Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Eternal Creed and Islamic Literacy Reflections With Mawln Tamm 07212017
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So this, session is meant to be a
little bit more,
I guess, interactive,
in the sense that if someone has any
questions or comments, we'll just give a little
bit of an introduction and then,
open it up for for discussion.
I don't know,
what the
do we know what the the provision is
for the sisters if they wanna ask questions?
They can write a note card, inshallah.
And should they just slip it through the
the parda or yeah. We'll have one sister.
We'll have a sister over there that that
that collects the questions as well. Okay. So,
and obviously, it's a limited amount of time.
We're not gonna be able to get through
everything,
but,
hopefully, it's it's
it's an occasion to start
some discussion and some thought process.
And
what the discussion is about is
Sheikh Tamim asked me to share a little
bit about,
a project that I've,
that I've been
involved in since the beginning of 2016,
which,
started,
after having met a brother
from New York,
at a conference, and he said that, you
know, we invite we invite scholars to conferences
and things like that,
to our conferences and they give the talks
we ask them to give. Is there any
project that you yourself would like to do
and, you know, kind of organically let it
go from there? And I told them, yeah.
I said that our,
you know, our our tradition has these mutun
that we talked about earlier in the,
in the earlier talk.
And those are generally,
you know, really well prepared vehicles for conveying,
quite a bit of knowledge,
a dense amount of knowledge in a proper
way.
And then the person who wants to receive
that knowledge,
it makes them
I don't wanna say it makes them,
lose need for scholarship,
but it is something that,
you know, makes them in their knowledge
less dependent on
scholars. That the things that they know with
the mutun, that's the nice thing is the
things you know, you know, you know them.
It's solid information. It's bankable information. And we
live in an age that, you know, it
seems that everything has, like, 20 opinions with
regards to it. And so,
because because we have difference of opinion,
some people have allowed that to let them
lull into a position where
nothing is really true anymore because everyone's gonna
claim difference of opinion.
That, you know, you should have some sort
of authority with with with regards to your
knowledge.
And, from the branches of knowledge that I
see,
are most dead in the age that we
live in and at the same time are
most needed is aqidah.
And so I had taught
hitherto,
on a number of occasions using different texts.
But the, the the book of the Tahawiyah,
I chose it because,
a, it's solid information, and, b, it's something
that's, like, universally accepted
amongst the scholarship of of the Ahlus Sunnah.
That there are different traditions in Aqidah just
like there are different madahib and fiqh, there
are different
tradition in in Madaha Bqida within the al
sunnah and all of them consider the the
the, text of the to be, like, solid,
to be something that's an authoritative text and
a good starting point for a person too,
for a person to study,
at
least
just the laity of of the ummah.
And so,
I told him, I said, I can teach
the entire
text from beginning to end,
with a reasonable amount of, info
detail and explanation
in 15 instructional hours.
But it's not gonna be a typical
it's not gonna be a typical,
gathering in the sense that, like, everyone comes
late
and then, you know, people leave early and
you can, you know, just cherry pick this
and that and everything is gonna be tailored
in order to be,
entertaining and, you know, engaging. And we're gonna
talk about Facebook half the time, and we're
gonna ask, like, you know, like, when question
and answers happen,
it's interesting that
because of the philosophical,
like, complete, like, degradation
of people,
People don't even know how to ask questions
anymore.
And I know because I'm the worst of
them. I have recordings of my duros, like,
I when I studied, like, m p threes
were, like, just a new thing. So I
recorded the many of the. So I listened
to the old lessons I I used to
take and the way I used to ask
questions, they're horrible. I actually think that some
of the the the questions I get from
other people are just punishment for the torment
that I put my teachers through. Not everybody
has patience with it. The the few that
had patient patience with me, Allahu Ta'ala,
reward them with the good of this world
and the hereafter. People don't even know how
to ask questions anymore. And it's not entirely
my fault because they say things like, oh,
there's no such thing as a dumb question.
And, you know, I can't really repeat that
with a straight face.
So there's a type of question you ask
which has to do with what you're
what you're reading.
And then there's this type of weird
tangential question that people ask, which is reflective
of an unhinged mind.
And we actually value the unhingedness of a
person's mind,
to some degree in the culture, the time,
the place we live in, and it's not
really a 100% a positive thing.
So people ask questions like, oh, Sheikh, you
mentioned in your talk about Cambridge Analytica. I
read a paper that you know, Moana, if
you I request you just have a seat,
and then if you wish to, that you,
share because this is this is not like
my talk or somebody else's talk. All of
us share this
All of us share the same, pain in
our in our heart,
because of which the,
you know, this this
gathering,
has been convened. And the same pain is
why I taught at the Hawiya and the
same it's the same thing that the that
that Rasul
conveyed to,
to the people that he loved that a
person should feel pain about the hall of
the ummah and want want to make it
better than what it is. Alright. And before
you continue, just don't forget your track of
mind. I just wanna mention a very important
thing. Yeah.
I don't need a mic if you, Yeah.
No. It's just so everyone can hear. That's
fine.
Just yeah. So just quickly, I wanted to
to take this opportunity to say one of
the things that inspired
this idea of reviving Islamic literacy
is the efforts of ulama and my beloved
colleague and my friend Hazid Molla Hamza Asad
and many of their other scholars that are
also doing this. I wanted to take this
opportunity to mention that
this,
teaching of the aqidatahawiya
that Mawlana Hamza has,
done as, you know, he has trips in
different places. He already, I think, explained about
that that in different places he goes and
he does the the reading of the entire
aqidatahawiya
and
the students that actually are present in this
gathering, they listen to it, they hear the
commentary of it, and at the end
they are, you know, given like as
a
certification that they were present in their, you
know, the reading
and witnessing the reading of this book
and throughout the centuries, there's going to be
a specific lecture that will be given by,
Morana Bilal
specifically about the tradition of the scholars, how
this was the tradition throughout the centuries.
Well, when we talk about Bukhari, when we
talk about Tirmazee or Abu Dawood or the
Sunan of Nasai,
these books actually students like this and believe
it or not, I was just reading before
I came, 10,000
people, 20,000 people.
And in one and and this is
I think Khateeb Baghdadi, he mentions over a
120,000
people,
they would be present for being a witness
of the recitation of these books
just like crazy mind boggling things,
completely mind boggling that how can this be
possible,
but this was the legacy
that people would actually be present
to hear the recitation,
the reading, the commentary of these books and
it's just, you know, it's it's amazing.
So what Mawlana is actually speaking about, this
is not about just simply,
we're gonna give some lectures and like this,
Islamic literacy is going to be revived. What
Mawlana is already doing.
