Ebrahim Bham – The Status And Role Of The Ulema

			hamdu lillahi wa
		

			salatu wa salam O Allah Milena Viva La Mulana Viva la Vida, de la Cava kitabi la Sharia Tabata
Shariati Amadou former wilhemina shaytani r rajim Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem. shahidullah cuando la
ilaha illa.
		

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			respected elders and brothers. Last week, I heard announcing said that there was going to be a
gathering of all ama,
		

			that were getting together to discuss the challenges facing the AMA and the oma. Today I thought
		

			as a result of that, to speak about the status, the role and the challenges of the automa especially
in today's time, Allah subhanho wa Taala has given a very great status to those who are learned.
Those who are Allah, Allah, Allah says, Allah, Shaheed Allahu anhu La Ilaha Illa.
		

			Allah eager to Allah.
		

			Now I want you to understand this ayah Allah Allah says, Allah Allah gives testimony, the angels
give testimony, and all ama give testimony, that there is no one with you of worship besides Allah,
some of Assyrian right, that Allah His join the Obamas testimony with the testimony of Allah.
		

			This is the reality that Allah subhanho wa Taala has joined the testimony of the Allah with with
Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah Allah wa salam, BIA, very famous Hadith, that Allah
		

			that Allah is of the Prophet the prophets don't leave behind wealth as the inheritance they leave
behind ilam and knowledge. Whoever takes from that knowledge they have inherited from the ambia
Halima Salatu was Salam. In muslera mata is a hadith that nebia Karim sallahu alayhi wa sallam it
said, Allah like stars, Allah like stars that previously people used to use the stars to be able to
gain direction will Mr. citaro came on and he just said whiskey or summon Dharma, revenue, my
Legion. That is how Allah subhanho wa Taala has made mentioned with regard to the virtue in the
status of the oma. Now, I don't regard myself as such. So please don't say that I'm blowing my own
		

			trumpet. I was just talking about the Anima in a general and how the people and those who are on ama
what Allah subhanho wa Taala and our beloved Nivea creme de la Vallee wa sallam he said with regard
to them, however together with that, because of the privilege, because of the status because of the
virtue
		

			ambia they are the inheritors and calama ambia kawartha because of that comes a very great
responsibility. Now, this is a general rule. Whenever Allah gives someone a great
		

			privilege, a great status. Just copy Allah subhanho wa Taala named muqaam dia. Case art exhibit. It
is
		

			just Russia Hola, mana. llama cola tonic. Mukunda is muqaam Casazza exact Zima dari IoT. For
example, Allah tala speaks greatly about the wife of the prophets only Santa Monica howdy Mina nice
Nisa, you are like no other woman you are better than all the woman of the world. But with that came
a responsibility may Yattaman Kenobi Felicia
		

			because of your status as the wives of the Prophet, if you do something wrong, the punishment of
that deed is multiplied. So just in a similar manner as the mahkum of the llama is so great, the the
modality and the responsibilities also just as great That is why imamo has led me to lolly.
		

			Here, room has written he says very amazing thing he says the corruption of the society is because
of the corruption of the rulers. And the corruption of the rulers is because of the corruption of
the automa this is what
		

			is written in the second volume of EBS volume dounia may be karakura no kitasato or who cammarano
may be God Allah Mama harami Kiba so just as the
		

			This whole great privilege, with it comes a very great responsibility. Who am I in the past and
today also have understood this responsibility. They have got together to be able to understand this
whole particular responsibility. Some polymer some people have said that palamas position in the
society is like salt. Now, why salt because previously they use they shouldn't be freezes. So,
people used to preserve the meat by the salt. So, they say that Allah I like the salt of the
community, you know, so the way the salt used to preserve the meat, the Allah preserve the morals
and the Akita, and the belief of the community. Now, can you imagine if the soul becomes corrupt
		

			Eliyahu Bella Leah Villa for the soul that was there to preserve the community, if that becomes
corrupted, who is going to preserve the meat who's going to preserve the society in the community,
people in the past and the allama have realized many times as responsibility. Mr. Mohammed Rahim
Allah used to study long hours in the early hours of the morning, one day his daughter saw him
studying. Oh, my father, everyone is sleeping. Why don't you sleep? Oh, my daughter, people are
sleeping, that if they have any method of Dean, they need any guidance. They will come to the AMA,
they will come to Mr. Mohammed, if I sleep, who's going to preserve the deal? This was his
		

			understanding with regard to this responsibility. You know, a mom Sarah Sarah McLoughlin, he was
imprisoned by the governor of the time by the rule of the time, the time how they turn a big
presence. So they put him in the bottom of an unused well. Now when you enter and use Well, there is
no one to bring you up is a very deep well. So even in that the students was to come and say how are
you used to say next tomorrow? You come and you stay with your kiddos? I will teach you from the
bottom of the well. From the bottom of the well. My mom Sarah, Sarah Mottola Lee. He dictated
selective volumes, which is in a book form known as Alma suit, the mob suit of human Sara Sara Lee,
		

