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Brothers and sisters, I trust you guys are
well. So I'm with Ustad Abdelkhahan Hasan right
now. And, basically what we're gonna do is
we're gonna have a discussion with regards to
how to move out of the rut that
the Ummah is in right now. People are
always talking about, what are the solutions to
the problems of the Ummah? What group should
we be with? What campaign should we do?
What actions should we partake in? And generally
speaking, the Muslims
seem to be quite confused as to where
to go, where not to go. So inshallah,
from
what we know from what the scholars have
said, those who preceded us in these matters,
looking into the history books,
it's not the first time we've been in
a situation like this.
What is this?
Where does the problem really lie with regards
to the Muslims? Why is it that we're
in the situation that we're in today?
In regards to
the fact that we Muslims today, when we
look at our situation, we all acknowledge, we
all agree that we're suffering.
Knowing that you're ill is the first step
into curing the matter.
And
the Muslims have woken up many years. If
you look back, people didn't even know that,
you know, there was problems around and that
they were suffering. Alhamdulillah, now
they've won't acknowledge. But the problem is
given the cure.
And Sheikh Usami Ibrahim, one of the amazing
things that he said, Rahaimahullah,
is that he said, Al Khair was Sa'ad,
good
and prosperity
and joy is only gained and wal kamalu
salah, completeness is only gained.
It's it's exclusively found in 2 things. And
the almunafi walamru salah. Beneficial knowledge and righteous
actions.
So any nation whoever is found in them
beneficial knowledge, meaning they educate themselves.
They learn the deen
and then after that the great knowledge that
they learn they go ahead and they implement
that which they know of it.
Allah doesn't forsake a nation like that.
And going back to the first point which
is beneficial knowledge.
It's the knowledge that gets you closer to
Allah and that makes you gain the placement
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay.
And the Prophet
used to beg Allah to give him beneficial
knowledge and to
protect him from,
any form of knowledge that won't benefit. And
this the Prophet is asking for knowledge?
No. Alaihi Salaam. It's even amazing
that the message the solid scholars, Rahimullah,
they said like Ibrahim Abu * Rahimullah,
that nothing was the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, ever ordered to ask Allah in increase
except knowledge.
Because Allah subhanahu alaihi said in the
oh Allah increase me in knowledge.
So nothing he was ever told to ask
Allah to increase him. It is even more
amazing the fact that a prophet from the
5 chosen prophets,
or
highly respected prophet who there is no prophet
in the Quran more mentioned than him than
Nabiullah Musa, was ordered to go and seek
knowledge. And Nabiullah Abu
Nabiullah Adam alayhi salam wasn't given the presidency
he was given over the angels except by
way of knowledge.
As Allah said
Allah taught Nabiullah Adam all the names.
So his greatness and his position only came
by way of knowledge.
And then of course if that knowledge comes
to you, it becomes more
that you implement it, that you take into
actions. So what you're saying is that
if there is a a nation that has
beneficial knowledge which manifests into righteous actions, that
nation will never be forsaken. Allah never forsake
a nation like that. What? Sorry?
Rather Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said in the
Quran
Allah say that we made them leaders,
give them leadership
when they came with 2 characteristics.
They were patient.
Patient with the knowledge that they seeked. They
didn't give up. They weren't going and pushed
it. Patient on all forms of obedience, not
just knowledge, but everything. And then after that,
and
they certain about what they're going to gain
if they keep on this path. Mhmm.
That's when Allah made them leaders.
So we need to know that we have
to be patient on seeking knowledge and learning
it. Allah, it's hard.
One of the things he mentions, he says
He says no
to an individual who's a learner.
He says no
may you be guided by Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
The one of the greatest virtues that Allah
bestows upon a person is what?
Knowledge.
That takes away from
you
2
things.
The knowledge that removes from you what? This
is the beneficial knowledge. The doubts. That it
removes from you doubt and it also removes
from your desires.
If you, Ramadan, look at the people who
contact you or the people that you talk
to or the people that you deal with,
a lot of them are suffering from 1
of the 1 of the 2. That is
true. The cure for that is what?
