Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hadith Readings in the Ummah Khatm Bukhari Ashrafiyyah Union City CA 09052021
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This
is a sub of it's a reason for
coming down
send our torment down on them as long
as you're with them.
And we will not we will not send
our torment down on them as long as
they were asking Allah for forgiveness.
From the
greatest
From the greatest of those blessings was his
life, was his biathat wa barakah,
was his deeds that he did while he
was with us.
But even after he passes, he's still the
nabi, this ummah, and he's still the seal
of the prophets.
And he left amongst us so many things.
Portion of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He left with us his nisbah.
What is his nisbah?
It's an attachment that a person has, a
spiritual attachment that a person has to him.
The more you hear his name, the more
you say, salallahu alaihi wa sallam after his
name. The nisba increases the more you learn
about him, the more you learn about Hasira,
the more you hear the hadith of the
prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam again and again.
You're disbowed with the prophet salAllahu alayhi wa
sallam increases. And what's the point of this
disbursed, the point of this connection with this
person.
If you have a disbowed with the police
department, you might get out of a speeding
ticket.
If you have misspoke with some prime prime
minister or president or governor, maybe you can
get some sort
of sweetheart contract from the state.
Of course, no one would ever do that
today.
If you have missed the with
the
perfumer,
you might smell something nice when you visit
him even if he's cheap.
Sparks with his forge will burn your clothes
and leave you with a bad smell.
Both in this world, it will be a
shield against Allah's
punishment in the hereafter.
It will be a reason for salvation.
This has been the aid of all of
the Muslims from the,
beginning of time. Not just from Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, rather from our father Sayna
Adam alaihi salam.
Would believe in him and they would aid
him and assist him. They would be his,
his his his
helpers, and they would be the ones that
would,
fight under his banner, and they would be
the ones who would obey his commandment, every
commandment, and they would be the one who
desist it from his every prohibition.
And one of the greatest institutions of
Nubuwa that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preserved in
this
We don't say that the hadith is the
entire sunnah. The sunnah is a very
general term.
In many ways, it encompass encompasses the entire
deen.
What a hadith is is a report.
It is a
report of a word or a deed or
state or an action
of the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam,
which is transmitted through a chain of narration.
This chain of narration that we have, nobody
has anything remotely like it. If anybody does,
it's only because they copied the Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
If you guys write
an essay or not an essay, but a
report or some sort of academic paper, if
you don't cite your sources,
it's rejected. People will not read it. It
will be worse than if you never read
it at all. You have to cite your
sources.
And this is
one of the values that, again, the world
learned from from the Muslims. Muslims learned from
the prophets of Allah, radiya sallam.
A person is on the deen of the
people that he that that he is friends
that the people whom he loves. So let
him look at who he mixes with and
who he keeps his company
with.
The companions of
themselves through the training of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
They were trained to ask not just what
the information is that they're hearing, but where
did it come from? What is the value
of that source?
And through this system,
from the time of the aslaf, from the
time of the aslaf, from the time of
the companions of the ilaha illa, when you
see that it's already taken shape, That if
one companion heard or said something that the
prophet
said this or he said that, the other
companions would ask him, did you hear it
directly or did you hear it from somebody
else?
And they would be very honest about that.
And through the system,
the history of which is
important, we should learn it,
and it's not the time or the place
to,
revisit that topic right now because of the,
because of time constraint.
But through that system, mashallah,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has preserved
those details about the Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam's life that we don't even
know about people
who are our own relatives, some sometimes our
own closest relatives, the people who are closest
to us.
And
the academic benefit of knowing what the Rasulullah
did and said and what his different states
were is obvious. You can argue with people
if you want to over legal matters or
recreatal matters.
Is this hadith sahih? Is it non sahih?
Is this something the prophet
said when he said that? Did he mean
this or did he mean that? It's a
whole world. It's a whole universe that, masha'Allah,
the students of knowledge who have studied and
are still studying.
