Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 10 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Husayn Ahmad Madan Part iv GH 04112022

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers discuss the importance of learning from people who have made it and the importance of understanding the "medirals of the universe" and "medirals of the universe" for addressing materialism and modernity. They also touch on the loss of family members due to a death-related sheikh and the history of the Indian sub counter counter counter opinion. The speakers emphasize the responsibility of the city to defend and save people against British colonialism and the need for protecting citizens. They also discuss the use of "weirdly smile" in the face of fear and compassion and describe the behavior of the O'Neal-Asal sheikh before the O'Neal-Asal sheikh.

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			Sayyidina Muhammadan Sayyidina wa Habib Binaw Shafi'ina Mawlana
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			we reach this Mubarak
		
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			10th night of Ramadan
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us from its
		
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			Fatih and from its Falun from its Nur
		
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			and from its baraka and from its rahma.
		
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			Our Lord do not harden our hearts after
		
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			you guided us
		
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			and gift
		
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			to us
		
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			from your mercy, have mercy.
		
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			Indeed you're the one who gives gifts.'
		
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			So we're continuing with the
		
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			look at the life of
		
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			Mawlana Shaykhlasam
		
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			Hussein Ahmad Madani
		
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			and
		
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			one of the brothers he texted me the
		
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			other day he said,
		
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			'Wow, you're giving a lot of attention to
		
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			Mawan Hussain Ahmad Madani. I said he gave
		
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			a lot of attention to me
		
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			and so the brother said how so? I
		
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			said I graduated from the Jamia Madani and
		
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			my Sheikh
		
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			Mawlana Abdulhalin Chishti was
		
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			his,
		
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			was his disciple before,
		
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			that of any of the other mashaikh
		
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			and all of the Mashaikh I read from
		
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			the Indian subcontinent
		
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			they were either his direct students or the
		
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			students of his students
		
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			and I think it's important it's important, you
		
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			know, I don't think it's good that you
		
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			know some people they
		
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			they wax and push their own teachers
		
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			as a way of saying
		
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			you know look how important my teachers were
		
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			as a way of saying look how important
		
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			I am
		
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			and
		
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			I have no such
		
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			I have no such,
		
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			courage inside of me to say that because
		
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			it's clear when you read
		
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			about those people that they're very different people
		
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			than we are,
		
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			that they're very different people than I am
		
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			and
		
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			it's very clear that this is a NISPA
		
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			that I'm not worthy of
		
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			and chances are you aren't either.
		
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			So, you know, let's sit together
		
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			a bunch of broken losers
		
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			and see
		
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			if we can't
		
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			gain and benefit from looking at those people
		
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			who
		
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			and Allah knows best
		
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			Let's sit and see if we can't learn
		
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			and benefit from those people who seem to
		
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			have made it so that we can also
		
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			rectify something of our lives
		
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			otherwise
		
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			this is
		
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			important
		
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			for me
		
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			because sometimes the more distant masha'ikh that lived
		
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			in pre modern times,
		
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			one can tell oneself that, oh look they
		
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			lived in
		
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			a different time and there was no technology
		
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			and there was, you know, the Muslim world
		
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			was ascendant
		
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			and, you know, there was no this and
		
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			there's no that and how could we ever
		
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			be like them?' And so it's it's useful,
		
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			it's instructional
		
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			to talk about those Mashiach who
		
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			are closer to us in time because a)
		
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			it allows us to understand a little bit
		
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			more about why the world around us is
		
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			the way it is
		
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			and how the Muslim world got from where
		
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			it was to where it is right now
		
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			and how we should deal with and how
		
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			we need to cope with the challenges in
		
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			the world around us.
		
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			And this is actually one of the the
		
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			the points I believe is
		
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			very
		
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			stellar and very exemplary,
		
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			about the the virtues of the olamah of
		
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			deoband.
		
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			That they were people who understood modernity when
		
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			modernity, its
		
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			attack first
		
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			broke
		
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			on the shores of the Indian subcontinent.
		
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			They saw it, they understood its philosophical underpinnings
		
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			and they prepared for it and they launched
		
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			a counter attack. And many people nowadays look
		
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			at the ulama and the Indian subcontinent in
		
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			general
		
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			and think, wow, these guys are just like
		
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			a bunch of backwards people. They don't dress
		
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			like us, they don't eat like us, they
		
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			look like, you know, they're medieval people
		
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			I. E. They have beards, they I. E.
		
