Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Reflections From Madnah Munawwarah.mp4
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I wanted to share some thoughts
and some impressions from
my Mubarak stay in Modena, Manawara
while they're still fresh, while I'm still here,
especially regarding my meeting of
some,
one of which
is my teacher, Ustaji Maulana Hassan,
who is currently the emir of Khatman Abu'at
in
the in in in the country of Pakistan
which is an organization of that
strive to protect integrity of the message
of the prophet
and its delivery.
Obviously,
Allah is the one who protects the integrity
of the message,
But like our
say, if a king,
is vows to defend a city,
he doesn't
just himself take a sword out and stand
at the gates.
Rather, he has his own chosen and select
and elect people,
his own officers and his own soldiers that
he
that he posts at the gates of the
city in order to affect,
his his word of protection.
And like that, Allah
has chosen his
elect and select people,
by which he
carries out his decree,
in in in many cases.
And those people who Allah chooses are very
lucky and fortunate and happy people indeed.
Hassan is a very interesting person.
He is a very abnormal person.
He is, essentially a villager.
To this day, he he has a very
strong
accent,
when he speaks
even Urdu.
He's a very simple person,
almost a deceptively
simple and humble person.
His grandfather was one of Molana Elias,
original
Mewati
companions
and his effort of dawah.
His father was a person who loved so
much
that he literally studied every day of his
life.
In Madrasa, he refused to sit sit and
take exams.
Rather, up until his old age,
he kept attending classes again and again,
and, he refused to graduate.
He wanted to be a person who lived
and died as a student of knowledge,
which maybe in the beginning part of this
was something more common, but now nowadays is
it's very rare.
Moana Hassan himself,
is a person of so many.
It's difficult for me to
count all of them
except for that, he's a person who,
essentially took a derelict
madrasa in
Lahore
and started teaching their,
everything because all the had abandoned it.
And he taught from 10 in the morning
until 12 at night, which is, by the
way, still his,
still his,
his routine.
He'll teach from 10 AM until until midnight
or after midnight.
Stew he sits in one place. Students come
and go.
Like that, he trained several generations
of all of whom are dyed in the
special
color of love
that, that that that he himself
imbibes,
and that he just seems to really radiate
and and emanate.
And so Mawana Hassan comes every year for
Hajj,
or at least during the Hajj season, he
comes every year.
And, he,
you know, for this year and last year,
I I've had the honor of making his
service and his,
in Madinah Munawara
after after the days of Hajj have passed.
And,
how can I say, you know, people have
so much
and so much sincerity?
In living in America, you kind of get
jaded because everyone is so materialistic.
Even our Islam, even our olema, even our
everyone, it's just the
the place has this, like, materialism. It rubs
off on people.
And then I start to think about, you
know, the ways of our teachers, and I
think maybe maybe I was naive. You know?
Maybe I was
I was naive to see, you know, and
just wrote in,
you know, interpolated a a sincerity that maybe
wasn't there that's not humanly possible.
And then we see these
again and you're like, no. It was no.
They really actually were that sincere. Maybe even
more than what we what we had thought
at that time. It wasn't a dream. It
was a it was a reality.
And, you know, just seeing the way the
way you know, how gently and how,
lovingly, you know, he interacts with every person
and everything in this robotic city,
It really accentuates, you know, the remembrance of
that that that that sort of love and
all the things he says. And maybe if
I if I transmit some of them,
you would think,
oh, that's not really such a big deal.
That's very simple. Everybody knows that. You know?
Everyone knows the importance of sincerity. Everybody knows
the importance of love. Everybody knows the importance
of these things. But part of the part
of the baraka is in what he says,
and part of it is in how he
says it, you know, just the the the
the complete sincerity.
So one of the elder olamas
in Madina Munawarra from the subcontinent,
there's a, one Moana,
Abdul Kadir,
who is who is
an elder very advanced in age. He's a
Mujawir. He just
worships in
Madinah Munawara. You'll see him once you once
you know who he is, you'll notice him
all over the place in the masjid of
the prophet
by all hours of the day and night.
His son once told me that when he
was younger, he would stay in the masjid
for days on end.
Now that he's old, he comes home once
every 24 hours,
and, and then he spends the rest of
the time in the Masjid.