What Mawlana is doing and this is why
I wanted this session to to to to
to what what we wish that every single
person in the gathering will actually have a
copy of the book.
And
make it possible that that book is gonna
be published
and
make give the means and the and the
and the tawfiq that the book becomes published.
This is what we wanted, the interactive session
of this. The reviving Islamic literacy is exactly
how what Mawlana is doing is that he
has a text,
the students have that text, and there is
a reading where the students are the the
the it's either being recited to the sheikh
or the sheikh is reciting it. So these
would be the 2 methods that the the
the student will be reading it and everybody
would be listening. And you guys probably even
till this day in Madinah Munawarra, Makkah Mukarama,
you'll see like the the the student will
be reading and the teach in the presence
of that teacher.
And then at the end, you know, Ijaz
will be given. This was
the reality of, you know, Islamic literacy throughout
the centuries.
So
what, you know, this specific
part or segment
of
this,
you know, program,
This segment was actually meant I I I
wanted I was hopeful that, you know, everybody
would get, like, a copy of the book
and they'll be able to read along. Inshallah,
we'll be doing that for the tomorrow session.
We everybody, inshallah, they have a copy of
the treasures where you actually we read and
and the commentary is given and you're following
along. So this is,
essentially, like, what Mawlana is doing. And may
Allah continue to, increase his efforts that Allah
take him to all parts of the world
where, you know, people don't have the opportunity
to have access to scholars. May Allah take
them to all, you know, corners of the
world that be able to revive
the correct,
Islamic creed and belief in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and, essentially, like, what what this is
what what he what he is doing actually
is the whole kind of
essence of reviving Islamic literacy. So I just
wanted to
interject. Feel free to interject whenever you
wish to.
What did you mention about your, you know,
in Colombia and different places that you did
the Yeah. Sure. So
Just add add to what I'm saying.
So we were we were talking about questions.
Right?
If you have these tangential weird questions,
and we've, like, been indulged to, like, believe
that that's somehow
good and useful. That's good and useful for,
like, conversation, and not all conversation is a
waste of time.
But
one of the reasons that we
one of the reasons that we value that
in the,
the the culture and civilization that we're a
part of I don't like using western because
Nuakshat and Mauritania is further west than London
is.
And I don't like using European because Kaldib
bin Abdulbar was from Europe, Istanbul is Europe,
Albania, Bosnia, these places are all in Europe.
There's a particular civilization that that this culture
comes out of.
Because of its obsession with mass amounts of
information,
which happens at the same time as complete
lack of order, complete chaos of those independent
data points.
This type of question is not really that
big of a deal,
but when you have a darsi at 15
hours, you're trying to convey a certain amount
of information,
and all of it is laid out in
logical order, meaning the second page is not
understandable until you understood the first page,
like a math book or something like that.
You're not gonna explain to somebody multiplication without
them understanding what addition is.
Because of because of that,
you know, I told people it's 15 hours.
If you have a question like, you said
this word, what does it mean? Like a
clarifying question, you can go ahead and ask.
If you ask a question that's unhinged or
is trying to delve in, like right now
we're giving the overview of the science, remember
we talked about the progression of the moutun?
If right now we're giving you an overview
overview of the science and you're trying to
ask stuff like
the differences of opinion or what's the proof
of this or that or whatever, you're trying
to jump the the tarte,
you will be respectfully reminded that that's not
what we're here for right now.
And
it's a really interesting it's a really interesting
experience because those 15 hours are completely different
than what people are used to used to
going through even in an Islamic setting because
they're they're they're accustomed to motivational talks. The
Jummah Khotbah is supposed to be motivational, unfortunately,
because the Jummah Khotbah, the pulpit, has been
hijacked by people who don't really know what
they're talking about and are fascinated with the
idea that religion provides them a forum in
which 200 people have to listen to what
they're saying without
speaking. That that idea fascinates them, and so
there are people fighting over who gets to
give the chukpa now,
like the Jacquelyn hyena,
tell each other when the lion is out
of you know, while the lion is sleeping,
they say, you know, my father used to
be king.
You know,
that doesn't even happen properly. But when it
happens properly, the jumahotbah is a motivational talk.
People are maximally only,
only introduced to that Or they look for,
oh, this is cool Sheik, he's gonna talk
about science, he's gonna talk about pop culture,
he's gonna mention whatever Kim Kardashian and now
all of a sudden this person is, like,
revived Islam amongst the Muslims.
You understand what I'm saying? No. Literally, this
is not like I'm not I wish I
was making this up.
This is like the benchmark now of what
listening to a talk is.
So the teaching that the how we are
is diametrically opposed to all of these things,
which is what?
Here's something hyper relevant to your life, you
didn't know anything about it, and now it's
crammed full of information.
And you're just writing, writing, writing, writing, writing,
writing, writing, and at the end of it,
you're like, wow, that was completely different.
Those people who know what that process is
like, almost all of them were like, shit,
it'll never work.
Nobody's gonna listen. People don't have the patience.
They don't have capacity. They don't have the
tolerance. They don't have this. They don't have
that. They don't have the other thing. So
this one brother, he said, you know what?
Let's just try it out. So he's he
went to university. He's from New York. He
went to university in Philly. So,
anyone who's, familiar with Philly, this is a
really strange place,
an interesting place to say the least.
We had, like we booked a venue at,
like, Drexel University,
or Temple University, one of the 2. And,
just a bunch you know, I guess a
bunch of the MSA kids basically were the
the the the lab rats, the the guinea
pigs for the for the for the first
darsa that Tawhaya like this.
And there were maybe, like, 35, 40 people.
Masha'Allah, they came, they sat through the whole
thing, and they actually benefited from it. By
Allah's father, and this is not,
know, it's not it's not me showing off
or whatever. Rather, Allah knows that it's
his father and it has more to do
with the barakah that's
that's loaded, hyper crammed into these texts, these
mutun.
Right. Because what did I say? It's not
doing something new.
It's doing the same thing that's been done
for centuries.
And in America where everyone has a fetish
for doing new things,
doing the same old thing is a new
thing.
Right?
Doing the same thing everyone else did. It's
like, why do we try that? We've tried
everything else. Right? So even that's something new.
So alhamdulillah, by bylaws followed, there was even
a a a a a woman who was
not a Muslim who attended the talk and,
she's, masha'allah, a student of knowledge and all,
like, in her, like, 3rd year of study
in Jordan or her 2nd year of study
in Jordan right now, So
there was a lot of benefit from it
and we agreed that this is something we
should,
take to other places. Bylaws fellow, since that
time, I think almost 15 times we've done
the khatam of the book, the tahawiyah,
in a number of different continents. Actually,
after this talk is done, I'm going straight
to the airport.