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			They keep their traditional dress I. E. They
		
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			still
		
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			preserve some
		
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			semblance of that word sunnah which used to
		
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			be ubiquitous throughout the Ummah.
		
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			And the reason for that is because they
		
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			were the ones who were hip to the
		
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			understanding of the philosophical challenges of modernity before
		
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			anybody else was and they're the ones
		
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			who did the most to prepare for it
		
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			or from amongst those who did the most
		
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			to prepare for it. Whereas,
		
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			many of the masha'ikh and many of the
		
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			Muslims in the Arab lands or or in
		
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			other parts of the Muslim world were basically
		
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			caught unawares
		
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			and caught unprepared. This is not to say
		
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			that the ulama of Deoban have knowledge and
		
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			other people don't. Everybody has the ilm, but
		
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			this is more of a sociological phenomenon that
		
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			they seem to have
		
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			prepared one of the more successful,
		
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			one of the more successful
		
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			bids
		
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			to confront
		
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			materialism and modernity modernism
		
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			not modernity as in using technology or knowing
		
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			about science but modernity and the idea that
		
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			the entire world is
		
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			just material and,
		
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			you know, there's no
		
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			what you see is what you get and
		
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			there's no reality out there other than
		
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			random accidental
		
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			movements of subatomic particles that sum up into,
		
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			you know, the phenomena that you and I
		
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			see,
		
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			that they seem to have met it
		
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			head on and most effectively
		
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			and it's important for us
		
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			to to see and understand what that is.
		
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			And so there's a couple of points about
		
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			the biography of the Sheikh that I wanted
		
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			to go back and fill in
		
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			because this work by Mawana Bayezid Pandur who
		
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			seems to have stayed in the khidmat of
		
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			Sheikh Islam Hazrat Maulana Hussein Ahmad Madani for
		
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			quite some time. It's more of a day
		
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			to day vignette type of look but there's
		
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			some biographical details I wanted to fill in
		
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			from having read
		
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			the 'Asiran I Malta' of Muhammad
		
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			Mihyah and
		
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			other biographical works on the life of Mawlana
		
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			Husayn Ahmed Madari
		
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			One question that, was not explained in in
		
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			great detail is how did they end up
		
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			in Madir al Munawara first?'
		
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			And
		
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			the answer to that is the father of
		
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			Mo'ano Hussein Ahmad Madani,
		
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			a
		
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			pious and Nurani
		
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			elder by the name of Sayed Ahmad, who
		
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			was not a,
		
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			who was not a,
		
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			aalim in the traditional sense but he was
		
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			a very pious and righteous man from the
		
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			family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			He was connected with,
		
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			the Sheikh
		
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			Maulana Fazlur Rahman Ganjmur Adabadi.
		
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			Ganj Murad Abadi is a
		
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			city in UP
		
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			and Mullana Fazlur Rahman is,
		
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			was one of the great Muaddeethin and one
		
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			of the great ulama
		
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			of that place,
		
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			of that place.
		
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			And so,
		
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			Mawlana Fadur Rahman,
		
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			he
		
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			was the sheikh of Sayyid Ahmad, the father
		
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			of Mawlana Hussain Ahmadani.
		
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			And
		
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			as is with the ahlulah,
		
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			that the love of the oliya is itself
		
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			a a type of piety.
		
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			And the love of your sheikh because the
		
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			sheikh is the conduit through which Allah ta'ala
		
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			gives the fu'il
		
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			and gives the the pouring of
		
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			the outpouring of spiritual grace,
		
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			by which a person receives their fatha and
		
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			they receive their openings.
		
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			So
		
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			the relationship between
		
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			the student and the the teacher or the
		
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			disciple and the sheikh is a very close
		
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			one. And it's a very strong one.
		
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			And,
		
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			in some cases
		
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			it becomes,
		
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			synonymous with life itself.
		
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			As is the case, with many of the
		
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			mashaikh when they would pass away,
		
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			it would affect the the the the disciples,
		
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			especially those who are more closely tied with
		
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			the mashaikh and who are not
		
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			able to
		
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			imagine
		
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			a life without them, that it would affect
		
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			them in severe ways.
		
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			And so we see that, Sayid Nama radiallahu
		
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			anhu, look how the the passing of the
		
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			Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam affected him, that
		
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			it caused him to temporarily,
		
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			lose his
		
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			lose his ability to function.
		
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			And, Sayedha Fatima radiAllahu ta'ala anha, she actually
		
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			becomes ill and she never recovers
		
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			from her illness.
		
