Ahmad Kutty – Giants of Islamic Civilization AbdulQadir Aljilani
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The influence of Abdul Q opinion on the Day of Judgment, the Lord of the Law, and the God of the law on people's behavior is discussed. The influence of Abdul Q opinion on people's behavior and the importance of Islam in society are also discussed. The host emphasizes the importance of Islam in society and the influence of Abdul Q opinion on the Day of Judgment.
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Welcome to this fourth or fifth
of part of our series on the giants of Islamic civilization. Of
course, I'll call started with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
salam, as the mentor of mentors.
We studied his life in five sessions, as far as I remember,
and then we followed it up with the pious and righteous caliphs,
the four caliphs as well as some eminent companions
and eminent successors, the next generation. And of course, then we
went on to study the lives of the 40 moms and the sages like
Hustler, bursary,
Jr, et al Baghdadi and a number of others below Mubarak
and others.
And now, we are in the fifth
part five of this series and we are going to conclude it of
course, there are great number of names, we cannot cover them all,
but I will
conclude the series with Hassan Al Banna
Rama moolah
insha Allah. So,
this is just an introduction. Today we are going to talk about
Abdulkadir Gilani inshallah is known as
it has been given
many titles, because people who cherish memory wanted to convey
something of what they felt their impression of him. So, it has been
given many titles I will mention some of them, but I have quarter
taken this one to July graphene targe means crown
is should be translated as Crown actually
he's also known as soul tannery Fein, which should be the word
here in Arabic Sultan riffin.
I am going to in this session inshallah briefly I will cover his
origins and education. And his preaching is reform and revival.
Reform. Islam doesn't need any reform but
krisily for his activities as a reformer. Something of that, and,
of course, is one of the revivals of the religious tradition in
Islam.
I did mention the Hadith of the Prophet sallallaahu Salam here
before Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam said, Allah will
raise up in this Amin community at the end of our beginning of every
century, those who will strive to revive this religion
for us, and of course,
their coverage Gilani is reckoned as one of the reformers of
revivals,
spiritual method because he is
most commonly associated with the saw Wolf, which has a bad name. Of
course, I have mentioned just like Ebola Tamia sad and he is very
fair in that judgment.
People blame Tsavo for what so called culty Sufis do.
So, if you are to do that you have to blame Faker for what the
corrupt FOCA do.
You have to be fair, don't blame the so wolf for
the errors. So the innovations of the Sorcar Sufis, he calls them
pseudo Sufis. They are not the real Sufis or spiritual people.
They are one of the Sufi so
pseudo pretending just like sound fake. There is a difference
between somebody like Abu Hanifa our Moloko Shafi, who is
a fuck a jurisprudence, par excellence is Jewish par
excellence, acting as a moral conscience of the OMA. And then
somebody who is twisting and changing the religion to please
the rulers of the ritual powerful, you have to make a distinction
between the two. Okay, so spiritual bacteria, essentially,
we're going to sum up some of the points and some of the words of
wisdom. All of this in order to inspire us
to look up to these mentors, and we have no shortage of this
Manders. And I could tell you from my own readings, like continue to
read on them, they are all inspired by Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam. In one way or other, every one of them every one of
them inspired by the examples of the Prophet of mercy.
Now under Carter, his name is Carl Gilani or Killarney or originally
where he is
no
but he is so original name is Abu Mohammed Abdul Qadir Ibarra Musa
Bara Abdullah
that is original name. Abu Muhammad is his cornea actually.
Unlike
the idea that people many people have about
Sufis
he was not an ascetic in the sons Chandi marriage and of course he
married and he had dozens of children sons actually
most of them became very, very well known for their contribution
to Islamic knowledge and preaching and transmission of Islamic
knowledge.
His titles he has been recognized as Mohit Dean Reviver of religion
here means revival we have
reviving the Islamic spirit conference and they are inspired
by this concept of of revival. Okay, so he's called mohideen
revival of religion is called tar dry riffin crown of Gnostics, of
course, no stick, just to put it to
its we cannot use this word because it has a Christian
Association. And we have to rule it out. An Islam there is no room
for that kind of understanding.
What we mean by this RF means one who
tries to know of Allah subhanaw taala insofar as possible for us
to know Allah subhanaw taala.
