Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 6 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Bkharz Part ii GH 04072022
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The, recitation of the Quran is continuing.
If you haven't made it to the Masjid
yet, it's not too late.
Get up and go.
Make it for
any prayer you can. Make it for
hear the word of Allah to Allah being
recited with.
This custom of reciting the entire Quran in
Ramadan
is not a custom of this world, but
it is something that was gifted to us,
from the Barakah of.
It was a custom gifted to us
by the coming down of Sayna Jibreel
to the
and hearing the entire Quran from him
in the month of Ramadan and twice,
in the last Ramadan before he passed.
And there's great
in it. Allah
give us.
So we continue
with our
look at the life of the Sheikh Sifuddin
Al Baqarsi,
And,
the theme in
looking at his life
is what does it mean to be
beloved?
What does it mean to be?
That the chef, Faja Najmudin Kubra,
said to his,
beloved disciple
while the disciple was busy exerting himself,
in the in
isolation
in his devotions and his spiritual sacrifices and
struggles and
exercises.
That I am a lover and for me,
heartbreak,
sorrow is acceptable.
But you are a beloved.
What work or what
deed do you have
that connects you with
heartbreak or with sorrow?
And
it said about, the sheikh, because
of the the the purity that was innate
inside of him, the beauty that was inside
of him,
that, he was inwardly beautiful and outwardly beautiful.
He was actually a very well built man.
And
he,
you know, he said the the the following
lines
when people asked about him because people think
of Sufis, you know, the as somebody who
should be bent over
double,
by hunger and by weakness
and by emaciation and malnutrition.
And they saw that Baharzhi was actually a
very handsome man, and he was a very
well built man.
A very clever,
clever,
bait,
or a very clever couplet
that he said, they say
they say
that the bodies of lovers
are emaciated.
But look at you,
so well built,
and,
you're nothing except for what I see, a
well built man.
You're a big guy. You're you're you're
well built. You have muscle. You have fat.
You're you're a big guy.
And,
he says he says so I said the
reason for that is what?
The reason for that is because
love
is
something that
contradicts your disposition.
Your disposition
to your disposition love is like a pain
or like a poison.
And for that reason, when you get into
a state of love, you become weak and
you become all of these things.
Whereas love is
something that suits my disposition
so much that it turned into my food.
It turned into the very food and the
very nourishment and sustenance that I that I
have.
Give us the.
So many of us have
made a life for ourselves
being haters. You know what it is? It's
like it's like somebody who works out with
bad technique.
Like, if you, for example, if you run,
you know, you duck who duck you walk
your feet outward
so your toes don't point forward when you
run, but they point outward.
If you run with these duck feet, it's
probably not good form. Like, I'm not like
an Olympic runner, cross country runner, marathon runner,
or whatever, but I'm gonna go out on
a limb and guess it's not very good
form.
But if you do it more and more
and more, what will happen is your gait
will
adjust
to this
lack of, good form. Your musculature will adjust.
You'll actually kind of get used to it.
You may keep doing it so much that
you end up later on causing yourself,
to self permanent injuries,
that you cannot recover from afterward. But in
the middle, like, your body will become accustomed
to it just because you practice it so
much.
A human being was not meant to be
a hater.
The human heart was made in order to
love,
and it was made in order to love
Allah
and that one love just like we have
in all things, that one love is the
love of Allah with that one love and
from the that one love, the love can
touch all of the creation as well.
But it was meant for that one love
just like a person is meant to run
with their, you know, their feet pointing forward.
If they intentionally duck duck walk their feet
while they when they run and they just
do it mile after mile, day after day,
month after month, year after year,
They'll become kind of used to it, but
it's going to be the reason for their
own permanent injury and debilitation.
And that's what happens when we are haters
with our hearts, when we're jealous of one
another. Why are we jealous of one another?
Is the one who chose to give whatever
he gave to whoever he gave it.
Is the one who gives to whomever he
pleases.
Is the one who gives guidance.