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			At any rate, the same thing they say
		
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			about Moana,
		
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			the sheikh, Hajjalizamuddin
		
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			Olia,
		
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			the great Wali of, of, Dili,
		
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			that his closest disciple,
		
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			Amir Khosro.
		
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			Khosro Dheilavi for those of you who are
		
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			connoisseurs of Persian poetry.
		
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			That
		
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			That that Amir Khosrow literally when he heard
		
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			the news he was out
		
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			on
		
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			on on trade and When he came back
		
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			to Delhi, the caravan came back and he
		
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			heard the news of his sheikhs
		
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			passing. He literally went and laid down next
		
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			to the grave of the sheikh and passed
		
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			away. And apparently you can visit both of
		
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			them
		
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			in Nizamuddin
		
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			across from the Tablih markers in Delhi to
		
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			this day.
		
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			So
		
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			what happened with Mullana Fazlur Rahman Ganj Murad
		
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			Abadi
		
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			when he
		
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			passed away,
		
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			Sayyid Ahmed, the father of Mawlana Hussein Ahmad
		
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			Madani,
		
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			he
		
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			went through a type of tribulation
		
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			that
		
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			rendered his body
		
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			completely unable to function,
		
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			and he started to waste away.
		
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			And they went to the different olema to
		
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			see what, you know, what treatment there could
		
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			be for
		
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			his condition.
		
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			And,
		
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			he was essentially told that the only the
		
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			only, you know, thing that can fight this
		
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			depression that has set in
		
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			because of your having lost your sheikh
		
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			is that you just leave everything and go
		
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			to Madirah Munawwara.
		
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			And the nurah of being next to Rasool
		
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			Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the only thing
		
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			that will suffice you,
		
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			and will
		
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			will be able to,
		
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			distract you enough from the the catastrophe of
		
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			the loss that you're feeling right now.
		
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			So he gathered his sons together and he
		
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			said something very interesting. He said that I'm
		
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			going and I'm making the niyyah of hijra,
		
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			that I'm gonna leave my home and I'm
		
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			gonna go to Madinah Munawarra and I'm never
		
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			coming back.
		
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			He said, however, the intention of hijra is
		
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			a very heavy one and Allah Ta'ala will
		
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			test,
		
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			will test a man who,
		
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			makes this intention
		
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			to see if the intention is solid or
		
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			if a person is just,
		
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			you know, talking big words. And this was
		
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			a test that the companions of the Allahu
		
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			Akwadhim had to go through as well. And
		
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			so he says, my
		
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			my advice to you is that you don't
		
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			make this intention. Just make the intention of
		
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			coming with me to Medina Manoharah
		
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			and, you don't make this intention of hijra.
		
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			And this is why Mawana Hussain Ahmad Madani,
		
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			he he would tell people that don't call
		
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			me Madani.
		
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			Because I just went I accompanied my father
		
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			to Madinah Munawwara.
		
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			However, his father, he he went to Madinah
		
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			Munawwara and Allah tested them.
		
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			That was the age during which
		
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			the,
		
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			caliphate had fallen,
		
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			and Madinah Munawwara was sieged
		
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			disgracefully by the British
		
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			for
		
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			nearly 4 years
		
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			to the point where the inhabitants of the
		
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			noble city of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			were starved
		
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			and they, had to eat things like leather
		
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			and grass and insects
		
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			and, even just the point where some people
		
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			had to eat the bodies of those who
		
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			passed away
		
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			merely in order to survive,
		
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			and which is a crime,
		
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			unlike any other crime,
		
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			And it's a crime that answer will have
		
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			to be given for, not only by the
		
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			British, but by their feckless allies from amongst
		
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			the Muslims who betrayed the caliphate.
		
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			Which brings us to another
		
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			important part of
		
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			another important part of the the story of
		
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			Mawana Sayin Ahmed Madari's life which is glossed
		
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			over,
		
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			which is that he graduated from Deoband
		
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			and he, made trips back to India
		
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			during the years that he was resident in
		
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			Madinah Munawwara.
		
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			And during those trips he received the 'Bakhilafa'
		
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			from his Sheikh Mullana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, one
		
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			of the founders of Deoband. And,
		
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			he also
		
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			had connection with,
		
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			he had connection with his
		
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			other teachers Moana Shekel Hind who he considered
		
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			to be his, you know,
		
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			his master and from whom he
		
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			received the majority of his training, both spiritual
		
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			and
		
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			intellectual.
		