13 years the prophet wasn't working on anything
except the most beneficial of knowledge which was
tawhid.
He made sure that they knew who Allah
was, what his characteristics were, what he was,
subhanahu wa ta'ala,
and everything the companions came with after that
was
what you know in history.
So I said this was that that would
imply that the Muslims are in the situation
that they're in because they don't have knowledge.
Because they don't have knowledge. The righteous actions
are not there, And that's why the Muslims
are suffering.
This lack of knowledge, without a doubt,
has now led to
continuous ignorance and no implementation of the Sharia.
Look what Allah
spoke about spoke about the disbelievers. He
said
so Allah affirmed for them what they have
which is the knowledge of the dunya.
They lack the knowledge of the? Akhira. Akhira.
Nowadays you find Muslims who will learn the
worldly affairs
and not give any form of or any
way or any attention towards learning the Sharia.
Rather they look down at it
not knowing that this is the form of
this is the knowledge that
uplift nations and people before.
Go to any biography
or any history of any imam in Aymati
sunnah.
They remain. Where are the doctors that lived
at the time of Imam al Bukharid? Do
you know who they were? We won't know
who they were because they gained the world,
they worked, they made their finances and they
died with it.
Whereas Buhari,
his name flies where the day night goes.
And all the scholars who were like that.
When I die,
what comes to my mind is Sheikh Usam
Ibnutaimia, for instance.
His era where he lived Raheemullah,
anyone who studied his life will know. Ibnutemia
at a young age,
he was taken from,
Dimashq
and his family ran away.
His father were carrying the manuscripts
and books,
and they wanted to run away. They wanted
to Run away? Because the tatar were on
there. The the case. They were running after
them.
So they what? They ran. They ran away.
When they ran away
in their on their way to
Haran, they were begging Allah that Allah protects
them from The tatar. The tatar.
Allah saved them from it even though in
in the journey, the tires,
it broke,
but Allah saved them from it.
Sheikh Uslam told me his era that Tatar
were the people who were running them. The
Muslims were suffering
in every way of the word and every
meaning it carries. They suffered.
But Allah
uplifted
his the people and gave them back the
honor that they once had.
And it was by when Sheikh Usami Ibrahim
educated the people, and he taught them the
religion.
And he brought the two main sources that
which
became
strange amongst the people.
Mhmm. Because philosophy and all of that was
taking a lot of power amongst the society.
And the people turn it towards the knowledge
that, well, wasn't beneficial.
So Sheikh Usami Barutaym has said, Rahimahullah,
the two main sources, the Kitab and the
Sunnah and anyone who reads his works will
realize how much he worked towards the book
of Allah and the Sunnah.
So the people woke woke up
and
Allah took the the enemies that were there
who were killing them and making them suffer
the Tatar.
They died, they got beaten.
Victory came to the Muslims.
If you read the story and how the
Muslims were at that particular moment,
phrases
one of the examples that scholars give is
a Muslim man
would sit down on the road
by the order of a Tatar woman. Mhmm.
And she would say I'll come back and
all I'm gonna come back is to kill
you. And she she would go and come
back and kill him. That's right. And he
would wait and not go. That was to
the point of humiliation
and the greed that the Muslims were at.
They only reached out when they were distanced
from the book of Allah and the sunnah
of the messenger. Their knowledge wasn't there. The
understanding of the sharia died out. The implementations
and the Bidah and the Kufr and the
ishikh and the Ilhad It went amongst the
society and people were were not
stuck to their religion.
And if ever you want to find a
nation that you feel like that are going
to be destroyed,
just look at their knowledge regarding their religion
and that determines Allah's
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's love and mercy upon
them and him protecting them from harm and
destruction
by their knowledge.
Now
it's very important that we hide at this
point ourselves because see a lot of people
are very confused about the methodology that we
should take with regards to the affairs of
Ummah. Some people are protesting. So Ibn Taymiyyah,
he didn't get involved. No protests,
no petitions, none of that. Even jihad,
before he went to before he engaged the
Muslims in jihad against the Tatar
who had invaded the Muslim lands because A
lot of people are like look the Muslim
lands invaded. How do we liberate them?
