Abu Taymiyyah – What Made You Change Sh Salahudeen & Jubed.
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You all for attending. Alhamdulillah.
We are presenting a very unique and special
show
where we interview unique guests about how they
turn to Allah.
And today, tonight I should say, alhamdulillah, we
have a very special guest, Usad Abu Taymiyyah
with us.
May Allah preserve him. Alhamdulillah, we've benefited me
personally, I've benefited a lot from Usad and
I'm sure many people from Leicester and beyond,
alhamdulillah, have benefited a lot. So,
and just to let everyone know, it's 87.7
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wanna tune in.
So without further ado, we started a bit
late so we'll start with the questions if
that's okay?
Okay. Alhamdulillah.
So we'll start with the first question, inshallah.
And myself, my name is Jubeid.
This is brother Salahuddin.
And obviously you know Sada Abu Taimi, alhamdulillah.
So just to begin insha Allah,
nothing too hard, nothing too difficult.
For the listeners that don't know you,
can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I won't go into details, but whatever you
want to share Insha'Allah, tell us a bit
about yourself, Asad. I'm looking at the question,
it says tell us a little bit about
you, your age, background, where you're from.
I think that's very sensitive information that shouldn't
be disclosed.
InshaAllah very very briefly,
I was born in the Netherlands
and Alhamdulillah later on we ended up moving
to the UK. And
I think from the age of
7 we've been in the UK.
Alhamdulillah.
Very brief but concise. I saw it. And
insha'Allah. I was wondering do I know Dutch?
No. I've forgotten it completely.
Alhamdulillah.
Except maybe what a couple of words, that's
it. Alhamdulillah.
Any plans to go back? Well I was
actually there
2019. I got invited to go
and, do a couple of programs in the
in the Netherlands. I went back for the
first time in like 19, 18 years
and Alhamdulillah I was pretty productive.
Good. Still have an invite waiting Inshallah. Pending,
to go back again. Maybe this sum up
but we'll see what happens inshaAllah ta'ala. Inshallah.
So
Alhamdulillah, everyone watching and everyone who knows Usad
Abutaimiyyah, they know a bit about his past
in terms of where he studied, what he's
done, and alhamdulillah, he does a lot of
lessons as well. But we wanna travel a
bit back in time, insha'Allah,
and look a bit in the past in
terms of so the question we have for
you
is, first of all, were you always a
practicing Muslim?
Number 1.
And if not, tell us was there a
turning point or how did you become practicing?
What's the definition of practicing? Okay.
So someone an interview. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna
interview you. That's fine, alhamdulillah.
Someone who when you say practicing, obviously, you
can look at it in many different ways,
but someone who prays the salah regularly,
who maybe knows the basics of the Deen
at least, and excels in that as well.
I think for a very long time,
we as youngsters,
we would be on and off with our
Salawat. When I used to live in London,
because there was a period I lived in
Leicester,
then I moved to London
and then eventually I ended up coming back.
So I think
maybe to answer this question, it was that
period
when, I was in London,
which is always on and off.
Mainly we just pray the Jum'at, you know
the Friday prayers, which is of course is
not sufficient.
And of course, yeah, all the other stuff
that,
we got ourselves involved
in that Allah Azza wa Jal saved us
from.
But,
yeah.
Alhamdulillah.
So in terms of was there a moment
when you started, you know, studying or wanted
to change because obviously like you said you're
in a we're in a scenario where you're
like many of the Muslims today that pray
that
maybe got you know, do a few sins
here and there, but they weren't really focused
on Din. So what was that change that
made you focus, or was there a specific
moment? Yeah. The,
the point that really sent shockwaves
into many people's lives
at the time
was when a friend of mine was shot
broad daylight.
Of course at a time where I was
there was a lot of gangs,
and,
we went up to
the best of things, right?
And
one of
the good friends that we had
got himself involved in some confrontation.
And,
I think the one that
he had a confrontation with,
his relatives,
They rolled up in a car and then
they end up just shooting.
SubhanAllah, when that happened,
that really, you know,
sent shock waves in the whole town or
in the whole borough.
It's Camden town, you have heard of it.
At the time it wasn't really a good
place back in 2,007,
2008.
There were generations after generations.
You can maybe even put it as there
was youngsters, they had their elders, and they
had their elders, and they had their elders,
4 generations.
I think we were the 4th generation,
and this would have just continued,
subhanAllah.
I know sometimes things happen
from the apparent, it may seem
not so pleasing to the eye,
right. You may think that this is not
something that
will bring about good
simply because it's a calamity, that's how we
see it with them lens.
But,
perhaps as Allah says in the Quran,
Babesumeh dislike something and Allah brings a lot
of good out of it
and that's exactly what ended up happening. When
he was shot
I really thought that they would take revenge,
they would really go after,
the culprit
but nobody done anything. That's what really made
me think,
because I was always I was not the
strongest of people.
However I was very brave.
Something happened to my friend I would always
like try and do something about it and
whatever have you. And
but
when that happened I was waiting for everybody
now, okay
what's going to happen now? Are we not
gonna go after the guy, right?
No one done anything.
And Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala really gave me the success
to just
reflect on this one point.