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			So
		
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			during this time, the olema of Deoban, it
		
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			was their
		
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			it was their
		
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			it was their worry and concern
		
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			that
		
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			our homeland should be free,
		
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			and that we should not be enslaved,
		
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			by foreigners,
		
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			and that the Sharia should
		
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			be
		
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			the law of the land, and it should
		
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			regain its supremacy over
		
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			our people.
		
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			And they worked hard. They worked hard in
		
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			order to
		
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			prepare people
		
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			to
		
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			fight and resist, the colonial overseers,
		
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			and to prepare people who would be able
		
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			to,
		
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			function as the ones who, are the custodians
		
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			of society.
		
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			And to that end, they also and this
		
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			is something that it's very interesting because the
		
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			dynamics of the Indian subcontinent,
		
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			they're very interesting.
		
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			Pakistan, the Pakistani identity,
		
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			which I was raised in, even though I
		
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			was born in America, but I was raised
		
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			being told I'm a Pakistani. Pakistani identity has
		
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			its own,
		
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			sort of feeling of self superiority,
		
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			that, look, we made hijra and we left
		
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			the land of Kufr, I e India,
		
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			but
		
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			one of the things that as Pakistanis we
		
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			never really think about or never thought about
		
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			which is that none of it was the
		
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			land of Kufr, all of it was ruled
		
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			by our forefathers.
		
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			All of it was ruled by the Turks
		
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			and by the Afghans and by the Batans
		
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			and by the Mughals and by the,
		
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			Arabs
		
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			and, by the different,
		
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			princes, Nawabs in many places like the Nawab
		
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			of, of Mahalpur and the Khan of Calat
		
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			and the Nawab of Bhopal
		
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			and
		
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			the Nizam of Hyderabad, all of these major
		
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			places like the the
		
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			the the Nawabs that ruled over Bengal etcetera,
		
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			Awad,
		
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			Agra, all these places.
		
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			That these were by and large the major
		
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			centers of population and of revenue and of
		
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			culture in the Indian subcontinent, and they were
		
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			all
		
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			ruled by Muslims.
		
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			And so
		
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			the ulama of Durban are the khulafa both
		
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			in the tariqa as well as in the
		
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			sun of the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam of of
		
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			the line.
		
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			So,
		
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			the line and the the Sarhandi line, the
		
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			Sarhandi line of Mujaddad Alfani,
		
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			Sheikh Hamid Sarhandi.
		
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			And many of the mashaikh of the of
		
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			the Sarhandi line actually were were ministers of
		
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			state like Mirza Mazharjane Janan.
		
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			They're
		
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			ministers of the Mughal court.
		
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			And the same thing with the Wuli'allahi line
		
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			that Shah as well as his father Shah
		
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			Abdul Rahim.
		
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			They were also people who had the, that
		
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			had the hereditary
		
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			positions in the Mughal court.
		
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			So they actually functioned in state. They were
		
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			not just losers who hung out on the
		
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			side and said, Oh, look, all the olema
		
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			are sellouts and like, you know, caliphate, caliphate,
		
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			and they don't have enough know how to
		
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			even manage a Blockbuster video around the corner.
		
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			They were actually
		
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			people who the reigns
		
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			of state were in their hands.
		
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			And so who are the the founders of
		
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			Deoband? The founders of Deoband were Moana Qasim
		
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			Nanotti, Moana Rashid Ahmad Gangoi, they were the
		
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			students of
		
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			Shabdul Azaneel Mujadidi.
		
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			That's the connection to the,
		
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			Sarhandi Lain and,
		
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			Shaiz Haq
		
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			who is the grandson of Shah'ulullah, the son
		
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			of Shah Abdul Aziz, that
		
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			these people were not only were they the
		
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			preservation of the,
		
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			Sunni Hanafi,
		
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			tradition of of state rule
		
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			and statecraft
		
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			in the Mughal Empire but they also politically
		
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			they understood how the state was supposed to
		
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			work so they looked at the state as
		
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			being theirs and no part of the subcontinent
		
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			belonged to anybody else. And they looked at
		
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			their Hindu and their Sikh and their
		
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			Jain and Buddhist, neighbors and said these are
		
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			our raiyah. Our forefathers used to,
		
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			serve them. Our forefathers used to give them
		
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			protection. Our forefathers gave them a place in
		
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			society.
		
