Abu Taymiyyah – Part 2 The Wudhu Series From Zaad al Miaadh of Ibn Al Qayim
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The next point that I wanna speak about
my brothers and my sisters, and this is
the second part of this introduction, is not
acting upon your knowledge.
Abu Abdul Rahman Asulami Al Kufi, the individual
my brothers and my sisters taught Hasan al
Hussain,
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the 2 children of
Alibna Bitaaleeb, RadiAllahu
Ta'ala Anhu, he said, one not acting upon
his knowledge
is
a reason where an individual, he misses out
on the barakah,
the blessing of knowledge.
My brother, as I mentioned, my brothers and
my sisters, a number of times,
this knowledge that we are learning,
the description of the wadhu of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we're not just trying to
take the theoretical side of things,
but
upon learning it, we wanna go and implement
it straight away. Hence why previously when I
taught
this course,
one thing that I kept on stressing to
the students is, as soon as we finish
this course today,
I want every single one of you guys
to enter into the bathroom
and to implement the wudu that you've just
learnt
because there's many things that we are going
to be learning that we may have been
oblivious about,
that we may not necessarily have known.
And Insha'Allah Ta'ala, through that, we are going
to increase our chances
of accompanying the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
on the day of resurrection.
As the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Al
Mar Uma Aamin Ahb
1 is going to be with those who
he loves.
And by us implementing this, this is a
sign
that we love
the Messenger
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Imam Shafi'i he
mentioned something very, very profound.
He said,
The real knowledge isn't that which has been
memorized,
but rather is that which
has benefited you.
And the reason why he said this and
he also mentioned another profound statement is
when he said, al nasyaqooloonalilmuhifibwaanaqulualalmaddakhala
ma'aqalqabr.
People say that 'ilm is that which one
memorizes,
but I say to you, the real 'ilm
is that which enters with you in the
grave.
Why did he mention this my brothers and
my sisters? As he just said, there was
many people who were saying that the Real
Wa'alm is that which has been memorized.
Is that an incorrect statement? The answer is
no, but if one begins to think that
Ulm is just all about memorizing,
I'm just going to memorize all of these
hadith
without actually applying it in my life, then
this is a distorted understanding
of how to go about seeking the sacred
knowledge.
Even Abdul Laban Al Mas'ud he
said,
Ilm isn't just having so many narrations that
one has noted down or has memorized,
but rather my brothers and my sisters, Al
Ilimuh is what Al Khashia.
You
fearing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala with that knowledge
that you have attained.
You find yourself in an instance
where
the knowledge that you have learned
is now calling you
to not embark on the sin
that is right before your eyes, and then
you refrain from it. This my brothers and
my sisters is, the essence of Al Khashiyyah
where an individual now has refrained from doing
something because of the knowledge
that he has attained.
Also my brothers and my sisters, Ali ibn
Bialayahu
ta'ala Anhu he said,
fa'inajabahoawawilartahal.
He said, the 'ilm,
it called out. Imagine making a phone call
to
actions.
Just imagine this for a moment, the 'ilm,
he makes a phone call all the way
to
the 'amal, the actions. Of course, they didn't
have phone calls in the time of Ali
ibn Bi Talib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. But you
understand what I'm saying? So he called out
to him
saying, act upon me.
Faina jaba huwa illaataha.
Either
he acts upon this, my brothers and my
sisters, otherwise that ilm is going to disappear.
And this is exactly,
my brothers and my sisters, the effects
of not acting upon that knowledge. Another profound
statement my beloved brothers and sisters is that
which Ali mum Shabir said.
He said,
The real farihi is the farihi
who acts upon his knowledge,
And the Fiqi isn't the one who just
says and the one who just claims.
So you just being able to quote,
a hadith and the masa'il al fiqhih,
the fiqhih related matters,
then the reality of the matter is if
an individual is not going to act upon
it,
then
this doesn't show an individual's prominence
in the deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Al Imam Ahmed was
asked about an individual
who is excessive in collecting a Hadith.
He said,
The more an individual,
the more an individual increases in knowledge,
it is only appropriate that he increases in
actions.
In another statement, he says,
is like the wealth.
How is that my brothers and my sisters?