And he's the of many many. I know
many people who have read from him. So
Mullen Abdul Kadir came to visit
Ustaji Mullen Hassan at the apartment that he
was staying at. Ustaji Mullen Hassan being himself
a innovative student of knowledge for life, he
asked him, can you
can I read at your hands? Despite being
one of the senior of Pakistan, his books
are actually taught in almost all the Madars
of Punjab at least.
He he asked,
can you can we please read the books
of Iman from the
from you?
And,
was Moana Blokader obliged?
And Moana Blokader, very old man. He is
not like a very big guy. He's of
diminutive stature
and, very soft, very old. His beard is
white. He has a kind of a sloppily
put on turban,
as if to fulfill the sunnah, but without
much care for,
you know, pretense or showing off.
Thick glasses.
Glasses so thick that you see them. You
have mercy on him. You feel bad for
him. 1 of his eyes seems to have
stopped giving him vision
years ago.
And I could only count 3 teeth in
his mouth. His feet are bandaged up
and filled with sores and he has a
horrible cough.
The air quality, you know, is very difficult
on many people over here. But despite that,
he's always seen all hours
praying somewhere and other in the
master the Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So here
he is, him and Ustaji Moana Hassan. Moana
Hassan is reading from him the the Kitabu
Eman of Mishkhatul Masabi.
And, you know, despite being a person who
is, you know,
I mean, of such, you know, the the
the the time has been so rough with,
he he he's such a beautiful person. Like,
physically, when you see him, he's such a
beautiful person.
And you, you know, might you might think,
okay, you're biased or whatever because you have
your love for the and
this and that. But, I mean, I even
saw, like, someone came and brought a little
baby girl, maybe 2 years old,
for dua,
to him.
And, he gave the you know, he took
the baby in his arms and he you
know, she gave him a hug.
And, you know, usually small children are really
sensitive to people who are different,
or or, you know, sensitive and, like, a
little scared.
But this girl, just really like gave him
a hug and loved him so much.
And,
when it was time for her to go
back,
her elder sister
reached out her arms to grab grab her.
She said no, and she hugged him again
and, you know, and I thought, you know
what? There is something here. There's something here
by Allah
There's a kind of a beauty and softness.
You know, Allah forgive me for describing this
way, but, like, you know, like like, you
know, I don't know. There's a lovability that
that that's there. So here's these 2 people,
it's very spiritual people, very lovable people.
And one of them, both of them being
senior oleman, one of them is reading hadith
at the at the feet of the other,
and I'm I'm by Allah's follow along for
the ride.
And so what happens is the kitabul iman
comes up, and so Moan Abu Khadir says
iman is a word that has a number
of meanings.
It can mean the original
or the original acceptance of
Allah being 1 and the prophet
is his messenger, alayhis salatu was salam.
Or it can also mean
those actions of the heart, you know, those
good deeds of the heart. They're not physical
actions.
The physical actions are often referred to in
the athaar as islam,
but the actions of the heart.
And so, he started to talk about
the
the virtues of guidance and of having iman.
And so, he very gingerly and very happily
smiling, he told the story of a Hindu,
a Hindu businessman who owned a,
owned what? He owned a,
a publishing company in India,
during the British the time of the British.
And he narrated this story from Moana Sheikoh
Hadis Moana Zakaria.
That this Hindu owned a
a a press,
and
he had so much
respect for the Quran that he ordered all
of his workers
that you cannot touch anything with regards to
the printing in the Quran or the printing
of books that have to do with deen
because he printed all sorts of books.
So any any Quran that's being printed or
any book of deen that's being printed,
you have to have when
touching any of it. And he was very
strict in in keeping this protocol and respect
for the for the book of Allah and
for books of Deen. So much so that
he had made arrangements that there were stations,
water stations, and wudu stations everywhere,
in his factory so that if someone's wudu
broke that he could immediately make wudu again.
And he was a man who was known
to have showed great reverence for the book
of Allah
So,
you know, Muhammed Abdel Qadr, he was saying
that, you know, there's a hadith of the
prophet
that when Nabi alayhi salatu islams, Shafa'a, when
his intercession is going to be accepted,
then then the the the people of this
Ummah according to their rank, they'll be allowed
to intercede
for those people that they knew that had
iman.