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			We used to send food to their houses.
		
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			We used to console our neighbors when they
		
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			were ill and when they were sick. It
		
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			was not a supremacy of, like, putting people
		
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			down, but saying that that these are people.
		
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			We have a responsibility
		
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			to defend them and save them against, save
		
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			them from British colonialism. Because in Mughal rule,
		
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			yes, fine. If you were a non Muslim,
		
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			maybe you wouldn't, you know, you would face
		
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			certain
		
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			types of things that we would consider discrimination
		
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			nowadays
		
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			in the kind of modern woke identitarian politics,
		
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			kind of point of view.
		
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			However,
		
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			when compared to how the British treated them,
		
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			the British, they literally treated,
		
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			indeed the second class citizens in the law,
		
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			and people were killed and people were
		
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			subjected to torture and the confiscation of property,
		
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			with zero due process whatsoever.
		
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			If you think the American colonists were upset
		
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			about taxation without representation then think about the
		
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			Weavers Union in Bengal,
		
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			that the British literally, gathered them all together
		
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			one day and cut all of their thumbs
		
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			in order to,
		
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			enforce a monopoly for British mechanically manufactured textiles
		
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			which were substandard compared to what the,
		
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			skilled weavers of Bengal could make with their
		
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			hands.
		
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			You know, then you see that that they
		
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			were essentially treated like dogs.
		
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			And anyone who will try to say, oh,
		
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			well, the British brought railways and this and
		
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			that to India. They did some good. The
		
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			only reason they brought the railways is not
		
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			so that Indian people can travel from one
		
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			place to another with ease. The only reason
		
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			they brought the railways is so that they
		
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			can transport their troops and they can
		
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			transport those raw materials that they stole from
		
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			the land,
		
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			to
		
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			port and take them to British factories to
		
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			be made into finished goods that can be
		
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			sold
		
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			at extortionate prices given that
		
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			they basically robbed the raw materials they're made
		
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			out of for free. And Armishai, they felt
		
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			the responsibility
		
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			that look, our neighbors are
		
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			Hindus and our neighbors are Sikhs and they're
		
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			Jains and they're Buddhists. They may not be
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			And we may have strident
		
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			strident differences of opinion with regards to religion
		
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			with them. However, there are many things in
		
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			culture that that we share in common and
		
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			we share a language in common, and they
		
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			respected
		
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			us, they respected the deen. In those days,
		
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			every educated Hindu knew Persian.
		
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			Every educated Hindu,
		
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			you know, knew Urdu.
		
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			Every educated Hindu at least understood how to
		
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			observe etiquette,
		
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			with with Muslim people and they were part
		
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			of that civilization even though they were not
		
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			part of that deen. And at the very
		
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			basic
		
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			minimum, there were human beings and they didn't
		
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			deserve to be treated like slaves.
		
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			And, that's why they were able to work
		
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			together.
		
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			And I'm not saying necessarily that Sheikh, Mawlana
		
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			Hussein Ahmad Madani's politics that were,
		
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			not
		
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			in favor of establishing Pakistan were wrong or
		
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			right. Whatever happened, happened. It's done. It's done.
		
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			It's like a mood point to argue about.
		
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			However,
		
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			what I am explaining is that he also
		
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			wasn't a person who was just a sell
		
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			out or whatever as some acrid,
		
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			blind and fanatical political
		
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			advocates of,
		
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			you know, whatever Pakistan
		
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			nationalism
		
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			may say.
		
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			Rather, he actually had a very solid,
		
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			philosophical basis from which he came, and that
		
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			was based in the Kitab and Sunan. It
		
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			was based in solid politics as well.
		
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			And, it should be respected even if a
		
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			person does not agree with it. And so
		
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			what happened was the shekelhin, he came to
		
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			Hijaz
		
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			while his student was
		
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			in Madinah Munawara. This is the story of
		
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			how,
		
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			Mawana Madani left Madinah Munawara.
		
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			That,
		
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			sheikhul Hind came and it was
		
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			a part of what they call the, tahriq
		
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			Resmi Rumal or as the
		
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			british would label it slightly more dimly the
		
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			silk letter conspiracy.
		
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			And what the silk letter conspiracy was was
		
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			that, Shekel Hind had basically
		
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			gone and spoken to the leaders of different
		
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			parts of,
		
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			the different parts of the Indian subcontinent, leaders
		
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			of the Muslim community,
		
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			of the Hindu community, of, different minority communities.
		
