Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riya al-aliin Onions & Garlic & Muft Nana Remembers Andalus
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So
I want to share a few things with you, firstly, about the book and a
little bit about the Islamic history of
Spain. So I'll start with the interesting experience. Yo, yo,
ma'am. He won me He will be with so happy to hibani on the Day of
Judgment, every person will run away from each other. So I'll tell
you the story of when I was in the Jama Masjid of kurtuba, and
everyone ran away from me. Share that story
so those who know about the Jama Masjid of Cordoba,
it was built by the Umayyad family, right, starting from the
great Khalifa, and it was completed by many of the other
individuals who came after them. If I had just couldn't, didn't
plan things,
these 1000, 1200, year old dirhams from Spain. They're sold online
for $5 or there's about $35 I've collected all the different
dirhams of the khalifas, the dinars are the more expensive one
the gold ones. But I've collected a dinar from the year 91 hijra,
when the Muslims first entered, perhaps from the days of Tarkin
Ziad, right? So I have a gold Dirham that's dated 91 after
hijra, roughly how many, 1300 years ago. But the dirhams are a
lot easier to find. And the dirhams are also available as
well. So the Khalifa, the way they work was, they were stamped in the
name of the Khalifa, and sometimes they have Laila Illallah or right,
we should all know, learn this, what was the, you could say, the
model of the umay, the Muslims in Spain, lahaliba illallah, right?
So Laila Illah, is there? La aliba illallah. There's no power. There
was no Victor besides Allah.
Right? So, in fact, when I was there, get a shirt with La halib
illallah as well. If I had it, I would rip it off, and you guys can
see, but I forgot? Yeah, I think it's gotten misplaced somewhere,
as often happens, it's misplaced somewhere. I don't know exactly
where it is. Haven't seen it for maybe a couple months, so don't
know what high what happened, conveniently misplaced somewhere.
So the masjid, right? It's even to this day, if it wasn't a Catholic
Church and Muslims still had it, it would be one of the larger
mustards in the world, right? If you approximately an estimate,
even now, maybe 15,000 people, 20,000 people could read this if
you're at the courtyard. I've met many more. So I'll share with you
guys a funny story. So I go there and go in there with my wife
and right
the moment you walk in as a Muslim, there are people on you
like a hawk. They'll track you. But if you walk in dressed up as a
if you walk in as a non Muslim, or you just walk in as a tourist, no
one will do anything to
you. So So I walk in my wife, she goes her own way. I got my go my
own way, right? So I'm not going to, I know. I'm not going to
stress Salat, because these guys are watching me. So all I do I go
to the member, and I see who, Allahu, ALA, who written there. So
I go, I go to my phone, and I think to myself, just the history
that member, the the history of the of the Masjid. So I start
reading. Allah security
guard comes you, I'm sorry you can't do that. You can't talk
here. You can't speak out loud. Like all these tourists are here,
all these all these tour groups are here. They're talking. What
poem do you have with me talking? So they said, No, this is a rule,
this and that. I said, Okay, you guys go away. They went away. I
started again. This time they came with back to you guys. So I have a
bad habit. I do overseas when, when you're in trouble, you pull
the American card, right? So I don't like doing that, so I go on
my passport, I pull up my American passport. I said, Look, I'm
American, and you're being racist to me. The only reason you're not
allowing me to read the Quran here is because I'm Muslim, so at that
point they're getting extremely upset. My wife sees me from the
side. She's like, I don't know you.
So the Day of Judgment, memories of the Day of Judgment, she's
like, I'm doing my thing. I'm quiet. You want you're going to
get kicked out. You're going to get kicked out. And I might make
my way to the fun, the masjid, I'm protesting the whole time. Of
course, you don't go down easy, right? So I'm protesting the whole
time. Then
I get out the mustard. I'm like, bro, if you're going to go down,
go down with them. It's probably not the right term. Go down with
go down gracefully. So then I look around in the courtyard. So the
masjid area is there's a guards there. I look in the courtyard, I
see a Cuddy spot in the back. I'm like, that's where I'm gonna read
my tour cuts. Let's go. So cool. I go. I start my turakats. I say,
salaam, Alaikum. The guards there. I'm like, I'm done, bro.