Jihad is the only way etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Don't go to the ulama. I heard I
saw Facebook on status where someone said he
wrote that if the ulama are in disagreement
with regards to what to do
on the issue of jihad, then you ignore
the Ulaam and you go straight to the
Mujahideen and you take them as a precedence.
But the point
is that see people, they they they they
the idea of jihad and they're hearing all
of this, you know, speech from some of
the people that preach this this,
this potential solution,
they move away from the issue of knowledge.
But Ibn Taymiyyah Rahim Abahi spent time working
on the issue of Aqidah, the books like
Aqidah Surwasatiha and so on and so forth,
teaching these to the individuals, getting them onto
the correct methodology of Ahlulullah Jema. Then when
they were upon that, only then did he
move away and embark upon a different course
of action, which was jihad. So I think
that's very important because Mongols were the biggest
force that violated the Muslims like none other.
The way that they were defeated was as
a result of them having acquired the beneficial
knowledge. So, you know, I think it's on
that note, I think it's a good opportunity
to tell the brothers and sisters that are
watching that we are actually we're not just
giving you this talk. I think it's very
important that we open up our minds to
understanding that the importance
of knowledge and how big that is with
regards to the affairs of the Ummah. So
those of us who can go and study,
inshallah, will go and make the effort to
go and do that and those who can
teach will go and do that. But there'll
be many of us who are watching that
won't be able to do that, even though
we should make the utmost effort to. But
the least that we can do is we
could fund students of knowledge to be the
flag bearers of this religion
in terms
of solving
solutions,
solving the problems, of the Ummah in a
long term,
kind of skill. So instead,
the place that we've decided
to fundraise for is a place that you've
been to personally and you've seen the quality
of the students of knowledge that come out
there. Right? And the teacher, you were explaining
to us that you you you believe he's
one of the most knowledgeable men in that
part of the world. And that's in Somalia.
Right?
So,
we're not gonna mention the name of the
sheikh because he wants to keep it. Mhmm.
Mhmm. Masha'Allah.
But tell us a bit about this place,
the condition of the students of knowledge, and
the quality of the students of knowledge and
and the Sheikh at the same time.
It's not this summer, but last summer, I
I had the opportunity to go to the
Mahad,
which
now is
so many books are being taught. So many
lessons are going on daily. And I had
the opportunity to go and listen to some
of the lessons that were were being were
being taught.
And
with the sheikh, I had the opportunity to
study the Kitab Shaha'i Talmidi by Nurajabal Hambili
Okay. Which is the shaha of, the illel
of Tirmidi.
And I I have benefited greatly from the
sheikh that was the head of the,
Mahad,
or the Marqas.
And
I saw
with that great knowledge that they had
that
their financial were very low
and that
the building and the or the place that
they were staying was very
broken and it wasn't well looked after.
And
but the hearts of the students were so
big and their goals were very big.
The people who were learning there, I saw
amazement. Her father of the Quran who
strongly memorized the Quran,
who know, you know,
books that,
that many of us have never probably ever
read
and they've memorized them and kept them in
mind.
And within the masjid, the sheikh has his
big Maktala which he spends times time in
that he writes the book by authenticating the
book. So he doesn't he doesn't rely on
a published version of the book
but he actually makes sure that
he looks for the most authentic text of
that book. Okay. Whether it's
he looks for the most authentic text for
them to memorize.
And
and then they're studying
and the
that they're studying right now. As you mentioned,
they don't even have money to buy the
books. The students
are books is
is secondary in comparison. They are even unable
to come to the madamahat sometimes.
Because some of them live very very far.
SubhanAllah, some of them even don't have nothing
to eat.
And the condition is very very serious,
for some of them.
And people like that when you look at
them and how they strive and how they
wanna learn,
and
the only thing that's between them and the
learning, some of them,
is the lack of food. I I remember
I met 1 kid, subhanallah, who
who amaze me which was,
you know, he walks a distance
from where I live to
to West London and back,
is to the misread. He walks every day.