The more
the wealth of an individual increases,
then his zakat increases as well. Right?
And this is exactly
how
one should be with regards to his knowledge.
The more he seeks knowledge,
the more he should be increasing
in acts of worship.
A A student of knowledge, my brothers and
my sisters, is not like everybody else.
We just mentioned now the statement of Al
Imam Ahmed
The more one increases in knowledge, it only
makes sense that he increases in
acting upon that knowledge as well.
He does more than everyone else.
Look what Alib ibn Abi Talib
mentioned,
Quran. It is only appropriate for someone who
is carrying the Quran, Halami Al Quran,
that he is known for his nights when
the people are sleeping.
And for his days
when the people are not fasting,
this hamilul Qur'an, this person who is carrying
the Qur'an, he is known to be fasting.
Muhammad al Nasreen Rahim Allahu Ta'ala he said,
One should have the portion of the night.
One should wake up for a portion of
the night, even if it means
that
it is the duration that it takes to
milk a sheep.
You,
oh, student of knowledge, you're not like the
random army who does his 9 to 5,
5 days a week.
And you find that the more you act
upon it,
the more the people around you will benefit
from that which you say.
And this is a type of Ta'aleem
that
Allah
gives to that person who glorifies
his religion,
glorifies his book,
glorifies the sunnah of the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
Mahabbatirajuli
lillahi azzawajal
yuhibbuhullah
or yuhibbuhulk
In
accordance to how much
one loves Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you find
that Allah Azzawajal will love him and also
you find that the creation
will love him in accordance to Allah's law.
And in accordance to how much you glorify
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you will find that
the creation,
they will hold you in high esteem.
Let me now mention something very powerful.
The Ibn al Juzir, Rahmanahu Ta'ala, mentioned with
regards to some of his mashaikh,
some of his teachers.
Look what he said, and it's really, really
touched me, guys.
He said, I met many of the Mashayikh
and they had different
situations.
And they had different levels of knowledge.
And then look what he said,
But he said,
those who are found
the most beneficial when it came to accompanying
them
are those who used to act upon their
knowledge
Wa'inqana ghayruahu a'alamin' Even though there were others
who were more knowledgeable
SubhanAllah
That really, really, my brothers and my sisters,
should
have an impact on our hearts.
Sometimes we wonder, we're trying to give advice
to the people.
We mentioned a hadith to them. We try
to bring them the haqq, right? A lot
of the time you find that it might
just fall on deaf ears.
Of course, it could be because of that
individual's stubbornness and his arrogance,
but it also could be because
how do we expect
people to listen to us when we ourselves
haven't listened to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
The knowledge that we had went through one
ear and it came out the other. But
when we find ourselves in gatherings,
we want to show everybody that we know
and that we've learned, right? And
then a Quli said,
I met a group of those who ascribe
themselves
to a hadith,
the people of hadith.
They would memorize
and they also had understanding.
But
they took it very lightly to backbite one
another.
And whenever they backbite it,
they would do this under the banner of
disparaging
and also praising. This is a field that
is studied in the sciences of hadith.
SubhanAllah.
Something that is very common at this moment
in time, right?
And when narrating the hadith they would take
a payment for it.
And they would rush
and hasten
to giving answers when being asked questions,
just so that they don't drop in the
eyes of the people,
even though that which they were answering with
was not correct.
And then look what he says, Wala'qeetu Abdul
Wahab Al Almati. I met an individual called
Abdul Wahab
Al Almati. Fakanaalalaqanoon
is Salaf
He was upon the way of the Salaf.
Lam Usmaafi majjalisihi ribatun
It was never heard that he used to
backbite in his sittings.
And he never used to
request a payment for narrating a hadith.
And whenever
I read the Hadith to him,
that was related to the Hadith of heart
softness,
He would begin to cry,
And then you would find that
his tears just wouldn't stop. It would just
continuously
continue.
And then look what he said,
And at the time, I was young in
age,
when I used to attend these gatherings.
Him crying
would really have an effect on my heart.
And the description that,
I saw with this individual, the characteristics and
the attributes that he had was that which
we used to hear about the people of
the Salaf, the people who have passed.