God's like, you can't do that. So I read.
In terms of our history, right? The author of this modern book on
Qadir Masai, he writes, there's a very nice biography of on Kadi
mundir Masai, written by Ibn Abdul bar, but it's mafk is lost, if
only we had a compliment, right? So I'm in touch with some
individuals. They they make a living off of going from the
manuscript indices and the catalogs and finding rare books.
They make a living off of that. What they do, they find a rare
book and they sell it to the highest bidder, right? So that's
so so these guys know I'm their, one of their top customers, so
they give me first dibs, kind of first choice, right? Like if you
guys were playing, if we're picking teams at basketball,
right? They they give, they give you first choice. So they tell me,
in the Turkish libraries, we found one manuscript. So Ibn Abdul bar
is also a great scholar. I asked the guys in Dar es Salaam, tell me
five books written by bin Abdul bar. I'll give you $20 so they got
to three.
I was hoping they'd make it to five. They made it a three, and I
just get, I give the benefit of doubt,
they couldn't get to five, right? They should have but, yeah, they
couldn't make it to five. So Ibn Abdul bar is also a very great
scholar, a monarchy scholar. He's also from Spain as well. And he's
written, he's a little bit more famous than kalimundi ibn Said,
but he's a student of the student, you can say the grand student of
kalimandir. He studied from some of the children of kalimandir,
Saeed so and he's also roughly from the fifth century, from the
Go ahead, offer this. Hafez Abdul Rahman put him on the spot. Say,
Can you move? Not for, not for $20 just for your honor, save yourself
out of the hole. All the other Maliki students are not even here
in mashallah, so no, we'll put the money on the table. Inshallah, no
pressure, though, but no pressure. Pressure.
Okay? It can
I give him a clue.
Give Him until the end of your lecture, he'll blurt it
out until either Yeah,
okay, well, the third umpire,
yes, come up with it. There's a one. You say it now, then he's not
when he remembers and he's going to be shot, so give him a chance.
Okay, okay, I'll give him till the end of your lecture. Okay, okay,
that's fair
to make sure he doesn't take this one off.
Yeah. Okay, so
part of this is also my own love for Spain and the history of the
Monica scholars, I would say myself and Muhammad go way back.
But probably part of my love forever for him, not, not that
type of love, part of my brotherly love for him. Sorry, you guys from
California, you gotta, yeah, we gotta be clear about these things.
But
in fact, we have a term in California, but I can't use it
here, because it's not politically
correct. No,
yeah. So part of my attachment to Muhammad, I would say, is my love
for the Maliki Madhab, and my love for Andalusia and the Maliki
tradition there. So
So Ibn abdulgar was more famous, so he wrote this book on Kali
mudar Saeed, and there's information here I've never seen
anywhere else, right? Because keep in mind, there's a few factors
here. Even abdulbar is from Spain. He's from cortpa, and he's
speaking the students of Khalid mudar said. So the insights he
must have picked up and the information he picked up, even the
other biographies don't mention this. So today, what I'm sharing
with you is specifically, specifically Khalid mudras model
and
strategy. That's probably the methodology for your for bringing
up children. That's specifically what I would discuss. So I'm going
to share two two stories, and if you guys don't mind, and shortly
I'll be leaving. I wish I could show you the book as well. It's
just sitting in my car 10 miles away, but unfortunately, due to
circumstances and car keys and rides, right, the book is left in
the I only have one copy as well, which is why I'm a little bit more
worried. But no one will ski it. This is not San Francisco, you
guys, no one was doing it. Your first San Francisco, right? I told
these guys a story. I go go to San Francisco, leave my car unlocked
and in my trunk I have a sleeping bag, of course, for emergencies. I
have a jacket, and I have a few other things. I come to my car
right my my sleeping bag is gone. I said, Okay, that's sadaqah, I'll
give him charity. My jacket is gone. I said, Okay, that's charity
as well. My prescription glasses are gone. I'm like, Yeah, Allah, I
won't give you that.
