Abu Taymiyyah – What is YOUR EXCUSE infront of Allah for not sitting the Scholars this month
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Brothers and sisters,
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless you all.
Today we wanna speak about a very important
topic.
An encouragement to all of us,
to go and benefit from the ulama,
that will be coming down in the next
few weeks.
Brothers and sisters, if you look at the
reality today of our youth,
as soon
as
an issue pops up in their life,
or if they want to find something out
in their religion,
the first place that many of the people
they tend to go to,
is on YouTube.
There was a search engine called previously AskJeeves.
Today the people they ask YouTube.
They ask Google,
Mufti Google, and the rest of these search
engines that we have.
Brothers and sisters,
in al Islam,
that this is from the signs of the
Awa.
That we take the matters back to other
than its people.
The prophet
he said, in a hadith that was narrated
by Imam al Bukhari,
If the matters now are brought back to
other than his people, then wait for the
Awa.
How many fatawah do you find
on the Internet?
Any anyone comes today,
he starts saying halal, haram on on Facebook.
People come on Twitter, they're giving up a
tawah.
If you look at the reality of who's
giving this fatwa, you'll be amazed.
Maybe he hasn't smelled
the The fragrance of knowledge, he hasn't smelled
it, and people are giving out fatawa.
Brothers and sisters in Al Islam, the Prophet
sallallahu 'alaihi was telling me, he said in
a hadith,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
doesn't take the knowledge away.
But He takes the knowledge away by the
death of the scholars.
Until there is no scholar that remains,
people, they start to take ignorant individuals
as people of knowledge.
They start referring back to them.
People, they don't have the qualifications
of giving knowledge and giving fatawa to the
people.
People, they will go back to these individuals.
They will start giving them
They will start giving them answers. They will
misguide themselves, and they will misguide the people
as well. And it came in some narrations,
These individuals,
they will give fataww
based upon their opinions.
Anybody will come today, and they will give
fataww based upon their, opinions.
And this is the halak that the ulama
has spoken about. That a person now, from
the matters of his religion,
from the matters of his religion, they take
it back to other than his people. It
would be crazy for an individual
if he now became sick to go to
an engineer.
Why do we not go to an engineer
when a person falls sick? When he has
an illness in his body? Why do we
not go to
maybe someone that
is in charge
of buildings?
But we specifically, we go back to a
doctor. Someone that has the specifications.
Why? Because he knows this issue really well.
But we don't tend to go back to
the scholars, rather we go
on the internet trying to seek the answers.
Brothers and sisters, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
bless you all. There is scholars
coming to us.
In the past, in the time of the
salaf, the people they used to travel to
the scholars.
They used to travel to the scholars for
maybe amongst distance. Imam al Bukhari has a
whole chapter in the
Exiting
to go to seek knowledge.
Because the people, they don't go to the
scholars these days. Their they feel like that
they have to come back to us.
They have to come to us to give
us the knowledge.
And then he use this proof,
Jabir ibn Abdullah.
He traveled a month's distance.
Brothers and sisters, they never had planes.
They never had cars.
They never had these trains that we have
today.
Virgin Atlantic,
and all these other trains that we have.
He traveled a month's distance,
to Abdulah ibn Unayes. For what? Did he
go for dunya? Did he go to get
money?
For 1 hadith.
Wallahi brothers and sisters,
we have no excuses.
They never had air conditioning.
They never had
everything that we have today,
they would take their riding camel, and they
would go.
What excuse do we have today?
The place where this conference is happening is
in Luton.
It takes maybe 1 and a half hours,
1 and a half hours
to go and begin the line to Allah
who will be benefit with so many hadith.
The scholars are coming down. It's not any
Dom, Dick, and Harry, any normal
child, or a small student of knowledge that's
coming to give us a some knowledge.
They are scholars, they are people whose peers
have become great, being involved in knowledge. People
like Sheikh Salih Hassehaimi,
who's been teaching
in the Haram for so long. He's been
involved in knowledge for over 40 years. Likewise,
Sheikh Fala'ah, that a lot of you don't
know about. People like Ibrahim al Raheli, teacher
of the haram, and other than him.
Another example of this,
imam Bukhari also chapter in a Sahih Bab,
When a contemporary issue pops up,
traveling to get the right answer,
and he uses proof.
That He one time got married,
And when he got married,
a woman came up to him and she
said to him,
you and the girl that you got married
to, I breastfed you Lord.
So what did this individual do? And this
is the point.
The point is that Uqbay ibn Harid, he
took his camel and he got off. To
who? To the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
To try and get the answer
of what this issue is.
He never just said, I'm gonna do what
I wanna do, what my mind is telling
me, what my akhir is telling me, and
I'm gonna do this.
Rather they used to go back to the
ulama, especially in contemporary issues.
Brothers and sisters, I'll ask you a lot,
if a lot of these brothers
and sisters
who have now gone and joined ISIS, they
were connected to their ulama.
That billahi alaikum, do you think that they
would have done this?
If only they were connected to the ulama.
Look who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Quran.
When a matter now pertaining
public safety and public fear comes to the
people, they start taking things into their own
hands.
They start taking things into their own hands.
They want to make the decision. They wanna
say, this is haram, this is haram. They
wanna take things into their own hands. And
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defames them. Then Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
If only they took it back to who?
The Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the
scholars.
Those that have authority amongst
them.