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			And he had made a pact with them
		
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			in secret
		
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			that if the Ottoman Empire were to attack,
		
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			the British to dislodge their colonial,
		
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			office
		
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			from our homeland.
		
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			That they would recognize Ottoman suzerainty,
		
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			over them. And they would aid, the Ottomans
		
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			and and come to their assistance in in
		
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			fighting the British. The idea is what is
		
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			that the Ottomans are also Turks like the
		
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			Mughals were Turks and the Mughals respected,
		
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			and gave full citizenship
		
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			to all of the inhabitants of India.
		
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			And, a number of Hindu and Sikh leaders
		
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			as well as a number of Muslim leaders,
		
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			acceded to this, to this strategy and to
		
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			this plan
		
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			as well as a number of Muslim leaders
		
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			who were,
		
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			I guess,
		
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			more happy to sell sell their homeland out
		
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			were against it. But it was a conspiracy.
		
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			It was a secret plan that was hatched.
		
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			The British had their intelligence,
		
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			in Deoband in in all sorts of different
		
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			places listening.
		
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			And what happened was that the plan was
		
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			about to come to fruition and,
		
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			sheikhul Hind basically
		
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			made it out of,
		
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			made it out of India on the way
		
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			of, on the on the pretense of going
		
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			to Hajj, pretext of going to Hajj.
		
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			And uh-uh the British
		
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			realized what was happening.
		
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			That he's going now to take this plan
		
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			to pitch this plan to the Ottoman authorities
		
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			and,
		
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			they sent
		
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			a notice out for his arrest
		
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			and, he got away. He got away. He
		
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			sailed from, I believe, Bombay
		
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			from the port
		
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			for Hejaz.
		
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			The notice to arrest him
		
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			made it to uh-uh made it to Aden
		
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			in Yemen
		
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			ahead of his arrival and he he somehow
		
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			was able to smuggle away as well and
		
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			make it to the Ottoman lands. The reason
		
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			they call it the silk letter conspiracy is
		
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			because
		
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			the silk the silk, letter conspiracy was because
		
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			this pact which was written
		
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			that was circulated to all of these different,
		
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			leaders,
		
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			this pact was obviously had to be hidden
		
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			because if the the letter
		
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			gets in the wrong hands, then it's gonna
		
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			be a death sentence to all of its
		
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			signatories.
		
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			The British were notorious for their cruelty,
		
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			to anybody who,
		
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			anybody who resisted their
		
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			colonial rule,
		
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			and so
		
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			their solution was that a a a woman,
		
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			a servant girl would basically,
		
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			braid the the letter up in her hair
		
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			and,
		
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			then cover her head with
		
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			a silk rommel with a silk like
		
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			piece of cloth and that's how this letter
		
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			made it around and made this got its
		
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			signatures in order to be smuggled out of,
		
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			of the Indian subcontinent to make it Hijaz.
		
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			And,
		
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			Mulla Sheikhan, he went to his
		
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			disciple who was teaching hadith in
		
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			Madinah Munawara, Mullana Hussain Ahmed Madani and he
		
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			told him, this is what's going on. You're
		
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			a local. I need you to get me
		
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			audience with the, the governor, the Ottoman governor
		
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			of Medina Munawara.
		
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			And so,
		
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			he did. And, the Ottoman governor,
		
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			then
		
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			heard,
		
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			heard what he had to say.
		
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			And he said, okay, now go go and
		
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			visit the Ottoman governor of Makkamukarama
		
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			and he'll arrange with you,
		
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			arrange for you
		
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			transportation to Istanbul
		
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			so that that you can have audience with
		
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			the sultan.
		
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			The governor Madinu Manawara gave him the
		
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			gave him the the the the seal so
		
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			that he could pass and enter into the
		
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			palace and present his case to the sultan
		
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			in in Istanbul.
		
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			And
		
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			what happens is that he sends him to
		
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			sends him to the governor of Makkumu Karamah
		
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			to
		
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			arrange for conveyance to Istanbul.
		
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			Being summer, the governor of Makkamukarama at that
		
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			time was in Thaif,
		
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			so they had to go from there to
		
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			Thaif
		
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			and wait.
		
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			In the meanwhile, the,
		
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			Sharif,
		
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			Hussein,
		
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			of Mecca,
		
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			in,
		
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			league with the British rebelled against the
		
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			Ottoman garrison.
		
