Ahmad Saleem – Shamail al-Muhammadiyya #001
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The history and cultural context of the Islam culture in Pakistan are discussed, including the importance of Shama Elmo and the use of fragrance products in buildings. The speakers emphasize the need for understanding of Sharia's behavior and finding a friend to bring them to shaping shaming. The importance of learning from hadiths and bringing others to join the discussion is also emphasized.
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insha Allah From today onwards, every Thursday after salaam, Malaysia, we're going to start
the study of the CRO of Nabi SallAllahu sallam. For those of you that had attended that lecture in the past that we gave, I think, before Ramadan on a Sunday morning, the last Sunday before Ramadan, we'll just repeat it for those of you that didn't hear it. And we talked about that. Allah subhanaw taala. In the Quran, he asks this question that um, let me it for those who to whom I'm the hormone ketone, do they not know their prophet? Or are they in a state of denial, and in car in a state of incar of their profit? And from there the question happens at how do you get to know Prophet salallahu? Salam, how do you get the mighty for of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
Madiba of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is something that is predicated on multiple things. But in order for us to start truly loving Rasul Allah, we must have Madiba because the one who has Malefor the Arabs, they usually say man Arafa, a hub that whosoever gets to know someone, you get to love them. Woman, a hubba hubba. And if you love them, you will eventually follow them. So that's the sequence. So the America or the awareness, we're getting to know Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam the scholars they have said that there are five sciences, five sciences through which we can get to know Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the first science
it's, it's live on YouTube.
Go to hamsters, YouTube, it's live.
So if you can just go to Hamza YouTube, you'll get the link there on there, or somebody else can if so,
what was I saying?
The five sciences. Yes. So the five sciences to know Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. They are the science of Syrah, which is the science through which you get to know the chrono illogical life of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, right. And the word zero comes from Zara zero, from that same word is sejarah your car?
Okay, it's all the same words, what does a car do?
Right, it takes you from one place to another. So when you go through the Syrah of Rasulullah, Salah Salem, you go from one event to another event to another event to another. It's a chronological sequence of events that leads us to go through or traverse through or traveled through as if you're in a car driving, and you're seeing the life of Rasulullah unfold in front of you. Lots of books have been written on the science of Syrah. And usually, when the word Syrah is used, what it's usually means the chronological study of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. In English, in my opinion, the best book that is there is the book of Martin lings. It's probably one of the best
books that is written in English and if you've not read it, it's such a
powerful read that no one's you start the chapter, you can close the chapter until you finish the chapter. That's how beautiful it is. And in English, there's lots of series that you can find online on Sierra just type in Sierra, you have Chef Yasaka, the Sierra, you have earlier Lathom gear Sierra from UK, you have the Sierra annoncer agenda, you have to see it off Hamza Yusuf Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, all of these heroes are out there multiple and they have different flavors. Every Sierra is different flavor, the focus on that journey is different in every Sierra, the most detailed one, obviously, is Jeff So far the zero then you have the next science, which is a nice science of what
those who remember.
Let's see, who remembers that lecture, Shama? Ill, right? It's the lecture for today. So, there is a science of Shama in the word Shama, Ill comes from the root word of Shimla. chamalla Shmoo means that you know, something that covers you, Shimla, you know, the out of the station amla, right. So, this is the study of the characteristics A LITTLE WHILE hollow. So, the creation, the existence of Rasulullah, the mobile era, just said of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the study of the beauty within him inside. So, it's his, his external creation, and his internal beauty, all of that, that is the science of Shama, and then you have the science of fugu in which is the superiority of
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam above all other Ambia
this entire science How do we know that he is best
is the you know Mr. Olympia sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? How do we know that? There's an entire science of that. Then you have the science of HERSA is, these are exclusive rules that only belong to Prophet sallallahu sallam. These are exceptional rules that for or for profits that are seldom and is not for you. And as for me,
we gave some examples of the rules. For example, once Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam consummated the marriage with a woman she he cannot divorce her.
And when he tried divorcing what happened?
Allah returned, have Saturday alone back, you can't do that.
But if the marriage has not been consummated in any kind of takes place, then Rasul Allah still has a choice. Right? I mean, obviously, this is a discussion that's not relevant today. I mean, there's not going to have any Nikka of Rasulullah right now, but for us to know. Okay, similarly, Hossa is a Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam means that certain Eva that were founded on him
such as what
the 100 but it's not forced on you and me. And other thing if Rasulullah initiated an EVA
day so there was, I mean, he decided that you know, he's gonna pray one day, at a certain time, and he added an extra period and he has to stick to that prayer for the rest of his life. That's fasciae for Rasulullah sallallahu that is why in Muslim, you hear that Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam he started praying
towards the end of his life he missed his the horse owners.