Allah, us we cannot know anything about Allah. Pro reason naturally,
Allah, we can only know insofar as humanly possible through his own
self disclosure.
Allah reveals Himself to us through His revelation through the
science of nature.
We decipher the science of Allah subhanaw taala of a cliche Allah
who is to todo lo Allah know who and everything out there. Of
course, everything out there means everything out there. The book of
Revelation, the book of nature and human soul itself, there is a sign
always speaking locally to us, that God is one so speaks about we
can see the wisdom and the glory and the perfection of Allah
subhanho wa Taala through the lens of what he has disclosed or
created or revealed.
So that is that is the microphone Islam. You know the
Ebro Masuda real low No sir I think I brought that quotation
here. When we were talking about the grid companion, we Brahma
sutras allow know that man Amina Bhima alum Allahu Allahu Mara Mara
mahalo if anybody act sincerely on what he knows or she knows, God
will disclose wisdom to him or her
God will teach him or her that which he doesn't know. Actually,
you can vouch for that. People who did not read many books,
they spoke wisdom and they put it out in books, many, many volumes.
They didn't have a library like robots library or hardwood
library, but they filled the world with wisdom. And you look at the
companions of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. And they were
ordinary people, but the words of wisdom they have left behind,
immense, profound, and that's what he's talking about. Allah will
illuminate our heart, and we will know. He will broaden our chest
and give us insight into reality.
soltana RFEM is known as futon. Of course, remember, when we
mentioned Abdullah Al Barak, he was called soltana Roma emperor of
course, and inshallah next week we are going to talk about sourcecon.
Rama is the dean of the salaam who challenge the rulers.
A filled shook the verb
through his moral power and authority. So he's called soltana
Roma, just like the first person that I know, who was called by
this name was a burner Mobarak Barak.
So
scholars don't confer these titles, just like that.
The holy very few few people have been given this title. So tharn
RollerMouse return Retrophin and the other Gilani was given the
title of soltana hydrophila. Not sort of 10 or more, but soltana
hierophant which is even deeper actually, shareholder Islam. This
is also a title rarely was told
by scholars.
It's not
it's not very usual. It's very rare shareholder Islam, or Imam
with call, imam or could walk. Actually, these three titles were
given to him by none other than the hubby himself. The hubby is
one of the great critics of Hadith and is very, very critical in his
judgment. And yet he chose to call
up the Ricardo jewellery shareholders lamb or Imam, Imam
par excellence that means I could walk and of course exemplar of
people to example for us to follow a role model.
He was born in 470.
In the Persian province of Gilan, of course,
this is one report according to some of his descendants from
Baghdad, Iraq. They say he was born in Iraq, but
we are not going to settle that dispute here.
His family lineage has been traced to both Hassan and Hussein,
grandsons of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe salam from
Pantagruel side to her son and maternal side to Hussein.
Back better Abdulkadir Gilani never attached any value to this
lineage.
That sound understanding of Islam actually, because, you know, I get
so many questions from people about you know, I MSA it
so I have this proposal from Nan Sayed.
From my father's side, I must say my mother's side I am from Ansara.
I still remember
attending a snack convention with Sheikh Hamza use of
us people to identify how many of you from science background. Of
course half of the crowd raise their hands they are from side
I don't know why he asked this question but
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on more than one occasion
made it very, very clear that you cannot count on your lineage.
And Allah subhanaw taala made it clear in our karma, our of your as
human beings
from the money
in the farewells.
Sermon of the prophets of Allah Allah salami Surya Johan
Nurse, he addressed the eye and he didn't say you're Muslim or he
said Yeah, are you a nurse?
It's not one version of the transmitter report. Different
reports same you a nurse or mankind in our bar Kuwahara your
load is one in Baku warhead your load is one well in Baku wide and
your father is one.
And he even don't to explain it there is no no reason for an Arab
to claim superiority over non Arabs or white man to claim
superiority over black man or vice versa.
Kulu Caminada Illa be Taqwa he said except by piety. And, you
know,
one Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam was sent him RW Jabbar to
Yemen, as a governor and judge. He told him mod in our Naseby al
Matakohe. You know, you know these people who are who shared with me
blood lineage, they are not the ones closest to be rather the ones
closest to me are Matakohe those who are conscious of Allah, Allah,
you know, Mercado, wherever they are, they are the ones but you
know, I must foster my ties of kinship.