Is the one who gives forgiveness. Is the
one who gives beauty. Is the one who
gives wealth. Is the one who gives sickness
and health. He's the one who gives life
and death. Why Why do we have to
be haters,
so much? Like, we're we're such haters. This
is something perhaps I shouldn't
talk about. It's somewhat of an aside.
But, you know, why not? Because it's diagnosing
a sickness that we have in the ummah.
You know, one of the reasons people join,
you know, all of these kind of weird
groups and there's, like, a 100,000,000 weird groups
out there. There are weird groups that that
define themselves based on their own,
psychological
or identitarian deviance
according to their sexual deviance, according to their
deviant appetites,
according to their weird deviant politics.
People will join these racist groups. People will
join gangs. People will join people join all
of these kind of different groups. Why is
it? It's because they find people in that
group accepting,
and they find people who, who who will
love them. I,
obviously, this is a stupid thing to admit
to in Ramadan. But once I was bored
and I made a fake,
you know,
social media profile,
with the idea of just, like, trolling,
you know, people from one side of the
spectrum. So I, you know, like, tweet, like,
a bunch of,
you know, silly things. Like, oh, you know,
you know, new
new research came out that proves that Obama
was the one who,
like, invented aids or something like that. Obviously,
all the people from, like, you know, a
particular
side of the
political spectrum, they completely jump on board. Right?
Whereas if as a Muslim, if you say
something, even if it's the Haqq, what happens?
You know, you have Trump supporters with, like,
a 100,000 followers. They'll, like,
answer your
your tweets. And if you, like, you know,
at them or whatever, they'll answer. They'll ask
how are you doing. They'll, like, actually treat
you like a human being. Whereas,
we're such a small community as Muslims. A
person gets, like,
5 people who listen to them. All of
a sudden, their head is, like, so puffed
up. They don't wanna talk to nobody anymore.
And,
you know, we don't you know, we're so,
like, class conscious. And this is sickness that
comes from, you know, colonization and from the
countries, you know, that we come from from
the dysfunctional way that they work.
We're so class conscious. We're so race race
conscious.
We're just a bunch of haters. You know?
All of us have it inside of us.
Like, it's not me, like, telling another person.
Someone might say, well, look at you. You're
a jerk every time I one time I
tried to ask you a quick question and
you didn't give me the time of day
or this or that and, you know, the
other thing. You know, maybe I, you know,
I was overwhelmed or maybe I am a
jerk. You know, maybe I'm talking about myself
as well. But we have this. All of
us have this in our inside of us
that we're we're, you know, we have to
some degree or another,
we have hate inside of us. We're just
a bunch of haters.
And
I have to admit, like, if it wasn't
for having met the and
met the and
seeing seeing the joy
that comes from iman, the bashashatul iman,
and seeing the beauty of akhlaq and the
beauty of how to deal with
people you love and how to deal with
people you hate, how to use love as
a reward to the person you wanna reward,
and as a weapon against the person who
you wanna fight against. The same love will
disarm your enemy, and it's the same love
that will make your, you know, your family
and your friends and the people who are
closest to you happy.
It's just this, like, super powerful thing.
And,
you know, you you see that that that
this is something that that,
Baharzih
he was died in.
And it's not a gift that comes for
free.
I've come to the conclusion
that most people when they come to Adars,
when most people join a tariqa, when put
most people become Muslims, when most people do
almost anything it is that they do in
life,
they say that it's for money or they
say it's for guidance or they say that
it's for learning or they say that it's
for rectification.
It's just a world filled with people who
need love.
They just need to be loved. Parents are
stressed out. They don't give time to their
kids. Like, we're not here to blame them
because they have to pay bills and, like,
it's just a screwed up world. Nobody choose.
You know, we we're all playing the game.
None of us made it made the rules.
I guess if you made the rules, then
shame on you. But, like, for the rest
of us little people, you know, none of
us made the rules. We're all just forced
to play the game.
And so people didn't get love from their
parents. They didn't get love from their, like,
underpaid and overworked, stressed out, and, otherwise unqualified
spiritually, morally, or intellectually school teachers.
They didn't get love from their siblings. They
didn't get love from their children. They didn't
get love from it's just all the places
that a normal human being will find love
from. People won't find it. So they look
for love.