But in context of this idea of nisbah,
of the nisbab, the prophet
being our salvation from punishment and torment in
this world in the hereafter and the reason
for Allah's love for us.
Say, oh Muhammad Ali Assalam to the people
if you love Allah
and follow me.
So that I may love you.
The following, m salallahu alaihi wa sallam, so
that I may love you and forgive you
your sins and Allah is all forgiving and
all merciful.
That the following of the rasulullah
alaihi wasallam
is itself not the end
of the study.
That you could say, okay, did I say
amen out loud or did I say quietly
or did I raise my hands once or
you know several times in the salat or
whatever. Who's closer to the sunnah? That's all
important. Well, get me wrong. It's not important.
But it's itself a means. It's not the
end. What's the end? The end is that
you receive the love of Allah ta'ala and
you receive the forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
This was something that was there inside the
hearts of every generation of Muslims from that
time until this time.
I myself came with the need to attend
this khatam. Why? Because
my hope is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will give me shifa from.
Not that I will hurt myself or harm
myself, but Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will give
me shifa from me. All of us should
have this niya because some people's sicknesses are
inward and some people's sicknesses are outward
And some people have all of the above
like myself.
That you come with the Niyyah receiving Shifa.
Don't you know Hafiz Hafiz,
Iben Hajjal al Haytami, one of his students.
Iben Adnan, he wrote a beautiful commentary on
it's called
anyone who has a
whether you're studying it or whether you're teaching
it or some of the imams and the
signs that are here. It's a good thing
to make mubala as an addua and these
light. InshaAllah, it's a very beautiful book. Ibn
Adnan, he
it's mentioned in his biographies that once
he had a student
and he asked him,
will you attend because he used to live
in Maqam Karaman.
He's from Makkum Muhaddithi. He's a contemporary
of Mullah Al Qadhi,
from from the Afghan brothers from Heratah.
And Mulla'il al Bukhari is also great from
Hadith of that age. Even Alan, he had
a khatam of Bukhari, a reading of Bukhari
that that was happening in his,
in in the Haram Sharif. And so he
asked his student, will you attend the khatam
tomorrow?
And the student says, you know I would
love to
but my heart yearns to visit the Rasul
So I've already made intention to go to
Madina,
to go to Madina Munawba. Allah take all
of us there.
And so the next day the khatam happens.
So bin Allah sees a student presence. He
says, what happened? I thought you were gonna
go visit the
He said, 'I had my intention to go
visit the Prophet
But
last night when I was sleeping, I saw
a dream in which I'm on the road
to Madinah Munawwara Rasuulullah
is passing me going to Makkum Karaman.
And I said, yeah, Rasulullah, where are you
going? I'm going to visit you. Where are
you going?
He says, I'm going to
the Haram to go and witness him in
Allah's khatab.
Of course, Madina is Madina. It has its
its honor and shalafa Allah
protected and raised it in in
honor and shalafa protected from shalafa every evil
person's
plan.
But the way to visit the Rasul salallahu
alaihi
wa sallam,
every way you have a connection with him,
there's barakah in it. But there are certain
connections that a person may have with the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam that transcend
physical proximity.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
There are ways that transcend physical proximity. The
physical proximity of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is so Mubarak.
Everybody's born witness to it. But there are
some things that transcend that even if you're
on a different planet, even if you're in
a different galaxy, you can be closer to
the Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that maybe a person
who's heedlessly walking through the streets of Madinah
Munawwara.
That's what this lisba is. That generation after
generation of people in an unbroken chain.
Reading this book,
hearing this book,
So many people hear the hadith of the
prophet and they don't understand what it is
they're reading. Even from the scholars,
so many of them, they may not understand
1 or 2 hadith and think they understand
it. They may not understand many of them.
But still
still
that person Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam makes,
makes. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make shine
bright the the face of the person
who heard something of my speech
and
they remembered it and they kept it in
their memory and then they told somebody else
about it.
