.
They may they might be being unreasonable. They
might you might even feel like they're wrong
and you're being oppressive.
So,
but you have to make Dua for them.
Allah can change their hearts in their heartbeat.
The hearts are between the two fingers of
Allah Azza wa Jal, as the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam said,
Allah can either put it straight or deviate
it, can easily happen.
Have we ever thought about, okay, let me
make Dua, hoping that Allah is going to
help them change their decision?
Right? Might be that you need to take
them out, have numerous amounts of sit downs,
you need to be patient.
And it wasn't easy to convince my father,
oh, lie. It really wasn't.
And eventually he agreed.
Eventually he agreed. And I kept on saying,
I think it to myself like people are
saying why is your dad even
like you're old now.
You're old. You can do what you want.
Don't even live with him. He doesn't have
a right to. Allahu Abadan.
Even recently, not so long ago in the
corona period,
my dad, they don't wanna let me go
to Egypt.
Even though I got family,
and I had to convince him, and then
eventually next time around he allowed me to
go.
I'm an old guy guys, I'm getting white
hairs.
White hairs
and I have to sit down with him.
I'm not I'll be honest with you guys,
when I sit down sometimes to
consult him about these big decisions, I'm shaken.
Is he gonna let me? Is he not?
He said, our parents,
my dad doesn't interfere in my private life,
but these huge decisions,
it's only his right for him to know.
Leaving the country, going to somewhere else.
And again, I will have to speak to
him about it.
And he was going back to the point
that I wanted to make. And I was
telling his brother, lovely brother, Ammar, in Canada,
in the Haram,
Prophet
What happened in that 1 year
Or that which happened in that 1 year?
Wallahi brothers
and sisters,
I'm benefiting from it all the way up
until this very day.
Wallahi.
The people that I
met,
the Shiyuk that I met, that helped me
out in different things.
Those that I visited
even recently I had a huge issue with
a Visa.
Wallahi with my wife's visa.
But then SubhanAllah, some things happen and a
brother or an in 1,
you know, like a official that I met
in Baker Street.
It was that period.
He helped me out. And everybody was saying
to me,
Even he said to me, No, no, no,
there's no way out of this.
Because he's a travel agent.
Everyone's telling me there's no way out of
this.
Your man has sought something out for me
after I made a lot of Jua. And
it means in that 1 year,
all the things that happened, I'm benefiting from
it until this very day. From the time
when my father said no, all the way
up until allowed me to go to a
Madina,
I'm benefiting from it until this very day.
And perhaps
it is due to listening to my father.
The blessings that come out of it, wallahi.
Are you guys with me? Don't undermine
what your parents say or just like trying
to convince them.
They want Khair for us and at times
they might be unreasonable.
That's perfectly normal.
We are human beings and they are human
beings as well.
You see?
So that's the second benefit that I really,
really wanted to mention.
The other point that I wanted to mention
independently as well, that one year when I
was making a lot of dua.
Allahi,
don't lose hope
You know what Allah can do for you.
Wallahi.
Imagine 6 years applying.
Most people give up.
But to
remain having good thoughts of Allah Azzawajal,
having hope,
right? My brothers and sisters is not easy,
but,
the poet he says,
Perhaps
this karb, this distress
that was bothering you
throughout the night,
there is going to be an opening, you're
going to be released from it.
Also the poet he says, and this is
one of my favorite lines of poetry,
say,
Allah Azzawajal will open this door that you
thought
was never made without a key.
Is the wall made with a key brothers
and sisters?
Imagine we had a door like that that
can never open.
Allah Azza wa Jal will open it.
You thought it was made without a key
and you just completely lost hope.
The Muslim should not believe in something called
impossible.
Everything is possible with a Dua.
You just have to believe.
Call on to Allah Azzawajal, invoke him while
you have Yaqeen, certainty that he's going to
respond back to you.
And sometimes Allah Azzawajal doesn't accept your du'a
straight away
because Allah knows that that's not the best
thing for you at the time.
But in fact at a later time it
is best for you.
And even then SubhanAllah,
when I did get accepted my dad said
no.
Refuse to let me go.
And then SubhanAllah when the time came to
go, I still had a lot of issues
because
my visa expired
and I was getting some negative signals and
sometimes positive 1 Alhamdulillah, may Allah rule the
brother run around
and he sent his students to
sort out everything as well.
The next point that I want to quickly
mention InshaAllahu Ta'ala is
When you go to places like Al Medina,
places where there are scholars and serious students
of knowledge,
It really really humbles you.