They, you know, they come to
the, and the is trying to teach them
ill, and they're they're looking for love. The
is trying to teach them zikr, and they're
looking for love. They're looking for community. There's
somebody to pat them on the head and
said, do everything will be okay. You know,
people,
they they they they look for a presidential
candidate
or a candidate, a political candidate, and they
don't even know what the person's policies are.
They just want somebody to, like, you know,
make them feel like they're protected. Like, you
know, if you're
of the x y z, like, green race,
then somebody will get up and say, I'm
gonna fight for the greens, and I'm gonna,
like, you know, screw the purples and screw
the blues and screw the yellows and the
reds and whatever. You know, greens first. And
it makes people feel loved. They're looking for
what? They're looking for that love. The
sad part is you're not gonna find that
love from any human being, from anyone in
creation. You can only find that love from
Allah.
Allah is the only one who has
any happily, any real love inside of him.
And even the fake love that people give
to one another or the watered down or
secondary love that we find from the creation,
nobody is going to be able to give
it to you unconditionally.
Not your wife, not your parents. Everyone will
tap out at some point. Everyone will disappoint
you if tested.
You have to hold the line you have
inside of your heart this idea that everyone,
if you push them too much, they're gonna
they're gonna flip from from loving you to
to hating you, and some of them will
do it anyway even if you don't push
them. Some of them will do it anyway
even if you, do good by them as
much as you can.
The only one who will love you unconditionally
and the only one who can love you
unconditionally is Allah
because his love is the only love that's
that's the real love. It's only one love.
Hassan,
who I read,
the front half of the mishkat from and
and the half of the hidayah from,
and,
the
the front half of Tiramizi from and Abu
Dawood and a number of other books.
He's very keen. He's very keen of quoting,
who said that Tawhid has to go both
ways. Right? The oneness of Allah, the founding
tenant of Islam has to go both ways.
We usually mention Tawhid as being
that we worship no one but Allah. We
only worship 1 Allah. But the has to
be for Allah and it has to be
for you too as a slave that you
look at yourself and say, I'm the slave
of no one but Allah.
That I must I'm the slave only of
Allah. You say that that nobody is to
be worshiped but Allah, but I also say,
do who do I belong to? Do do
I belong to the company? Do I belong
to my country? Do I belong to my
family? Do I belong to my parents? Do
I belong to my wife or to my
husband or to my children? Who do I
belong to?
And as long as you have, you know,
a question about that,
you you're you're kinda shooting yourself in the
foot. So, no, I belong to is
the one who commanded,
that I'd be good to my parents and
to my family and to my, you know,
you know, be good to my countrymen and
my neighbors and etcetera.
But you belong only to Allah.
When you make of yourself for the sake
of Allah, then you open your heart up
to receive that love. That's the only love
that can fill the hole, and the gap
inside of your heart. And
you
receive that love until you have this faith,
this divine outpouring of grace onto you that
you become dyed in the color of, like,
the color of being beloved.
And
was Muhammad.
He was the praised one. He was the
the beloved one, the
And like that, anyone who carries the color,
which comes with the dye of being from
the Muhammad
in in the truest sense.
That person carries the color of, of love.
They're dyed in that color of love,
and nobody will see it except for they
also become beloved.
And that's what the whole point of this
thing is. That's what the whole point of
this thing is. Allah himself says in his
book,
Oh, Muhammad.
We didn't send this Quran down on you
so that it's like a means for you
to be wretched. So you you're hungry when
other people are eating and you're broke when
other people are rich and you're sad whenever
other people are enjoying.
It's not for that reason.
It's not for that reason. It's rather so
that you could receive this love that you
were created to receive and without which you'll
never be whole, without which you'll never be
happy. You can only make Instagram posts that
make you look like you're happy, but you
can't be actual happy happy inside of your
heart.
And so we, you know, we continue with
the story of
that look what happened.
That, because he received a little bit of
from
from the Mongol minister,
Mahmoud Yalwach.