He missed his owners of the horse so he came and he prayed them after ourselves. Although this is the time that is money it is a time that is prohibited for you and I to break
but there is an exception for Rasulullah there is no time where he is not
so his there's there's no time for him where it's prohibited for him to break it's prohibited for you and I to pray but not for him while people might find that odd but similarly in your in Makkah right when you're in Haram there is no time in Harlem where you are you know
so there is no time in Harlem that is a prohibited time so when you're in the Haram Maka entire time you're on that boundary that white floor you're good to go you can pray anytime there is no even like after fajr even after even after us or even after our sir okay there is no money time. So places and people Allah subhanaw taala can decide these exemptions or exceptions. So this is called Casa is a Prophet sallallahu sallam. Then you have the last one that I will have Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam write the evidentiary grounds on which you and I can come to this conclusion that Prophet salallahu Salam is V nubby.
Right, that's called the line of NaVi saucer and each one, there are lots of books that have been written. Sadly, only in Sierra and Shama IL. books have been translated the rest of sciences you still have books only in Arabic. In order also you can get them but other than mmm that hubby's books have been translated in Urdu. But other than that, you know, we don't have them in English. Today, our discussion is going to be on the discussion of Shama IL.
But before we get into the book, we need to know who is the author of Shaman. So maybe this session and the next session, we're going to spend some time understanding who emigrated museus. So Imam tenemos. He was born in a place today, Uzbekistan, and a small in a city called thermos, which is still there. And he was born in thermos. We don't know anything about how he grew up. There's no information on Nash at how he was raised. We don't have any books that talk about it. We just know about him, when he from Uzbekistan, in the early 200 Hijiri. So this is in the early two hundreds, right? 208 There's definitely laugh whether it is too late to attend. It's a it's an early period of
200 Hijiri. That's what we don't have his details of initiation would happen. We know what happened when he died. But early is there's there's a lot of confusion about what happened because nobody there was not many people documenting stuff in Uzbekistan at that time. In cinemas, especially Muslims had reached all with all the way to tetanus. He grew up Allah subhanaw taala had given him a Zack era a memory that was like no other.
him I'm telling you see him himself has reported dimension that I never asked anybody to repeat any information. And we'll get we'll get amped up on Jose. I forgot. It'll be my data. We forget like right now somebody told you and we forget. Imam televisie never required to repeat anything. As a matter of fact about his DACA his memory. It is mentioned
that multiple stories have been mentioned. One of the most profound stories that is mentioned about Imam Imam totemism
Memory is first obviously, he memorized the entire Quran in 30 days.
Just like Subhanallah right? And again, these things happen in our times I know of a person in Toronto, who was 68 years of age,
six years of age, retired in one Ramadan, he came in Ramadan, and he said, you know, we are Muslim, and they give me a quick sneak and if I don't have anything to do, let me memorize the Quran.
So you started memorizing the Quran and 68 years of age. Before he was 69. He memorized the Quran.
He's still alive today.
Okay, he memorized at that age, he memorized the entire Quran in eight months. Right? So these are called abilities that Allah subhanaw taala gives people, you know, I'm telling you, he had been given that ability. So he is traveling, and he knows that he's going to Makkah. And he takes two volumes of book like imagine that book, 600 pages 600 pages, he takes two volumes of books. Now back in the day, books were not printed like you and I. So they're all looked black. They had like one curl cover. And these books were handwritten books. So the books that Imam determines he chose, these were the books that there was a hadith collection that he had collected in those books
handwritten. And he knew that there is a specific shape in Makkah that I'm going to go and I'm going to recite his Hadees collection to him so that I can get the ijazah I can get their permission, and I will confirm my knowledge that I have documented. So he arrives in Makkah, he opens a book and accidentally he has picked up two empty volumes, not the ones he had written in. So he thought these last two volumes in the corner, were the ones he picked up. He didn't check he put it in the luggage traveled, came to hudge. He opens. There's nothing written in it. Now he has already taken an appointment with the sheriff. So in the morning budget, he goes to the sheriff and he starts opening
the book empty and he's reading the Hadith as if there's a hadith in there, but all of that is coming from his memory.