And, in Istanbul, we're going to have a
reading of it, inshallah, in the next week.
And it's something completely boggles the mind.
It completely boggles the mind that this thing
which used to be like Milano was saying,
it was a,
a mainstay of the civilization. Imagine that civilization.
In pre modern times, literacy levels were so
low.
Even now people, they know how to read
but what did they use that for?
This is what I ate for dinner, LOL,
you know.
Liberals are gonna Liberals are gonna burn the
country down. Let's kill them all. And conservatives
are all crazy. This is what people these
are stupid things that people use literacy for,
the skill of reading and writing.
They use them for these things. Nobody actually
uses them to
except for the few people Allah has
a very specific mercy on them. Very few
people use it in order to use that
skill in order to benefit themselves or in
order to bring benefit to themselves or to
others. So imagine what was that civilization that
a 100000
people will show up
in order to hear the recital of Sahib
Bukhari with Sanal. Why? Because they wanna hear
what the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said.
Because they, you know, what is that civilization
that those and you know, imagine in that
100,000 people you think everyone is literate? They're
also illiterate farmers who used to come. Why?
Because their belief inside of their heart was
what? These are these are the words of
the messenger of Allah
There were no mics or anything. So do
you think anyone's loud enough that a 100000
people will hear them at the same time?
They used to actually have repeaters that would
repeat the the dars, even then people wouldn't
wouldn't be able to hear it. People would
show up just with disbelief inside of their
hearts that the words of the Nabi sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam are being said and there's
benefit in it.
Right? Do you think this is the only
time in the history of Islam where Muslims
are in difficulty?
Uh-uh. Vahibi writes about, like, when the Mongols
were, like, sieging Damascus.
When the Mongols were sieging Damascus, the ulama,
they came, they started reading from the books
of hadith. Allah. Why? Because this is a
way of receiving the the the the mercy
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That the mercy of Allah ta'ala from who
for whose mercy from from which
catastrophes are averted,
calamities are averted
through attracting the mercy of Allah.
Through his disobedience,
his anger comes, and through
seeking his mercy, catastrophes are averted. Catastrophes, we
deserve, we earned. They're averted through seeking his
mercy that has no bound whatsoever.
That they used to do these things.
And that Mongol,
invasion of the Muslim lands,
it wasn't it was even worse than the
calamities that the Muslims are going through right
now. And what was the natija of that
civilization that this is how they dealt with
catastrophe and calamity? That all those Mongols are
all Muslims now.
Half of Hyderabad is walking around with the
last name Khan now.
Why?
Because Allah ta'ala averted that catastrophe from the
ummah because they they knew how to tap
into the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So many levels in it. Even the Mongols
themselves, they sacked anyone, any civilization that existed
in in the land, they sacked all of
them. Chinese, they destroyed them.
The
Eastern Europe, they destroyed them. The
Christian
is waiting that our turn is next. They
sacked Baghdad, all the great cities of Central
Asia. They knew everybody. In fact, in the
early period, actually, many of the Mongols were
actually Christians. Like, one of the first because
they had their pagan animistic animist religion that
they used to follow.
So the bulk of them in the beginning
were either Christians or Buddhists,
And,
what happens is Islam enters into their into
their practice relatively late. I think the first
the
great first, first great Khan who accepts Islam
is the son of Jochi, the firstborn son
of of of Genghis Khan.
His name is Berke
and he takes the Muslim name Baraka.
Right? Just relatively late actually. Otherwise, there's Christians
and Buddhists in the in the in the
in the royal families, in the royal family
of the different Khans from a lot earlier
than that. They say that,
they they
they
they,
sarcastically give the name in
in in in Persian and in Arabic.
The means like destruction and death. Right?
He his wife was actually a Nestorian Christian.
So they had had exposure to these other
religions and faiths from before. But after they
come in contact with Islam, after having sacked
and destroyed and completely dominated the Muslims,
they realized, wow, these guys have like a
really good thing coming. These people, their civilization
that they built up,
there's, you know, they don't practice it well
but there's something that if we take it,
we can take it to the next level.
And that's why we see after Mongol invasion,
after the destruction of the Mongols,
you see the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire,
these great world empires in which, the civilization
of Islam is propelled forward.
They themselves take up that work. Why? The
mercy of Allah made what? It made even
our enemies into our friends.
Some of us may actually be descendants of
those enemies and some of us may be
the descendants of those enemies and ourselves now
the greatest friends of Allah ta'ala.
What is it? That system works. So coming
back to what we're talking about right now,
and, inshallah, I'll try to cap it by,
5:30. That way, we can have some time
for a question and answer discussion.
That we tried this thing out and everyone's
like, it's not gonna work. Too much information.
People don't have attention span. People are not
interested.
Know, they wanna hear about Kim Kardashian, they
don't wanna hear about, like, you know, whether
the Quran is created or not.
You know, it's not gonna work. It's not
gonna work. It's not well, let's just try
it. Guess what?
It was really worked out really well.
And
ever since then, now there's more invitations I
get than I can fulfill
because I have others I have to pay
my bills and do all these other things.
But people the demand that Talab is there
for for people to hear it.
And that's where the idea to write write
the book
came from,
which is that one person cannot do this.
We need we're the aqidah of of of
Islam is so important. We need mashallah. We
need like a jamaat of, like, 40 olamat
full time. All they do go from one
side of the country to the other teaching
aapida
one after the other after the other after
the other and then once they the year
is done, they start back from where they
started from and just keep doing it.
Right? If you wanna know about the calamities
that hit the Muslims in the past, right,
one of them was the Crusades as well.
The Crusades Crusaders identified themselves as Crusaders, the
warriors of the cross. Right? Our, forefathers didn't
call them Crusaders. The term
which is like the Arabic transition of crusader,
it's like comes into Arabic later.
The word they used for them was like
the. These people are not Christians because we've
been living with Christians for centuries. Christians we
know are not, like, nearly as barbaric,
killing people and, you know, whatever, soaking the
the streets of Jerusalem in blood. The Christians
we live with are not like that.
Right? We're not gonna call them Europeans because
also, like we said,
there's so many Muslims in Europe, Spain, Portugal,
Sicily, all of these places, they were.
These are these are places where, cradles of
of Islamic civilization. The books we read still
come from these places.
I I'm fond of mentioning this because there's
so many Sicilians in in Chicago.