He walks there and walks back.
And,
From one part London to another village. Exactly.
So I got here.
My house right now here.
And we he go goes to West London
and then he comes back.
So south to London, it's like so he
would walk a day free And it's on
his own just cause he wants to study
the religion. Yeah. And whilst he's walking, you
think he's a crazy individual because he's talking
to himself because he's memorizing the text that
he's going through.
And he goes there. Students who when you
look at their appearance, you would never think
they have,
let alone Islamic ground but they don't even
know how to write their own names. When
they talk to you and they say things
to you that you'd be amazed
what they know.
And I I agree because with poverty comes,
you know, a lot of striving.
But it's
help that we should give.
Pure clean water.
Support them in just the construction of their
Masjid.
Sorry. The Mahan and the Madrasa and establishing
it.
Yearly they have a examination and, you know,
they pass and they don't get gift for
it. It's just mashallah, pat on the shoulder.
May Allah bless you.
Some of the students have nothing to eat.
Clothes some of them don't have to are
unable to buy,
pure and clean water.
All of these things are things that are
missing from them.
Not
actually. A 100% I agree with you.
But the issue here, Imran, is
when you look at the issue of the
Muslims today,
people don't realize that what is greater
than given
some people may love to give money to
Mujahideen for instance. Some people are fighting. And
that, in no doubt, is is it's got
his status and it's got his virtue
with the condition that the matter is a
jihad aslan. It has to be a jihad,
first of all.
If it is a jihad, then it's correct
and the conditions are met, and a person
gives it in a shaka, he gets the
reward of the mujahid.
But what is greater than jihad?
Without a doubt, Sheikh Al Sami
says that the best thing is knowledge as
I mentioned.
Because knowledge becomes doesn't
become except in one surah.
So
knowledge is what's made us lose. That's the
first thing. Because in the prophet when he
talked about our loss, he said
until you come back to your Religion. Your
religion. Coming back to the religion involves having
knowledge of it
and then after that implementing what you
what you learnt and you know
so in that regard
it becomes
important that we fund and we help
the people's religion
I believe
food
of people to eat what is more important
than it is the people's belief. But if
a person dies out of poverty, insha'Allah,
he's not the 1st to die. Insha'Allah, we
hope Jannah for him. But if a person
dies by losing his religion, that is the
worst.
He said,
The need that the Umma have for what?
The need that the Umma have for knowledge
is more than that which they need for
food
and drink
because he said water drink you only need
it once or twice but knowledge you need
every place and everywhere you go
so the Hajj and the need for knowledge
is higher and greater
than a person who can't eat. You need
the knowledge even to eat the food to
make sure you know what you're eating. SubhanAllah.
So,
you know, I ask and I urge brothers
and sisters wherever they are if they could
fund these people and give time out to
them. And the matter isn't something for me
and I know it's nothing for our brother,
Imran.
But it's for what you do towards these
people who want to gain Islamic knowledge,
and
support them. And maybe Allah maybe, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, have mercy upon you just by 1
din £1 or £2 that you gave.
Allah may give you ranks and positions in
Jannah. And maybe that that that map had
or that place you funded
could probably the future scholars who saved the
Ummah from destruction,
pushed them towards the road of salvation
and greatness.
And I ask Allah to accept that from
us, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, for trying to bring
the attention of the people to this.
And Ummatul Muhammad were always known. The nation
of Muhammad
they're always known
for their hard work and their efforts
in helping one another.
So just to summarize, guys, like,
you know, when issues get hot, like, we've
regards to the issue,
in the Gaza during Ramadan
when Israel was attacking. Whenever these issues with
regards to Syria, they get hot on the
news. Everyone's very quick to stop posting up
statuses on Facebook, hashtag free Palestine on Twitter.
30,000 people, 50,000 people, they come to do
protest marches. You know, everyone's trying to do
the best that they possibly can. Right? The
reality is that we have to refer back
to the Quran and the sunnah and it's
very clear from what Stan has broken down
to us today that
the Ummah's problems are not being alleviated from
us unless we return back to the book
and the Sunnah and we can't do that
unless we have knowledge.