So the share he kind of like he's like,
What are you doing? Telehealth, Ali? Are you playing with me? Or is this joke? He said, Well, this is what happened. I traveled from titmus I poked around volumes. But by Allah I had, I know all of those two volumes by heart, and I can recite them to the sheikh who did not believe him. He said you vackert Like you're trying to you know, try to play big, you actually revise them before coming. And now you're pretending to be like you know, super knowledgeable. So he said, Now you can give me 40 Hadith now.
Just give me any of the new 40 Hadith that I do not know. Give me some 40 Hadith and I will repeat those Hadith. Now keep in mind when we're saying repeat Hadith, the way we repeat, this is the NAMA Lama robinia
the way they had inserted Allah for Allah Allah, Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah, Allah Allah if you if you remember all that chain and then the Hadith that that one Hadees may have six different chains.
So one chain the last two people are different the next chain the top person is different. So you're memorizing all those chains for one Hadith. So Imam Timothy got those 40 Hadith and he repeated him as imam to have you mentioned that he repeated all of those Hadith verbatim with all the chains
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when he traveled from Vietnamese,
he was a young man, he came to hijas and he came to areas of Bukhara so he was a student of Imam Buhari. He studied with Imam Bukhari. Imam Bukhari mentions about Imam telemovie and he says when Imam told me he was about to leave Rambo, he says that I benefited more from Timothy than he benefited from me.
And this is who this Imam Buhari saying this about him. I'm Timothy, okay. I'm telling with you. Sadly, we only have two of his books with us today.
He had written lots of books in our FCL collection and stuff we have mentioned of other books that he wrote, in total for famous books that were written. We don't know what those four books are last. We don't know where they are. Right? We have mentions of them and like even Kathy and they'll mention that I got this from him. I'm Ted misses this book. Now we go look for that book. We don't know where that book is, is gone. Right. And that leads us to the point of what happened to those books.
Right. I gave you the example of Hachette LBD give you the example of the you know the the Mazuma the poetry that we started on Sunday mornings, right. That book was lost. Every child in the past had memorized that poetry, but for the last 300 years it was lost. We didn't know where it went. Until one
Emanuel Garcia researcher found it in a remain somewhere and dig did
From a library and then he printed the whole D, one of his heartily LBD. And in 1965, we got that book back. But for almost 300 years, we didn't have access to that book. We had memory all the mark Madiba, all the Moroccan scholars would talk about it have always happened, it will be the woman's Ooh, but it has happened. It'll be the best macro narrative when we do not know where it is. It was last until 1960s. Somebody similarly, you know.
A little more, a little more dadgum. Or, I forgot the book. It's like a book that was written in 200 Hijiri.
Guess who has it?
Stanford library manuscripts has it somewhere. And then it got recently printed.
It was something from 200 Hijiri. Our heritage, it was sitting in some until one person went to the open the cattle Oh, what is this?
An
Elmo dialogue, this book. And then they found that book, they got permission to print it. And in Harvard has it or Stanford has it similarly, just in Timbuktu. Abdullah Hakim quick, he mentioned that in Timbuktu, over 700,000 manuscripts were stolen by the British when they invaded Africa, in that area, and they took them and they put them in their libraries. We don't even know like, oh, we have over half a million manuscripts of our heritage that is sitting there somewhere. Alhamdulilah is at least safe. If it was with Muslims. autobrush tiny, like we're like I literally when I was in Makkah, we went to the museum, and the guy's like, Yeah, this is the pillar of even Abbas. I'm like,
why can everybody touch it? You should be like protecting it. UCLA idea GUI mafia machina. It's normal. No problem. Literally. Imad, something was built at even our buses time. You can go and touch that word. And nope, there's no protection for that pillar, just standing there. Just like that. Everybody coming is touching that pillar. Right. So alhamdulillah. Those things are saved, coming back. And I'm telling Mizzy we only have two of his books. We have al Jamia the one, which is the site so he did Mizzi. And here I have a tangent.
We have C Housesitter. We have the six books of Hadith. These are called the six books of Hadees collection on which our shoddy is built. Today, this entire Qurani movement that is happening, right? There's their centers of them in Dallas, they're actually opening a Center in Atlanta, just so you guys don't know, they're opening and center in Gainesville, right? That Qurani movement, and they're bringing all of that. So they are like in denial of all of these six Hadees collections. They only say from this six Hadees collection we will only use 200 mutawatir Hadees. The rest of the Hadees we don't need to worry about
so whatever then we can build on the 200 Matamata. Hadith those are that Deen everything else is just, you know, we don't know if it's the role of Rasulullah sallallahu.