Sicily was, like, where the first commentary in
Sahih Muslim was written.
Right? There are salafs like, Asad bin Furat
was a direct student of Imam Mohammed, the
student of Imam Mo Hanifa. His his his
Mazar is in Sicily.
Right?
And and and and, Lakhmi, all these people,
they all had ties to Idrisi.
Right? Ibn Khaldun,
he worked in the Sicilian court of the
Norman the Norman knights because when the Normans
conquered Sicily back from the Muslims I shouldn't
say back because they're from Scandinavia and France,
but when they conquered Sicily from the Muslims,
Roger of Normandy was like, yeah. This is
amazing. Like, there's no way there's no way
any European king can run a kingdom. This
is amazing. So he kept the official language
of the court of Sicily Arabic and kept
all of the same, government functionaries and systems
in place in Sicily for 200 years until
the pope ordered him to stop.
And ever since then, Sicily has become a
backwater, economic backwater. The only thing that's there
now is mafia since then.
It's economically completely depressed place.
And while the Muslims ruled it and for
those 200 years afterward, it was literally a
square inch for a square inch to the
most productive and most wealthy part of Europe,
even more wealthy than Muslim
Spain. So the idea is is is what
is that the,
you know, I don't wanna say
European, but the Crusaders, this was this this
calamity that hit the hit the Muslims and
the Muslims were, much like they're doing today,
completely fighting with one another.
Whether at the masjid level to the national
level, people were just in a horrible, situation.
The people who've
managed
to cement a a a,
opposition
to the to the farinja. We don't say
to the Christians, like I said, we don't
have a problem with Christians. We've been living
from with Christians. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasalam was
living with Christians in his own lifetime. The
sahaba themselves used to live they were imagine
as they were minority. The khulafa Rashidun were
a minority in their own country.
The companions of the messenger of Allah would
walk in the streets of Iraq, walk in
the streets of Syria, walk in the streets
of Egypt, and they're a minority.
They would pass drunkards in the streets and
they would not you know what I mean?
And that was just the thing.
The drunkards are not Muslims. Drunkards literally Christians,
they would say this is their this is
their their right. We give them their right
to practice their deen and their deen drinking
is not haram so
this is a right vouch saved to them
by the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi so
then that their churches should be open, all
of this. Right? But this civilization that's, like,
we're just gonna kill you and take your
stuff. Right?
How was the the opposition to that cemented?
Through the revival of through the revival of
the study of Afida, of the al Sunnul
Jana'a.
Right? That's the same mother sun is army.
It's the same fiqr that was there in
all of these different,
all of these different epochs where Muslims were
besieged. We understand something that other people don't
which is that victory starts inside the heart,
which is that rectification starts inside the heart.
Unity starts inside of the heart. Every good
thing in the world, it doesn't start with
paycheck funding,
a government, PR, media prop. It doesn't start
with any of those things. It all starts
from the inside and it goes out. It's
not gonna come from the outside in.
And so my feeling was that there's no
time. If any time needed this,
needed this aqdida, it's this time.
And so how am I gonna go everywhere
and teach myself?
If there's a book, writing the book is
difficult. If there's a book, other people can
take it and then teach from it because
there are many people who are competent to
read it. There may not be as many
that are competent to write it. And from
those who are competent to write it, who
has the time to do any of those
things? So that was the the the idea
is that since there seems to be,
something that picks up with people, that hopefully
this can be a medium of the revival
of this,
of this
branch of learning.
And I would be happy if amongst you
there were not one, several people who could
teach it better than me.
Why? Because if you learned it through me,
then Allah ta'ala will give me the the
credit and which is the best as a
businessman, which is the better deal,
The the the the the reward with Allah
ta'ala that I earned through my effort or
the word that reward I learned earned with
Allah without any effort.
Why? Because we're we live with materialistic people.
We ourselves have become materialistic people. Everyone's jealous.
I'm the one who did that. I should
patent this and copyright it. And I'll get
the credit and reward, and they should send
me royalties. You idiot.
Has
made people like beasts of burden to earn
reward for you.
Not in this world where a dollar come
and dollar goes, but in the hereafter where
everything you have stays with you forever.
Like beasts of burden, he's lading them with
your work and they're earning for you.
What could be better than that?
We're the beasts of burden that carry the
knowledge of our forefathers. Why? Because we know
that this is the only thing that's going
to be our salvation.
What how much must Allah ta'ala love them?
And so this is the fiqh that that
that we had, inshaAllah, and this is, inshaAllah,
the fiqh that that that I that underpins
even this gathering, that we should think about
things in a new way and we should
embrace that thought and collaborate with one another
because it worked before and it'll work again.
In in it is the solutions to our
problems, that that knowledge is how we're going
to pull ourselves out of the plight that
we're in. And even if we're doing well,
knowledge is the only way we're gonna better
ourselves. So with that, I wanted to open
it up inshallah if anyone has any, questions.
This is not a darsh, so I'm not
gonna be, like, hyper, like, make sure that
it's 100% on topic.
But if anyone has any questions, inshallah, please
ask. And sisters, also, you can
send your questions as well.
Mohan, would you like to add something?
You know, one,
point that I wanted to mention, masha'Allah.
A
center of learning kind of like, you know,
the people of Chicago and I know there's
people from various different, places,
But especially people in Chicago,
you people are very blessed. Or if you
come from those localities where you have
Imams that are traditionally,
qualified
as
scholars, you know,
it is very easy for you to be
part of revival of Islamic literacy.
Very easy.
I was at Dar es Salaam, Masha'Allah at
least, there was 150 or 200 people, I'm
not sure it would look like a very
large
gathering
and I was, you know, as a joke
I said, I'm we're talking about reviving Islamic
literacy in a place that it's already being
revived.
Monthly seminar,
always.
The next monthly seminar just this is this,
brothers and sisters, is not about,
NUR publications
or NUR Institute or Mawlana Hamza's book or
my, f. This is about reviving Deen.
Sheikh Hamid mentioned something very beautiful. He said
this is a matter that has to do
with Muslims of every single level.
Children, men, women,
whatever,
you know,
background you consider yourself, whatever,
you know, school of thought that you consider
yourself, Sheikh Amin actually said this. He said
this is for every single when you say,
every single one of us have to be
connected with the, you know, the the legacy
of Iqra.
Every single one of us and, you know,
the people who are
blessed to be in an environment of knowledge.