If no one is doing anything for him,
tomorrow if something happens to me,
are we going to have the same outcome?
SubhanAllah. Right.
Alhamdulillah, Allah I really just attribute this to
Allah azza wa jal because,
it's Allah azza wa jal that allows you
to think a certain way
and that really really made me think.
Just for a couple of days the brothers
were mourning, they were upset,
and then a couple of weeks after everyone
just like forgot about it. It. This is
the reality.
This is the reality.
And I always say this in lectures. Right?
Maybe for a couple of days they'll come
out, start posting on Facebook.
Right.
RIP, Rest in Peace, Sahay.
That's what they say. Oh hit the road
soon,
and you get thrown into prison.
The one that you may have taken that
bullet for, right, he's probably never even gonna
think about visiting you. The one who used
to disobey or not listen to your parents,
your loved ones,
right,
they will be the ones,
they will be the ones who,
will really go out their way to
show you comfort.
So that's the reality. That's that's really what
it boils down to. So no one done
anything
and that was the turning point really for
me. So just a quick question here as
I'm just listening to what you're saying.
Like, so obviously was he your friend who
got shot? Was he like a was he
a Muslim? Yeah. Yeah. He was. Yes. And
these gangs, they were mainly Samanis
and Yemenis,
mainly predominantly Somali.
Right.
And I wouldn't be surprised,
if the parents were making dua for so
long,
right.
For years they've been making dua asking Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
to put an end to this,
because they were really not up to the
up to good, like it was it became
the whole area, Camden or Camden Town, the
borough,
known
for these guys running around and causing mayhem
and havoc,
SubhanAllah.
And I remember also when he passed away
the family, his family,
specifically requested
for his body to be placed
outside of the Masjid in the heart.
So his friends
can go and see that body
and contemplate and reflect on
his body there. We could actually see his
body there with a with a hole in
his head. Really? Yeah.
Allah, I remember I still remember like it
was yesterday, right.
So they put this hut in front of
the masjid
and his friends,
likewise I ended up entering. Like people are
coming out, walking out of this hut
crying like kids, Allah
I've seen grown men bursting into tears,
seeing his body lying there with a hole
in his head.
I think that really,
really hit a lot of people,
Really really broke me as well. See that.
And, it was subhanAllah, the beginning of many
people leaving the streets.
Beginning of many people leaving the streets. I
remember some brothers went to Egypt, some brothers
went
to Yemen,
some went to Saudi,
some state.
Right?
And again you know
I thank Allah
that,
He used my parents as a means to
move me out.
My parents they were, you know, thinking of
moving me out from London
to Leicester for quite some time, but when
that happened
I think the whole process was just hastened.
I actually got moved from London to Leicester,
Kinda like that. Get away from that whole
environment.
Babe, so obviously,
we kinda went back in the past or
whatever, but now we're gonna kinda look at,
like, your journey in, like, seeking knowledge, traversing
the path of seeking knowledge.
We don't understand,
like, who Abutemia is in it. We wanna
understand where it started and how it started,
and
just your journey
to seek your knowledge and where have you
studied
and how was it first starting to study
and, you know, did you know anything before
you started to study or not? You know
my parents, they always had a dream. Their
dream was for their kids to memorize Quran.
From
a very young age, even when I was
in the Netherlands, I saw
subhanAllah, have these,
images in my head
where we used to go, where where I
was sitting, what color table it was, even
though I was like the age of 5
or 6. Panallah. I still remember it. It's
still, subhanAllah,
it remained,
within my thoughts.
Even though
I, you know, Bara, you know, apart from
that, I I I I don't remember anything
from from the Netherlands other than the fact
that we went to a theme park called
Esterin,
but not much do I remember.
And the fact that our parents used to
take us to
Quran School,
right?
So that's what you know my parents always
really wanted.
So it was always in the year for
us to go abroad,
study for a year, memorize Quran, learn Arabic,
and come back, go to uni.
I was always in the year,
right? But it never actually really just materialized
until something happened.
May Allah Azza wa Jal bless my teacher
from Mazdas Falah.
Okay. Mazdas Falah in Highfields
shakshayeb.
Even the other day when I came back,
I always every year when I come back
I don't forget my teachers,
Right?
Whoever benefited you should always like be appreciative.
And, I told him, Sheikh, you know, I
just wanna thank you. You really benefit me.
And he goes, no. What did I benefit
you with?
I didn't benefit you for with anything.
Right?
And I didn't actually tell him. I told
him, Sheikh, I was telling my some of
the students the other day because I spoke
about a lot of these things in London.
I think it was the 2nd day when
I came back,
and he still doesn't know exactly what the
issue is. I said, Ashaq, I'll send you
the video.
He says something to me.
Allahi, it just,
you know, it it sent shivers on my
spine.
I came in year 11, doing my GCSEs
here in Leicester,
and I was going to Quran school, right,
Masjid Fala, 5 to 7, known that which
most,
youngsters
do here in Dessa.
5 to 7. I was doing okay memorizing
as the time went on.
Alhamdulillah, managed to memorize a couple of ajzah.
I think it was 4 or 5 something
like that, but at the end of the
day it's it's considered British memorization. That's what
I call it.