And he said something along the lines, maybe
a person hears it and they don't understand
what they're hearing.
But maybe they
hear it and they tell it to somebody
else and that person will understand and it
will benefit them.
So this hadith also indicates that there's Barak
even for the people who don't
go from one place to the other place
to read hadith that they didn't hear from
here before to hear hadith they didn't hear
before, and hear the hadith that they didn't
hear before.
They used to go to hear the same
hadith that they've already memorized from somebody because
that person has a shorter chain of narration
to the messenger of Allah. They used to
go to hear the hadith of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam that they already memorized,
that they already had the shorter chain of
narration for just to hear it again.
Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam said that your iman is
not proper.
Your iman is not complete complete
in the sense that there's some deficiency in
it. And tell, I'm more beloved him than
his parents and his children, than all of
them people.
So they used to love the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam. They used to love to
hear the hadith of the Prophet
They'd hear to hear the one that they
haven't heard from before,
and they would
love to hear again the ones that they
had heard before,
And they would love to shorten their connection
to the Rasulullah Alaihi Wasallam because who wants
to hear it, you know, 3rd hand if
they can hear it 2nd hand.
This was
something that people used
to seek and they used to have attached
great value to.
I read the paper a paper written by,
one of my,
college,
colleagues.
He wrote a paper about the
Hadith audition records in Damascus
in a certain time period in the, Middle
Ages.
That
Damascus itself after the Crusades, there were a
number of scholarly families from Palestine that came
as refugees and they they
took up residence in in Damascus. The family
of the the family of,
Maqaddisa.
You probably
Magdiseq.
That their families, their families in Muhaddisun.
And so the Mahmud patrons and the the
Ayyubid patrons would build
would build seminaries, they would build libraries, they
would build places for people to
come learn to teach the hadith of the
prophet
hear the hadith of the prophet
So you would be amazed that these
auditions,
whether they happened in Damascus, whether they happened
in Egypt, or other,
metropoli of the
Everybody used to come to these things. This
is the thing like, you know, you have
your kids, what are you gonna do? Have
a it's Labor Day weekend.
Some of you guys got stuck in pops,
brought you with a mustard, but all the
other kids are going where they're going to
6 flags, they're going to Disneyland, and they're
going to Chuck E Cheese, they're going to
God knows what.
Right?
Forget about the kids, most of the adults
are going to Chuck E Cheese.
Or some god awful approval for people who
are over 18 or 21.
Right?
In the old days, what did they used
to do? They would come from the villages,
from the from the from the towns, from
the villages, from outside,
just to hear the hadith of the prophet
We're here for the
It's long and boring.
Your father probably thinks that, okay, if you
hear this like, she have talked for long
enough, you know, maybe we'll all go to
attendance just like be quiet.
Have some
patience. I don't blame the kids. The parents
are thinking the same thing as well.
They used to come to hear the entire
Bukhari from beginning to end.
Many of them were illiterate people. These people
don't know this actual chain of narration of
Qadi. Many of the links in the chain
are actually illiterate people. They're not masha'if.
It's not that the book wasn't transmitted through
masha'if. It's transmitted through as well. But when
you have like 40
narrators, you have to look for the shortest
chain possible. What happened is that they would
have some, we're gonna read something in such
place.
And people would come in the 100,
and they had
a register. They would take the names of
every person which you know, what their identifying
information
had them would happen. Now how do we
know? Out of the children that are here,
maybe somebody will live to, you know, have
a abnormally long age. It'll be a 110
years old.
And then what happens is when you're a
old man and you're coming in crutches,
and your beards become white,
or even the sisters for that matter, when
your hair becomes white and you come, you
know,
as as as a great great grandmother
to the masjid.
Then who is the mukhali going to be
narrated through? It's gonna be narrated through you
because it's either you which is one narrator
or it's gonna be like 3 others in
its place, it makes the chain of narration
unruly and difficult to preserve.
So people used to do that.
Look look in your look in your
in your as sali for Sahib al Khali.