And everyone, you know, the Nabi SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam will intercede, the Sahaba radiAllahu Anhu, the
Ulama, the Oliya, the Salihin,
the average rank and file of the Muslim.
Everyone, you know, the people who themselves got
out through intercession then they will be able
to intercede.
Everyone will intercede
And then after that,
when everyone says no, all the people of
iman are gone from jahannam,
will show his creation, you know, his rama.
That no, there's still some people left. And
there will be some people their iman was
so slight and so,
delicate and so hidden,
that only Allah knows about it and he'll
pull those people out. He'll pull those people
out at that time. And so this story
of this Hindu was in the context of
this hadith,
and,
so he said that Qari Taib, the sheikh
of Sheikh Amin,
and the former rector of the Daruloom in
Deoband
and and and and just prints among the
ulama, Masha'Allah.
Khari Taib said, I was reading from my
father Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad,
the Mishkat,
and I asked him, what are such people
still around?
There are people who walk around with iman,
and their iman is so subtle that nobody
knows about it, that no one would have
even been able to guess that this person
carries iman in their heart. So he said
his father said,
obviously such people exist in every age, otherwise
they wouldn't have been mentioned.
And so he's talking about this this Hindu
who had this thing that his one thing
he did was he. He,
you know, he he used to have his
workers make wudu.
So what happened is that this man, he's
a wealthy man,
he never formally converted to Islam,
and then he died.
And when he died, his
body was dealt with as is the tradition,
the custom of the Hindus that they they
cremated him, they burned him.
And in the small smoldering pile of his,
funerary,
pyre,
they found that his heart hadn't burned.
So, Muhammad al Qadr was emphasizing that iman
is something that resides inside the heart. Obviously,
that's the spiritual heart, not the physical heart.
But the space occupied by the spiritual heart
is the same space occupied with the physical
heart. They said, they found his heart didn't
burn.
So what they did was they found they
took, they took, some sort of oil or,
you know, liquid fuel
and they they they they put the heart
inside of that and they set it on
fire just to make sure to cremate the
entire body. And it wouldn't burn.
They tried it once. They tried it twice.
After the second time, this is the 3rd
time trying to burn it. After they tried
burning in oil twice,
you know, they knew about his love for
the Muslims.
And,
so their their holy men took the ordered
that the heart be given to the Muslims.
They give it to the Muslims, tell them
now bury this the rest of it belong
to us. This part belong to you, now
you bury it according to your customs and
your rights.
And
when he told this story,
I just had this feeling inside of my
heart that, like,
I don't know how to say it. You
know, sometimes a person is overwhelmed by by
the and the dunya, what's happening in this
country, in that country,
how many fitan we have living in America,
or just living in just being alive in
this this day and age, this time and
place,
and a person feels overwhelmed.
But then, you know, when a person, someone
puts their brings their attention to the rahmah
of Allah to Allah,
then you forget all of that. You forget
all of those things. You forget everything. You
forget
all the negativity, all of it in an
instant. It just evaporates in front of your
eyes.
So, I mean, these are people of Mahaba
and love. So, Hassan,
heard this story. He said, I have a
story I wanna share as
well. He says, yeah. He says, I read
in the books that the olema mentioned regarding
a a
Majusi,
a
Zoroastrian,
who was also a wealthy man who employed
many people. And this is in a more
distant past, several, you know, centuries ago, probably
over a 1000 years ago. This is Majusi,
this is Zoroastrian.
He was a wealthy man. He he he
employed many people.
But during Ramadan, he used to
he used to,
he used to,
lighten the load on his on his employees,
his Muslim employees,
and he used to also not eat in
front of them.
And some people thought maybe he actually keeps
the fast as well. He's not he you
know? He he himself doesn't eat and drink.
And maybe he's not keeping the fast from
a fiqh point of view, but he's not
eating and drinking out of respect for Ramadan.
And he once caught his son eating and
drinking in front of the Muslims during Ramadan,
and he scolded him. He said that don't
disrespect don't disrespect them like this. And show
some respect for Ramadan. Don't eat and drink
in front of them.
So when this Majusi died, one of the
ulama of the the the city,
they saw,
they saw that that this Majusi in a
dream, they saw that he's
he's enjoying himself in the in the gardens
of Jannah.