When you're studying at the same time, your
secular studies,
you come, you try to do whatever you
can and then you go and then you
keep on forgetting and then you have to
restart again and so on and so forth.
When I started college,
right,
I was a little bit of a superstar
right?
Football team, basketball team.
I knew football was gonna come up.
I even had trials.
Yeah. I even had trials for a big
club in London.
I was even good at table tennis. Masha'Allah.
So I was I was very sporty. Okay.
It's like a challenge now, that's all.
I think the last time someone,
challenged
me, he got knocked me twice, so I
have to be very careful. Then I'll talk
about table tennis. Table tennis.
I remember it was in, it was in
Saudi. I was with the Bukhari TV Okay.
Umrah group.
And then this this kid just kept on
calling me out. He goes, oh, I heard
you're very good at football. Come.
I wanna, you know, have a 1 on
1 with you. I was like, Brother,
calm down. Like I really don't embarrass you
in front of everyone.
So I just ignored him, ignored him, ignored
him.
And then, subhanallah, as we were leaving, I
was like, you know what? I'm just putting
this guy in his place
in front of everyone, not magnum twice.
And, Never gonna forget that. I don't think
I'll ever forget that. And I haven't played
for a long time, so How did it
I think the skills are still there.
Yeah. So so I was very busy with
these kind of things, like after school clubs,
basketball
game here, football game here, and this and
that.
And I kept on coming late to madrasa,
and I remember our teacher, may Allah bless
him, Sheikh Shoaib, or they call him Molisab.
So you guys say it. Right?
We say Molisab.
Oh, something else they call it.
Molvi. No. No. I think it's Moliseb. We
call him Moliseb. Hazrat.
No. No. Not Hazrat. Moliseb.
And he I remember at the time he
had, like, a very thick
misek.
Okay.
And he even coated it with leather.
And he would use it,
on the students
if they weren't, you know, doing the Quran
properly.
And I I had a fair share of
being smacked by that,
and I think the sheikh just got tired
of advising me and just telling me to
get back onto my Quran and everything.
Until one day when I came late
I went to read
and he said to me, you Muhammad
you're never gonna memorize the Quran.
Allah I would have preferred for him to
just beat the life out of me
instead of him saying that to me at
the time. And sometimes you need that.
And it was a turning point for me
to really take my Quran seriously.
Well I remember I went home, I sat
down on my mattress,
my bed,
I think I just sat there for hours
not realizing the hours are going by because
of what she said.
And,
and I thought Khalaq now it's time to
really just
just get off and take some time out
to memorize the Quran,
And I really really thank him for that
statement. I really really do.
Allah, I really do. He probably doesn't even
remember him saying that.
Sometimes, you know, you say something to someone,
you know, it could be the beginning of
a very long journey.
I think when was that? That was back
in
2,009 he said that to me. In 2,000
and
SubhanAllah like, that's what 11 years now or
12 years or 13 years in fact? Yeah.
Yeah. Right?
From 2009 till 2022, 13 years 13 years.
Of seeking knowledge.
All started with that one
statement.
So that's so interesting. It reminds me of
one story of,
Adaiyah, someone who does a lot of that
way in terms of non Muslim that way,
and he's reverted many many hundreds of people.
And the way that he explained that he
became Muslim
is there was a few brothers in the
Masjid, sorry in school. He used to go
to college with a few of these guys.
And all he's seen is they were different
from the rest. They didn't have girlfriends, didn't
go out, they were just praying. They're such
just normal standard Muslims. They didn't give them
that one, give him that one like telling
him about Islam, but just showing his actions.
And from then on he thought, you know
what? Let me look into what what's what's
different about these people.
And then subhanallah after a few years after
looking into Islam, he became Muslim.
And they don't know the Khayd, the goodness
they've done. Imagine the rewards, subhanallah.
They're gonna be getting a share of that
as well.
Yeah. SubhanAllah.
Even they say about Al Imam Bukhar,
his book that he compiled, which is the
most authentic book after the book of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Someone just said to him,
why don't you just compile a hadith? And,
and the thought turned into reality, like,
he started a chain of events.
SubhanAllah today it's the most authentic book after
the book of Allah, but it's because somebody
just said something to him. Sometimes you may
give a piece of advice to someone, We
may say something to someone.
SubhanAllah,
you know,
could be maybe the ticket that gets you
into Aljannah. So don't belittle any good deed
as prophet said.
Right? Do not belittle any good deed that
you do.
Even if it means that you meet your
brother with a pleasant smiling face. Something as
small as that could be, which enters you
into a Jannah.
So just continuing, so Alhamdulillah. So you memorized
Quran, you became a Hafid.
After that, obviously, in terms of studying, how
did you get onto that and where did
you go? So,
after,
when when when that happened, I remember I
done my
January exams
in college,
and,
and this never happened to me before. Right?
And I think there was a reason, subhanAllah,
there was heckma behind this happening. I got
really really bad marks. Really?
Really bad marks. I think I got something
like
I think it was what? D's and e's
and
and I came out of college, I came
out of GCSEs
something like
12 a stars to c's. It is. I
think I've got signed up, 4 a stars
and 1 a or
something at a time. So then as you
can see there's a huge contrast between that,
and then you do your January exams, and
you get d's and e's. Yeah. Yeah. I
think maybe if I did get good marks,
I would have, you know, shaytaan would have
got to me and said, I think you
should stay. Yeah. Yeah. Do an extra year
and then that year turns into 2, oh
let me just finish now. Oh then, you
got university. That's it. That's it. So subhanAllah
everything happens for reasons.