There's a name that's very prominent, Abu Bakr
with Hajjab.
Hajjab was illiterate man.
He was taken, I think, either by his
father or his uncle to to a to
audition
of Sahib al Khali as a child. And
then it just so happened that when he
he lived to be a very long age,
he grew up. And so they would invite
him to come and sit in the of
chain
of narration could be transmitted. It could be
preserved in the easiest way possible.
Look at the barakah of the study, sallallahu
alaihi wa salam. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
Allah preserve his name. Right?
We raised your remembrance.
That with the with the
with the elevation and with the raising of
the memory of the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Anyone who has
a connection to the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
their names were raised as well.
The companions of the Allah on whom the
family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Alaihi
Wasallam.
The ulema
the the the narrators of the books of
hadith,
they're all raised. They used to have sama'a
and they used to have auditions for the
books of hadith.
The women used to have auditions for the
books of hadith. Some of them were held
in separate spaces,
only,
for for the ladies.
Families used to come. It was something that
people built their life around. They built their
identity around. They build their awareness of the
deen around that. It's said that that
he even had to had it who come.
In battle, read the Sahih Bukhari. Why? Because
the Rasul Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he's the
one in his presence.
Warts off calamity from the ummah of the
prophet
Of course, he didn't come to the battlefield
unprepared.
He came actually very prepared. He was a
strategic master,
of of of war.
But with that, that was his imam that
it's through the nizkah of the prophet
will give us victory. Otherwise, the victory the
victory of a a person who doesn't have
this go at the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi wa
Salam, it's just a prelude to a greater
defeat later on.
That this is something real
that Damascus,
it's recorded
Hafiz, that he writes about when the Mongols
siege Damascus.
That people
didn't know what to do. The armies went
into their preparations.
The warriors grabbed their arms, they stood guard.
They went out in the path of Allah.
What did everybody else do? The Quran started
reading Quran.
The Muhadeethun
opened their mukhadi, opened their Muslim, opened their
books of hadith and sit in the courtyard
of the masajid and the people gathered around
and they listen to the hadith of the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ta'ati that
this is the only thing that can save
us.
Now people think, oh, look, you know, this
old bidda and old
superstitions and this and that. And that's why
the Muslims were backwards. No brothers and sisters,
those were the days when the Muslims used
to rule the world.
Those weren't the days that you you All
you can do is retweet somebody,
and write a nasty comment on Facebook
about how much you hate the occupation, whichever
one. Pick one of every dozens of occupations
that are going on. Those are the days
Allah gave them victory. Allah gave them. Darul
Hadith. Is named after, Mamluk
Commander.
Allah
saved them victory. People don't think about these
things. They went out of the path of
Allah. Allah gave them victory. You know the
masjid of the prophet
There's a
new part which is mashallah. It's beautiful because
of its nisbah to the rasulullah alaihi wa
sallam. But the the the beauty in the
old part,
the green dome,
and the minarets and whatnot. That old part
was built by who? It wasn't built by
the current government.
It was built by Rub Nadine Beggars.
And they thought we're building the masjid of
the Rasulullah
alaihi wasalam.
So we have to use we have to
use the no. Don't do that, please. Thank
you.
We have to use the purest of halal
money. You cannot use any money that has
any change or any shul hide it.
So do you know what what wealth that
Masjid was built out of that all of
us go and visit?
Baker's was the one
was the one who reconquered Jerusalem. Allah
reward him on behalf of the humble, the
prophet
He liberated Jerusalem, but the Crusaders were still
entrenched in the sacred lands.
Baybars was the one who went fortress to
fortress,
and he finished the job.
And the money
of
Hanima,
the wealth that they seized from those fortresses
when they,
when they evicted the
Rasulullah gave them victory. We don't have people
like that in the
today.
They're there, but they're hidden. Allah hides them.
The
the help is always there with the Ummah.
Why? Because Rasoolullah
is there with the Ummah.