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			And, after some days basically
		
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			they
		
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			overthrew
		
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			the Ottoman garrison in Makkamukaram and in in
		
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			in, Jadda and Makkah and Thayef.
		
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			And, the British, who were essentially their sponsors,
		
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			they they they sought the arrest
		
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			of, Mullane Shekelhin.
		
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			And so Mullan Hussain Ahmad Madani seeing his
		
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			elderly sheikh being arrested
		
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			even though he had
		
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			connections,
		
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			in Hijaz that could get him out
		
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			of
		
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			arrest.
		
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			He
		
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			basically elected to stay with his Sheikh who
		
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			was elderly in order to protect him and
		
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			serve him
		
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			while he was,
		
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			while he was in custody.
		
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			And so what ended up happening was they
		
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			they arrested the 2 of them and they
		
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			took them essentially in chains
		
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			and sent them to Malta.
		
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			Malta is an island in the middle of
		
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			the Mediterranean,
		
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			some ways between Libya and between Italy.
		
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			And in Malta.
		
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			Basically the 2 of them were
		
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			in confinement
		
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			and that's where the elite
		
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			prisoners of the British Empire were kept.
		
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			And so for nearly 4 years in confinement
		
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			in Malta,
		
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			they were held there
		
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			until,
		
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			politically,
		
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			it was untenable for them to be held
		
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			there anymore and then they were sent back
		
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			to,
		
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			sent back to the Indian subcontinent
		
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			and
		
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			at that time India was not going to
		
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			be held on for for much longer. The
		
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			decision had been made that,
		
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			you know, there would be devolution of power
		
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			over there,
		
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			in no small part because of the destruction
		
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			that was wreaked on, on Europe, during World
		
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			War 2.
		
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			It made, keeping these vast colonial empires untenable,
		
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			anymore. And so
		
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			they,
		
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			they they went back home. Hazrat Shekhul Hind,
		
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			didn't live for a whole lot longer after
		
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			that. And, Mullano Sein Ahmed Madani,
		
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			basically was asked
		
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			by sheikhul him to stay,
		
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			back in India
		
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			and to,
		
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			carry on this work of
		
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			bringing the people to freedom and guiding them
		
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			to, something better,
		
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			both in terms of their ilmen, their deen,
		
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			and as well as some political leadership that's
		
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			based in
		
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			the principles of deen, which seem to be,
		
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			something that the ummah has by and large,
		
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			turned its back on,
		
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			and that that there are not many people
		
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			doing. A lot of people talk about it,
		
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			but when it comes
		
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			advanced age and the frailty of Sheikul Hinn's
		
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			body
		
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			that Mawlana Hussein Ahmad Madani he would keep
		
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			the pot the pot of water
		
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			which Sheikha Hinn would make wudu from.
		
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			He would basically embrace it and sleep with
		
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			it in his embrace
		
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			so that when his sheikh would wake up
		
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			and make wudu the water would be warm
		
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			because it was very cold in the nights
		
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			in Malta
		
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			and this is uh-uh you know from the
		
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			great amount of veneration that the
		
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			disciple showed for his sheikh
		
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			and it's in that
		
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			it's in that mode that I wanted to
		
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			share one last vignette
		
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			from the sheikh's life
		
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			for tonight at least from Maulana Bayezid Pandur's
		
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			book
		
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			and tell what the connection is between these
		
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			two things.
		
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			'Manner of upbringing'.
		
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			The sheikh would keep a strict eye on
		
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			his disciples
		
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			In front of friends,
		
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			and disciples of other masha'if, the sheikh would
		
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			behave without any formality.
		
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			But in front of his disciples and students
		
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			his authority would be displayed.
		
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			Disciples would to a certain extent tremble in
		
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			front of the Sheikh,
		
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			forget about speaking, none had even the courage
		
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			to present their request on paper themselves.
		
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			Meaning they were afraid that, if the request
		
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			was not
		
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			considered good from the Sheik they were afraid
		
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			of incurring the Sheikhs displeasure.
		
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			The disciples would introduce themselves to the medium
		
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			of those who were close to the Sheikh.
		
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			However, if one had to get the opportunity
		
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			to be with the Sheikh in private he
		
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			would be left astonished at the amount of
		
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			compassion and sympathy that the sheikh would display
		
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			to him.
		
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			It would seem as if a great mighty
		
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			king was passing,
		
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			his hand over one of his subjects heads.
		