Young man came up to me. He's about,
you know, before this program, he was at
the Dar es Salaam,
program last night. So he met me here
and he's about 20 years old. He said,
Sheikh, you're so right. He said, I lived
in a he mentioned a specific state. He
said, I I I lived there for, you
know, the beginning part of my life and
we didn't have,
these type of gatherings,
we didn't have these type of opportunities, we
didn't have, an imam or a scholar
in our local masjid and, you know, at
that time in my life I I didn't
have, you know, any knowledge, I didn't have
any connection, we just used to go to
the masjid just come back home and, you
know, whoever would be imam they would just,
you know, stand up and lead the prayer.
Whoever could just read some Quran that's how
my, you know, initial stages was. He said
when I came here
and, you know, and he specifically mentioned Daras
Salaam or any other, you know, like I
said, this we're not affiliated to any of
the masajid. Every any masjid that has mashallah
programs taking place. He said my whole life
changed because there's monthly seminars,
there's programs,
there's Maqatib, there's Quran class, there's tafsir class,
there's hadith class,
you know, Friday they have duroo Sharif majlis,
They have, you know, zikr majalis. It's just
it's it's amazing.
And it's very important for us, you know,
especially those who are in this area which
is saturated with scholars,
saturated with ulama and these programs. For example,
the next program they're having is the problem
of the existence of evil. They're having a
seminar next month.
Right? A lot of people now their their
their faith is getting affected by that. If
there's really a God, why does he allow
so much evil in the world? Right. So
that that that problem of the existence of
evil, that's going to be discussed in the
next seminar. I mean, subhanallah.
Constantly,
these beneficial things are going on. You as
fortunate people
that are connected,
to those masajid, to those places, take benefit.
Go out of your homes. The messenger mentioned
He didn't say
The one who sits for the for the,
learn seeking of knowledge. You can't if you're
sitting you're not seeking.
If you're sitting you're not seeking and one
of brothers and sisters very important in reviving
Islamic literacy is coming out and going to
the Mujahada and going through the struggles.
One of
the prophecies
of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, it's a hadith mentioned in Kitab al
Aymil Mishkat. It actually
says
Let me not find one of you
sitting back on his couch and sofa.
You know what? Arika?
Arika is a word that it means it's
almost like like it mentions,
Right?
Allah
mentions about the people of Jannah that they
will be
Allah mentions that one of the qualities of
the people of paradise,
they'll be reclining on, you know, very luxuriant
cushions,
luxuriant sofas. That didn't exist in the in
the in the everyday life in in the
time of the prophet.
But the prophet is mentioning,
let me not find one of you, all
my.
Let me not find one of you that
you are sitting in your home
with his full stomach sitting in his home
on his couch
saying this,
Whatever we find in the book of Allah
halal, we say it's halal. Whatever we find
in the book of Allah halal, we say
it's haram. Don't come to me with this
what the hadith said.
Don't mention to me the hadith of the
prophets. Leave the hadith of the prophet.
Let me the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
prophesied
a time will come, people will not be
making hurooj, people will not be going under,
you know, undergoing
struggle. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and I
don't wanna embarrass our dear brother, brother Omar
Zaman. He's here. With what difficulty? Just recently
he had I heard he had surgery. With
what difficulty
subhanAllah is coming. May Allah elevate
him. He's a he's a he's an inspiration
for us. He's a motivation for us. With
what hardship and difficulty he's here.
With what hardship and difficulty he has come
to this gathering. This is the the the
the reality of, you know,
the reviving of this legacy.
The messenger
actually said, you should you must come out.
Let me I cannot find you
sitting
around. You have to make
and, you know, there there is like I
said, it's not just about, you know, just
the book aspect of it,
Right? There's a whole system.
This legacy has it's a whole program. It's
a whole system.
So, you know, this is this is, something
that that that I wanted to, mention. Mention.
I forgot what I actually
what I was saying in the beginning, why
why I even,
so yeah. The the people of Chicago
make
to your masajid,
to these seminars,
to these programs,
to your local scholars where these programs are
taking place and those amongst you who are
the people of knowledge. You know who you
are. There are some people of knowledge,
scholars,
imams,
my dear brothers, and some of my sisters
who are from the people of knowledge. My
dear brothers and sisters, my humble request to
you guys is part of reviving the Islamic
legacy
is going to those places where people do
not have people where where where they don't
have access to knowledge.
They don't have access to scholars.
May Allah reward
Mahamsa doing this like wherever
that opportunity arises
going to those places,
you know, you know,
another shout out to my beloved colleague, Mawlana
Bilal.
I heard, you know, Mawlana Bilal, he has
a shamael
that's, you know, the characteristics of the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a weekly
das. He also has a
Right?
So, you know, I was in town. This
was a couple of months ago. I was
in town, and I said, oh, Malna,
Bilal is having a, a program. So I
said, you know, I'll go to this program.
So
I went to the program
and,
Mala Bilal was there
sitting
with with with the book, and there was
literally, like, 6 people there,
you know, 2 of them were, you know,
running around running after their kids because their
kids were like not, you know, behaving And
then, you know, another 2, they're probably, you
know, English second language, and then the other
2 were, like, you know, half the time
on their phone, Another one's like looking at
his, well, I said subhanAllah.
You're asking me.
A shaykhul Hadith.
Mala Billah right now in Darul Qasem is
teaching hadith.
Sheikh Al Hadith to me is not like
a, you know, a a a 70, 80
year old old man. He is a person
who is, you know, literally, as we speak,
teaching hadith and at the position of the
faculty of hadith in Darul Qasim.
There, giving his time, making himself available
for the ummah to teach a book that
you cannot even imagine.
SubhanAllah.
I would like Seriously, if we really knew,
how much is there a disappreciation?
How much is there a disappreciation? It's almost
shocking to me.
Is sitting in the masjid
free class and this is exactly what
was saying previously that maybe we need to
charge people and market it in such a
way where perhaps, you know, if if if
it's
some way connected to the nuffs, then we
will actually appreciate this thing. But when this
is being given,
you know,
when this is being, you know, provided for
the ummah, can you imagine having an opportunity
to study the Iqiyal ul with a shaykhul
Hadith?
With a person who is, you know, a
teacher in the faculty of Hadith and that'll
awesome. What an honor. What an honor for
the people of Chicago. How are people not
going?
I don't understand this. This is my my
dar, my gham. People of Chicago, that's why
I wanted to come here and speak about
it first because it's better to speak it
about it in a place
where
it's being revived but it's not being it's
being revived but it's not being availed.
Can I add something?
So,
you know, related to one of the things
that Sheikh Tamim just mentioned.
We mentioned Morabit passed away,
just a few days ago.
And I myself am very
amazed with
how
affected people were by it.