And that is very problematic. But coming back to see has it. It's really interesting to see that out of the six Hadees collection books. Only one of them was Arab. Imam Muslim. Everybody else was Agim.
And they were Agim, I either didn't speak Arabic, there were people who were Muslims, they opened their lands I II, they entered and they became victorious in those lands within 70 to 80 years, the influence of Muslim haidara civilization was so powerful that the within 60 to 70 years, if you look at the first 150 all the way to 300, that 150. You know, within 150 years, we produced a scholarship of non Muslim or sorry non Arab scholars who dominated the scholarship of Islam. And that tells you how great their education system was.
That the enter into Pakistan, they enter into Bahara. And those places today have reminiscences of Islam.
When we are in under laws, the person was telling us, like if you've not been to under laws in Spain, like you should save up money in gold, because that's where, especially if you have children there are like teenagers and in their early 20s see what our civilization was. So this person was touring with us. So I asked him, I said, you know, so how did the Muslims, you know, he said, you know, the Muslim neighborhoods were known for one thing, which was that they were most fragrant.
So it was very odd. So I'm like, how are they fragrant? So he said whenever they would build libraries in Andalus. Whenever they would build libraries, they found out that there are certain herbs, certain underwater plants that create fragrance in water.
So the architects that build those libraries and those mosques, they had rivers flowing because of wudu and stuff they needed water. So if the stream was flowing, they would they would actually, you know, grow and fly
I had all of these trees so that the stream water would come through. But once it crosses the neighborhoods of Muslim and that stream water goes into other neighborhoods, people can tell that this water went through the Muslim neighborhood.
Right and it was fragrant. He said the neighborhoods of Muslims were fragrant, they built their their buildings and architecture in certain ways when we were going and seeing and in Valencia and Valencia, when we were there, the architecture was so powerful that if you were to light a small coal and put behold, it was designed in a way that that scent would permeate every single corner of that building.
And it was designed to their own we don't use is the hill so we don't use a lot of so just little would be enough.
From the sound engineering part. If you go there and these places like determines if you go there, the mosque, which is built very close to Imam Timothy's. You know where he was born, supposedly born, Allahu Allah, and we don't. Over there. There's how like it, there are reports that there were 50,000 people. Imagine if we are eat Salah, we didn't have a microphone, how are they going to hear?
They wouldn't be able to hear. But how did they hear 50,000 people, the building was designed so that when the Imam is speaking at the member at a certain height and projection, it should, it will project the sound. And those domes that were built were designed for all of them. And all of that happened in in the first 150 200 years Muslims went to was Pakistan, there was no Muslims. Now you have an entire civilization of Muslims that till this day, you have a fact of that. So these five that came out of the six, they were non Arabs. So this is like a motivation for all of us. Like if they could do it, we can do we have a lot more tools today. But what's missing is we don't have the
drive.
Right? That's the thing that's missing. And I'm telling was he was not known for anything other than Hadees. As a matter of fact, he read so much Hadees and he wrote so much Hadees that it has mentioned towards the end of his life, he became blind.
He became blind because he didn't have proper light. So, whatever light he was using and he was putting strain on his eyes, because of the strain that he put his on his eyes with writing and studying Hadith he became blind
he ajeeb right at SC this not that Allah subhanaw taala has saved his name throughout history like you know he gave that effort he put in that time. So all of us are capable of achieving those heights. But the question happens is which one of us is going willing to sacrifice that? It comes with a sacrifice it comes at a cost. If you pay that cost, we all can gain all of these things right? Then Imam Tatum, Izzy it is mentioned about him that after he wrote a German term easy, by the by the way, this book jammy I tell him is it has mentioned that if anybody
has Germany autonomously in his house, you know, analysis. Haley, he says that if anybody has Jimin autonomously in his house as if you have Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in your house, I mean, the descriptions that are mentioned in that and if you read that book, you can visualize prophets of Salaam.