When you get a little bit of knowledge
and you start giving Dawah, you might start
beginning to feel like Sheikh Ullisamatemia.
Everybody's gathering around you.
Sheikh Usama always says,
the one eyed
man, he's the king in the land of
the blind.
Say that again, the one eyed man,
is the king in the land of the
blind. If everyone's blind, then one has his
aor, he only has one eye.
Zawr is a bit different, but he has
one eye.
He's a king, right? Because he's able to
run everything.
You come to the UK,
right? Or anywhere else,
someone might just have a little bit
but everyone think that this guy is the
Alim.
He is the Sheikh.
So giving Dawah, right, as I was giving
Dawah,
everyone's just flocking around you. Everyone's just trying
to take knowledge from you. And a very
set couple of brothers in Du'at.
You go there, my brothers, the Masih really
humbles you.
I remember one of the things that I
really wanted to do was
memorize Bukhari Muslim.
Because they have a Barna'am which they were,
they memorize Bukhari Muslim.
So as soon as I arrived, I was
looking for this Halaka. Where's this
circle? Cause it's in Medina.
And then they directed me to him.
Do you know my brothers and my sisters
who's memorized Bukhar in Muslim?
11 year olds,
12 year olds. 13 year olds. 14, your
classmates.
These are the kind of people that I'm
just, like,
sitting in front of,
feeling like, you know,
like, O Mashallah,
La Hu Akbar.
And they know even the scholars,
they themselves know their place.
And you have these ones,
hadith, like water to them, like fatha to
them.
And sometimes as someone who's like a teacher
who gives Dawah, you need that. You need
to be humbled.
You really do.
So you're sitting in front of all these
brothers
and they're not even the scholars.
Even some of the scholars have memorized all
of these Hadith, and you find them running
after the scholar's Sheikh, what does this Hadith
mean?
They might not have the understanding or the
experience, but the Sheikh does, so they're running
after Sheikh. Sheikh. It's hadith I came across
and memorized it today. What do you think?
Well, it really humbles you.
Really, really does.
The next benefit that I want
to take away is
the importance
of having a mentor,
an Ustad,
to guide you through your journey.
And I'm mentioning this because
one of the things that Study Has Seen
asked me to make a video about was,
because I was discussing this, mentioning this to
some brothers, and then
he told me you have to really just
push this point.
And it's this point here.
And that's why I'm mentioning this now, you
know, putting more emphasis on it as well
and significance.
When you go to Al Medina, my brothers
and my sisters, it's just like any other
university with how it looks.
There's a campus.
Universities that some of your brothers and sisters
go to, there's a compass. Right?
It's not like Yemen in Damaj where everybody
is living around a masjid,
whereas people are more
connected to one another
or they know more of one another.
It's like a compass.
You could actually get lost.
Not just lost physically,
but you could get lost in your pursuit
in your journey of seeking knowledge.
This used to happen in Yemen as well.
I've seen it for years.
Lie, sometimes out of care and concern, I
might just continuously keep pushing this point to
some brother and then they would get upset.
When I tell certain brothers memorize the Quran,
this is the first thing that you need.
Most important thing that you should be starting
with is Al Quran, memorizing that.
As our Sheikh has in some lines apology,
First thing you should start with is the
Quran.
Someone is Salaf, they won't even allow you
to listen to that hadith until you remember
the Quran.
I Think it's Oza'i,
One time someone sat in his gathering
and he wanted to listen to hadith.
He told him to read the ayah, the
verses of inheritance.
Hardest ayat in the Quran. If he passed
it, then he'll say, okay, go.
That's fine. You can listen.
So he was extremely fundamental.
And brothers will get annoyed. Brothers will get
emotional.
He errs in his early stages, he has
the zeal,
mashallah.
He's eager,
but then he puts all of the energy
in the wrong place.
That's sad. Some people don't have the eagerness,
they don't have the energy.
And he ends up going astray in his
path of seeking knowledge.
Even Imam Shafi'i Rahmatullahi aalehi. He has some
lines of poetry. He says,
You're
not going to attain knowledge except
through 6 things. One of them is
accompanying a Ustad,
who takes you by the hand,
puts you
straight. He has experience.
He has etiquettes.
He has knowledge of what he's speaking about.
Takes you by the hunt
and guides you. Even over there,
right? 1 Shuboha,
1, 1, Shubha,
one doubt that goes around from time to
time is,
you came all the way to Madinah
and you're studying with that guy or that
teacher, that Ustad, or that Dayi, or this
that.