And because
he had enough respect in him that he
saved some people in Buhara from being executed,
the miscreants around Baikou,
the Mongol commander in that region,
the miscreants around him, they
basically put poison in Baikou's ear, who was
an evil man that hated the Muslims, that
this,
look at him. He's so arrogant. He hasn't
come to visit you yet and pay
obsequience.
And, he,
he secretly harbors the
desire to become,
the new Khalifa.
And
Baihu then orders that he be brought in
chains
to, Samarkand,
where he, where he is.
And what happens,
Vahdi mentions that,
as soon
as as soon as he gets anywhere near
Samarkand, that when they chained him up, he
says that,
look, you're humiliating me right now by by
arresting me and taking me. He says, after
this humiliation, you'll see how how how much
honor
that that will bestow upon me.
That when he got to Samarkand,
right then and there, Baikou,
passed away. And it was so creepy for
the Mongols who are already relatively shamanistic and
superstitious people
that, they considered it to be one of
the miracles
of the sheikh.
And a number of them actually accepted Islam,
at his hands, and
they now knew not to mess with him
anymore,
which was what? Which is the,
the the the prognostication
of the Sheikh Najibuddin Kubra that we mentioned
yesterday
that he said that
that take the glad tidings
that,
one day the kings will will will roll
at your feet. The the authorities and the
government, will roll at your feet. And that's
the same Najmuddin
who himself was Shahid. And can you imagine
that? Think about that. Right? How much heartbreak
you would have
that all the work you did, everything you
knew,
everything you saw, all the work you did,
your father, his father before him, your forefathers
for centuries. All of it is flattened and
destroyed in front of your eyes. Sheikh Najmuddin
himself loses his life to the Mongols. Baq
Harzi himself has to,
leave
and he sees that same that used to
be like
a garden of Jannah on earth.
It's completely leveled.
And,
and then even then after after starting,
its,
resettlement to see such a huge massacre take
place again.
You know, with us, we get really frustrated,
like, with small setbacks.
But look at the vision in the Basira
and the Sabra and the Stakamah of these
people, the vision and the patience and the
steadfastness of these people
that even when being taken in chains,
he sees he he sees that, look, I'm
going through humiliation right now, but I'll see
honor after this, and he has in it.
He has he has he has certainty in
it. And look what Allah did to him,
did for him that he killed Baikou.
He took Baikhu away and a a number
of
the, courtiers,
in Samarkand will accept Islam.
And what what he'll do is he'll actually
go because
this story kind of parallels another story, which
is that Imam who
lived his life in
he he was kicked out of Bukhara
or forced out of Bukhara
because of certain,
court intrigue,
between the court and between him and between
jealous other and him.
And so he had to basically go lie
low in a village outside of Samarkand where,
with relatives,
a village called Kartank.
And so
and he passed away over there. So his
grave is actually outside of Samarpand in this
village of Kartank.
And Baharzih,
he got dragged in chains to Samarkand
and then
Allah took the life of
this tyrant who had him brought there.
And, now all of a sudden, he's like
in a honored position. So he took the
opportunity to go to Kartank
where obviously the masjid and Mazar,
of Imam Bukhari was completely destroyed.
And he
sat there and marked that place of, Imam
Bukhari's Mazar
and he read the,
Sahih Bukhari
again
and he renewed,
the masjid and the complex
associated with the Mazar of, Imam Bukhari.
And he,
also,
revived,
he also revived that place.
And, just like he did with
Bukhara, the people of
asked him, please stay with us.
And, he refused. He says, I have to
I have to go, back to Bukhara.
So,
we continue,
and,
what what ends up happening is that
one of the Mongol,
noblemen,
he accepts Islam,
and the sheikh, he accepts Islam at the
hands of the sheikh that Habib mentions. And
the sheikh gives it gives him the name,
and he becomes like the doorman, the the
the chamberlain of the Sheikh, the person you
basically have to go through in order to,
see the Sheikh. That the mongol started to
respect him so much that they gave him
the,
the title of.