But in some ages, it's a hikmah of
Allah Ta'ala because the disposition of people, it's
not ready to come out.
It will be abused and degraded.
But when the people are worthy of it,
they work on themselves. They bring themselves to
a point that their humility in front of
Allah makes them worthy of it. Allah will
bring it up again.
So don't think that these guys are reading
Sahih Bukhari when they should have been doing
target practice or, you know, swinging kettlebell or,
you know, practicing Kendo or jujitsu or something
like that. No. Those guys knew all of
those things. They knew them better than we
do.
You got a brother who, you know, wins
1 or 2 matches,
jujitsu matches that they start,
a whole,
you know, website
and blog on Facebook chronically how awesome they
are. Those people are those who actually,
played to the death and they won every
time.
Those were the ones that when it was
time, they used to say
to the ulama, you go you bring the
books of Hadith and the prophet you start
reading it. And they had a yaqeen that
this is what Allah comes from.
Now what does that mean that for so
many years we never we never did this?
We've been here for so long, for so
many years we never did this. What does
it mean that masha'Allah today is the day?
Everybody everybody shaykh in it.
Anybody who paid a red cent for this
masjid to be purchased and to be refitted
to be a masjid.
Anyone who made du'a for its success.
Anyone who attended with the yabeen,
that this is a house of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. Who makes it special is the
niya and the practice of the ilmah of
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam being brought
to life here.
Whoever attended with the with the with the
Ahmadah inside of their heart,
that this chain of narration
k. Fine. You didn't hear the entire Bukhadi.
Some of you have, but you know, this
particular reading, I don't think men a lot
of us have heard the entire thing. At
least you'll hear the last hadith of the
book.
He taught the Hadi for so many years.
He did,
in in Karachi. Imagine that an American was
here but there was no one to listen
so he went to Pakistan. I think I
had to listen to hadith from Namasha for
the first time
this year.
We get to hear it from from from
from him. Why? Because there's somebody here to
listen finally.
What does what does that mean? You know,
what does what does that mean? It's a
great lesson from Allah Ta'ala. In order to
benefit from it, we also have to have
some
awareness of what it means
rather than being impervious to any sort of
spiritual benefit. That
event comes and goes and the heart is
completely impervious to it, like the heart of
Abu Dhabi Abuja was to the coming of
the Rasool Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
In this hadith of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, how did it how did it
reach us? How did it reach Shaykh Tameeb?
How did it reach the honorable Ulama who
are here in attendance?
Mawana, Hamza and Hamud and Salih and the
other mashaikh, mashallah. Some I'm missing, some I
may not know.
It doesn't matter whether I name them or
not. Allah Allah knows who's who.
That those same,
Muhadithun
Haramih Sharif
from amongst their students with our great grandchildren,
Shaulayullah, Abu
Ta'ala.
And before him, the hadith of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when it was read in
the Indian subcontinent,
they used to not read the Sihasith that
they read a book called,
the Mishkaq al Maslavi, which is strictly speaking
not a book of hadith because there's no
chains of narrations. It's just a real solid
and just the the text of the hadith
with the name of the first narrator and
the rest of the chain of narrator is
omitted. The chain chain of narration is omitted.
So you learn the teachings of the hadith
but the actual
mitzvah part of it, you don't get to
study it in in-depth in detail.
Before the before the
there was a book,
called,
which was compiled by,
Radiuddin
Sawani,
one of the significant
Muhaddi Thun of his age, who interestingly enough
actually was lived most of his life in
Lahore,
in in in Pakistan because what's now Pakistan?
Said Pakistan didn't exist in those days.
But,
he he lived most of his life in
Lahore but far before they had like any
significant Muslim population because he was a an
emissary on behalf of the Khalifa,
to those lands.
So they had some
awareness of the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam in the indium subcontinent, and
there's some hadithi, but the knowledge wasn't
super widespread.
Then Shab'iullah is
set to study by his father Shab'i Rahim.