Those we used to read in the narrations,
the biographies
of those who have passed us
and preceded us in Alimal.
And then he mentions another of his, Mashaaykh,
of his teachers
He says about his other teacher, he was
somebody who used to remain silent
quite often.
Shadeed at tahaddifima yaqul.
He was extra careful that what she says.
He would think twice.
It wasn't somebody who was just hasty
and just speaking, but rather,
he thought twice about
what came out of his mouth.
Muttinan
Muhattika,
He was somebody who was solid.
And perhaps he would be asked a very
easy question.
A type of issue that some of his
children, some of his small students, they would
rush to answering.
He would refrain from
answering that question
until he is certain.
He was somebody who used to remain silent,
quite often and he used to also fast
a lot as well.
And then look what he says
I benefited from these 2 individuals more than
that which I benefited from others.
For him to
Arshadu Minadeel
Bilqawl
So he said I learned from this
that
actions speak louder than words.
We hear a lot about this. Right?
Actions speak louder than words.
Ibrauja
mentioned this to us 100 and 100 of
years ago.
SubhanAllah.
So if you wanna be somebody, my brothers
and my sisters, that has an effect on
the people's hearts, when you stand
on the member, when you're in a gathering,
you're trying to advise,
be that individual who
really glorifies the deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
So look what Ibn Qayyim
mentions. A statement that is very, very
close to my heart. He said,
in accordance to how much you love Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
the creation will love you.
And in accordance to how much you have
fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you find
that the creation will be in awe of
you as well.
And then he concludes
Wa Al Qadri
Ta'adeemihi
lillahi aza wajal
And in accordance to how much you glorify
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,
people will hold you in high esteem. Another
profound statement of
Ta'ala
in his kitab, miftahoodaal Sa'adah, where he lists
so many benefits of knowledge.
The 6th benefit that he mentioned is,
Adamul Aamalibih
When he began to speak about not acting
upon your knowledge, he said,
When acting upon knowledge, my brothers and my
sisters,
from its benefits is,
it allows an individual to
remember that which he has studied.
And it also causes one to contemplate, and
the more you think and contemplate and ponder
upon something my brothers and my sisters,
the more that will stick in your mind.
And then look what he says
If he now becomes heedless
and he stops acting upon that knowledge, he
will forget it.
And this is, my brothers and my sisters,
very well known.
Is something that
any seeker of knowledge,
is aware of, and this is also something
that will happen with regards to the Quran.
We were told about the Qur'an
It will slip away from you the same
way the sheep
that you have tied or the camel that
you have tied somewhere that will slip away
if you don't tie it properly.
And then look what he says, Some
of the salif mentioned,
Kunanastareenu
alahifdilillmi
bilame.
We used
to seek assistance in acting upon the knowledge
in that which we used to memorize.
So by acting upon the knowledge, it would
help them with their memorization.
So you go into the toilet, my brothers
and masters are into the bathroom, and you're
making wudu.
The same way you've just been taught,
it will allow you to just remember that
knowledge
for months to come. And the more you
act upon it, it will stay with you
for years.
So much so that it becomes
carved within you.
Also, Ibn Hajazi, Rahim Allahu Ta'ala, he mentions,
wal miskeenu
kullul miskeen.
The real poor individual is,
Mamba'a'umoro
fee'ilmin lamyaamalbihi.
He's the one who wasted his life.
In not acting upon the knowledge that he
pursued.
Fa'atatul
adhatu dunya
and the sweetness of this dunya
has
surpassed him,
has slipped away from him.
And also the goodness of the hereafter.
Maqoowatul Hujati'alayhi
and he will come on Yawmul Qiyama
as somebody who is bankrupt,
while at the same time
the evidences are going to be pointing against
him. It is going to be what? A
plea against him,
because he learnt, he knew,
and he didn't act upon it.
Nurtayeem Rahm Allahu Ta'ala says,
I'm going to conclude this point with it
Insha Allahu Ta'ala
1 being raised isn't just going to be
due to having mere knowledge. Just having knowledge
is not going to be the reason why
a person is raised
in this dunya and likewise the akhirah.
But rather, he
says,
but
rather,
by following the truth and acting upon it.