Wonderful, right? That was, that was a little bit too much. Then my
perfume is gone, my good ball perfume is gone, and a few other
things were gone. So you guys San Francisco right now is not the
best place to be, but Alhamdulillah, we live outside of
San Francisco.
Okay, so there's some relevance here. This is a story of tadi
mudar with his daughters.
I'm sharing that ahaloo Who maraduhi wished
so. The chapter title is the
condition of tadi mundir Saeed and his worship, his level of worship
in his sickness and extreme sickness,
so his daughter narrates the story. So now did the assumption
is either ibn al bar studied from the daughter or perhaps from
someone in between the maybe the son of the daughter. It doesn't
state this. If there's some arbit
students here, I'll test them so and some of these are Salam
students. They can cheat, because they've already heard this once.
So
okay, I know who.
I know who
Marant tuhufila, so interesting, she says her father became
extremely sick, right? This is I joke around as well. May Allah
keep us all healthy. I had brain surgery a year ago, and I had a
seizure. So I told my one of my children, I said, Look, I'm going
on a trip. You're going to be babysitting me the whole time, so
just so I don't get a seizure, just in case something happens,
just keep an eye on me. She's like, okay, so I took her on a
trip, went on a flight. I said, yoga, your job is to babysit me.
She's like, how do I babysit you? I said, Yeah, you have to babysit
me. So the daughter says that the father became extremely sick, and
I looked after him. Yeah. Mumarida muridha is a nurse, so she said, I
looked after him and I tended to him while he was sick. Wakana,
zojatu, filjinaan, MABA adibanihi, so his his wife was busy. She was
occupied. And this also the beauty of Spain, right there. It's a very
beautiful country. It's full of it's full of citrus fruit and
other types of fruit. And also the Muslims are the one who bought,
the ones who bought the fruit over, right? They're the ones who
developed it. Unfortunately, when the Muslims lost, right, the
agriculture in in Spain really dipped off the Muslim Muslims that
achieved great heights in
in agriculture, in crops and fruits as well.
So the wife was in a garden, perhaps doing a picnic with other
children behind Canada, Biha Ali Latin. So the daughter saying, I
think she was also a little bit sick as well. Wa Atala Hua
bekuruta For Marat tu for marada to Ibn Tuku. So he became sick in
Cordoba. The wife was out in perhaps, let's say, the summer
home in one of the gardens with the other children. So
he became sick in Cordoba. So his wife, his daughter, said, I look
after him.
Call it falamata, kafa kalafi, sakuhi, Nina Nahar, FIBA Abu Ayam.
So one day, he felt a little bit better, and
during the day, he said
to
his daughter, Abu Asmaa,
okay, close the door of the house for any reason. No, because I want
to go to sleep. What do they see? Phil fasil, and he tells his
daughter, you sit on the patio between the two houses. So why?
Similar to my situation, right? If I have a seizure, something
happens to me. My daughter is there. She can pick up my phone,
she knows my passcode, and she can take care of things, which is what
happened to me. I got a seizure when I was driving. My children
were in the phone. My children were there. They got my phone,
they called my brother, and next thing I know, I wake up in the
hospital, and I said, it's 24 hours of gone, right? I have no
idea what's going on. It's the next day. First time getting
seizure in my life. Friend the autokis. So the father says, stay
in that patio. If I need you, I'll call you, and then you can hear
otherwise, if you're far away, you won't hear
me for ila samantil muadlin, a bit lower for abihid, and when you
hear the muadlin Give the call for Salat, then inform me. We also
learn of the importance and the punctuality of the people of that
time and their value for Salat. God.