People who ostensibly have very little connection with
ill.
They call me and weeping, crying literally,
you know, to give condolences because they said
you studied from him and he was also
the teachers of your teacher of your teachers.
And I said, man, this person is, like,
more affected than maybe even I am.
And then,
one of the things that completely scratches the
chalkboard of my soul
is
what? People are like, oh, I wish I
had gone and met him during his lifetime
and blah blah blah, and I wish I
had this, I wish I had that. You
still can.
How can you meet them? If you wanna
if you wanna meet Morabet,
he has a It's literally the first book
of Arabic grammar that you read. No no
prerequisites required. Come read it.
If you've already read it, he has a
commentary on the alfiatabl
Malik. Come read it.
His great grandfather, Fafu, his Sheikh Mostar bin
Buna,
He wrote
a. It's like, every third line of the
Alfiya, he adds his own line as a
commentary.
Right? Come read it. I can't teach you.
This is a bit beyond me, but, you
know, go go to the and read it.
It's interesting. Fa'fou actually was the great alama
of his age, and Mustar al Debuna was,
like, from the the, Tajikhan, like, from the
from a a tribe that was not known
for their knowledge.
And so, Fakhu, when he came from a
different tribe to go learn, and already the
students have crowded him out,
there's no way for him to get Darce.
So he was a troublemaker. He was a
joker.
Murabit wasn't like this at all. Murabit was,
like, the most, like like, angelic soul you
could think of, but their their tribe has
a lot of jokery type people.
So Fafo was a total joker. He what
did he do? He knew Muhtarul Buna was
was was afraid of dogs.
So they're Bedouins. They they, you know, they
use dogs for herding animals. Right?
So he brought brought the dogs in into
the tent and
the the shaker is, like, screaming, like, get
them out of here. What are they doing
here? And this and that. He says, you
swear you'll teach me thirsty guys? Whatever you
ask. Just get the dogs out of
here. Yeah. There's actually a lot of yeah.
Even Murabit's father, Salik, you know, this is
the the beauty of the the ilm that
that it's so beautiful, Masha'a. It's makru that
speak after salat al fajr until the sun
rises except for in zikr.
So Murabit, when he was a young man,
he used it's not like he was always,
like, world famous superstar. Right? So he would
have to go and he had to go
and, take the sheep out for to grace
after fajr. So he'd say zikr while while,
while herding the sheep.
And so he used to the sheep, they
are like they're commands, you know, for the
sheep that they can go out, you have
to come back in danger, all these things.
They have weird noises. There's like a whole
language you speak with the herd. Right? It's
difficult for people to understand here. Some of
the noises I cannot make, the Bedouins make
fun of me when I try to make
it, like, the the noise called tingbat.
I I can't do it. It's it's really
difficult but they they they make these noises.
The sheep know it's time to come back
in. Right? So if one of the sheep
would stray at that time, because Makruta speak,
if one of the sheep would would would
stray at that time, he wouldn't even use
the the shepherd language. He would say and
the sheep would come back. And so his
father Salek, he one time he heard he
saw this happening and all the other more
elders
were there. Well, Marabatha is a young man.
He yelled out he started laughing. He yelled
out. He says he says, do the thing,
God. Call them in their language. Otherwise, if
you say whoever says subhanahu wa, the wolf
eats his sheep.
There there were people there were people, like,
literally the the knowledge was alive with them
and it wasn't boring. You know what I
mean? You can still you can
still see you can still meet that knowledge.
Don't be like don't be like people from
a defunct civilization.
You all know, you all been to school
and work, when someone dies at work, what
happens?
The yesterday, everyone was talking crap about him,
like, Bill, he's so annoying, always talks about
his dog. I don't want I don't care
about your stupid dog, Bill.
Right? And then then day after you know,
today he dies, then day after tomorrow, they're
all at the memorial and, like, we miss
Bill so much. He was the life of
our office and we're gonna the thing we're
gonna miss most is the touching stories he
told about his dog. This is all nifak.
This is this is all hypocrisy.
Neither you saying that makes it true nor
is it gonna benefit you nor is it
gonna benefit Bill.
What's our tradition?
Murabit passed away. People people nobody dies. Good
people don't die. Bad people don't die either.
For good people, everlasting life is a blessing.
For bad people, it's a curse.
Make dua for the people, if you wanna
meet them,
is alive, it never dies.
Meet them.
I've seen so many people, they read the
book, they they they keep the knowledge of
that shayef by day. At night, they see
those people in their dreams.
Meet them through their knowledge, their work, you
know, the effort. Morabit why he moved to
the desert and why does he teach all
these books and things. Why? This is something
he learned from his elders as well.
This is
a a a life's work that they wanted
to keep going. Keep that life's work going.
Don't just be the person Ocalasa shared the
Facebook post and, you know, put the little,
like, crying emoji and, like, I wish I
had had a chance to meet him. Oh,
well.
Don't wanna study it from me read it
from somebody else.
There are students, masha'Allah, everywhere. Go read it
from but don't be don't be one of
those people, like, you know, that that to
you the the passing of the masha'ikh or
or whatever is like, you know, Bill and
his dog stories. It's not like that. It's
different. It's very different.
If you want to embrace that legacy, you
don't have to give a eulogy. We don't
give eulogies. In Islam, really, eulogies it's a
genre of literature, but it's not actually something
that's recommended by by the deen. Right? That
you should say how wonderful a person is.
If they were wonderful, that's even you you
saying it doesn't change it one bit.
What will benefit them? You pray for them.
You ask allata to forgive them. And if
there are people who did good, you continue
their
good work.
You continue all of this is a continuation
of the work of the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. His own Bayatamu Baraka,
his own prophethood, is a continuation of the
work of all of the prophets alayhi musaatoasalaam.
Every one of the prophets alayhi musalahu alaihi
wa sallam, they knew that one day the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam will come and
their ummah his ummah when it comes, all
his deen will have the upper hand whenever
whenever they go. Wherever they go, the deen
will have the upper hand. No one will
be able to
quash out the the this knowledge from the
world. There are some and, yeah, alaymusalam, their
people killed them treacherously.
Adafamud, all of those, and, yeah, they're gone.
There's some of the prophets alayhi wasalam, their
message has been completely wasted by their the
the the subsequent generations of their followers. But
they knew at least if our our if
our attempt doesn't make it, these people, a
lot of, will will keep this work alive
with them until the day of judgment. This
is a great honor and blessing for us
that we have the that the option that
we can take this this this, work seriously.