You can all these Masha'ah, go to them.
All of these mountains of Mashallah Zakhal Badar,
who have 100 of students sitting there, you're
going to be able to accompany him, he's
going to be able to take you by
the hand, well that's almost impossible especially in
Al Madina.
Yes, you did come to benefit from the
scholars, but you also need someone who's going
to take you by the hand
and put you right, put you straight.
Otherwise, you'll just be going all over the
place
and not benefit much.
You need that mentor.
Wa laita Shubha.
And because of the hasid, the envy of
some brothers, right? Sometimes
new students would come to me
because, you know, a lot of people, they
know me of the Internet and whatever have
you. And I just started University,
and some brothers might be on the verge
of graduating.
Out of envy, they will say to these
new students after they come to me, what
are you going to this guy for?
All I all I want to do is
put this brother straight, so he goes to
the right place, right halakat, and that's it.
I myself, I'm busy.
They will say things like,
why you going to this guy for? You
need to go to the brothers who are
about to graduate.
And all I'm telling him is what the
scholars have mentioned.
I know what happens and this is so
so sad.
I really wish Huyg could take the honors
of taking him by the hand and mentoring
him.
He might just speak to him for a
couple of minutes and then he leaves him.
So he's left to wander around,
to do something called
trial and error. We don't have time for
that.
Your time in Madinah is extremely extremely limited.
If you want these brothers, tafad will take
them. That's what I'm thinking, like, why do
you need to warn him and get okay,
take them.
So you need somebody who's going to maybe
give you a schedule, who's going to check
up on you. Because sometimes your morale goes
down,
right? Your aspirations might go down.
You need somebody who's going to stay on
top of you.
That brings me on to the next point,
and that is
the people that you are around.
The people
that you are around.
Time and time again, my brothers and my
sisters, wallahi,
I've seen brothers run into a wrong crowd.
You know how we
brothers
sometimes advise the masses, especially the youngsters, not
to hang around with drug dealers?
Sah,
unfortunately, we have to say that also over
there, but not to not hang around with
the drug dealers, but just to not to
but not
to run into the wrong crowd.
Wallahi.
I remember there was a brother,
came from Leicester when I was in Al
Yemen.
He would hang around with brothers who are
always speaking about marriage,
and they would go into a lot of
detail,
even what color hair that he wants his
wife to have.
Wallahi brothers and sisters, and I mentioned in
this, I know some of you guys are
gonna laugh,
Wallahi came up to me and he said,
Wallahi Al Azeem.
He said, I've had a * three
times in the same day.
This brother is no longer practicing.
He said to me, please, divide me, would
you do, man? I said, like, okay, Fiani.
How do you have that in a day?
Like,
she has a
like, how many times you sleep? Like, you
know,
No, I'm stunned.
I said to him, Why? Why? What's going
on? Like, because, yeah, I'm with these brothers.
All they talk about is marriage.
What color she is, what hair and what
this and
what he wants to do and this and
that.
This is what they're discussing in their rooms.
We're like they're having an all nighter
speaking about this. They go and pray Fajr,
Alhamdulillah least they pray Fajr.
Pray Fajr.
What happens?
Go to sleep. The whole morning, go to
sleep.
And then are you surprised why you have
this
3 in a in a day like,
who you hanging around with?
And his brother eventually ended up leaving saying,
I need to get married.
You don't even see women.
In the Maj you don't see them.
You might see a couple and they're old,
you know, niqabdab from top to bottom, you're
hanging around with men, go and fast.
It's not like you're living in London,
where every 8 miles you have an high
street,
where they dress to impress as if they're
going to a fancy dress party.
Well I, you know,
I always say I don't like driving into
London, I really don't.
Unless the Birmingham, Manchester, if you wanna see
facade corruption, you really have to go out
your way.
You really do. You have to go to
the city centre.
Here, I drive in every 7 8 miles
of the high street.
We ain't used to that.
I told him, fast, brother.
A solution for you there.
Even without having the environment, if you fast,
then what else do you need? Like,
he ended up leaving, went back to one
of these European countries, not gonna go into,
it's mention specifically.
And I had they fell off.
Life fell off.
And it's not only that kind of crowd
brothers
and sisters.
We had brothers run into a wrong crowd
like
individuals who would sit around
just criticizing others,
ripping into them.
UllaHil Atheyem.
I remember when I started university,
it's like a celebrity walked in.