Look at all the scholars today. Look at
all the scholars. Brothers and sisters, I will
advise I will tell you,
when all this commotion was going on in
in Al Yamen,
this Arab Spring,
and the people were coming out, and revolting
against the previous ruler. Nahan, there was issues
going on. We wouldn't say that the regime
was perfect.
There was problems, there was issues that were
taking place in the country.
The ulama were advising,
They were screaming from one side of Al
Yemen. They were screaming from Saudi Arabia, telling
the people to stay in their homes.
Guess what the people
said? Scholars for dollars.
These scholars, they only know about pregnancy and
about menses. They were belittling the scholars.
The scholars, they don't know the they don't
know what's going on. We know what's going
on.
They started listening to people.
They have absolute no basis in knowledge.
They had all these for them. The scholars
are advising. They're advising. They're advising.
Nobody is listening
to
He doesn't know what is going on, according
to these individuals.
They came out,
they revolted,
they attacked, they destroyed.
And now,
if you ask,
the majority of these people that were living
at a time in Al Yamat, they will
say to you, Wallahi, we wish we listen
to the scholars. We wish that we didn't
come out.
The point is brothers and sisters,
the We have to be close to the
We have to try and attach ourselves to
the We have an
issue,
1st Ask the people of knowledge if you
don't know.
Was already with proofs and evidences.
Brothers and sisters, our situation
is problematic.
We are drowned in
Darkness over darkness.
The amount of that is going on with
our kids, with our brothers, with our sisters.
How do we know how to exit from
all these fit and trials and tribulations that
we have? And this is what the whole
mottamal is about. This whole conference is about
this.
Brothers, which excuse do we have in front
of Allah
One and a half hours for us
to get from where we are, all the
way to Luther, to just go and benefit
from the ulama.
And this is a responsibility
upon the parents.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Every single one of you is a shepherd.
And every single one of you is in
charge,
has the responsibility
over their flock. It came in another
halib.
Never did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala place a
responsibility
on anyone.
The day when he dies.
And he came in another narration,
He didn't give the pa the the advice
to his children, to those he had authority
of.
He didn't teach them properly, he didn't give
them with the advice that they required.
This person, the day when he dies, he
dies as a deceiver.
And this person will not spend smell the
fragrance of jannah.
Why? Because you haven't fulfilled your obligation
in trying to advise those who are under
you, those you have authority of.
Brothers and sisters,
may Allah
bless you all.
If you look
at the situation of the Muslims today,
and we always ask this question, why is
the Muslim Ummah so weak?
The answer is very very simple.
It is because
we have become
far away from the religion of Islam.
And this statement of Umar ibn Khattab
is very very powerful.
He said,
We are people that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has greeted
with
an
Islam.
And as soon
as we start taking
other ways,
other steps
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will humiliate us.
I never said this, Umar ibn Khattab said.
And he gave us the answer of how
to manage our life, how to go about
dealing with the people, how to go about
fulfilling that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told
us to do.
Look at the situation of the Muslims today.
If you look at the Quran, you find
that there's a direct correlation
in a person having authority upon the earth,
and also doing good deeds.
Just just do what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
told you to do, and everything will be
solved.
When people come out for protest,
thousands, hundreds of thousands of people come out
to do something that has in reality,
nothing to do with our religion.
Then look at the masajid, look at fajr
time.
A simple fundamental,
a pillar,
the most important pillar, from the pillars of
Al Islam after the shahali tree,
for one to come and establish his prayer,
And also to establish in a jama'ah.
How many thousands
of people come to the Masjid at Fajr
time?
But when it comes to protesting,
everybody's out the house.
When it comes to petitions, everybody's on it.
But when it comes now to the masajid,
just establishing
the prayer.
Maybe a or
a line or 2. You look at duhu,
you look at acid, you look at Maghrib,
the masajid are empty.
Then how do we expect that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is going to raise
the problems upon the ummah, and we can't
establish
a simple act
from that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told
us to do. Brothers and sisters, do you
want a happy life?
Na'am, we're going through depression, we're going through
stress, we have so many problems.
Every illness that has come down, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala send down the cure of it
as well.
And the happy life that we all are
craving for, that we all want, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran. And
guess what? It is connected
to 1, fulfilling the actions that have been
told of him to do. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says in the Quran,
Whoever does good deeds,
from the male and the female.
And this person, he's a mummin. He has
iman. Two things that are mentioned in the
ayah, doing good deeds and having iman.
And this person, we will give him the
great life.
Wallahi brothers and sisters,
sometimes we have marriage problems,
we might go and visit a
expert in relationships,
a
psychiatrist, or whatever other problem that we have.
Nobody can tell you like Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And this is the promise of Allah
And
I'll conclude with this ayah.
And this ayah, Prophet and sister, please just
listen
attentively,
and contemplate and ponder upon this ayah.
If you really want this,
these problems that we have,
to get uplifted from the Muslim Ummah, then
you have the answer in your Sayyam. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran,
Allah
has promised
those who have believed in him,
and those that do good deeds.
He will give them authority upon the earth.
Just like He gave authority to those before
Him.
After doing that,
And also believing in Allah Subhanahu wa
And he will stop establish them upon the
earth.
And the fear that they had,
the problems that they had, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will replace it with safety and security.
When will this happen?
When they start worshiping,
establishing a and
they become far and far away from associating
partners of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Brothers and sisters, we have the answer in
this