And he reads the,
and
he reads the books of hadith, and then
when he brings it back to the Indian
subcontinent,
then people
will study whatever they study, wherever they study
it. The entire course,
of study,
which is some sort of proto of Darshtizami,
that a person goes through the books of
Nahu and Safra and Balaha, a person goes
through the books of Aafidah and Al Munqalam,
a person goes through the books of
different branches of Musul, Hadith and things like
that. And then afterward, they would spend a
year just hearing the Hadith of the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And that first
dura hadith when which the, 6 books were
read, it wasn't with explanation or bad.
It was mostly just to read the books
from beginning to end. So People are familiar
with what the contents are.
Allah forgive me. One of the things I
always used to think when thinking about this
process is that this is going to very
tedious and boring. Surprise, surprise, it's actually not.
Even when you read sardan, when you just
sit and read, you just listen from the
beginning to the end. In some ways, it's
actually more interesting than stopping to hear people
speak. Why?
For reasons I would say are somewhat similar,
Allah forgive me for using this example,
but it's to demonstrate how the mind works.
Has anyone ever
read a book and then saw the movie
and was disappointed by the movie?
Of course, nobody here because movies are harambrani.
So bust them bust them.
So if you police is gonna
gonna straighten you out after after after salah.
So you take my word for it. Why?
Because
something that you're shown, your mind always
conceives of something in a more perfect way
because it's not constrained.
And in truth,
these things have to be understood not just
from the mind but from the heart because
they have to do it spiritual things. Spiritual
things
don't translate easily into the world of physical
forms.
And so just like a person might watch
a video of something with their eyes, this
is like watching a video of something but
with your heart. This is one of the
things. Masha'Allah, you remember we went on Umrah
together,
and Mohammed Abu said something very, beautiful,
and I repeat it whenever we go on
any tour group somewhere. So stop and take
a picture with your heart.
Instead of being like, you know, just constantly
with your phone everywhere and selfie stick and
videoing yourself and this and that. Stop taking
a picture with your heart first. You may
forget what the thing looks like with your
eyes, but remember it with your heart. And
then after if you have time, you can
take a picture with your phone as well
if it's appropriate. That's fine.
But this is what it is that when
you sit and hear the hadith of
prophet like that, it does engage with your
heart. It's something that I myself have
experienced
And that the people who have sadly,
hadith have experienced
that there's some sort of connection that happens.
There's something special that happens.
Some of them, you know, I haven't read
the long books of hadith just in like
1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or
5 6 set settings.
But like the shorter books like the
Shamal of Mount Tirmidhi,
Sad and Khatav of Tirmidhi,
straight through
Maybe 4 or 5 times through the time
that I I I reread it in Madrasa.
Was not a stranger.
That was one of the first events that
we did in the new Masjid, in Cleveland
that he,
he was given the responsibility
of of
leading.
That it's it's beautiful. It's as if
after a little bit, the conscious
process of reading,
the place that you're in, the time that
you're in, all of those things shut shut
down or they kind
of melt into the background.
And what comes to the foreground is your
connection with the hadith of the Prophet
So when you read about your his clothing,
you see it.
His Izar, his,
turban,
The seal of,
Khatman Nuhuba that was between his Mubarak shoulder
blades, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The way he used to eat,
the way he used
to speak to people, the way he used
to speak to his family,
his illness,
his passing salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
As if you're witnessing it yourself,
it just happened right now.
There's a nisbit, there's a spiritual connection with
the Rasulullah radiatesalaam.
And so when Shawwal Muhamma brought this,
Dora Hadith to the Indian subcontinent,
And the students started to engage with it.
It became very popular that it melded and
merged with the standard
corpus of study,
the way that it is.
Now
that
it's actually considered part of the course, you
can read it in a different in a
different madrasa.
One of our masha'if,
one of the our masha'if, Milana,
Anwar Shah Kashmiri Rahimullah Ta'ala, was a, you
know, he was a genius. They say he's
the. Insha'Allah. He's not the insha'Allah.