We can make it live with us. This
is one of the things our elders, Hazar
Sheikh Zakaria,
shaykhul Hadith,
you know, you wanna know about I'm teach
I I I'm my nafs is all pumped
up from teaching
Bahawiyah, like,
16 times in 2 years. Right?
It's like a pamphlet. You could probably fit
the whole text on one page front and
back. Right? You wanna know fakhar. You wanna
know someone who has the right to brag.
Hazos Sheikh Zakaria
he taught the Sahib Bukhari
from cover to cover 40 40 times.
He knows it by the back like the
back of his hand.
Sheikh Yunus, who he put on the messnad
after he died, same thing, over 40 years
taught Bukhari Sharif cover to cover, knows it
like the back of his hand from the
front to back. Nowadays, when people say, bring
me the proof from Bukhari. You never even
heard of hadith before. Very few people have
actually heard of hadith before.
Can you read the chain of narration? A
hadith is a text with a chain of
narration. People I tell people, I remember someone
says give me the proof from hadith. I
say, here's the book of hadith. I open
it up in front of them, the one
that has no Arab on it, it has
no tashkil. I said, if you can read
the chain of forget about the text. Of
that. If you can read the chain of
narration properly, I'll give you jazad for the
whole Sahib al Fari. They all go, brother
Yani, you know, what you what you are
trying to prove? I said, I'm trying to
prove that you don't know what you're talking
about.
No. This is I I don't need no.
Yeah. You need to. Why don't you read
it right now?
And they just don't themselves close the book
and put it away. When they see it,
it, like, freaks them out. Right? Imagine 40
years cover to cover teaching the book. Sheikh
Sheikh Yunus after,
Hazrat Sheikh Zakaria, he just passed away, like,
last Ramadan or right before.
40 years, where are you gonna find somebody
like that?
This this knowledge is I mean, it's there.
It's alive. You have to show up though.
Right? People do this. This is the culture
that we have. Everybody's like, shit, can we
go out for coffee? What did Allah create
you to pay for my coffee?
Did Allah create you to pay for my
burger and pizza?
Is that the only thing you're gonna get
out of life?
If you wanna sit with me, sit and
darsh with me. That's my best time that
you can sit with me.
Shaykh Tameem, if you wanna sit with him,
the best time is to sit sit and
dance with him. Mawana Bilal is not your
best friend. You didn't go to high school
with him. You didn't go to middle school
with him.
He's not there to shoot the breeze with
you. If that's all you're getting, it's like
somebody, like, you know, that opened a Snickers
wrapper, threw the Snicker bar away and ate
the wrapper. This is type of stupidity.
Good. There's a function for someone like that.
It's called the garbage can. At least a
Snicker wrapper is not gonna be,
you know, on the floor littering whatever, you
know. Is that all you is that Allah
created some people, that's what their their their
howl is gonna be in this world.
That's what their portion of this world is.
Is that what your portion is going to
be?
The sukhba of the masha'ikh really even literally
you wanna meet Morabid? Morabid didn't use to
shoot the breeze with people. I'll tell you,
I saw him.
He used to sit face to qibla and
read Quran. That's all he did.
If someone said, salamu alaykum because the sacred
law obliges him, he would say, walaikum, salam
and
give the return the greeting.
Occasionally, I would hear him recite some of
the verses of the of the Qasidah burda
and praise of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
He would either teach Darce,
go pray the salat or he would just
read Quran and even that face in the
tabla.
If it was one of us, you don't
know what I'm doing when I'm at home
behind closed doors.
You don't know. You have no idea.
Even my wife and kids have no idea
what what what what am I doing when
I'm not with them. Murabit literally lived in
a tent. It's like semi exposed half open
tent.
We saw.
You pass by by day, by night. You
know this person has god knows what's inside
of his heart. Only Allah knows what's inside
of his heart. From the outside, he has
no
there are literally decades of people who could
bear witness that he that we never saw
him commit a sin before.
How are you going to how are you
going what are you gonna do? Either you're
just gonna sit there
or you're going to,
massage his feet
or you what are you what are you
gonna do? What's who are the people who
took benefit from him? Only the people who
read darsh from them from him will take
benefit.
People like that, even when they're gone, the
books are still there.
You wanna meet Murabit? Go read his books.
You wanna meet Ghazali? Go read his books.
You wanna meet Abu Hanifa? Go study his
fiqh Malik, go study his
Behar Khalid, Imam al Hanifa
Imam al Hanifa, like,
should owe you on the day of judgment.
You're the one who held out held out
against the Maliki madam and because
of which
Right? You wanna meet Imam al Hanifa, go
go study his fiqh.
You wanna meet the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam?
Go read his hadith with somebody who narrates
it with an unbroken chain.
You wanna keep the suhbah of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. You want the of Allah ta'ala.
The one who said, fathkuruni
al kirkum. Remember me, I'll remember you.
Sit in the recitation of his of his
sacred book.
Read the book of Allah,
your tongue, your voice, everything, but who who
are you with in that moment?
You think that I'm making that up? Because
people say, you know, this is I give,
like, talks for a living, so I maybe,
like, I'm, like, exaggerating or whatever. Rasoolullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, what did he say? He
said he he said that that Allah ta'ala
said that I'm
the I'm the companion of the one who
remembers me, and I'm with him as long
as his two lips move with my remembrance.
That's what this is. Right? I mean, the
information is important as well. The books are
important as well. That's why we care about
these books. This is why this is a
book it's different than like a book about,
like, French cooking.
It's different than a book about, like, you
know,
a book about mathematics or about physics. Even
though those things are important as well, I
read them and benefited from them also. I'll
say any benefit that's to be had from
those books is is only through this understanding
that the person who reads reads those things
and reads about how genetics works and how
zoology, biology, chemistry, how the universe works and
they see the creator through it. That's the
only thing that there's benefit in. Except
if it wasn't for that, there there are
people who read those books and they don't
see Allah ta'ala through them. They're blind to
it. They get all the information, they get
none of the knowledge. What do they do?
Create weapons,
missiles,
nuclear bombs,
drones,
killing villagers in god knows places all over
the world.
Right? Genetically modifying crops so that that same
crop, it was a gift from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. How the * are you going
to copyright a genome?
The one who copyrighted it is the only
one who has the right to copyright it
is the one who created it in the
first place,
But no. The thing that he gave as
a gift for all of mankind, you're gonna
pretend I own it. He doesn't even exist.
I'm the one who owns it.
And I'm gonna twist it
and I'm gonna make the beautiful thing ugly
so it only gives it only gives,
fruit 1 1 year and then you have
to come back to me and buy more.