And some scholars, they actually put Imam Timothy's book over not in the level of authenticity, but in the level of benefit to the masses. They put him on Timothy's book higher than Buhari and Muslim. And the reason they say that is because Bukhari and Muslim are complicated books are these collections. They require somebody to unpack the benefits. But Imam Tiramisu is Jami autonomous he was written, Sal is Lea Bara, it was very easy for us to explain, and any hard words he has explained it in it for you. So you don't need access to other things, you can just read that book and benefit from it. The second book that he wrote was the book of Shama and
Shamel, at telemovie which is a collection of 400 Hadith books. And those are these books combined. That hadith is the collection is called chamomile al Muhammadiyah. Or Shama l, a term easy, there's different names for it, when we use the word Shama in general, when he say Shama L, it denotes
Shamaya of Prophet sallallahu Sallam the characteristics of prophets SLM, unless and until we use the word in Arabic and we say Shama Al and us, are Shama Al. Habib or Shama Elmo, you know, so when we use the word chamomile alone, it means only Shambhala Prophet sallallahu Sallam the characteristics of provinces. Unless and until we add a name to it, then it changes in sha Allah. In our study, we'll start the book Shamala Timothy, one of the format's, that we're going to take on is that when the hadith is being mentioned, the last Rawi the narrator will try our best to give you a history of
What that rally is and what his you know, just so we get to know a little bit of the Sahaba and then we'll get into the Hadith collections, and also why we need to study Shama and we'll, we'll touch on that inshallah next week, in more detail we rely to Allah is that from Allah Hi, now you have a task all of you,
which is that this is rarely do people teach chamomile. Rarely. In mustard settings, it is always taught in institutes. But in mustard settings, you don't usually find lectures on Chennai
and this is a science that is definitely lacking because a lot of us we don't have been organized say how did Rasul Allah look like? We need to have a visualization of how he looked like. So I want that when you go back, find a friend of yours that is not here today.
And you make sure you put a reminder in your phones that you bring because a dull oil, Heidi kuffaar it if you invite that brother or sister, you invite them over here. It's as if everything that he does, you get the benefit from it.
Right? Imagine if somebody told you look, if you invite this brother, the salary he makes will give you the salary to
this message will be full.
Each person will bring 100 people, we got some key salaryman right here, over here, Allah subhanaw taala is saying that you will get the pleasure of what he does.
And whatever he learns, and whatever he learns, and after he learns all of his children and generations to come, you all walk away with that Azure. So if you bring one person and from that one person, so many people are guided Subhanallah I know the person and he's a friend of my dad who gives the shahada to Dr. Bilal Philips
see the uncle.
Right? He was there in Canada in the masjid. They were having a conversation Bill Phillips was a black Canadian, didn't know anything, had few conversations broken English, Amon Islam, Allahu Akbar this that he's like, oh, I want to be Muslim.
And consider uncle, nobody knows. Dr. Bill Phillips, everybody knows. And the higher you know, he's built a university, the Jamia all of that, right. So you don't know that person that you bring could actually become the Bilal Philips. So when you go out today, find that person, talk to them, and bring them in Sharla next Thursday, when we start the book collectively, and we'll start it off slow. But once we set the principles, we'll push Now one other thing that is very important,
there are two types of learning.
One is you know what to do.
Okay, as a card I do this, do this do this, there will be practical aspects of Shamaya that will touch on that. But for the first month, two months, my focus is going to be wire relearning.
And my focus is going to be the sleeve l victory to think
why this is their how, like before, what can I do with it, the focus is going to be to start changing how we should think about Sharia.
Okay, and this is called an Arabic Delfzijl victory, that that, that Sharia is supposed to alter our thinking. And it is supposed to lay the foundation on how we should think.
So in the context of Hadees, and everything that we're going to be doing, talking, you're going to find less practical lessons from me, but more questioning that would inshallah enable us to have a foundational thinking of how we should think about Sharia before we can get to the answer of what I need to do because oftentimes we know what to do. Right we know what to do about it but we really don't have the foundation that is there for us to be able to to build on it and the in the simple question is somebody will ask me something was this halal and haram?
Because they're concerned about what to do.
But because they don't think the way shedding I wants them to think there's so many other things that they may be involved in Haram but it's not even like it's not there for them. Right? That if a person is concerned about the food that is served to him on an aeroplane when it's hot, and haram, but if that person he is traveling and his destination is that he's gonna go to Las Vegas and have lots of fun. It really doesn't matter if you had halal or haram food on that your suffer is haram to get it. So the steel factory changes that rather than being objecting about the immediate object we need to think at a greater concept of understanding what God wants from us, rather than getting
stuck in minut little details. Okay, so insha Allah will start next week sorry, I extended this when Sharla from next week, we'll try to keep it within 2025 minutes. We have made it to Allah Baraka lafay Come Subhanak along where we have decrescendo La ilaha illa, Anta stuffer
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