So he asked him, how are you in
Jannah? How are you in Jannah? How did
you make it to Jannah?
You were a fire worshipper.
You
didn't accept the deen. You didn't live amongst
us as a Muslim. How did you accept
how did you get into Jannah?
And so
he said what? He said he said, this
love I I I had for Ramadan and
for the fast,
Allah accepted it from me as iman,
and, and he forgave me because of it.
And Ustaji Malahasan said something very strange to
me. He said that this is something that,
they say that,
that a person, whatever they have inside of
their heart, if Allah looks inside and loves
it from them or has any small
excuse to see iman in in that person's
heart. You know, he's the one Allah ta'ala,
he said this is beautiful. He says that
Allah is not dependent on the asbaab. The
asbaab are dependent on him.
Allah is not dependent on means to get
done whatever he needs done. Rather, means are
dependent on him
to to to occur, to exist in the
1st place.
So he said
he said that
he's he said that that that the people,
they say that regarding people who have these
these, like, respect or love for Dean that
takes these kind of subtle forms that we
you know, remember, I'm not just making this
up. This is not storytelling. You don't have
to believe in any of the stories I
told, but the precept that there will be
certain people that have such subtle iman that
nobody will be able to perceive it from
them. This is something established by the hadith
of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
This is this is this is established from
the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. So he said that there are
certain people at the time of death, Allah
will send them an angel to command them
to say
and
they'll say it. And this is the mercy
of Allah
from which no one is despondent,
and that where no one is allowed to
we're forbidden and prohibited from being despondent from
this mercy. And this is from that same
mercy.
And so,
know, he turned to me and said, Bahay
Hamza, you know, undoubtedly you have many people
in in America that are like this as
well.
That may not have, you know, they may
not from the Zaher, they may not seem
like seem like Muslims, but they have something
inside of their heart that Allah loves.
So, you know, just keep that in mind.
Remember that always.
So, and, you know, as a student of
the law, we cannot go around and say
this person's a Muslim, that person's a Muslim.
Until they come to Masjid and they say
in front of the people.
Hurkman, legally,
they're
not a Muslim, but what happens between them
and Allah
is a secret that nobody knows except for
the Rab Tabarakawa ta'ala. Allah is the only
one who knows that secret,
and we should never be despondent from it.
Never have, you know, feel like we have
mercy on people more than Allah has mercy
on people. This is an underestimation
of Allah's mercy, and it's a very gross
underestimation that we should fear Allah's punishment from.
And it gave me, you know, this this,
you know, this thing that, like, you know,
this interaction that we had
with with with I had with these, you
know, mashaikh. It just gave me so much
hope that if this is Allah's mercy for
others, then inshallah, we should also have good
opinion of Allah to Allah, then inshallah, he'll
give us something good as well.
Not
give up working hard, or give up the
fear of Allah but at least have some
hope, It's
so important to have a good opinion of
Allah that inshallah, you know, as long as
you're doing your best, if you're not, then
get up off of your chair and start
doing your best. But if you're doing your
best, whatever it is, even if it's really
weak, but if you're doing your best inshallah,
we should all have hope in Allah's mercy
that inshallah everything will be okay inshallah. By
Allah's father will achieve his rida one day,
by Allah
he'll give us so much, he'll give us
so much for you. He'll take out a
book of a talaba, He'll give you so
much. You'll be happy with him. You'll be
pleased with it. You'll have no place to
turn to find any sort of, objection, no
matter how much difficulty you have right now.
That a day will come that Allah will
give all of us from his Meherbani, from
his mercy, from his from his father, his
generosity, and his grace. He'll give all of
us so much one day that that it
will heal whatever whatever
pain we have in our hearts and whatever
sadness we have about whatever and and whoever
and
just everything and
and just all of it, it will overwhelm
it one day.
And and it it kind of motivates me
more that we have to go and
tell people about the deen. The deen is
such a beautiful thing. And, you know, even
if all of these shayateen
and all of these tawarit and and and
gypped and all
these weird forces, the media,
and haters, and, you know, Hasidim jealous people,
and
racists and xenophobes and all these weird haters.