I really think, subhanAllah,
it was so good that I
failed. I got really horrible marks. I don't
even think I passed 1.
Really, SubhanAllah.
I don't know what I was doing SubhanAllah.
But,
Khalasa said, this is now Time to leave.
Signed. The perfect time. Yeah. It was a
sign now for me to go in abroad
abroad. So I went to Yemen.
And then how long were you in Yemen
for? I was in Yemen 4 years. 4
years. 4 years. Yeah. Masha'Allah.
And, you know, of course after memorizing the
Quran,
I realized you can't just go back to
the west with
the memorization of the Quran, Deen is so
much more than that.
This is of course a huge foundation.
Every student of knowledge
needs to memorize the Quran as an imam
Nawwah Rahmatullah, arih mentioned. When you memorize the
Quran and you learn Arabic, all of the
other sciences now
open up for you.
So I said with all of the doubts
which people are so easily consuming
and, embracing,
I think it's important that I learn my
religion.
I I don't want to go back and
then my faith is on the line. I
start suffering from a crisis in faith,
because we used to hear a lot of
stories. It used to be very frightening.
So I said I have this opportunity now.
Let me
just kind of, like, ride it out with
all the troubles at the
time. Yeah. So everyone ended up going back
from my family 1 by 1. My sister
left, my brothers and
parents left and
then I remained.
So you was abroad in Yemen for 4
years
and then you went to Saudi for how
long?
So then I end up coming back.
I didn't wanna leave. I ended up coming
back. That's the story ending in itself.
I came back, started life, and started giving
dua.
That's a love for uni for a bit.
Yeah. I think he's doing that to just
promote the city.
Or his town, should I say, is that?
Oh, no. No. Only. Or a village. Yeah?
Yeah. Yeah. So,
I went into engineering
studying at the Loughborough University, and then the
opportunity came to
go to Al Medina.
And I had to make a decision.
Right. Alhamdulillah, I ended up leaving engineering,
which was again not easy at all.
Right? I remember my father really was not
happy with me leaving engineering at all.
So I managed to get into this universe,
which is again not easy to get in.
Very difficult to get into.
And you know even, subhanAllah, maybe a quick
lesson that we can take from this. I
remember when I was leaving Tady Amin, everyone
was like you're going to fall behind in
your studies, everyone's going to surpass you,
you know, you're going to come back and
have no future and so on and so
forth. I remember at the time
I knew this one hadith that someone taught
me, I can't remember who it was, and
I asked Allah,
I really do,
sincerely that Allah rewards that person. I mean,
I mean, I mean. Because,
it really changed my life, this one Hadith.
I don't want to make this I don't
I don't no one just want to make
the discussion about where I went and this
this one can go and take some benefit
away. It was a hadith when the prophet
said,
you don't leave something for the sake of
Allah
except he gives you that which is better.
And, I knew the hadith. I said okay
if I now leave to Yemen
and the Prophet said this,
then he no Allah is going to replace
it with that which is better,
right. Even though I left college,
I came back, I think I did a
college course in Leicester College, I think it
was what? Access to Engineering, 1 year, and
then still managed to get into his university.
While others I know it took them what,
2 years, 3 years,
it was like I was never even away,
right.
So I went to, you know, the very,
they call it what prestigious university.
Then I had to make a decision again
to leave, which you know after you taste
you know the,
the merits of that hadith, because I didn't
feel like I missed out. I gave everything
that everyone else had and even more,
Right?
So really it wasn't difficult to make a
decision again. I knew that Allah is gonna
if I come back now,
There's always the opportunities. That's what I was
gonna ask. Just a little side point is,
obviously, you came back, Alhamdulillah, this is when
we, brothers from Loughborough and Leicester, you were
leading,
you're doing Jum'ah Salas, and you are, doing
classes, and you were doing your engineering thing
on the side as well. So I was
gonna ask, obviously, it it was kind of
all presented for you there. So what is
it that made you made that decision? Actually,
I want to study more
because that's, you know, an interesting decision. Was
there anything specific or is it just a
hadith that you mentioned? Like, when I, I
think I mentioned it earlier, when I left,
in Yemen it wasn't by choice. Okay. I
think most of you guys are aware a
war, you know, broke out
after the Arab spring,
and the institute that I was studying in
was attacked. Okay.
Okay. Assad. Was attacked
by the, by the rejectionists. And
so,
subhanAllah, I had to leave before that because
my dad was telling me to come for
Hajj. It's help of my dad. My dad
has a Hajj company.
So I had to go back, dad was
like okay stay for Ramadan,
2 months Hajj, when you go for Hajj
and you finish, go back to Yemen.
So as we're going to Hajj and me
preparing myself to go back,
my dad sees on the news that another
war has broken out and he was like,
you're going nowhere.
So I had a lot of unfinished business
basically with
seeking knowledge.
That must have hurt.
Yeah, of course. Of course. I don't know
how that must have shown, Subhanahu.