It has the only thing because that's the word of Allah subhanaw
taala. But the people closest to me,
the pious, the those who are Mottaki in wherever they are. And
the Prophet said, lineage there is not aware if one once deeds are
lacking, you know, Monarch kabhi Amarula. The story behind Cebu Of
course, I'm just not translating it literally, but trying to convey
the idea behind that. The GreenEDGE doesn't help of course,
that's the message in the Quran.
We read about the father of Ibrahim alayhis salam, the son of
Noah Ali salaam, and the wife of Noah and the wife of Luth you
know, their lineage lineage or or relationship with the with the
prophets did not help them
you know, they're coddled Gilani, he grew up in a very extremely
religious family
and his father was an ascetic Zahid and he was called mumble
jihad, he was a lover of jihad.
The word jihad has all kinds of false connotations, people
associated with what ISIS is doing. Of course, this is complete
distortion of the concept of jihad. Jihad
is not jihad, unless somebody is the the outward external jihad is,
is not valid unless somebody has successfully mastered his ego and
purified it in his intentions and motives. Soil jihad, they divide
the jihad into al Jihad De La Cosa Nostra and this is a sound concept
although some people have questioned the, the Hadith that
the the exact words of that narration.
But Abdul Qadir jeelani was one of those who consider that idea, a
sound. And by the way, AbdulQadir, Gilani was a master of, of all the
sciences, Islamic sciences, unsurpassed in his time.
And this was widely recognized because nobody would question his
orthodoxy if you want to call it
nobody would accuse Abdul Qadir jeelani That he is somebody who is
misguided in his spirituality, because he's well grounded in
Islamic sciences.
So father was very, extremely pious. And he received his former
educator formative education I mean,
it's basic. In Islam there is this formative education which consists
of mainly the foundation is the Quran,
memorize the Quran and try to understand the Quran because we
are going to see how you know the theory of knowledge just pounded
by people like a military biblical dune are going to study a bit of
heartburn also briefly Inshallah, one of our sessions here, that
Islamic
approach to knowledge is there
At
your foundation of knowledge should be Quran. And once you have
this Quranic and epistemology Quranic
concept of knowledge, you have what it takes to integrate all the
sciences, circular, there is no division of secular religious or
beneficial knowledge can be integrated otherwise, each branch
of knowledge becomes
you have this reductionist approach,
which is science is, science has become fragmented, and there is no
connection for one science with the other. That's, that's not the
way
Islam conceives of knowledge. So formative education consisting of
basic understanding of Quran and memorization and, and reflection
on the Quran, and then Hadith and then sciences, jurisprudence, and
then spiritual discipline, moral training and things like that.
So, and then at the age of 18, he was sent to Baghdad for higher
studies.
While sending him for on his way to knowledge, you see, one thing
we should know when we study this great lives, many of these great
masters like Imam Malik and Shafi, even Muhammad will humble the
inspiration behind the
the motivation came from their mothers actually.
This is, back today, we turn emphasized so much about the
education of women. And that is one of the main reason for the
downfall of, of Islamic civilization. And the only way we
can regain this glory of Islam and Islamic knowledge is by providing
equal opportunities for men and women. And I remember mentioning
here, bold zero who said, European orientalist,
that during his researchers into Islamic history, he recognized
more than 2000 Women scholars, at a time when there was not a single
woman professor in any of the American University, European
universities where Islam boast could price cell phone more than
2000 Female scholars have actually, I remember reading
that Ebro thermea
was Shaka, actually when one of his woman teacher sat on the
member and teaching so then he saw the Dream Vision of the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam, of course, then it convinced him that there
is nothing objectionable to it. You understand? So but today, what
will happen if a woman were to crime the member, I'm not talking
about delivering Friday Sermon, I'm talking about giving a lecture
on the member. So, of course, most of these great Imams, many of them
had women Assata EBITA Tamia had
been a hydrolyze, Kalani Han and of course, so nothing strange
about
his mother
made a quilt for him, in which she prays 40 gold coins Dena DNRs was
very, very valuable, precious. So, this is a provision for his
dad tolerable, you know, they have one of my friends and maca he
died, may Allah have mercy on him, brother was Azzam from Guyana
you know, he is to carry this date snack.