			was dictated to by Imam sera sera Mata lolly from the bottom of the well. And it came up with
effective volumes. Mr. Muhammad Muhammad Ali was imprisoned and he was punished by the ruler of the
time, because he took a stance against the ruler who said that Quran comes from Allah tala, but it
is created by human being. And he said that if this continues, it could impact upon the sanctity of
the Quran. And he said Quran is not Muslim. It comes from a light is a column of Allah. And I
related this incident, that one day, a person came to the governor and said, I will give him such
and such a whopping he won't be able to bear my punishment. And He punished him Obama didn't humble
		

			until meat started flying from the body of human Muhammad Muhammad Ali. When this happened, one of
the courtiers one of the people who was close to the governor, he felt ashamed. And he came to mama
he said, say one times even if it might appear that the Quran is mahalo, say it is created. It is
not don't say and keep your stance. I will save you from the punishment of the governor. And I'ma
		

			say one time in my year that Quran is not Muslim. Quran is not created, it is from Allah subhanho wa
Taala. I will save you from the punishment of Allah. I will save you from Allah subhanho wa Taala as
punishment. So this is now together. Allah tala and Nevis Aslam has made mentioned with regard to
this sub part of the responsibility. Yamato has an akula carnian Oh Allah Allahu nebia cream sauce
to miss Edna Hadith in Santa Fe hottie that in every zamana in every age, Allah will create certain
Allah who will fulfill the responsibility of preserving the deen. Yeah, Muhammad Allah, Allah,
Allah, Allah, Allah who said they will do justice in preserving the deen and maybe a cream sauce
		

			they made mention of three responsibilities of the Allah ma n funan. rollin. They will, they will
combat the distortion of the extremist, extremist one particular responsibility of the Halima is to
to
		

			combat those who go beyond the limit. Joe had said by challenge I had said that I was gonna die.
		

			He was Cooper rock, rock rock Tom Caray, it is a responsibility. So this is also a responsibility.
Therefore Allah subhanho wa Taala has told us not to go beyond the limit.
		

			Don't make haram what Allah subhanho wa Taala has made Helen matahari mama Allah Allah don't make
haram what Allah tala has made her to do that. It is fine
		

			And responsibility of going beyond the limit and increase time. That's a reality. That's a response
in reality, that today we also have people who go beyond the limit. Right? I'll give you an example.
I just read recently, a periodical which comes out in people sometimes talk about it. And in that
there was a question. What do you say with regard to the woman in Syria who raped and I couldn't
believe my ears in my eyes when I read it. When he said
		

			they deserve it.
		

			They deserve it. This was written in response to a question they said, What do you say with regard
to those women who are raped in Syria? It is part of the responsibility of the AMA, to be able to
combat that type of distortion. Part of the way into Halla motilin is also to, to the distortion of
various types of people with regard to the Palestine Deen. It's a responsibility of the AMA to be
able to combat that. And three, we have many of them, whether it be Korean is who came in the form
of not agreeing upon maybe social and being the loss of profits, those who abused the Sahaba and in
today's time, there are different types of challenges. One of the challenges today is that people
		

			have doubts with regard to religion. People have skepticism with regard to religion. Some of us they
have gone into atheism, because they don't have the right type of guidance. They have skepticism,
and they have doubts that have crept into their minds. And they have that Imam Abu Hassan Rahim
Allah has written a very amazing thing he said, if the poker half the time like even more hanifa
Imam, Shakira motorolla if they were alive, and they saw the amount of people having skepticism
about religion, in the form of Islam, perhaps they would have closed the books of faith, to be able
to challenge and to be able to look into the fitna of the age of people having doubts and skepticism
		

			of religion and turning away from religion. Sometimes people don't say outwardly with the tongues
that they don't believe in Islam, but many times people have this type of doubts in their hearts, it
is a responsibility to be able to deal with those type of challenges and those type of distortions,
which happens, then another aspect what that will mean, and to part of the responsibility of the
allama is to be able to challenge the understanding and misinterpretation of deal by the foolish and
ignorant people. Now, there are two types of ignorance. One is ignorance which is out of defiance
and what is out of foolishness. When there is out of defiance, then it is very, very serious because
		

			a person becomes ignorant and goes against the commands of Allah out of defiance.
		