Means what? Means, like, the high or the
great
the great sheikh. Like, you know how in
in Bursa, the the or or in a
number of places even in Anatolia, the Jummah
Masjid,
is called the
The Ulujami. Because the Anatolian Turkish, when they
switch to the,
Ataturkian,
Rassam
orthography,
the oftentimes get dropped or they're written but
they're silent.
So in,
the the central Turkic lands, the word is
like with the.
And it becomes
with without the in, Anatolian Turkish. So they
call them.
And it's really interesting that the rabbi mentions
that the rabbi himself is a Turkoman. He's
himself a Turk.
So he mentions that the Mongols called him,
and
it's
said that even,
Hulegu,
the,
the the the
violent and bloodthirsty tyrant of the Mongols who
eventually,
would end up sacking Baghdad. And it's probably
the most hated of the Mongol commanders even
more so than,
Genghis Khan, for having sacked Baghdad,
that even he used to refer to Baharzih
as as as.
And what happens is
that one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan,
a,
the son of
Jochi, who's the firstborn of Genghis Khan,
his name is Berke. His Mongol name is
Berke.
That he wants to accept Islam, and he
wants to,
become a Muslim, and he wants to become
a,
a muredid of
of of the Sheikh Najmuddin.
Now Berke's older brother, who was another
Mongol commander who had
a special amount of spite and ire for
the Muslims,
he was a a a Mongol
nobleman
by the name of Batu,
and Batu hated the Muslims. However,
like many of the other commanders, he he
had respect for
he had respect for the,
Baharzi.
And he probably would not have approved of
his brother accepting Islam
except for when he said that I want
to go to,
then he said, that's okay. This guy, just
stick with him.
And so,
that'd be mentions the story of
his his,
taking, taking
on as a,
as a disciple
that,
asked for permission to visit the Sheikh. And
so the Sheikh,
gave him permission.
He came from,
which is a city in
it's near Kazan. It's quite far away from
Bukhara.
It's in
it's it's in, Kazan, so it's well within
what we, now would call the Russian Federation.
And,
he
came to Bukhara
and he arrived after Isha on a winter
night when there was ice and snow outside.
And, instead of
instead of,
going somewhere and spending the night or instead
of knocking at the door,
What did he do?
He stood that entire night at the door
of the Sheikh,
without knocking, without bothering the, without waking him
up.
And,
waited for the to
come out, and he was praying the whole
time.
And,
when he entered, he,
kissed the shift,
and he,
his impressed the Sheikh.
And
not only did he accept,
Islam,
but a number of the commanders and courtiers,
mongo notables that were with him accepted,
Islam with him. And he then takes.
He took the from the Sheikh.
And
this is something that many people in their
spiritual path,
when they,
you know, when they go to take the
tariqa, these are very very
genuine and very universal types of experiences
that a person approaches their Sheikh with this
much reverence
and,
you know,
comes in a state of and
comes, you know, with a state of reverence
and gravity,
that I'm doing this for my own.
And so
he does this and, you know, again, a
number of courtiers accept Islam,
with him. And the then gives him a
weird he gives him a daily
amount of that he should do, and he
gives him a a daily number of duas
that he should ask, which all of us
should have for
and all of us should have duas that
we read every day.
And,
he then said you have to go back,
to your people.
And,
Berke, who receives the Muslim name Baraka Khan,
Berke, he he doesn't he tells the sheikh,
I don't wanna leave you. But the sheikh
says that I don't like this idea that
you abandon your your people, that I want
you to be the leader for your people,
and I want you to to lead them.
And, another thing, it's mentioned that he had
60 wives. Berke had 60 wives as, in,
you know, before he accepted Islam. So the
sheikh told him you have to choose 4
and divorce the,
the other 56, which which he did. It's
a sign of his sincerity.
And
he it's the Habibi mentions that he goes
back to his people,
that he went back to his people, his
Mongol people, and he
manifested the the the the signs of deen
amongst his people and a great number of
people accepted Islam also at his hands.
And,
he,
ordered that
the
should be taught amongst his people. That people
should be taught fit. People should be taught
that people should be taught these basics, which
sadly,
we we've kind of abandoned or we think
is a very niche, like, CD type of
thing to do, but it's what normal Muslims
do. It's, like, the first thing you're supposed
to do when you accept Islam, at least
when you do it right.