It for far to my Ameren ibihi, she says, I did what he said, and I
waited,
and
falamma samantun,
when I heard the Adhan going off, right, we make dua. Time will come
again in Cordoba, where the azan will once, again, be given a loud
speaker Inshallah,
for Jalis, she says, I walked in I expected he'd be asleep. I have to
wake him up. He was already sitting
for call Ali, kunduk, istawachat, nafsi, Lima halumat, Mina, salati,
bahadilah,
falamma, follow to the show what nafzi, the Quran
for corrupt to mundo harajdi And I need LASA at in this.
So the daughter is kind of looking at him, probably giving that
glance, right? It's not mentioned here because buchara is like
you're supposed to be sleeping this whole time. That's what you
said. So he, he, he says
that the literal translation is this, but the understood
translation is so I become lonely this whole day. These days I've
been sick. I haven't been able to read Salat during the night. I
have not been able to read Salat and give my time in Salat, so I
become lonely, right? May Allah give us such a
position and such a connection with Allah, where, if we cannot
spend time in dua, cannot spend time reading the Quran, we feel
lonely. We we miss that connection with Allah. I
can say I had never said this before. I went through during this
last year, I went through two months where I fell off, cut off
from Allah, probably the worst two months of my life. I don't know
what was going on. Somehow or another, the connection was off.
Something was off, and probably the my mental health, my two worst
months of my life. Alhamdulillah, I'm a little bit better now. I've
just worked on things, but I can tell you, it's tawhasha. It's
real. And I think a lot of Allah, the issues people are going
through, right would could be repaired with our connection with
Allah, and by doing it.
So he says, I wasn't able to read Salat this whole time, so I feel
lonely. You. Stole hasha, right? Isto is knowing the term, if you,
if you're in the middle of nowhere, you don't meet people for
five days. It's still has enough, right? But he's saying it's still
hush too. Isto. Isto, nafzi, Lima, halumat, Mina Salat, without
Salat, right? He's, he became extremely lonely,
and he said, he says, his daughter, since you left, yes, I
said I was going to sleep. I didn't sleep. I read half the
Quran said, I, I'm, I read half the
Quran, tulina, he says, I feel extremely good. Terms, extra good,
but doesn't make sense. I can feel extremely happy, and I feel
extremely light, light, and Alhamdulillah, everything's good.
Tummajada, wudu wasalatda, so then he made a new wudu, and he read,
and he read, Lord, just a glimpse, a glimpse for the life of the
pious, and specifically from Andalusia. But this is the lesson
the daughters are sharing with us. Got it
right. So this is the lesson Inshallah, may Allah.
I think we can take a lot of lessons from the Andalusians and
from their experience and from their piety as well, because we
are the same challenge of preparing our next generation.
Either all of us here are parents, or inshaAllah, soon to be parents.
Inshallah, those who are not married, or Inshallah, in the
process. Inshallah, soon to be parents. Inshallah, the story of
the PADI and Amir didn't come to Juma,
did you? I don't think you'd finish it, yeah. So, so the qadi
then, yeah. So Kali mudir Mesa, he rebuked, and he gave a speech to
the Khadi about coming to Juma. He mentioned a few things to him,
very eloquent. He mentioned zukrov. He mentions these
adornments of this world, and you're caught up in these things,
and how can you, as a Khalifa, allow this to happen? And this
famous discussion and famous speech he gave on that occasion as
well, right? If, if we had a little bit more time, I'd go and
find it here and then read it to you guys.
But this is the take home lesson, which is which the daughter is
sharing with us.
She says, call it Wakana, Rahima, Allahu, you had this unawarely. He
leaves shit Ana be Dalek, ALA, fey, wa rahbati, fihi, wakian,
wahan, fu sinabihi, so she says, A.
Right, observing her father for many years, observing his
dharviya. She says, Our father used to tell us his stories about
himself
and about His worship and about certain things he did, but there
was a lesson behind it. She says he would tell us of his actions.
For example, He for the last six hours, he read half the Quran.
It's not there as a humble brag. It's not there to show off. It's
not there to post online, but to do the third year of
the children leave aliq.
So he can motivate us, and he can
energize us, probably the that's the best translation.