			Harsha wakulla that is the mom Sophia Nicola Malala. used to say, when a person commits a Guna and
send out of desires in weakness, it is hoped that Allah might forgive him if he's sincere, but if he
does Guna in sin out of defiance Yeah, what what's wrong in me doing such and such a thing, and he
has to be like it could be so close to Kufa and that is also part of the responsibility. We have
different types of Johanna we have different types of ignorant people. So one day a person passed
away so the mother to call all the wealth, her to call the wealth. So in the mother to call the
wealth said Where do you Who told you you can take the wealth you have to give it to the children
		

			said no, the Quran say I must take everything. So where does the Quran say sit in the Quran
tapachula belavia tamahagane and omalu maka, maka Sabha So, in this particular way people have this.
So in this so the three things with regard to this is the response rate today in many ways, the
responsibility has become very difficult. The reason why it is become difficult is
		

			you know, Allah can do no No, no, right? He for example, an alum spends his entire life teaching
Quran and Hadith, any setting the madrasa. Now that is such a great responsibility if it was not for
that, well as him we would not have 18 today 300 years Dean is in South Africa It is because of the
Allah ma who set in the madrasahs teaching us alibi and teaching us other things in teaching us how
to read the Quran. But today, if an alum sits there, and he doesn't anything else, but he only sits
in a madrasa and what do the people say, this alum he doesn't know nothing. What is happening in the
world? He only Setsuna madressa.
		

			What does he know? And if the album becomes politically active, he gives talks and he goes out and
he speaks to the business people. He gets involved in political activism. Then what do they pull
out? What do the people say? Malvina to Marissa Murray.
		

			He was supposed to stay in the madrasa Why is he going out into the world? So what is the situation?
So you have these types of challenges which have become but in the past, I will give you an example
whatever the fitness of the 80s the Olympic Committee, right.
		

			In the time of kamanga Sally Rahmatullah Lee, the philosophers were very, very
		

			very prominent, they had an impact upon society. So mama wrote the hospital philosopher, the
incoherence, of the views of the philosophers, he dealt such a blow to them, that they never rose
for many, many years. He broke the arguments from them today, today, the western civilization, and
the thought has taken dominance over the views and the thinking of people, it is responsibility of
the AMA to combat that views. And while things have been done, much more needs to be done, to be
able to combat the dominant ideology, and perhaps more needs to be done in this regard. Because it
also affects from the sociological point of view, that the dominant civilization always has an
		

			impact upon the thinking of people. That is why previously when Islam was dominant, people used to
people used to follow Islam. Now, in other civilizations, a dominant people type try to take with
regard to the thoughts. So this is also one of the responsibilities and because of these great
responsibilities, people must make dua that Allah subhanaw taala preserve the Allah to be able to
play the rightful role. Another important aspect is this, that how do you deal with regard to it
many times people have this condescending type of view with regard to the man that they are fighting
amongst themselves, they are like this, they are like that, whatever the situation is, my dear
		

			respective brothers, it is very important that we show respect to the mama, mama like the flags of a
country, the way you respect the flag of a country because it represents a country, the orlimar
represent the Dean of Almighty Allah subhanho wa Taala they represent the uniformity of law, there
are two things in this I would like to say. One is the common people when they respect an alum, they
must always remember they are not respecting an individual. They are not respecting Ibrahim,
Mohammed is Marine, they are respecting the deen and the knowledge that he carries. Whereas an alum,
he must also not be under the misconception that people are respecting him by Metapod
		

			by people are not respecting you as an individual, they are respecting the knowledge that you carry.
So you must bear that in mind. They are not respecting you. But it is very well known that we must
stay away from this respect to the alama is a very famous Arabic saying during the course of this
week in one of the WhatsApp groups, one one person who is from Arabic background. He said that is a
very famous statement in Arabic. And I also went to look into it. And I saw it quoted as one of the
statements of even Yasaka Rama Talalay and Aloo Malema in
		

			the flesh of the llama is poisonous. The flesh of the llama is poisonous for your Eman. Don't
criticize the llama. Don't disrespect the Anima if there is constructive, it is something that needs
to be going engage them but don't disrespect them because they are the wholeness of the Kalam of
Allah subhanho wa Taala via cream sauce limited. He who does not respect our elders. He does not
show compassion to our our children and our young people. He does not respect our scholars he's not
from amongst us. But many Jolla maka Tanaka and also one Hadith homiletical Quran. Allah Jana
		

			has made mention of it, that the people who bear the Holy Quran, they will be in positions of honor,
on the day of Tiamat we saw Sullivan's famous Hadith, when he when he and for khurasan to be the
harbor. He who inconveniences a saint of Allah Allah.
		