He was a student for many years, he used to have always this thing
and they say he told me that this is known as the tolerable
provision of for the student because students cannot carry
biryani with them, but they carry this little snack, you know. So,
in the case of Abdulkadir Gilani,
this was a provision there
or to pay for his
studies his expenses as a student. Now, one the way of course, while
sending him away on a strip,
regular for knowledge, his mother advised him never to tell a lie.
Because, if he were to do that, he certainly is spoiling the hole
in this intention,
because you have to set out on this sacred this is a, this is not
an ordinary trip when you travel for knowledge, you are in the path
of Allah subhanaw taala you are walking in the meadows of
Paradise, because you are in the path of Allah Angelou return from
that journey. And Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam told that all
man who came to Medina traveling, you know, long, raking a long
journey. The Prophet told him when he said, you know, my, I am an old
man, my bones are brittle. I have no energy and yet I have taken
this long journey to learn wisdom from you. Knowledge. So the
Prophet told him ya visa, you know, the, the path you traversed.
On your way, every single stone, every single creature, every
single creature in water land, we're invoking the Mercy of Allah
on your behalf, to pray for you. So this is the idea. This is why
your secret is your journey is it's not an ordinary secular
journey. It's a sacred journey. So don't Sully it by, you know,
telling lies, speak the truth. So, what happened on the way the
caravan was Duterte they were highway robbers all around and
then they seize the everything.
And the chief of the robbers ask Abdulkadir is only 18 years old.
Ask him Do you have any valuables with you?
He said, Yes, I have.
So he couldn't believe. So he thought he's making fun of him.
You know, this boy, why is he making fun of me? So he insisted.
And I said, Yes, I have. And he showed him this is it.
He couldn't believe what you heard. He asked him Why did you
divert this secret?
You could have hidden it from me, sir. No, no, no, I cannot. Because
my mother instructed me never to tell a lie. So I cannot afford to
turn a lie.
So we are told that the Chiefs repented, cried, repented and
return the money to him.
He said this. Of course, there are similar stories. Of course there
are a lot of stories of people repenting after being exposed to
the spiritual wisdom of
Imam Abdul Qadir jeelani later this morning with Allah bless him.
Okay, now he settled down in Baghdad, then join the circle of
the humble lead scorer, of course,
Baghdad at the time was the
stronghold. It had been a city of knowledge, so many scholars.
It was the jewel of the Islamic world for many years.
Score scholars
and by the way, originally he comes from the humbly background
and he remained a great humbly scholar. Many people have this
wrong idea that
tasawwuf and humbly school doesn't mix.
Because humbly is people think that is the literary school
actually I was at McGill undergoing that examination for
comprehensive comprehensive examination and the order.
The scholars asked me this question professors, what is your
opinion of humbly school that is the most wretched school and they
said that I said, No, this is because of the superficial
understanding of the humbly school because humbly school like any
other school
is very, very flexible. There are so many Buju 101 Humble
Take any issue you will find so many views attributed to him,
because he kept on changing his views as he exposed was exposed to
different circumstances, different evidences. So, of course then the
question of the Sabbath, of course, the head of Gilani and
Hara we Ansari, how are we? All of them? They were our humble lights.
And yet
he's called us to hydrography, Sultan
of Gnostics and things like that. And of course, even in the case of
a videotape me they have
of course clearly never condemned Passover altogether. It made the
distinction between pseudo Sufis and the genuine Sufis like Abdul
Qadir jeelani engineer, the Bhagavad Gita and others. So
this is one thing we need to know note about when we study about the
cultural Gilani is the humbly scholar. But of course,
he transcended that, to become not only a mere imitator of the
school, he was a monitor head of the school and he was considered a
majority of the Shafi schoolers. And there is a third opinion that
he was also monitored in Hanafy. School as well. As you know, when
somebody studies on tasawwuf, then he arises about the sectarianism
he can.
He can have a more comprehensive view of jurisprudence, and that's
an evidence that he is known differently. People recognize him
as a mature state of herbalist school as well as Shafi school,
and some say he was also a majority of the Hanafi school as
well.
Of course, everybody looked up to him.
And his guidance and rulings is to say that if you were to discuss a
single physical issue,
he would attack it from so many different angles,
providing different faces interpret different aspects,
discussing it from different angles, so that people who are
experts in law school will be baffled how?
