Akram Nadwi – Uzbekistan Islamic Heritage Tour
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The speaker discusses the history and characteristics of the Islam world's largest city, Samarkand, where students can learn about its culture and qualities. They also mention the importance of visiting Khwarencies and learning about the history of Islam. The speaker emphasizes the need for students to study and contribute to the study of Islam.
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For the students of the knowledge, one thing
is important.
You know, always make effort to find out
the background and the details of the life
of the masters of Islam, those people who
shaped Islam, you know, reformed them, like Imam
Bukhari, Imam Tirmidhi, Zamakhshari, that you read Kashaf,
and Ibn Sina, and all these intellectuals.
So think really, what is the why they
are in that part of the world?
You know, like Hanafi Madhhab, the most important
center of Hanafi Madhhab, actually was Central Asia.
The most important texts have been written in
that part of the world, you know, Samarkand,
Bukhara, most important one.
Similarly, the intellectual tradition of Islam, most of
them are from that part of the world.
You know, even the Arabic grammar, all those
things, they are there.
Why the people of this place, they are
so, you know, learned and so clever, so
intelligent?
Why is it like that?
We need to study that.
For us, it is important to visit this
place, to connect ourselves with that history, and
also to learn really how we can be
clever and we can make our own contribution
in the history of Islam, in the history
of science, you know, when you know really
what are the qualities of these people.
So this is a very, very important and
amazing learned people, very clever in every field.
You know, the first Academy of Sciences developed
in Khwarizm.
The first one, you're going to still see
it before Baghdad, before anywhere in the world.
They were scientists, they used to study, you
know, stars and pythons and many, many things.
Even the bread that people have now in
Khwarizm, the women made the bread.
So when we look in the bread, that
people eat every day.
But the bread of Khwarizm has got a
pattern.
The people said to us, these patterns are
not just random.
These patterns reflect some astronomical things, which we
don't know really.
So even in the bread of the astronomy,
you can learn something from the bread that
women make.
That's how the scientists were deep in that.
And when you go to Khwarizm, you will
see, you know, when the Russians came, they
destroyed most of the centers of learning in
Samarkand, Bukhara.
Many have been destroyed.
The only city they did not destroy is
Khwarizm.
Khwarizm, they kept as it is.
So all the centers of learning, huge mosques,
colleges, madrasas, all that there.
There is only one thing, they changed them
into hotels and something else, but the building
is still there.
You can see these are the great buildings.
So the whole city looks so impressive, you
can't imagine.
When you enter into Khwarizm, looks you are
in the past history, you know, seven, eight
hundred years back.
And also, you know, many of these cities
like Samarkand was the capital of the huge
Muslim empire built by Taimur Lang.
And Taimur is a conqueror.
He conquered India, he conquered Egypt, Syria, and
all the wealth that he got, he brought
it to Samarkand and built the madrasas and,
you know, centers of research, you know, and,
you know, how to study the stars and
this and that.
All these things are, you know, in Samarkand,
amazing civilization.
So anyway, I don't want to give a
speech.
I wrote a book.
So I'll encourage that, you know, any of
you, those who want to be studying Islam
and they understand this, they want to understand
the history of Islam and they also want
to learn.
Sahih Bukhara is written by someone from Bukhara.
Why not for somebody from Baghdad?
Why not somebody from Madinah and Mecca?
Why somebody from Bukhara has to come to
write this great book?
So you can get the answer when you
come there, when you see there and when
you see the people there and read the
history, you can find the answer.
So this opportunity has come, especially because, you
know, Islam is organizing and you are part
of that.
And I myself will be traveling.
I mentioned I have been twice there, third
time.
So many explanations that I can provide, not
necessarily everybody will give it to you.
Because people go there, but not everybody studies
these things, you know, in such a depth.
So this is a good time, inshallah.
And also people have to be within the
company of their teacher, you know, as long
as possible.
Now I only teach you online, companionship is
a different matter.
When you're together, you learn, you ask questions
and there's so much barakah which only goes
from the chest to the chest.
It doesn't go through the screen.
So you have to be in the company
of the teacher, inshallah.