Everybody already knew who I was, and I
don't say that as if it was a
good thing.
Well, I began to wish that I never
ever came out on video. I could sometimes
just attend the class, nobody knows me.
I walked in, some of our,
what shall I call them?
Brothers who just didn't like our dawah,
right? They just had an issue with us
for not going through them. I remember I
got told, if you want to give a
Da'wah, you have to seek permission from a
guy in Birmingham.
Allah got told that.
You have to seek permission from him. He
will give
you his blessings, and then you can go
and give it Dawah. Allahu Akkaduah.
They supply that for every other act of
worship is all. If I want to pray
the night prayer, I need to go to
Fulan. Can I pray the night prayer?
So as soon as I walked in, these
brothers, like, slightly saw a ghost
giving you dirty looks,
not returning the salams and whatever have you.
I went through a lot in my 4
years, but I don't mind.
I actually appreciated him for showing me
a very clear face. Because there was people
after that who would smile in your face
and stab you in the back because they
were just envious.
They were just haters.
And I really struggled with them, brothers. Alaikul
Ihal. I'm not here to
complain to you, brothers. But I can the
point is,
good brothers,
extremely,
extremely energetic,
zealous about studying the Deen of Allah
They would run into this crowd
and before you know it, they are speaking
ill of their own teachers.
Forget about their teachers, they're scholars
in Al Madinah.
And then they're walking around
policing students,
oh so and so is attending that class.
We need to drop him.
We need to warn about him.
Or warn against him.
You know, ibn al Jazir Rahmatullahi
I
believe he died in the year 597.
597.
So how many years ago?
Over or somewhat 900 years, over 900 years
ago.
He mentioned a statement, Wallahi, you think that
he's walking
and living amongst us.
Do you know what he said?
From the deception of Iblis on the people
of hadith.
Insha'Allah all of us are
people of hadith, Ahlul Hadith, Ahlul Sunnah.
Insha'Allah,
we want to be part of the safe
sect. And just because now you've told yourself
that I am upon the way of the
Salif or upon the way of the people
of Hadith and the people of the Sunnah,
that doesn't give you a green car to
enter into Jannah. You still have to work
for it. But we hope InshaAllah Ta'ala
that we're doing the right thing to be
part of those who the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam said are from the safe sect.
Maana alayhi umas haabi, and not from the
other 72 are going to go to the
Hellfire. May Allah make us from amongst them,
Ameen.
And make, may Allah make us from those
who don't become complacent
with themselves.
He says,
From the deception of Iblis on the people
of hadith,
is them criticizing and insulting one another
or ripping into
one another.
And when they do this they do it
under the banner of
Some of you may know what this term
means,
the chapter of criticizing and praising.
Today, mashAllah, those who ascribe themselves to the
sunnah, they've made a job for themselves
to throw this Ustad under the bus, that
Sheikh under the bus,
and then before you know it he's falling
off.
This is a science my brothers and my
sisters that I studied
in Al Hadith,
which was used to
defend the Sharia.
But today you find brothers misusing
it. So they're hanging around, sitting around,
circles. They have these secret sittings. So and
so is like that, so and so is
like that, so and so is this, so
and so is that, so is that. Why
am I mentioning all of this, my brothers
and my sisters?
This
is a
This is a huge
obstacle.
A huge obstacle.
That prevents you from being able to progress
in knowledge. And to understand the Quran.
Wallahi, brothers and sisters.
I seen
a lot of these brothers who are studying
with me
drop out
not being able to progress.
We hear a lot about how sins can
deprive you from beneficial knowledge, right?
It's in fact the first point that Imal
Qayyim started with when listing
the effects of sins. 1st point.
When Imam Shafi'i sat in front of Al
Imam Malik and Imam Malik saw how sharp
and intelligent Imam Shafi'i was, What do you
say
to
him?
I can see that Allah has placed the
Noor inside of your heart.
Do not extinguish this nur, this light with
the darkness of sinning.
And even Imam Shabi one time complained about
his memory loss, and he was told by
Waqiya
to leave of sinning.
And that's because he saw the bangles on
the ankle of a woman,
let alone her walking around half naked.
And Imam Shafi'i's memorization was so sharp
that if he had the book, he would
have to cover one side, so he doesn't
mix up with the other. Photographic
memory, I think that's what they call it.
Even Abdullah ibn Mus'ud, the great companion, and
so many of the other
Righteous of the past, they will mention how
sins can deprive you.
Wallahi.
One thinks to himself oh Alhamdulillah I'm not
addicted to *.