Because the answer he gives is one of his the words of wisdom he
spoke says that when you purge your heart or fall
in obeys base,
intentions and devote yourself utterly to the love and worship of
Allah subhanaw taala. Allah will open your heart to wisdom, of
course, that that explains it all.
He studied under a great number of eminent scholars and had the
specialist there is a big list of the scholars. And of course, among
them was one of these prominent theologians, carbonara kale. I did
mention Enoch kale here a bowl of webinar kale. He was in his late
80s. Actually,
I mentioned it again. He mentioned
that I am now in my late 80s.
Yet my mind is as sharp as when I was in my 20s.
You know why? He said,
I remember only two days in my life I did not read.
After attaining the age of Tommy's only two days
the day I had my honeymoon,
and the day my mother died.
So, hi Malik is reported to have said, if your mind is BD seeking
knowledge, you will not lose your mind. Of course, in English, they
say here now, if you use it, you won't lose it. But if you don't
use it, you will lose it.
So, this wisdom our scholars learn, and that's why I'm going to
read to you later. I'm going to read but have jumping the gun now.
Al Biruni. He's in deathbed. I don't I am going to discuss him.
He's in deathbed. Dying actually. Scholar appears visits him.
He tells his
assistant to make him sit up
and take a pen. What was the point you were mentioning?
that day
so this caller asked at this time, at this time when you are in the
throes of death
The answer came from Bahraini, I want to meet Allah, knowing this
is better for me than dying in ignorance.
Where did they get the spirit? Inspired by ACARA read
by Ronnie is not a, a Sufi Sheikh is a scientist,
scientist, but he's inspired by the Islamic the Quran and the
Sunnah of this exaltation, continuous learning. And of
course, we know Imam Muhammad were humble, a extreme venerable old
age, still carrying that heavy import and paper, people asking me
LaMotta until one said, I am going to carry my import to my grave.
So,
this is Ibrahim Abdullah fibrosarcoma was one of those
times he received his spiritual training under the famous Sufi
Muhammad Abbas,
who mentored him through a course of rigorous spiritual discipline,
you know, they expose the students to
except that he was thrown into the river Tigris when it was extremely
cold, this is spiritual training, you may question why, because they
are preparing you to go through various ordeals and patience,
mastering patience and things like that, of course, then he gets the
hair car, this crock from this che herbicidal moremy, who is also is
more of a fucky than a Sufi, but still, he was also associated with
spirituality, He bestows on him the Halacha This is the clock,
you know, Sophie, the spiritual mark of spiritual training. And of
course, he gets a haircut from her mother the bus is not as color but
he is a is a spiritual master.
Their color studies and training lasted around 30 years
of course, is not just intellectual training, spiritual
training in Gruder.
And Emilio was extremely chaotic. In a Muslim war, the Islamic power
Abbas its decline and then sold times takeover, Turkey Kursaal
joke swill times they are competing and rivalry internal
dissension in fighting.
So we can within an hour extra as opposed to the external threats
from the Crusaders, they marched. They could easily overtake cities
after cities, and takia they occupied and then attack and Nokia
is and your
Jerusalem and of course on the way they kill Muslims and non Muslims
are Christians, various Christian denomination who did not belong to
the denomination, they butchered them, Christians and Jews and
Muslims looting and pillaging cities and spreading terror
everywhere. And this was the situation the millio of
Abdul Qadir jeelani And actually the sad spectacle tormented his
conscience.
He was really, really, in the know, of course, he reflected on
the situation, the sad situation, like his spiritual physician, he
diagnose
the sickness. And he found that the root of crisis, more spiritual
decline.
There is corruption all around injustice. You know, when Allah
subhanaw taala when we don't practice follow justice, the law
which Sharia for them stood for justice, actually. Today, Sharia
has become a tool of injustice and oppression out Billa people use
the Sharia just for
the strongmen. And this was not the
real understanding of Sharia as Imitate me and others said, Where
there is no justice there is no Sharia.
Okay, so this was there was no justice there corruption and
nepotism and favoritism. You know, and the ordinary people suffered.
So
Abdul Qadir jeelani, he saw a diagnose the condition and and he
tried for a spiritual and moral revival. You know, he was gifted a
charismatic preacher whose spiritual acumen was recognized by
teacher Mirkarimi. His teacher recognize rate and then you know
what he did.