Those are people they have the information. They
don't have the knowledge. All of these things
are gonna be completely useless without without this
knowledge that we're talking about. Not only useless,
useless things are wonderful because there's no it
doesn't do anything. It's innocuous.
Right? These things are gonna become poison. They're
harmed. They're killing. They're we're really literally, they're
killing us. Our own people are doing it.
They're learning that knowledge and then they work
in the employ of of of these corporations.
They work in the employ of these governments,
of these militaries. I know the same fighter
jets and things like that that are bombing
civilians all over the world, drone technology, all
of that stuff. Who is it? It's our
Arab and Pakistani Indian engineers that made them.
Our
own
Our own masajid, our own masajid, the masjid,
pray behind you, there are people who made
these missiles, made all of these different things.
This is why Allah gave you so
that you can
learn how to be the architect of the
destruction of mankind like the angel said
that You Allah, you're gonna create a creation
that's going to,
that's going to cause mischief in the earth
and spill blood.
The angels, they said, we're already here.
We already we already glorify your your praise
and we hold you as holy as sacred.
We don't do this type of nonsense.
What are you gonna get out of them?
So they say, I know something you don't
know, that there will be some amongst them
that they're not gonna do that. They're not
gonna be like that. They're gonna be the
one that they still have to eat like
the other animals eat. They still have, pain
like other animals have pain. They have needs
like other animal have needs
but they will be the ones when they
speak, they speak the speech of the angels.
When they feel in their hearts, they'll feel
the feelings of the angels.
When they act, they'll actions will be the
actions of the angels. That's what this ilm
is about.
That's what this ilm does. It confers. You
know, it's not just another book being printed
that, you know, Sheikh Tamim and Hajjabi are
gonna get royalties on and there's nothing nothing
of the sort whatsoever.
The royalties come with the Malekul Mulk, the
king of kings is the one who's the
only royalty that we that that that we
care about with this.
So that's
I apologize. We wanted an interactive session. No
one raised their hands, turned into a. Please
forgive me. But sometimes you have to share
with one another, you know, the feelings that
we have in our hearts so that people
understand. Otherwise, people, they they don't get it.
You know?
How should we prioritize the topics we read
about in items of hadith, tafsir, aqidah, etcetera?
Where should we start?
To quote,
the Muqaddama of Al Ahlari, which is the
first book that that that's taught in Maliki.
I wish someone would come and read it.
The first the first obligation on a person
of moral responsibility is to correct their faith.
So you first have to rectify your your
belief in Allah
that you don't believe Allah
is is 3. You don't believe Allah is,
you know, part of the earth. You don't
believe that
Allah
is, you know,
you know, a corporeal being. Rather, you understand
his transcendence, who he is, what his basic
attributes are, who is the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasalam. You have to understand something about about
the world around you because that's like the
lens. You know, people are wearing glasses. If
the lens is tinted pink, everything's gonna look
pink. You have to make sure your lens
is clear first.
After that, the next obligation on every person
is,
is what as a morally responsible person, what
Allah expects from you.
And so that starts with, learning how to
worship Allah ta'ala,
and,
it extends to then knowing what things that
he he he commands you to and what
thing he thinks he forbids you to and
what things will will
will make your heart rectify your heart
and what things will destroy your heart.
Envy, lying,
greed,
looking at the haram, listening to the haram,
eating the haram, drinking the haram.
Right? There I mean, there's the whole there's
a whole deen so I can't explain it
but the idea is that these are these
things are individual obligations on every person. A
person has to learn those. Then after that,
depending on who you are, what your interests
are, and what your dispositions are, you you
can either continue or not continue learning and
then you can choose depending on what your
disposition is, what benefit you the most, through
the consultation with the ulama.
But, that's that's the the answer to that
question.
I will take your,
I'll take leave, inshallah. I have to go
to the airport,
to go to Turkey,
as well.
Is
the the the the the seat, the Astana,
Aliyah, and Khanka of Mujahid Rumi in Istanbul
is of historicah.
That was the place where at one time
the the the salatine and Khalafah used to
be invested with the khilafa.
There was a 4 hour vicar ceremony of,
of the the the the the
the sheikh who would come from Konya Sharif
to Istanbul
when a new sultan was,
give invested with the Khalifa that he would
have put on his shoulders
the the the mantle of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
and he would be girded with the sword
of their forefather, Uthman Ghazi.
Allah Ta'ala, have mercy on him.
And they used to do it under the
vicar of Allah Ta'ala. And for that reason,
that hamka, actually, the headpiece on top of
the dome is not a a a moon,
crescent moon, which is an emblem of the
Ottoman Turks, but, the sun because the Shams
of the Khilafa used to rise from this
place.
And, the rays you see, it's like a
sun with the rays,
coming out from there.
And, people used to have to wash dishes
for 4 years just to be, just to
be top zikr,
in that place, and they used to do
it.
And
because of the facade of the zaman,
because of the complete spoiling of the age
that we're in,
somebody like me also gets to go and
not only someone not worthy of even learning
in that place gets to go and teach
in that place. And so,
something that this is from the father of
Allah. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten the time
of day from the other time. So please
make du'a Allah accept inshallah.
And, inshallah, I wanted to, again, thank Sheikh
Tamim and thank all the volunteers both from
Chicago and those who flew on their own
time and money from other places to attend
and to serve and to put this up.
I was told by a number of people
that heard about this program
that this is a very necessary program. We
have to do it again and again and
again in a number of places. Don't be
disappointed by the lack of numbers.
Visionary projects have very few buyers at first,
but it's something that we need to organize,
promote, do again and again and again. Not
just the same, the same thing has to
happen again and again, but also the ideas
that you get from it. They have to
be implemented in different places.
So be people who the people who, you
know, buy the stock at the entry level,
they're the ones who make the most money,
later on. See the vision and and and
and do this again and again. Talk to
Tamir if you wanna have a program in
your Masjid like this.
You know, talk to them. Organize these things,
and and and and push them. Not because
of money, not to get Facebook followers, Twitter
likes, none of that stuff. Just
that in this moment, look inside your heart
and see,
is this something that my Lord will look
inside of my heart right now, that my
will
look inside of my heart and be pleased
with me?
With that with that niyat, inshaAllah, see, you
know, what you can do in order to
propel this forward. If nothing else than just
saying that I'm I'm I was thinking about
going for this and that, but I'm gonna
sit in this program until it ends even
if it's just that much, you know. See
what you can do to make the to
make the the the the the holy and
sacred heart of Allah pleased with you. Allah
accept from everybody inshallah and make it accepted
in Mubarak gathering.