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			Indeed the Sheikh was a sign amongst the
		
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			signs of Allah Ta'ala on the earth, an
		
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			embodiment of mercy, love and compassion in front
		
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			of his friends
		
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			and a flame of fire against his enemies.
		
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			As if to say at one time he
		
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			would be a sword yielding
		
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			sword wielding warrior
		
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			and at another time he would be carrying
		
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			a goblet goblet of sweet drink in his
		
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			hand.
		
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			Once during Ramadan a friend wished to say
		
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			something to the Sheikh
		
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			but could not find the courage. Finally he
		
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			managed to build up the courage and approached
		
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			the Sheikh. The Sheikh
		
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			asked him why didn't you come to me
		
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			with this request before?
		
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			The man replied fear prevented me.
		
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			Uh-uh the Sheikh replied why is there a
		
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			sword in my hand? What reason is there
		
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			to fear me?' The man remained silent.
		
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			Mullana Bayezid
		
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			mentions, he says, 'I said to myself
		
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			with such awe who needs a sword?
		
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			And the relevance of this to what we
		
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			just mentioned is that the the the one
		
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			who showed so much respect
		
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			and so much reverence for the sake of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah Ta'ala puts that
		
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			ruab inside of them, Allah Ta'ala puts that
		
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			awe inside of them as well that,
		
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			that person who treated his own teachers with
		
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			so much reverence and so much respect and
		
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			was so afraid of
		
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			doing anything to
		
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			offend them,
		
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			that that person also then,
		
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			Allah puts
		
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			the respect and the fear
		
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			into people, of of him so that they
		
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			also would be,
		
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			so that they also would be listened to.
		
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			And, you know, Moana
		
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			Abdul Halim Chishti, my Sheikh
		
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			he would say to me, he says that
		
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			the amount of reverence that the Sheikh used
		
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			to display
		
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			for the deen, it was just out of
		
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			this world. He said that, I remember in
		
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			Deoband we would take the
		
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			darsa of hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam sometimes 2, 3 hours straight. He
		
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			said, from the time the, Sahib Bukhari book
		
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			would open in front of the Sheik until
		
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			the time it would close, I never saw
		
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			him fidget
		
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			nor did I see him,
		
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			lay on his side or take rest or
		
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			lean against something or,
		
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			rearrange. You know how when you're sitting for
		
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			a long time you gotta kinda stretch your
		
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			legs or rearrange the way you're sitting? Because
		
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			I had never saw him move left or
		
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			right, that he would sit,
		
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			with his back straight the entire time,
		
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			as long as the book of hadith was
		
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			open and this was nothing but his
		
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			awe and reverence for the hadith of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And it said
		
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			that Imam Malik
		
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			this is the exact
		
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			mode that he would also be in when
		
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			the hadith of the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			was red,
		
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			that the color would drain from his face
		
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			and he would be in awe the entire
		
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			time in conformance with the custom of the
		
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			Muhaddithi and that when the hadith of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is read with an
		
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			unbroken chain of transmission, that you sit and
		
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			listen as if you're hearing from Rasool Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam yourself.
		
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			And, this is something, masha'Allah, even if you're
		
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			a sheikh of Tariqa or if you're not,
		
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			or if you're a Muhadith or you're not,
		
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			this is something all of us can do
		
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			is at least show this type of reverence
		
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			and awe, not only to the ahlulullah but
		
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			also to the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam when it's being read, also to
		
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			the Quran when it's being read instead of
		
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			making it like your phone ringer, buzzer, alarm
		
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			when you wake up and the adhan like
		
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			app on your phone going off and it's
		
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			like
		
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			and you just like cut it off in
		
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			the middle
		
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			of the divine name,
		
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			or the the the sifat of,
		
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			sifat Aliyah of Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			That you show reverence and awe to them,
		
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			like Allah Ta'ala says in Suratul Hajjdalaikum.
		
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			May your
		
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			in such a manner, in such a manner
		
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			I should say,
		
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			the one who
		
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			shows reverence and magnifies
		
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			the symbols and the signs of Allah Ta'ala,
		
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			they do so, for no reason except for
		
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			because the fear of allahtaa'ala
		
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			within the hearts. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give
		
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			us this reality.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us this taqwa.
		
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			Allah Ta'ala give us to benefit from
		
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			the shade of our elders over our heads.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us to benefit
		
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			from the wilayah of the oliya
		
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			and the struggles of those who came from
		
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			before us and give us the tawfi to
		
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			carry out and embody their struggles as well
		
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			or at least not to betray them.