And, it's you know, that had been mentioned
that he had a number of number of
would visit him,
and
he was the first
person who
was a mongol commander that fought another mongo
commander. Because who
later on will end up sacking Baghdad,
Berke is upset
that he, sacked about that without the,
without the permission or without the
and the consultation of the other Mongol chieftains.
And,
he will, basically fight with him And his
armies will actually do their armies will do
battle, and he'll ally himself with
the other forces that are fighting against Hulegu.
One of the things about Birkhead that, you
may know or you may not know that
the great,
Mamluk
commander
Al Malekha Vahir,
Beibers, Ruknuddin Beibers, the one who
injected
a great number of the crusaders from the
sacred lands, the majority of the crusaders from
the sacred lands,
and the one who
from the booty of the Hanima of those
wars with the Crusaders,
he rebuilt the masjid of the prophet
to the current form that we see today.
Like, you know, this kind of pink color,
building that's from the Mamluk era, the green
dome, etcetera, etcetera.
Much of that is from the Hanima from
from basically trashing the Crusader fortresses and the
sacred lands and sending them packing.
That that
that Berke will ally with Ruknuddin
Behrs. He'll actually set his Behrs will actually
marry Berke's,
daughter,
and they will have
a a child,
who gets the name Saeed Baraka,
and who rules for a short amount of
time in his youth,
Mamluk, Egypt, and Syria.
And,
Behbrs is also famous for being the first,
Muslim commander
who, defeats the Mongols,
in the open field of battle at the
Battle of Ain Jalut,
between him and Sayfid al Qutuz.
And so, like, this is a really big
fathead. It's a really big opening,
from the Mongols being especially hostile toward the
Muslims and especially cruel toward the Muslims
to having,
him be the only one that the Mongols
will accept,
their people accepting Islam at their hands. And
he has a real
impact then,
on on the Mongol world and on the
Muslim world. And Daha'bi mentions
that in in in his time,
his,
financial patronage,
reached
a majority of the olema in that area,
that he sponsored a great number of,
of.
He mentions that the kings of the world,
would send
gifts to, Baharzi,
the last,
from the last,
Khalifa,
Al Mustasen,
sent gifts,
to,
Baharzi from amongst the rare and precious gifts
he sent him was a must have that
was written in the noble hand of Sayna
Ali
And,
the the king Muzaffar din,
Abu Bakr,
he
he sent him a great amount of money.
He mentions a number of a number of
different rulers,
both Muslim and that would send,
gifts,
to the sheikh,
non Muslim,
both from the Mongols and from,
other non Muslim rules to the extent that
he also received gifts from,
the Indian subcontinent,
that, the Habib mentions,
that from those who
were in correspondence with with him was the
sultan of Hind Nasr al Din Abek and,
the ruler at that time of Multan, Riathuddin
Balban,
who, was a Turkic commander who,
also was famed to have
defeated the Mongols in battle because the Mongols
never took over the, Indian subcontinent.
It said that, Maunke,
when he became the great Khan,
of the Mongols, that he also sent a
great amount of, a great amount of money
to,
to,
Al Baqarsi and his wazir, his his minister,
Borhanuddin Mas'ud, the son of Mahmud Yawach, that
he was also known for his ilm,
and he wasn't a Sunni. He was heterodox.
And this is by the way, this is
something that's like an old thing that the
the the the people who were the antagonist
of the aloof sunnah oftentimes are the first
ones to,
cross over to the other side and and
collaborate
with, the enemies of Islam.
But he was a,
he was a,
and
it said the one who would meet when
he would meet,
Bahavzi,
he would
he would kiss him,
and he would stand,
basically at attention
and not leave until he received permission to
leave. He'd show a high amount of adab
to.
And when people would ask him, like, what's
up with that?
He would say, because this is the amount
of respect my father used to show him.
And this is also because this man has
so much respect from the,
the Mongol Khans who are my bosses, the
kings,
that,
if he if he tells them to kill
me, I have no doubt that they would
they would, be off of my head.