			Allah subhanho wa Taala declares war against him. mm Shafi Rama Talal used to say, if the true Allah
are not the saints of Allah, then who else would be the sins of Allah subhana wa tada one aspect
many times people bring up by hula
		

			hula fighting amongst themselves hula hoop difference of opinion what must we do? Why must we listen
to them? They are fighting amongst themselves. That particular aspect how the owner mamas many
differences. It is something as a topic for the whole ama to discuss for you and I What is our
responsibility? How are we supposed to deal with it? You still have to
		

			come
		

			back and
		

			you still have a full kicker. Not at Heidi Hammel. Nemanja nabha, Hamid tokiwa. Try to ram Kimani
that having difference of opinion doesn't mean you can join together for good things together. And
it doesn't mean that you must not respect one another. Even Shakira Malala one day was giving us one
of his students. Yunus bin Abdullah differed with him on Shafi Rahmatullah Lee. He got angry, and he
walked away from the from the lesson in a very angry mood. And then at night, he was
		

			He was about to sleep. He had a knock on the door. Who is it? Mohammed bin Idris. So he said Who is
this Muhammad Idris The only person I know is Mr. Shafi. He will open the door and he got a shock.
He's was that was at his door. And he said, you know, we have so many things that combines us so
many things that you and I we believe together. For one one difference. Must we become angry with
one another?
		

			Imam Shafi Rahmatullah Lee went to the door of his student immunospot Abdullah saying that we have
so many things that brings us together one small thing, must we be able to be enemies with one
another? So, how do we deal I will just give you an example, many times you and I, when we get sick,
we go to different doctor doctors, when we go to different doctors, what do we do? Sometimes the
doctor will have a different type of opinion into shakos. in diagnosing your disease, one doctor
will say it is this one doctor will say it is this sometimes the doctors doctors will differ happens
on a regular basis, they will differ with regard to the treatment, what do you and I do?
		

			What do you and I do by Dr. Ramesh tilava cello murjani.
		

			The difference of opinion amongst the doctors let's dive in. No one says that, because life everyone
likes gianmaria zz no one says that. But in this particular way, by Allah ma may still affect
Corrado Karna. Why do we adopt that particular attitude here? When there's a difference of opinion
amongst the doctors, you choose the best doctor whom you got trusting? He said this doctors
particular things seems better. He his methodology, his treatment makes sense to me. He's got better
experience, I will find out from people and say that out of all the doctors, he's got a better
record in terms of treating this particular type of disease, all of us will do that. So in a similar
		

			manner, in the sector of amongst the AMA, that's what you do. You follow the one whom you got trust
in, you see his track record, you see what he has done, you see what how he situation is how his
compassion is to the people, you follow him without criticizing anyone else. This is the way for you
and I does it make sense brothers, this is the way we are supposed and make to our brothers. We've
sometimes we all we take it for granted today there are so many different types of, you know,
challenges, we all know that there is change in this world. And change is not an easy thing. Today
change we have to deal with change. They say if you ignore change, you perish. You have no change,
		

			you perish. you adapt to change, you survive. you anticipate change, you prosper, you influence
change, you transform the reality. But that happens in the corporate world. There are people who
have not been able to, to keep up with change, they have been destroyed. We look at in the corporate
world, Nokia 10 years ago, everyone used to have a Nokia today, no one got a Nokia. They didn't keep
up with the trends. They didn't keep up with a change. The CEO of Nokia in this week resigned and he
was crying. He said we tried our best. But what trying the best is not good enough. We didn't keep
up with the trends, you don't keep up with change. Now what am I have this particular type of
		

			challenge, we have to take into account the changing circumstances. But in taking account the
changing circumstances, we also have our tradition, how far do you go with this change? Can you go
to the change to the extent people today say you must accept homosexuality? Can Allah do this? Today
people say what is akademiska? Has anyone seen his success that Allah has given the male double the
female in terms of inheritance? And there are reasons for three gotway? Can the Allah accept that
change? So we need to be aware, we have to make changes, we have to take into account the changes,
but yet at the same time, while taking into account that changes, we also have to keep our
		

			fundamentals correct. So there is a responsibility in today's time for the alama that is why it's
such a NASDAQ, it is such a sensitive, such a great responsibility. And therefore you need the
allama and you need the duardo the people and one last thing I will say is that we need the
cooperation between the common people in the in the last stages of his life. As a shepherd he has
said Mohammed Moodle has since he went to Aligarh University, and he spoke to the students of
Aligarh University and he spoke about a cooperation between the professional between the business
people and the Lama. He was on his deathbed he was actually carried in a wheelchair and he went to
		

			go and speak to the students of Malaga University. That is how we as a oma remember one thing, that
if there is no cohesion between the alama and the people, then the enemies they will take advantage
of it. One a holiday for Rahmani Rama Zulu Allah says when the Muslims defeated the Crusaders, you
know, I don't think it was that way. Either way. One of the debates it learned people were having
		

			at that particular time, whether to remain on the earth is more virtuous or whether to remain and to
live in the US man is more virtuous. And we're going to be you know fighting on a particular level,
enemies will take advantage. So it is in this particular cooperation between the alumni and the
people that we will find that there will be progress and they will benefit of Islam was the one and
only me