So the least we can do if we're
not going to become those people of knowledge
ourselves, we could facilitate these people of knowledge.
So if we're truly sincere and being concerned
with regards to the affairs of the Ummah
and if we truly were those people who
were very concerned when the bombs were dropping
over the innocent children that were dying on
a daily basis in Gaza, if we truly
are concerned with regards to the issues that
are happening in Iraq and Shai you know,
the issue of ISIS would never have occurred
if the people had knowledge in the first
place. If we truly care then we would
go a step further than just putting up
a little hashtag free Palestine which is very
convenient. We would give whatever it is that
we can from our pockets whether that be
£5 whether that be £100
I remember
that in one day
in one day in one night just this
April there was a convoy that was leaving
from London towards Syria and we were able
to with the push of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala raise £10,000
that was all of you guys
that gave £10,000
for the the necessities that the brothers and
sisters needed
in the refugee camps,
that bordered between Turkey and Syria.
Now
£10,000
is exactly what we need to raise for
this madrasah that will fund it for an
entire year. Now pause.
Where would you rather give the money? To
Syria where the children are crying and screaming
and the women are being raped or to
this Madrasah where you're gonna have, you know,
a bunch of students of knowledge sitting down
and learning. I would go as far as
to say that you
when you have a decision like that, it
would be foolish to opt for anything other
than the students of knowledge. Because you will
get that money for the nappies and the
clothes and the food
for the people that are suffering in Syria,
but those nappies will run out and that
food will run out. And those people
who are eating that food, unfortunately, what's gonna
probably end up happening to them is that
they're gonna end up being killed or they're
gonna remain in poverty and you're gonna have
to keep funding them or this situation is
not gonna get better in the long term.
That's what I'm trying to say. But if
you're looking for a long term solution, then
you will find people that can actually carry
the flag of this religion in a long
term sense and facilitate individuals just like them
on a higher scale.
And I'm not allowed to mention too much
about the sheikh who actually teaches at the
madrasa because Ustad has obviously recommended that we
don't at the sheikh's request.
But the sheikh himself just take my word
for it. I know it doesn't it doesn't
count for much. But when I heard some
of the students that
some of the shooq and the people of
knowledge that have come out in the last
few years, and then I realised that these
individuals or many of us know their names.
These are people who are scholars in this
religion.
They came as a result of studying under
the sheikh who's now teaching these other students
in Somalia. So there was quality students that
are coming out of this place, inshallah. So
I would I would I would strongly, strongly,
strongly please advise you guys to number 1,
share this video so other people can benefit
and actually understand where the umrah needs to
go and the direction we need to move
in. But number 2, so they can also
donate. But don't do that until after this
is registered in your head and you've made
a donation now. Don't don't don't don't don't
let this video disappear turn off you go
out about about your day and you click
on the go fund me link that's in
the information section below and you donate whatever
it is that you can Please, please, please
do that inshallah. Like I said, £10,000
to run the home of Dharasa for an
entire year. That's peanuts. Imagine this imagine the
students of knowledge that are gonna become scholars
that come out on a yearly basis.
And we need to raise this money by,
what is it, start? 16th. Inshallah. The 16th
October, inshallah. Because that's when the new year
begins and the place is literally falling apart.
They don't even have clean water to drink.
The most important thing, as you were saying,
was was the was the water well, Right?
Which will cost £2,000.
And correct me if I'm wrong. The prophet
said that the best charity
is to give water. So subhanAllah, in love
that, you're not only facilitating the victory of
the Ummah, but you're doing it by means
of giving the best charity possible. So, inshallah,
the £10,000 is a necessity. We need to
make sure we have that by hook or
crook. But generally speaking, in order to get
the electricity you're running, in order to get
just the basic, basic, basic amenities in that
in,
in in that madrasah running, we need to
get that £10,000
ASAP.
So please
donate at the link below and make sure
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