Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Dhikr and Du’ for the Shif of Muft Abdullh Ribt 08042023
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For everything.
I
learned yesterday that,
was headed to the hospital,
because of a brain tumor
or some mass they found in his
in his brain
and that they needed to operate on it
immediately.
And in surgery, they confirmed it, in fact,
was a tumor.
After a very long surgery,
6 hours or more,
They removed a great deal of the tumor.
Obviously, when you're operating on the brain, you
have to be a bit conservative,
because
taking out too much is gonna cause other
problems. So whatever
the residual,
mass is there in his
head, still needs to be treated. But right
now,
he I'm told he's, recovering,
that he can speak, and that he's kinda
cognizant of what's going on.
And,
he was also,
you know, alert and aware. So
in that sense, we're thankful that the
the the surgery didn't cause any damage of
of that type.
But I wanted to say a couple of
things about why,
you know, he's an important person to me
at least,
that he's a true lover of knowledge,
that he, like myself, and unlike many
of the the
scholars of our generation or people who serve
in our generation. He actually went to university,
graduated from university first,
and then went to study. Not to say
anything good or bad about such people, but
it's definitely a different trajectory.
And so I appreciated that that he also
had a certain
type of shared sensibility, and he also was
somebody that I can,
kinda talk to about
what the pitfalls also of having that experience
are and how to avoid them.
He was a person who kept
regular touch with a great number of scholars
from around the world.
He's a person who still loves books. He
has one of the best,
private collections that are not funded through government
or institution, which
is
largely which is largely patronized by his family
amongst other people.
And, he is also a person who taught
without charging students money
from Nahru Ansar
all the way through reading the Hidayah, which
is a very difficult book. If you wanna
know how difficult the Hidayah is,
then ask a Darshan Zami graduate
to tell you some of the things they
learned from the Hidaya, and they'll probably say
it was very difficult.
And
there's a rare passion for teaching and learning
that very few people have, and it's not
something that's gonna produce great numbers
or something that's gonna be very glamorous.
But
those people who know what it means, you
know, to them, it means a lot.
He did a a lot of service and
continues to do a lot of service for,
Islam in America.
One of the things I collaborated with,
him on
was the
work on
Halal in America,
before
he started his project, and I joined him.
There's no certifier in America that
actually openly and transparently
opaque marketplace
that was run on word-of-mouth and on trust,
which was not being fulfilled in any place
I could see,
to a degree that satisfies me
and,
to a standard that seemed to be according
to any Sharia that I could tell.
And, we put in a lot of work
and effort, and the 2 of us agreed
that we would not take
remuneration for that work.
Even though there wouldn't have been anything wrong
with it, but it would have been a
fitna to the home because people are so
in love with money, so in love with
money. If they see somebody
taking anything, it becomes a fitna for them.
So in order to in order to not
be a fitna for them, we said we'll
do this for the sake of Allah. We'll
employ other people, but we ourselves will be
at the helm of it and do the
majority of the work. We wrote legal contracts
in days that we couldn't afford a lawyer.
We used to spend and buy tickets out
of our own pockets. We used to make
negotiations with corporate entities, with legal and governmental
entities, governmental entities,
took trainings from different certification bodies around the
world on our own dime largely.
And,
it was,
you know, something we did for the sake
of Allah, and it's a sign of his
piety and his righteousness
that to this day, people accuse him of
being some sort of, like, a mafia guy
who's making business out of all of this
and making money to the point where I've
had even other scholars
say, oh, you know, he the only reason
he certifies this business is because he owns
a share in it or whatever.
And, Allah knows what the
is. And all I can think of is
that Allah doesn't take from a person except
for these types of roadblocks are customary for
those who he accepts from.
And, he wasn't perfect. One of the things
that I
one of the reasons I trust him is
because he wears his heart on his sleeve.
He's not a good man at deceiving people.
So sometimes maybe someone had a communication with
him that was up or down
or that, may not have gone as well
as a person wishes. So my request to
those people is
on his behalf and on my own, because
I'm somewhat like that as well, is forgiveness
at times like this.
He has a number of children. I I
think the oldest of which is 18 or
older,
Jabir, and the youngest of which are are,
you know, small children.
And, he's only about a year older than
me, And this all happened relatively recently. I,
myself, didn't know anything about it until yesterday,
and then I was told
that he's been suffering, like, headaches and things
like that for the last couple of months.
So it's relatively recent
that these things could happen to anybody.
So we make dua for him and we
make dua for a number of people. I
put up
the the the post that we'll gather together
to make dikr and dua, and people will
make
on behalf of him and on behalf of
others
and their own.