They're trying to, you know, portray the din
as something very ugly. The fact of the
matter is we know it's beautiful, and we
have to share that beauty with people. Who
knows, maybe you tell someone something about the
beauty of the Kaaba or the beauty of
Medina or the beauty of of fasting or
the beauty of Ramadan, the beauty of Zakat,
the beauty of the salat, the beauty of
just the name of Allah ta'ala, Allah.
Just the beauty of the name of Allah.
Just the beauty of Allah ta'ala that Allah
is the one who when you repent, he
accepts your repentance.
Allah is the one when you ask him,
he listens and he gives to you. Allah
is the one who gave you, you know,
all the beautiful things you have
in your life. He gave you your father,
your mother. He gave you air to breathe,
water to drink, food to eat, he gave
you security. All the things, you know, we
should remind people of all these things. We
don't know which one of them, the love
of that thing is going to
settle in the heart of which person
because of which that that that that that
small even if it's just a germ of
iman
that that that takes root in that person's
heart because of which that person will receive
salvation.
And if they receive salvation,
then it's impossible that you're the one who's
responsible for it, and Allah won't reward you
for it equal, if not more.
That if that person is saved, then people
like myself, people like us, we have hope
also.
Allah ta'ala, maybe he'll save us as well.
You Allah, please,
from your mercy and from your mehbani and
from your grace,
whatever responsibility we should have had toward your
deen, we didn't have it. We didn't show
it.
Neither publicly nor privately in a gathering when
we're amongst ourselves, when we're in Madinah and
Mecca, when we're when we're in our own
lands, where wherever we are. And a person
becomes sad that about how how they've been
negligent about the hack of Allah ta'ala. But
then you think, you know, if Allah will
save such people also then maybe people like
us have a chance as well and the
reward that they'll get from our, you know,
telling them the good word then obviously whatever
benefit that person gets, you'll get a copy
of it sent to your your your account
as well. So this is some small words
I wanted to
share.
This Madinah is a great
blessing of Allah ta'ala on the existence. This
Madinah is a place that's more beautiful than
than than the Samawat and then the Ard,
then the heavens and the celestial realm, more
beautiful than the Arsh itself.
This
Aroda Mubaraka in which the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam is,
it's
literally an excuse for
Allah's mercy on the entire creation, much less
mankind, much less people like myself.
Just to turn in the masjid toward the
noble grave
and say
Just
to be able to address the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
and be with him, you know, just for
an instant.
You can be with him in physical proximity.
If you're far away, you can also be
with him in your as well. You can
be with him by
doing his work. You can be with him
by
following his sunnah. You can be with him
by sitting in the majalis where his hadith
is read. You can be with
him by sitting in the majalis of dhikr.
You can be with him
by sending salat and salaam on him from
wherever you are. You know, just
that blessing of being able to be with
him,
it
cools the heart, and it, you know, pushes
away the worries.
It's like,
you know, hitting the snooze button on an
alarm that's woken you up before you before
you've been rested.
You just need a little bit more. Allah
says here, take more, take all you want,
take everything you want. Every the whole world,
universe was made for you as long as
you say
everything is for you. Take by the barakah
of my Habib, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. If
you're with him, then the buffet is open.
Just take whatever you want in this world.
Take whatever you want in the hereafter.
Allah
give all of all of us so much
Tawfiq. Undoubtedly in this, you know,
these words there are many things people may
find objectionable,
and say, well, do you know? Maybe you
should balance it out with something else. But
the the galaaba of Raja and of hope
in
this in this place is is so much
that that that,
that's just what it puts inside of my
heart. Allah knows that there are many other
occasions we'll have
for for for for negative reinforcement, Insha'Allah.
But for for now, this is something I
wanted to share myself with myself and my
habab. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept from all
of us. Allah Ta'ala write for all of
us
his Riba, that he be pleased with us
one day after which we don't need to
fear nor in this world or the hereafter.
After which Allah
his
will be with us wherever we go, and
wherever we are, and however we are. Allah
write it for for all of us, for
our parents, for our mashaikh, for our children,
for our students, for all those who have
been good to us, for all of those
we love for his sake, for all of
those who love us for his sake, for
all of those who've been good to us,
for all of those who who we owe.
We owe it to them
to make dua for them, for all of
those who
have a right
outstanding against us.
All of those people, may Allah
write his read off for all of us.