So he can energize us to do good deeds, and to get the
encouragement and get that motivation to do good deeds and to
hold ourselves to the do good deeds. He's to tell stories,
right? So very interesting thoughts
are coming to my mind, there's a good friend of ours. Yeah, I don't
have to agree with him on everything, but he used to tell us
the Father every day, right? And yes, they had a very blessed
father. MashaAllah saw many people, met many people, every day
after fajr, he would sit with them and just tell them stories and
story never ending stories, right? So,
so that's the first story to share with you. Second story is a little
bit shorter,
but also there's a lesson here as
well. Hikaya tufita, alimihi, watadibe, oladihi, kayata asobihi,
a story of Adi mudar beside in how he used to teach his children. He
used to teach the manners and teach them other and so that they
would follow in his footsteps and that they would copy us. So comes
from the which root letters,
describing
his teacher's teacher, he used to perform Salat for long periods of
time with the Hajj and delay, and he used to read Salat for most of
the night. So you look at Surah muzamil
that this was the practice of the people at that time, first
century, second century. Right? Normal to spend all night in
Ibadan. Look at Imam Hanifa. Look at Imam shafiram Allah. Look at
many, many of the stories. This was the practice at that time,
right? May Allah give us the ability to revive these things and
Inshallah, implement them in our in our time as
well. Kathir al amalific, sir. It's also lesson as well.
He used to do a lot of good deeds, but used to hide them purposely,
right? That that was his norm. Unless there was objective, he
would hide those good deeds. Akbar ni Manka Nabi tu endam, it's kind
of interesting. So Ibn Abdul bar says someone who used to spend the
nights with qadim of Saeed is telling me this. Now, who is this?
Probably one of the children. Probably the one of the boys.
Allah knows it's not mentioned.
Annahukana, you buy itu, oladohu, fibahatin, Yakar, Abu min, Modi
Salat, right? So now this is arrangements for sleeping
arrangements, right? Depending on the size of the house, depending
on the arrangements the person has, right? Some people might
prefer right. May Allah bless many of the families. I've seen a lot
of families, may Allah bless them. They have beautiful houses. They
have a wudukhana and then Musala at the house. Right, a proper
musalla with carpets in the house, MashaAllah. May Allah bless such
people. Not everyone could do this so but Kadi Mudra, he used to make
sure his children are in the same place he's reading the Salah,
you would make the point the children are there while he's our
business.
Call wakalam to firaka, wakul, Tula, Huma, Lima, latubaye tu
banika, hakuna, so one of his relatives, or the students of Kali
mudar Masai, says, Kali Saab,
why don't you put your children here? You have, you have enough
space. There's a private room. Why don't you put your children here?
Why are you putting them in the same room? You're in Salat, so you
might disturb them. They might get your way. Just put it. Put them
somewhere else
for call la Allahu.
I'm doing this so they can follow in my footsteps. They can observe
me, and they can see me performing Salat, and they can follow in my
footsteps, way into your own nabima, yup. Seru namini, and they
can take benefit from watching me, even if they don't do it. They can
take benefit from watching me and seeing my practice, and they can
derive some form of benefit.
And this is the last line. Now, this is very interesting, so I.
Although this is just a discussion the story, right? Ibn Abdul bar,
he takes a lesson from it, and he says, Hala mahabun to me. Now,
it's not that form of madhhab. He says, this is a very good approach
to teaching children and to doing tabri of children, wabasir, and a
good way to teach good values to children, and a excellent way to
teach other and teach values to children.
Now, listen close, Abdullah.
I'm joking, Abdullah, you're listening. Okay,
so Abdul gives an argument to us. He says, look
interesting. I a
new Muslim friend of ours, Zain.