I'm not addicted to having a
girlfriend.
Alhamdulillah been saved from all of this.
Look how the Shaitan traps him
of something else.
Thinking that you're doing this
because you are defending the religion.
Those who do it don't believe that they
are sinning.
They believe I'm defending the Sharia by doing
this.
I'm defending the Sharia.
I'm guiding the people
from his guidance of this Ustad and that
Ustad and that Sheikh and whatever have you.
And he doesn't realize that he's actually halting
his progress.
Wallahamstan.
Wallahi so many of them that will not
return the salams.
That will give me dirty looks.
And I apologize for making it look like
as if,
Al Madinah is this hostile environment. It's not.
It's a lovely place.
Me being in Medina, then five and a
half years were the most sweetest days of
my life.
More sweeter than being in Al Yemen or
Egypt,
anywhere else in the world.
Allahi was Madinah.
But it may come across as a hostan,
but it's not.
Right? So you had that kind of, you
know, people.
And unfortunately,
they would drop out. They would hear stories
such as, oh, this brother has now become
a drug dealer.
This brother now is walking around chasing
filthy women and so on and so forth.
Alaykum As Salaam.
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
So your environment is extremely important.
Also,
if those that you're hanging around with don't
have high aspirations,
this is also going to really really affect
you.
If you're hanging around with somebody who just
sleeps all day,
he's going to affect you as well.
Because when he
is meant to be sleeping
and he's not,
you're going to be staying up with him
as all.
Your timetable is going to go with it
as well.
And a common question that people tend to
ask is how can I
get rid of
procrastination?
How can I up my morale?
How can I memorize more? And so on
and so forth.
You see?
Olakin,
you hanging around with
these kind of individuals only affect you.
So one benefit that I wanted to mention
is,
what are some other ways to kind of
overcome this?
The poet he says,
ohamsatun
illaju daifilhima. Five things. It is the Eilaj,
the cure,
the treatment for Dhaafil Himma.
When your Himma, your aspirations go down.
Tera'atunfisiarilla
imma number 1 is
reading the lives of the great scholars of
the past.
Allahi, that really, really helps.
Sayyid, when seeking knowledge, you'd always have
some raka'ikh,
heart softeners by your side, books of ibn
Al Qayim. Siraalamunubala, which I know is a
big book. There is some Muqtasaraat, summarizations for
it.
And just books like that, that can just
really, you know, soften up your heart. Qiratun
Fiseara La'ima.
Wadikrufathilalmi
wataalumi
Wasa'abatitulabi
ahlilhimami.
Next one my brothers and my sisters is
just
revising some of the benefits of
knowledge
and studying.
You know what keeps me really going, my
brothers and my sisters?
If I was to ask everybody here, what
is it that we're trying to achieve from
this world?
Where are we trying to get to?
Everyone said Jannah Sahih.
Jannah Tufirah. That's where we want to go,
right?
What did the Messenger say about seeking knowledge?
Jameel Jazakalakir. What's your name Mahi?
Hissap. Hissap
Jazakalakir.
Whoever takes a path and seek knowledge, Allah
will make his path through Ajannah easier.
Your path has been made easier.
Someone might try to pay sadaqa, fast, do
this, do that. Great.
But your path here is being made easier.
And if you die in that path, even
if you're doing a little a day,
the hadith doesn't mean that you have to
pack your bags and go to the other
side of the world. Yes, that's the best
thing to do, but
you still fall on the seeking knowledge if
you are doing a little bit every day.
Accompanying,
accompanying
individuals of high aspirations,
Wallahi.
That would really up your morale and make
you feel better, encourage you. I'm gonna memorize
this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do
that.
Would you guys agree with that?
Majalisilaa'al,
the gatherings of knowledge is something that really
does give you high aspirations, right?
Before I move on to the next
two points, InshaAllah Ta'ala, because I mentioned 3
now, right? The first benefit that I took
away from, I think the Haram.
When I went there, and this was from
Sheikh Ibrahim Al Rahili.
I walked in, I saw a class and
I sat down.
And the Sheikh was mentioning a benefit and
it really stuck with me. It was the
first benefit that I took from
the Haram, I believe at the time.
This is when I went officially as a
student. He was talking about high aspirations.
My brothers and my sisters,
Abu
Bakr didn't reach
that level of piety
and righteousness except
that he was trying to imitate who?