But he had a photographic memory that he
could look at a page and just remember
what was on it, you know, for the
next 40 years or for the rest of
his life.
He memorized all of the books that were
in the library in Deobanda.
He through his encyclopedic learning
started to add commentary
to the reading of the books of Hadith.
Whereas before they were at sardan from beginning
to end with brief pauses for certain discussions
were by and large just to read.
And it became popular.
So then after him while saying, Sayyidina Mahdi
we mentioned yesterday in last night's band
that he
that he it was a demand of the
students that he
who then started teaching after
Azrut Kashmeiri that he also give explanations, so
he used to make Mubala from the Irshad
al Sahih, Pastalani's
commentary. It's a important commentary because by the
commentary you can tell that
he had access
to high quality manuscript
of Unini.
One of the probably the most well renowned
manuscript transmission of the book.
And my own Shaykh who studied from him,
Rahimullah
Ta'ala, Mawana Abdul Halib Chishti.
Although he studied when he was a young
man and I only met him when he
he was in his eighties and he had
like thick thick
lensed
glasses.
And when he wanted to say something important,
he would tilt them down to the bottom
of his nose and peer directly
bypassing his glasses and say, you understand?
And we knew that he he was serious
about what he's talking about. But he mentioned
that Azad Madani Raha Mu'laq A'laq
He used
to he used to he used to
read,
in order to prepare for the tars because
he didn't have the photographic memory, although he
was a very nerdy person. But it was
a it was a trust and they didn't
want to
screw it
up. That you'd stay away by chewing pan.
And that some
small, small red dots you might find in
this copy of Irshad al Sahih,
from that from that habit in order to
stay awake
because he himself was
a professional
agitator against the colonizer,
and then later on he held a high
position in politics. So his contract actually had
written in it that he would teach Dhar's
whenever he was he was he was
able to.
So sometimes his Dhar's had no time, basically.
He would sometimes take the night train.
Wake up all the students. They would come
and read, and then he would take the
morning train back to whatever, you know, next
thing that he had to go to. And
so he would do this in order to
stay awake
and and read to the students.
And then just this, he said
that when we saw him, sometimes he would
lecture for up to 2 or 3 hours,
and we never saw him shift around in
this seat out of respect for the Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Even even
had decompressed my spine for a minute. He
said, we never saw him shift left or
right. As long as the book was open
in the headings of the Prophet was being
read, we never saw him shift left or
right.
So
we read this book, Marcell from Sayyid
Mahum Miam who read from his father, Sayyid
Hamid Miam who read from Muhammed Mahdi.
And we have the sanads for this book
also for Muam Al Hari Jishti, who read
from Muam Sinha Abdul Mahdi,
who read it from his shaykh, shaykhohin muam
Khurul Hasar.
Of Deobana,
who along with his student,
Mawlana,
was
jailed in Malta by the British. Malta was
a crusader fortress island in the middle of
the Mediterranean.
The battles between the Ottomans and the Venetians
for the control of Malta are legendary and
we don't have time in order to recount
them.
But he was held there with jail for
the illi prisoners of the empire
for several years.
In the path of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
if you want to talk about activism, those
were real activists.
That the Sheikh was an old man by
that time, so the student would take the
pot of water and he would hold it
like this at night time.
So that when he was stopped to wake
up in order to make tahajjud, the water
would be warm enough that it wouldn't make
him ill.
If you bring an activist like that, go
and march in the streets with them.
And we have them.
Peace, such people exist. They may not be,
blasted stupidities on, on on Facebook. They may
be quoting the book of Allah, the hadith
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, so
they don't get as much
attention from CNN and from, BBC.
But they're there.
And
it was a holistic conception of what the
dean was. Think about all of this. This
is one thing I wanted to tie in
from yesterday's talking about, inshallah, I'll finish it.