But after, you know, putting that, a number
of requests came for other people. One brother,
his father,
you know, he just had a heart attack
and is in surgery as we speak.
And other, sisters said I'm going through a
number of difficulties and problems.
I need the as well. We make it
on for Mufti Saab, but also for the
entire Ummah, Sayidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
as an act of worship because the point
of dua is not to inform Allah of
our needs, but the point of dua is
what? To show
our slave hood and our need of him,
to show it to him so that he'd
be pleased with us, and he's pleased with
us showing. Showing. Otherwise, he was the one
who always fulfilled all of our needs in
the first place.
And so this is something that we learned
from our
that a person oftentimes they're obstructed from getting
things that that are their provision
because of their sins. And so one of
the good things to do when asking Allah
is to make Tawbah
and that when a person's provision is augmented
and increased through
their worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
the zikr is a good thing as well,
and it increases the chances of a dua
being answered.
With regards to others, we have this idea
and really with regards to ourselves as well.
A person says, oh, this is probably so
and so's sin or our sin that we're
being tried for this.
And, you know, what I learned from my
masha'ikh is what? Is that any difficulty you
go through, the first instant of it,
it's already a person goes through difficulty and
has the feeling inside of their heart of,
like, what's happening to me? And they feel
insecure, and they feel kind of shaken and
rocked
in their in their state. At that one
moment, that's the moment in which the sins
are forgiven. After after that, a person makes
tawba, and everything else is just Allah Ta'ala
raising a person's maqam.
And our fear is what? Is that this
is something Allah gave a gift to us
as,
you know, as the Ummah Rasool Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, that there's some poor guy
who's running around doing all the service.
Comes from a relatively well-to-do family.
And, I've heard people make offhand comments, so
I wish I was also, you know, from
a rich family so that, you know, I
could also be free to travel all these
places and to do all these things and
collect these books. But the fact of the
matter is having traveled with him extensively throughout
the world and collaborated with him on a
number of things, whether it has to do
with
khidman service, or whether it has to do
with academic
endeavors or intellectual endeavors or whether it has
to do with preaching or teaching or any
of these other things, is that very few
people would have the the the stamina
to keep up,
to keep up with him because we've been,
you know, we've been on the move together
for for for now, Masha'allah,
2 decades
or so. And I've seen very few people
would be able to keep up with him,
if anyone at all. And so this is
something we fear from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
When we talk about to Allah, ta'ala, you
Allah, don't take this namma away from us.
Otherwise the person who dies on iman and
the person who suffers and is going through
difficulty on iman, this is all of it
is nur. Allah Ta'ala, the fear of Allah
Ta'ala is a very sweet fear.
The fear of Allah is a very sweet
fear that anything else you are afraid of,
it could harm you. But the fear of
Allah doesn't harm you. Rather, it's like a
breeze from Jannah that hits a person in
this world, and then they'll appreciate it in
this world through the that they have with
Allah because it causes a person to be
cut off from everyone and everything other than
him.
And then on the day of judgment, then
the person will taste what the true sweetness
of that thing is.
But rather, we ask Allah,
we show our slavehood to him, and we
show thanks for what he gave us so
far, and we ask him to keep these
blessings,
perpetual upon us, in this world and at
the time of death and in the hereafter.
So this is my, you know, this is
what I learned from my.
So we'll sit, inshallah. Again, these things are,
in general, masmoon. They're sunnah,
but perhaps
the set form is not a sunnah, where
a person can do whatever they think is
the best. If they wish to, inshallah, they
can follow along with us as well.
That we will sit and will make tawbah
to Allah Ta'ala using the words of the
Quran itself,
which is the words of Sayna Yunus Alaihi
Wasallam from inside the belly of
the fish.
Such a precious ayah of turning to Allah
that, in the Indian subcontinent, it's literally referred
to as the Ayatikarima,
the most noble,
of god's verses and signs,
that this Ayatikarima will make takra of it
some number of times.
And then afterward, we'll say
the kalimah of Tawhid La ilaha illallah.
The most virtuous of the things that were
said by me and by the prophets before
me
is.
And then we'll take the name of Allah
Ta'ala, Allah, Allah. Allah Ta'ala says in his
book,
Honour the name of your Lord and cut
off from everything else completely,
which sounds awful a lot like shutting the
lights off and sitting in a dark room,
taking the name of Allah
with the idea that when you say Allah
it's like a baby crying for the mother.
You don't have to mention what it is.
Allah knows what it is and Allah answers
every time you call upon him. Then afterward
we'll make a short dua, InshaAllah, and then
we can pray Madrib and be on our
way.