He taught her he told him to start preaching, he gave him three days
a week,
preach to the public, because this is mentoring him. So
apprenticeship, of course,
no sooner he started preaching, he attract a large number of crowds.
From all over the world, people of various ranks and stations in life
flocked to him, because
even the initial sermon he gave
is, you know, the words flowed from his pure heart, as if it's
picking lino
diving, you know,
for pearls in the ocean, and bringing it out. And the words
were so powerful. And it really that which comes from the heart,
what happens goes to the heart.
And of course, there is a various description of sermons, and of
course, they many of them have been combined by his students and
other scholars.
After Muhammad's death, he succeeded him as director of the
school. And thanks to his fame as a scholar and preacher, students
flocked to him from all over the Muslim world. The number of
students became were so large, actually, they ran into 1000s. So
they were forced to acquire by the Adressen, you know, nearby houses
and, and make a complex. This is
complex University complex, where students were given boring and
lodging provided free actually that time off people rich people
were inspired to make endowments. You know, I mentioned to you that
this whole endowment system is a gift of Muslims to the Western
world. Now, they run the university, the Harvard and
prestigious university, endowments, and Muslims, that, you
know, when Abdel Nasser was rolling Egypt, they say, Elijah
had more wealth than the government itself than the state
itself. So Abdul Nasir confiscated
these endowments, stuff Allah
even though the rules of rock for very, very strict nobody can hear
no abuse it according to the school, Suffolk
so he preached against corruption, you know, his sermons were
attended by people of all stations, including rulers,
officials, as well as lemon and Muslims and non Muslims. They said
that
he would preach against corruption and injustice, hypocrisy all
around him, they say awakening the conscience of rulers and officials
are calling them to repentance, people would cry and repent
openly, you know, they say this is the impact the words are so much
impact on the people that you know, it led many people inspired
them to repent and change the ways it succeeded, okay, so he was able
to curb the corruption.
Among his words, where today many people have taken kings and rulers
as deities.
Likewise, they have made the transition word wealth, status and
authority as deities other than Allah.
They have this turn the branches into roots.
The creature the creator, the mortal the immortal, the weak as
the strong, actually, who is the immortal only Allah Spano? Who is
God only Allah subhanaw taala. Nobody. When we revere the kings
and tyrants of the mundane world and fail to revere Allah, we are
not different from those who worship idols beside Allah. Since
day one you are aware other than Allah is your idol.
You see, so what is the essence of his preaching is
purity in worshiping Allah
Did you know that on your Ebola Ebola Sinhala, with the worship
Allah in sincerity, making, you know devotion solely for him
prophets of Allah Allah wa sallam said beware of the spiritual
intuition of the believer. It for our subtle movement, be aware of
the ferocity, spiritual intuition of the believer. Remember when
numerous Marmara federal law no one answer Malik the young Sahabi
was going to smarthome radula or no on his way he saw a beautiful
girl. So he glanced at her and this lustful thought came to his
mind of course he didn't pursue it, it is message but then he
comes to see you smile Smorgon Allah knows one alone immediately
recognizes this chain of less than his.
And he mentioned it. So Hannah, slowly allow no ask.
Is there a revelation of her Sula, sir, no, no, this is the ferocity
of the believer for he no young little bit Moorilla he you know,
this Feras or Fabula delicado Gilardi recognized by everyone
so much so that are of the mill ik pseudonym the salam sir tava
turret, his Kurama is spiritual graces and tougher rules have been
report transmitter through
so many channels that nobody can reunite.
You know how when this man is purifies intention and worship
Allah alone and fears Allah alone, the power he has, the light he
has. That's why he has become traveler if in Surah tantalite
revealed this is that said
he could read the minds of his students, Swan student came, you
know, reading the books of philosopher and Kalaam. And I
think he had them with him. Then of course, here he did from the
recorder. As soon as he saw him, he said, leave this spurious
sciences.
You don't need them you can you have sufficiency. And you
understand, of course, he is not telling us not to read anything
other than but of course, he's making them aware that somebody
who has really studied the Quran and the Sunnah, he has sufficiency
in them, so that he will depend solely on these things, of course.
And there are a number of other statements attributed to him,
where he guides his students, you know, in this very, very subtle
way, by, you know, telling them about the things that they keep in
their mind. They never disclose it, but he already revealed it to
them.