Which is that when you have activism, we
talked about speaking haqq. We talked about helping
your fellow man. Man. We talked about feeding
the poor. We talked about making nasa to
bring assistance to the Muslim,
to the person who's been wronged.
But these are all
forms of activism that the that that are
native to the deen.
The highest form is what?
That when your Lord said to the angels
that I put a Khalifa in the earth.
What is that khalifa?
If that khalifa means sovereign government,
then the greatest Khalifa of our time is
Donald Trump.
He was true sovereign. He didn't even care
about the law. At least other people paid
lip service to the law. He openly he
he filed on the law. He there was
nobody who could put up a check.
If that has to do with money, maybe
there are people richer than Donald Trump, but
he's still ahead of everybody in this room.
If there's someone here richer than him and
child, remember, we were always friends.
What is it? What is the filafa of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he gave to
say, nadam alaihis salam?
If this hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam isn't the hilafa, I don't know
what it is.
When Allah told the angels,
They said, are you gonna put in earth
these these creatures and beings according to our
calculations and according to our projections, our data,
and our statistics?
All they're gonna do is run around and
create mischief and kill each other. This is
by and large what people are doing here.
And Allah says,
I know something you
don't
know. If this isn't that thing, I don't
know what it is.
That this Ummaha Allah gave the tawfiq
this Ummaha to preserve the teachings of nubuwwah
when people don't even remember basic facts about
their own fathers.
We live in an age where a lot
of people don't even know who their father
is.
If you think it's a joke, why does
everybody have all these 23 and me and
all of these genetic tests and things like
that? It's a it's a lie. It's not
something to mock people for. It's a it's
a it's a it's a calamity of the
age that we live in.
That even in that age where people don't
know who their fathers are.
In this age, you can still reliably open
Buhari. You can reliably open Muslim, you can
open the Sahasita, you can open the Muslim
De Beham Ahmed, you can open the other
books of the Muhaddi Deen, and you can
know
who the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was. And
in order to know him, you would know
his companions and you could know the companions
of his companions and you could know the
names of all those people who transmitted that
knowledge so that you don't have to have
shakk in any of it. You can know
that this is the deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala pure,
illuminated.
It may not be as bright as the
day it came down on the heart of
the Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam but it's the
promise of Allah ta'ala that it will be
bright enough that a person can find their
way to Jannah until the end of time.
If this isn't that filafa and if this
isn't where that filafa starts, I don't know
what this is because there's somebody else that
beat beat us to it.
But is it if this is the and
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose some of us
in order to receive it, bear witness to
it and chose some of us that we
can put our sons forward and put our
grandchildren forward and
put our relatives forward and our families forward
and our wealth forward and our lives forward
in order to make it a service. And
this is a great honor. This is a
great honor. A day will come.
Today you'll see the honor, masha'Allah, of this
world. The day will come when you see
the real honor of the state.
And this is our iman, and this is
our yadeen. We ask Allah to give us
tafik after
admitting that we're not worthy of it.
We may not be worthy of it, but
Allah to Allah just as he does what
he wills, if Allah to Allah will strike
all of us down in this moment,
it's his right because he's Allah.
He's not to be asked about why he
does what he does even though he has
the right to ask everybody why.
Just like we wouldn't have the right to
ask why didn't you why did you strike
everybody down in this moment. We also don't
have the right to ask why is it
that you chose us to be in this
room in order to participate in this Mubar
Ahmed.
We ask Allah, so we thank Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, ask him to make the fuyuvaam,
to make the outpouring of his grace.
Flow to those who are there here in
the room and those who are not, those
of us who are Muslims right now and
those who are not Muslims yet, to our
neighbors, to our friends, to our enemies,
to those who did good by us, to
those who wronged us, that Allah
give in a way that only he can
give.
And that he makes this faeran,
and that he bring,
our lives and our land and our people.
Under the ages of his rilah, he should
be pleased with us in this world and
the hereafter.
That he give us misbah with his Rasulullah
radiya sallam,