He was an institute where over they say
a 100000
students memorize the Quran. Alhamdulillah. Right.
And and he was attacked, he was destroyed.
We later on heard that
a lot of western countries they were behind
getting displaced, destroyed because he would stay there
for a very short period of time and
come out with a lot.
Even this
Saudi sheikh that once I mentioned, 1 year
in the merge in Yemen is equivalent to
3 years in a medina. SubhanAllah. So after
having gone to Al Medina, I always thought
it was this is very farfetched. Yeah. It's
very hard to believe. But when I went
to Saudi, and I went went to Al
Medina,
and of course now I'm in a very
good position to draw comparisons, right, I began
to see why.
In the marriage you had over 30 lessons
opening up every single week, 30 new lessons
every week. So if you wanted now to
go through a chain of books in whatever
science you wanted, you'd easily find it.
And at times that was very difficult in
Saudi.
So I can see why this place,
is on it's on the hit list for
it to be destroyed. Yeah. Right?
And innocent people were
were were were killed.
So a lot of the Westerners just ended
up running away and going back to their
countries. Alhamdulillah, I wasn't there when that actually
ended up happening, when the whole Markaz was
destroyed.
I came up before that, Alhamdulillah. Did Allah
save me from that?
But my dad was like, you're not going
anywhere. Mhmm. I'm going to go Hajj and
you're getting back on the plane to the
UK.
So deep inside, I I felt like I
still didn't finish whatever I wanted to memorize
and whatever I wanted to study.
Yeah, so then something else happened which
got me accepted in Madinah.
So you know, just going back to what
I was saying, like, in regards to being
abroad. Like, obviously, I was I've been abroad
as well. I stayed abroad. I lived abroad
for about 5, 6 years. Where were you?
Been all over the place, but mainly, I
was in Turkey. I've been in Saudi
I didn't know that. It was always a
Lister in London. No. No. No. No. No.
I've been there. I came back. I don't
even know. What year was it? I don't
even know. I saw the diesel.
2,000 same year as Audi, I think. 2017.
17, 18. Yeah. So, obviously,
like, me, I was I was abroad. I
was with my family and whatever.
It's quite difficult.
Like, it's quite difficult in terms of, you
know, you miss all your family here and
stuff like that. So how was it, like,
for you? Like, was it difficult being away
from your family,
like, living away and literally all about the
food as well. Like, did you miss the
food?
Because in Saudi, I'm not gonna lie, I
missed the food.
I think my family is watching. I might
get into a lot of holiday stories.
But
Alhamdulillah we I did take I did take
the family to Egypt because I was in
Egypt for like 6 months.
And Boris decided to pass into a second
lock down and was like, we have to,
do a quick run up.
So we just got off,
we just got off.
I was in Egypt.
This is this is most recently. Yeah yeah,
not in Egypt.
And, the family was there.
Then subhanAllah, my last semester
while I was in the medina I had
to leave them behind.
Okay.
And that was very very difficult,
very difficult,
Extremely difficult.
And it wasn't easy for her
bringing up a newborn
by herself
without the support of the father can be
very very difficult.
And,
I may not necessarily always
be vocal about this, but
Annie, Masha'Allah,
she did a very very good job. Of
course, they're always going to stress you out
cause they're being stressed out and they feel
extremely,
upsetting you know, about their situation.
But for me it was very difficult because
I was trying to concentrate on my final
semester.
I was trying to memorize, finish off this
course, that course.
And then I had the master's exam that
I needed
to revise for, and then you have the
family who are really struggling.
Mhmm. Really really wasn't easy.
But of course nothing comes with ease. Right?
There's a statement of Ibn Taymih says,
He says
every person of intellect in the Ummah has
agreed. He's not just speaking about Muslims here.
Speaking about any person with intellect, they've all
agreed
that you cannot expect to attain
success
with relaxation.
Right. If you look at those who are
successful in their own fields, right.
Let's just take, I know people relate to
these personalities, so I'll mention them.
I would have mentioned, of course, scholars of
the past, but a lot of the time
people think
that there was a huge
gap between them and
just take for example, right, Elon Musk for,
you know,
Elon Musk, he says something like,
he would spend, I think what 6 or
7 days,
don't quote me on this part, it was
either 6 or 7 days a week
and he would put in something like 17
18 hours
crazy hours, right? And is it surprising now
that he's reached wherever
point that he's arrived at? No.
Right?
I even had previously Mike Tyson say that
you need discipline,
right? You really need discipline because you're nothing.
You can be even if you think you're
so strong or whatever but you're nothing without
discipline.
And I have Chabib say something similar to
that as well. And then also take Cristiano
Ronaldo as an example,
right. I mentioned this to the Shabbat because
these are the people they get related to.
If you just, like, read into his lifestyle,
it's mind boggling
what he does to his body and right.
He's very disciplined
Amount of hours that he puts in before
training and after training just practicing
his free kicks and whatever have you,
right. So you really need to be disciplined.
If we say and I was just saying
telling this to brothers the other day, right.
We,
live in Darul Ibtila,
right. In an abode that is filled with
afflictions.