So, they said that over 100,000 people repented and change their
corrupt ways. Of course, these are, you know, some of the
orientalist have doubted all this Orientalist and our Muslims, peep
scholars are also carried away by this kind of propaganda. Of
course, there are exaggerations in it. But you know, something that
has been reported by pious people you don't, you don't dismiss it.
You don't dismiss it, because these people will report it. They
have no material gain. But when somebody who doesn't believe in
the Islamic revelation, they want to put down this revelation by
casting routes on everything, they say, agnostic. This is the culture
of agnosticism. And we also get influenced by that, but that
doesn't mean we should not be critical. Of course, critical
judgment is important. That's why Merrick when he's critical of a
Hadees, he wouldn't rely on it. When he has doubt about a hadith.
Imam Shafi sir, he will not base his raw judgment on it, of course,
but of course, not everything we dismiss.
As long as you know, that's the basic things that we know about.
About Abdulkadir Gilani. There are there they are Hawara that's why
it is Do Not Disturb another set. It has been reported through
channels that you cannot deny. So don't dismiss them all.
So many, many people repented, and more than 5000 of Christians and
Jews converted to Islam to him. And I can very well understand why
it is so because when we reflect on the words of wisdom that this
Imam has spoken, his understanding of Islam,
we need to change our understanding of Islam.
Because for Abdulkadir Gilani, Islam is not a sectarian religion
is a message of mercy and you are going to see it in the spiritual
method he prescribed for us. Definitely. And therefore, I have
no doubt that he was able to convert non Muslims to Islam, no
doubt because anybody putting into practice the wisdom he preached,
would be able to influence the hearts and minds of people, the
enemies of Islam, turn them into friends, definitely.
He was a master of 413 branches of knowledge actually, they say
Hadees tough seal, he mastered 10 types of readings of Quran. He was
a master of can variant readings of the Quran. And of course,
furcal sola furcal Arabic literature, theology, Sufism,
mustard, you know all of these branches, and of course, the
lecture the students, one of his students has given a Kodama, he
said when he was a student under your collar, Giovanni, and of
course, the middle Kodama is the order of a moody, the most
detailed encyclopedic work on one of the most detail. So we work on
jurisprudence, comparative jurisprudence actually,
later or neighbors who don't have the salam would say, if somebody
has mastered Mogilny, which is written by William Kodama and
Mohalla and Sunnah know by the day, he can be a mage the hidden
so that he is truly unable to Kodama is as true as a student of
Abdul Qadir jeelani. And he said about him when I was a student of
Gilani, he would do lecture on all branches of Islamic knowledge, and
students have no need of going anywhere else for any of these
branches.
Thanks to his work, he prepared a generation of scholars and
teachers who revived the spirit of Islam. Among the students were a
dozen of his own sons. Of course, his sons became a dozen of his
sons became very, very prominent as teachers and mentors of
spiritual discipline, and teachers of Quran and tafsir Islamic
sciences carrying the torch after their father paved the way for the
arrival of Salahuddin.
Okay,
now, I don't know I have missed one point, which I wonder too.
Okay, this point I have missed it's very important in 541, you
know, I, I was I mentioned that he was preaching against the
corruption, injustice, and he was bold
to speak, you know, one the rulers, the carry for Bassick
carry a pointer. Yeah, but aside, he was notorious for his injustice
and wickedness, who only sheer he
appointed him as a chief Collie who only stayed reign of
corruption, reign of corruption and injustice. So Abdulkadir sees
the presence of the Caliph once the Caliph was present in the
masjid. And he was delivering the hotbar
and here just the Caliph, you have appointed a most wicked man as
Kali.
What would you say to the Lord of the words on the Day of Judgment,
when you are cautioned about it?
Is there anybody bold enough like that today?
The curl have immediately removed the collie
okay and then of course I and this this part I have
already mentioned.
Okay, now, this is these activities because he trained
many, many hundreds of people
as mentors and teachers and scholars, who won all over the
Muslim world. It was just universal spiritual revival
actually. And of course, the
The product was selected in a UB and of course, what he achieved as
the, in his war against the Crusaders. It was he reaped the
harvest the seeds that were planted by Abdulkadir Gilani.
Now spiritual method of Abdulkadir, I don't know whether I
will, but this is the essence of this session actually, I need to
cover it.