The Prophet
Who is the best in the time of
the Prophet
The best in the time of the Prophet
Prophet
He was trying to imitate the Messenger
in as much as he could. This is
why you find so many hadith,
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam came and with
him was Abu Bakr and Umar.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam left and with him
was Abu Bakr and Umar.
So many hadith are like that.
And he was always trying to be like
them.
You guys with me? No.
Umla Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Always in competition
with Abu Bakr in doing more Khayer, more
good,
righteousness,
best in your time.
That was the first example that he gave
and he gave another 2. And he also
said Alima Muslim.
Kasnu Alima Muslim? We always hear the hadith
narrated by Muslim.
Imam
Muslim didn't reach the level that he reached
except by imitating who?
Muhammad Bukhari
who compiled the most authentic book after
the book of Allah
And they say,
If you want the understanding of Ilham Al
Bukhari, you find it in his chapterics.
3rd example, who
has an idea of what I'm going to
mention?
Allahu Akbar. Who's it that?
I heard it from here.
Zakalakhair.
Brother mentioned it as all.
Ibn Ulkayyim
didn't reach the level that he reached except
by imitating the best in his time,
or being around the best in his time
in nutamia.
Allahu Akbar.
When you look at Ibramu Akayim's arguments at
times,
think which world does he live in?
His books are something else.
Some of them have been translated as well,
Number 4.
If you're studying something and then your heart
now becomes hard,
move on to the next one.
Or move on to something else,
which will make you miss
that which you left off reading.
Today you're going through Asul Fikh. I'll tell
you guys something. Right? I love Asul Fikh,
and I always go on about it in
my lessons.
And my brother says one of those topics
that
Tula, just walk out of class, you see
them, no, I can't do this, like, I'll
walk out.
Can be very difficult at times to understand.
But InshaAllah Ta'ala,
I have a plan
to just really simplify
more intermediate classes.
Break it down Insha'Allah Ta'ala, because Usool Lu'ilm
is extremely important.
So one of the great scholars who passed
away said,
Rhymes,
It's like the gates that protect
the texts, textual evidences
from the thieves.
These liberals, these feminists, and all these
Far Right Extremists,
and you got this guy
Anyways, these enemies of Al Islam.
They use our text
our text against us.
The orientalists, they learn our religion to use
against us.
Usul al Firkth puts a lot of things
into perspective.
That's why these orientalists have a big problem
with
First one, I put down Usul Fikh Azim
Shafi'i.
Wallahi can't read that all day. Surufik,
you can't none. It's really difficult.
It makes your heart feel a certain way.
You're going to have to maybe turn to
other sciences.
Gonna maybe have to read a Kitab of
Ibn Al Qayyram Rhammatullahi Alaihi, of Ibnurajib, one
of these heart softeners.
Is that clear my brothers and my sisters?
So you move on from one topic to
another, perhaps hoping InshaAllahu Ta'ala you will miss.
This is why he
says
So you come back to it craving it.
And he says
Not burdening yourself with more than that which
you can bear.
Don't push yourself.
Don't push yourself.
Don't be harsh with yourself, my brothers and
my sisters.
A lot of times what happens, one brother
starts practising, her sister starts practising,
she wants to
like
maybe that's not
right istillah or anything like that. She wants
to do everything.
He wants to do everything all at once.
Extremely extremely passionate.
Right? That's why we tell the reverse calm
down, take it easy,
take things slowly slowly.
Because as the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Never is one harsh with himself, he overburdens
himself,
except
he would just break himself.
I guess with me my brothers and my
sisters,
you just end up breaking yourself.
That's why you take it easy.
Wallahi take it easy.
Because you might end up leaving
Tala bi Alumwal together
and
totally exhausting yourself.
What do you call it?
Burnout, sir? Burn yourself out.
Take things slowly, slowly, slowly. If you feel
like your,
your Himma has dropped,
Take it easy, InshaAllah Ta'ala, slow down on
it and then move back up again.
Don't try and do 20 things. You're not
Alimam Nawi. Sometimes one says to me, especially
when I try to advise him to memorize
the Quran and he's doing 10 things that,
I used to do 9 sciences
every single day. Akhandanastan imam Nawiy.
You're not an imam Nawiy.
Take it easy.
Don't break yourself,
right? Start with the Quran
So with that, take a book on the
side with it,
and then gradually move on like that.
May Allah honor every single one of your
brothers.
It's so lovely to see all of your
brothers coming in numbers
to attend the class. And Insha'Allah Ta'ala, I'll
see you guys in a week's time when
I do a Dura here. Go through a
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.