Right? Allah Azzawajal created
Haya, Maut, life and death. This is know,
we're living a life of tests and tribulations
and one after the other. One comes to
an end, you're going to go through another,
right. If we were to now,
every time we are struck with a calamity
or a difficulty,
like we give in,
when will we ever
put our head down and study?
When?
So we just have to learn to adapt
and adjust to these calamities and difficulties that
come our way.
Otherwise, we'll never do anything, and this is
when your discipline comes in.
Right? Very true.
So did I answer all of the questions
with the last No. We've only got, like,
4 questions, so we've got no no answer.
You know, you answered it very well. Hamdulillah.
I was gonna say we won't even get
to the marriage question. You already answered
that already. You know, as you as you
were just
speaking, about seeking knowledge,
I think we just jumped down the list
quickly, and they were asking another question. Muddled
you guys up. No. No. No. No. It's
good. It's good. It's good.
If some of them has just started to
memorize the Quran, some of them in Arabic,
and etcetera.
But in your opinion,
can you give us that 5 top books
to study?
That for someone who has just started traversing
the path of seeking knowledge?
And if 5 is too much, just give
us 2 or 3 or more, inshallah. Now
of course you already mentioned the Quran. Yeah.
Like I'm an advocate and sometimes people even
take this the wrong way when I just
continuously
keep,
going on about the importance of memorizing the
Quran.
Right? Like Allah
made this Quran a very noble
book. Allah says a book that we send
out is blessed.
Even if you read up what imam Shirkrit
mentions with regards to the rest of Sir.
Said we put time into the Quran and
Allah
blessed
our pursuit of knowledge.
Right?
As opposed if someone now decides to take
a completely different path, he goes I'm going
to memorize this and memorize that. What khair,
what good is in your pursuit of seeking
knowledge, when you don't start the speech of
Allah subhanahu wa jal? What good are you
actually looking to attain? So this is the
foundation. This is the first step of the
Quran.
I'll say it's the Quran and the Quran.
Right? Everything that you're looking for you'll find
it in the Quran.
Right? And when you do memorize the Quran,
whatever else you study, it will just start,
you know, falling into place. Mhmm. Like a
puzzle, you know, and just starts, you know,
falling into place.
Qur'an's a foundation. Yeah.
You study Tawhid. You study books now in
Tawhid
and Achida,
right, which is Crete for those, who need
the translation. Right? What is it, you know,
mostly consisting of? You open up.
You open up, for example,
What's inside of it?
It's all Quran, but the ayat are now
being put into perspective.
So, when you already I've already memorized the
Quran, you're already kind of familiar with the
verse itself. Now it's just about putting it
into
its proper context.
And then of course you have the Arabic
language to really learn the Arabic language well.
Right? And one thing I will say is
that a beginning student of knowledge should not
be focusing
on Arabic grammar.
That's one of the biggest mistakes that you
could fall into. I've seen it in Egypt,
I've seen it in Yemen, I've seen it
in Saudi. That's a huge mistake and that
would just like delay your progress for maybe
a couple of years. What we need to
understand is and I remember when I first
came to Yemen,
of course I studied a lot of Arabic
vocab,
I went through these conversational
Arabic books. And then when I came to
the Maj, right, this was after a year,
there are lessons of course that,
lessons where Arabic grammar is being taught.
I'm sitting there as a Westerner
and Arabs are sitting there as well. Because
the Arabs don't know Arabic grammar until they
actually study it.
Yeah. Yeah. If you go to Egypt, I
don't even believe they speak Arabic. I've heard.
I've heard stories. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even
believe that's Arabic at all. They teach the
army in, in university there. They got proper
grammar and everything. Yeah. Yeah. You've got you've
got a lot of these, Arabs.
They've just been brought up with what they
whatever they heard, which of course it doesn't
fall in line with proper Arabic grammar.
So they are also attending these classes,
right. That which you both have in common
is that you're able to understand
the teacher when he speaks basic conversational Arabic.
So if you as a beginner don't know
basic conversational Arabic, how on earth are you
going to understand Arabic grammar? That's what I'm
totally against
once starting with Medina book
1. Okay. Yes. This is what they teach.
That's good to say. My university that I
graduated from. But as a but also in
the university, they studied this book alongside so
many other books. Yeah.
Hey, what did they do in the west?
They announced,
oh, Madinah book 1. Allah, I just I
just look at it as, like, some lost
cause.
Right? Alhamdulillah, we'll gain an opportunity maybe in
part 2. I think we'll cover that.
Just remind me,
because I still need to do that lecture
Yeah. Yeah. The same masjid. We didn't get
to do a lot of it. This is
a very important point.
Very, very important point. So, I know you
asked for a couple of books.
When it comes to the books, of course,
we mentioned the Quran, we mentioned Arabic language.
Books that one should really be starting with
is a kitab called Surah Salath.
3 fundamentals.
Right. Which speaks about the 3 questions in
the grave
that really really builds your
connection with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Just knowing
Allah Azza wa Jal by way of monotheism.
Right? Singling out Allah Azza wa Jal, so
on and so forth.
So if you just Google that, it's also
been translated.
Surah Al Sarathah.
What I also
advise with is the book called Kitabat Tawhid.
I've taught it something like
maybe 7 times in the last 2 years
because I teach on the online institute called
the Knowledge College.