You know, AbdulQadir Giovanni unanimously recognized undisputed
scholar sage and mentor of scholars actually is not just a
scholar is a mentor of scholars and spiritual mentors, you know,
is he was recognized MidState I have mentioned it in both humbly
and Shafi schools, our his famous a Sufi Sheikh and founder of the
academy order is more widely recognized.
Weather I am not saying that what is known as Kadri, what they do
is, can be blamed on him, no, but if there is a spiritual order
bearing his name, but we have to distinguish that the grain from
the chaff the corn from the chaff there is all kinds of questions
and innovations,
legends and myths, you know people have that we have to sort it out.
Okay, he's an influencer so pervasive that there is no dearth
of Legends, okay? Because they were so powerful people, you know,
put all this in order to give currency to their own, you know,
non Islamic practices, they put it on him. So of course, it's easy to
isolate them if you really study his work. So in Indian Pakistan is
known as our vows. Stuff Allah. I remember even my mother so yeah,
Abdul Qadir jeelani. My mother used to when Shefali ja Abdullah
cartridge Ilana stuffer Allah and when I was sent to study and came
back I told her my mother Don't say that Ya Allah. You should call
upon Allah. This is shirk. You're also our love, never call him he's
just if he is the sucker and refuge instead of Allah subhanaw
taala that's exactly the opposite of what Abdul Qadir Jilani taught
is blatten Schilke no doubt Abdul Qadir jeelani is completely
innocent of this, whatever they have, because he he preached pure
Tao he'd, you know, he left behind their treasury of spiritual
wisdom, spanning dozens of works. Most of his works have been
translated by Dr. Holland, a British convert to Islam, who is
often referred to as the Sultan of translators Calamus will turn of
translators actually this matar or and converted to Islam, three
vision of profit and spiritual because he was a person who was
spiritually blind.
He considered himself a stranger in his own body, of course before
coming to Islam because so long search the ended up holding a
vision one because of which he converted to Islam.
Shake up the spiritual training was based from muda muda is
spiritual exercise. You have to engage in Jihad knifes and you
have enough says examine your motivation, purified, purge your
heart of envy, jealousy and associating partners with Allah
subhanaw taala or show business, that is Mujahidin actually, and I
don't know do I have time? I will have to
I don't have time
don't rush through No no, I'm not rushing I have to decide this is
the core essence. I want because I need to benefit from it. You need
to benefit from it inshallah. So the essence of the spirituality
spiritual method of and this actually when you reflect on what
the wisdom that he has distilled in these 10 points. I wish if I or
anyone were to imbibe it and internalize it and practice it.
Surely we will make a difference in this society. And I have no
doubt Islam spreading so far spread through people, preachers
and mentors, that people like Abdulkadir Gilani, train them send
and they send this kind of preachers and teachers to all
parts of the Islamic world. So Islam spread through them. Not
true.
All others
are 100% convinced because you North India, Islam is the weakest.
Whereas in South India, Islam is the strongest. Islam is strong in
Malaysia in China it used to be an Indonesia where no rulers no sorts
went. But Islam came through this spiritual mentors and trainers and
ordinary merchants. I remember I'm coming from Malabar no soldier
when there but our traders and the Sufi shakes when they
you know and they opened up caste system, you know the, through the
example they intermarried this lower caste, women, Arabs coming
in, they're marrying and then converting them to Islam Believe
me, this slums pan like and the Hindu kings welcome this because
they saw the purity, the sincerity, the truthfulness.
And, and the the Hindu kings sided Muslims against the colonialists
in South India.
You see how so that's why I'm working this spiritual wisdom. I
need to imbibe, you need to imbibe and we need to preach it
inshallah. So I'm going to put it off for next session. Inshallah, I
hope you will continue to come because we have a great number of
people like me, alone by Roni is doing up the Salah, many many
other giants we need to learn from them in sha Allah. This religion
is indeed a great and it has inspired great minds to realize
the best of what human beings can achieve. A koliko Johanna was
talking to Lola welcome and Allah subhanaw taala inspire us to love
Allah to love his messenger and to allow all those who love Allah
subhanaw taala and love the actions and words that will bring
us closer to the love of Allah subhanaw taala a cornucopia that
was tougher Allah Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah we look forward to
seeing you next week, inshallah.