So it's also a very practical matter as
well.
It said that,
he had a number of workers,
that worked for him, that he was given
a
number of villages,
the harraj of which were
basically his,
feudal fiefs.
When he passed 104 of his slaves were
freed,
and,
he asked that, he'd be buried in the.
Several 100000 people,
attended his Janaza, but he said he he
ordered in his
that the Quran reciters should not walk in
front of my,
Janaza nor should criers cry in my Janaza
because both of these things are.
Both of them are reprehensible innovations.
From amongst his,
slaves
that he owned, over 60 of them had
memorized the Quran
and were scribes
and were students of Hadith.
From amongst
the the those slaves that he had given
instruction in deen,
was Nafir al Din who transmits hadith from
him
and, made Hajj and actually used
to be a person who was entrusted with
his, with his affairs,
and that he wrote the over 40 with
his own hand.
And
this is interesting. It's like something really interesting
to to note that,
people entrusted the olamah with with their wealth.
What did Baharzi do with it? I mean,
it's not like he, you know, he he
was like a lifestyle sheikh like we have
on Instagram or TikTok nowadays.
And, you know, showing that look, I'm at,
you know, such and such hotel or I'm
eating halal things and, like, hashtag Alhamdulillah or
all this nonsense. These people didn't care about
any of this stuff.
What what happened was people would give them
the their lands and people would give them
these in income streams so that they could,
manage them and use them for
the, benefit of the and the benefit of
mankind
that people could be taught. Even look, if
you have 40 slaves that,
memorize the Quran and were taught Arabic and,
actually,
served as functionaries. This means that the type
of slavery that they had was very different
than the slavery in the American South, where
it was actually literally illegal to teach somebody
how to read.
But then again, this was an era where
Mamluk kings ruled over
Egypt and Syria and over India, that slaves
actually became kings and they became the ruling
class, that it was a very different type
of slavery when the master is benevolent and
when the system is good.
Oftentimes, the slaves
are more upwardly mobile than a free,
black man or a brown man might be
in Europe or in America,
even to this day.
And so, you know, the sheikh
basically was invested with a great amount of
revenue.
And he used it in order to build
these madares
so that people could get educated.
And he uses political influence in order to
basically talk, like, very angry and very violent
mongol commanders down from,
you know, their,
bloodthirsty fits of rage because there are people
who are known. They said that Genghis Khan
when he saw the Muslims, adhere to their
Sharia so tightly.
That he had the customary laws of the
Mongols
also
codified,
into what they call the.
And so the yasa has, you know, so
many dozens of different regulations that you can't,
you know, defile a
body of water or whatever their old mongol
traditions are.
They had a number of, you know, dozens
and dozens of different laws, but only one
punishment, which is death,
for violating,
for violating them. The Baharzia had said that
he would
use his influence,
in order to
in order to stop people from stop the
the Mongol commanders
from basically killing,
a a a whole bunch of people.
May Allah
have mercy on him from his students.
There are those who, again reach the Indian
subcontinent.
From amongst his students, there are those who
go and make dawah to the rough riding,
Kipchak Turks in the steppe,
and further afield further north to the more
desolate and
sparsely populated areas.
There are those who
learn hadith and learn the at their hands,
and they transmit them
around to this day.
May Allah
give us some sense also that we use
the
the resources and the the blessings of lot
that I gave us in order to,
preserve and propagate the civilization as well,
rather than, you know, spending
$1,000
on a room that we could have spent
$100 on and,
$100
on a meal we could have spent $15
on, and, $400 on shoes we could have
spent $50 on,
not knowing that didn't send us to this
world in order
to wear expensive shoes and waste money on
expensive hotels and buy
houses that are bigger than we need
and meals that are overpriced and just going
to send us to our grave.
More bloated and with
higher blood sugar levels and with higher fat
levels.
But he sent us to this world in
order to
find his love.
And that once we find it, that it
stays with us and abides with us in
life and in death and forever and ever.
Allah give us that tawfiq,
like he gave to our forefathers.