And
sometimes it may appear that the book is
out of touch with reality.
Those students who have studied
it, they will come to realization that a
lot of that which we went through is
actually
that which they directly
find themselves
involved in on a day to day basis.
I'll give you a quick example, right.
Swearing on your mom's life.
I think all of us sitting here when
we were young
we, we fell into something like that.
Swear on your mom's life, swear on your
nan's grave.
They say it's what they say. Let's say
it. Was it mom's?
They said it's less than it mom's. Yeah.
Yeah. They do. Is it mom's or mom's
life? It's like moms, isn't it? Yeah. They
lose a different variation but I know exactly
what you mean. Exactly what you mean. And
what did the prophet say?
A whole chapter dedicated to that in this
book.
Whoever swears by Avidan Allah has fallen to
shirk.
And we know that shirk is the greatest
sin that you could fall into, right. It's
a big deal when someone murders another, right.
When someone commits zina,
fornication outside of illegal fornication,
sexual * outside of wedlock
or when somebody now steals something. All these
are major sins.
So we have major shirk and then you
have major sins. And then you have something
in between which is the minor shirk.
Right? And swearing by Abadan Allah azza wa
Jal, it varies between
the major shirk and the minor shirk, which
is what?
When you look at it west and Still
above major sense. Yeah.
So it's not a light matter. This is
just one example. Also when you look at
a lot of these,
you
know, these zodiac signs Yes.
Right, and magicians and whatever have you Yeah.
And,
and and the ta'weez
is in essence when you open it up
it has the names of Iblis and shaitan
and qaron and whatever.
That's your one is under the impression that
it has maybe the speech of Allah in
it.
So so many of these aspects that we
see our community is really suffering from
It's covered there.
Sheikh
Mohammed Al Tamimi.
We've only got about 10 minutes left, and
we had a lot of questions. InshaAllah, we
wanna get 7 minutes. 7 minutes. Don't worry
about that.
InshaAllah.
For everyone listening, because there's a lot of
people listening and alhamdulillah, we went through in
terms of seeking knowledge, but what I want
to do is speak about something that insha'Allah
can benefit the general listeners as well. So
one thing, a question that we have is,
alhamdulillah in the month of Ramadan, the month
of change, the month of Quran,
what advice can you give to anyone that's
listening today whether that's on Instagram or or
through the radio fm,
in terms of how to be steadfast in
Ramadan
and after Ramadan as well. What advice can
you give? Because I think people really really
need it, including myself.
I was mentioning today in Khutba that, you
know, the month of Ramadan is an institution.
The madrasa.
Right?
Whatever good habits that we now introduce in
our lives in the month of Ramadan, and,
of course, you know, here in this month
the scene has been set. If there's any
good trait or good characteristic
that you want to now introduce to him,
it's so much more easier because of the
shayateen being locked up, the doors of Jannah
are swung open, and doors of hellfire assam
shut.
So it's so much more easy in this
month. Right? However, whatever good that you,
acquire in this month, it's not just for
this month.
Right? The same lord that we are worshiping
in this month is the same lord that
is still alive for the remaining 11 months
of the year. Right? Think about it for
a moment. Right? We fast in this month.
Most people can fast. Get used to
fasting. Yeah.
Is it just for the month of Ramadan
or does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
want us to continue engaging in righteous acts?
Psalm is very dear to Allah Azza wa
Jal, fasting is very dear to Allah and
when you really just look into it, I
don't want to go into too much detail
because of the time,
fasting
prevents you from so many evil acts that
you may do on a day to day
basis.
Fasting is not just staying away from food,
drink and sexual *, so much more than
that.
Jabir ibn Abdulla, the great companion said when
you do fast then make sure your ears
are fasting,
make sure your eyes are fasting, make sure
your tongue is fasting.
Right? Just ask yourself a question, like reflect
on this point. If we were to control
these 3 body parts, right, and safeguard it,
how
would we be outside the month of Ramadan?
Allahu, we would be from the Awliya.
We would be from the closed beloved service
of Allah azza wa Jal. Many of the
sins that we fall into,
right, if you think about it originates to
these three body parts.
Especially now in the era of the millennials,
social media.
People are committing zina like it's it's normal.
Where did it all originate from? Some in
glance that they, you know, look because of
something they looked at. It's what the eyes
can't see, the heart won't desire. Likewise, when
it comes to the tongue,
which we utter. Another example of that is
the tarawih
that we get used to in the month
of Ramadan. Is it just for the month
of Ramadan, or does Allah want us also
to stand in the night, which is one
of the most beloved things to
Allah.
The characteristics of the people of Ar Rahman,
right, that is mentioned at the end of
Surat Al Furqan, chapter of the criterion,
one of the characteristics
is
that, they stand up in the night. Likewise,
the cat, we pay a lot of charity
in this month.
Is it just for this month? No. Continue
it after. So we're being trained. This is
now a training period.
When you start work, you do a training
period for 1 week, 2 weeks. Right? Yep.
So you hit the ground running. It's exactly
what Ramadan is. So what I can advise
inshallah is that you have a schedule,
right, of everything you need to do or
what you want to do,
so you're organized,
right. If you just think about it, right,
and I was mentioning this a lot before
Ramadan,
if you just now
read 4 pages of the Quran after every
prayer,
every day you'll finish
one juz every day.
That's 30 juz,
you finish the Quran. I'm sure most of
us have much more time than that, we
can get more Quran in,
You see?
So,
just to have like really a schedule,
of everything you wanna do. Maybe sit down,
just write everything up every day, this is
my target, this is what I need to
do.
And if you set high standards, even if
you don't
meet that,
you'll just still come out with something
And you've got that to show for whatever
you want to build up after that.
If we can end with some parting advice
because as we know this show is about
people and their stories in terms of how
they want to change. And we know for
a fact that a lot of people are
coming into Ramadan and we pray
a lot of people coming to Ramadan. They
want to change and they want to change
for good. They want to turn back to
Allah. They want to repent.
So all those who are listening today, I'm
sure many of them, their hearts are getting
a bit soft, few days of ramadan have
gone. What advice would you give to these
people and myself and everyone sitting here in
terms of turning back to Allah?
What parting advice can you give to that?
I can say to everyone who's listening,
no matter how
much you have transgressed,
no matter what kind of sin you may
have committed,
right. The doors of repentance are always open.
It doesn't matter if you have fallen into
prostitution, this is just as an extreme example,
doesn't matter if you're a drug dealer,
doesn't matter if you've been moving
you know,
ounces of drugs
from a to b and you've ruined so
many people's lives,
right, the door of repentance no matter what
you have been doing, is open.
Don't think that,
right, I'm a lost cause
or there's no light for me at the
end of the tunnel or it's all doom
and gloom,
right, or I'm destroyed Khalas
and there's no hope for me. I don't
think that Allah says and this is one
of the
greatest verses that show hope.
Allah says,
Say to my servants who have transgressed against
themselves,
do not lose hope in the mercy of
Allah.
Inna Allah
forgives all sins.
Whatever sin it may be, right, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is ready to forgive you, it's
just about you turning back to Him. So
if you make that intention, you have that
strong resolve
that I want to change myself this Ramadan,
there's no reason for Allah not to aid
you and assist you. It's down to you.
You really just need to change your mentality
in the way you think,
right.
So
no matter what you've been doing, right,
have this
intention,
strong resolve that I'm going to try and
you know
swing my life around.
If Allah sees that good in your heart,
he'll give it to you.
So it starts with you, starts with your
heart and your intention, and following the up
with actions.
And then inshallah, the scene has been set
as we mentioned. Things will be made easy
inshallah
for you. The month of Ramadan is a
stepping stone.
Right? I really don't like this term that
people throw around
calling others Ramadan Muslims.
Right?
It can maybe be looked at in
2 ways.
If you're calling someone Ramadan Muslim just because
they wanna use this as a stepping stone,
they start wearing hijab in this month, that's
wrong. Let's her wear hijab. Yeah. She's using
this as a stepping stone to get better.
Then there's other people who just say I'm
just going to what? Stop whatever I'm doing
in Ramadan and then carry on on day
of 8. That's maybe Ramadan.
It's you know, this month is there for
one to really
change. So if someone now stops smoking or
don't discourage him or starts wearing the hijab.
Don't discourage them. Let them do whatever they
need to do, and perhaps Allah will open
that door for them.
Alakallahu Faikam. Yeah. Alhamdulillah.
That's that's all good. Do you want to
end with anything salahuddin?
We just want to say I want to
say something, I was telling the brothers earlier,
really really impressed with salahuddin, wala.
Really really impressed, may Allah bless him, may
Allah 'anahu him, I don't wanna praise him
too much to his face. It's okay. Right
and he's really doing a lot and it's
appreciated
and you're thanked for that.
May Allah bless you.
We also want to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala to
continuously aid you inshaAllah I mean in the
da'wah,
to give you the fruits of seeking knowledge
knowledge I mean, and to ask Allah to
the grave
Tell my grave. Yes. To the grave.
And we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
bless you and your family.
Amen.
Allahu, it's a it's a it's a blessing
to have you on the show. It's a
blessing to hear your advices that you've given
to everyone.
I've taken some benefit. I'm sure Jibin has
taken some benefit as well. By the way,
Javid, you're a very good presenter. He is.
I could laugh.
I'm
pretty impressed. I didn't know you had this
side of you. Oh my god. He's good
at there. He's good at there. He's good
at it. He's good at it. He's good
at it. He's good at it. He's good
at it.
Soon. Let's come back on the 29th. You
know what I'm saying? You need you need
to get him back on each other.
Just today I got booked in Okay. For
Khutba
on 29th. Alhamdulillah. And I'm doing taraweeh mazimam
Nawawi. Alhamdulillah. We'll get you
another time inshaAllah we'll sort something out. After
Ramadan, definitely. Yeah. 100%. 100%. Says keep this
set. Insha'Allah. Yeah. Yeah. Take it from hammed.
Yeah. Yeah.
We're trying to think anyway. We're trying to
start up a podcast inshallah after Yeah. Nice
to meet you, Shayla.
So definitely inshallah. Inshallah. We'll end it there.
Allah
bless you all.
We'll end it there.
Allah bless you all. Please join us next
Friday. We have another special guest.