He sent me
a written dua instruction that my grandfather gave him when, when he
became Muslim 10 years ago. My grandfather's passed away Rachid,
but my grandfather's handwriting is there. He told him, read these
duas, read Ayato kursi after Salat read this. And this new Muslim
friend of mine came across this, maybe in his archives and his
folders, and he's showing me, right? So,
so Ibn Abdul bar is now appealing to our logic. He says, Look,
a son or a child, if you receive some advice, sometimes this
happens, I'll be in a must in San Francisco, and someone says, You
know what? I know your dad from 30 years ago when he was in San
Francisco and he did this or he did that. So I hear stuff about my
dad, not from him. I hear from other people. In fact, people come
up to me and say, we would sometimes go to your go to San
Francisco. Your dad used to take us out for Jonah for four hours.
I'm like, he never told us that, but I'm just sharing this that
sometimes, sometimes a son or grandson will benefit from the
inspirational stories of their parents that they hear, maybe
after the death or after a period of time.
Fabima, you. Ani,
so if, for example, if I were to hear my father took out
Jonas for four hours, right? Maybe it would might inspire me.
Inshallah, if laptop is here, or if the shooter guys are here, it's
a joke. Guys don't mind me. I'm messing around a little bit. I
won't discuss which group I'm on. I'm kind of, I'm a little bit
flexible, right? So joking around a little bit. Okay, so anyways,
so if a person receives gets motivated by hearing news,
something their their parents get right? What about something you
see your parents doing with their own eyes? If you're motivated by
you just hearing a story about your father or your mother, who
passed away some some time ago, what about something you saw your
parents doing with their own eyes?
You and,
yeah, to something to share, something I've seen with my own
eyes. My father will be at home. He'll be doing his thing, relaxing
on work, but I've watched him for the last 40 years so that the
masjid five times he's ready. Him and his brothers carpool to the
masjid. They're there. That's a spot to meet. So that's something
I've just observed with my father for many years. So
the chance for the $20
I didn't see him open his phone so far. So I remember
there's a book he wrote on the song that I read. It might not be
published, though, okay, might not be published, but okay, it's
published. Okay, okay. Well, you give it before you look it up, you
have to like then concede that you don't. I think, I think, no, no, I
think the he, the full name of the he, the self, says something
about, I'm sorry. I don't know. I didn't so maybe.
But what about Yeah? That might be Yeah. The full name is, God, I
don't know, but we shall. We'll give you the credit. Inshallah.
Inshallah, come on. Come up here. Inshallah.
Anyone else going once, going twice?
Named. There's also book a tajid bimafisani. There's a smaller
book. It's a summary of his. I guess it's the Tamid that's there
as well,
as well.
Anyone to add to that? Inshallah,
if not the bird has
has written, jam was actually excellent. I wish I could. That's
the book today.
There should be a reading of the book from beginning to end, one of
the more, one of the.
Respirational books. I saw it for the first time when I was in my
first year the OS 1999
I bought a copy of a two volume. Okay, come up. Inshallah, come on.
I will give credit.
Sounds like you showed up to the battle after the battle's over
with your Gopi.
Man. So it was the challenge was named. I told the Dar es Salaam
guy just as well name five books of Ibn Abdul. So the guy got stuck
at the fourth and then I just gave him, gave it to him. But yeah,
given how your ride's not here yet.
Do you mind maybe saying something about the process of hunting down
the manuscript and extracting information from
it. So
this is a project, Alhamdulillah that we worked on as much as many
fields and many areas people work. I'll just share this as a side
point as well. My father, he didn't get along with the league
in this area, but he liked the bleep work,
so he took a route. He said, Look, I just don't get along with these
tabligies. We don't see my eye to eye. Some of you guys might feel
the same way. So he my father said, I'm going to do the topic
work, but in the prisons. So he's been volunteering there as a
chaplain in San Quentin for about 35 years. About 500 people become
Muslim on his hands. But his approach, is prisons. No one's
there to bother me. I do my thing. He goes in there. He reads fazila
Ma. He does Talim. And
he goes out in the yard directly to right. So he goes there, talks
to people. There was a time we went from cell to cell. We're
giving down, which is kind of kind of interesting, and you'd be
surprised the distractions there.
We're going cell to cell. It's not only a TV, it's not other things.
These prisoners are getting involved,
members of the opposite * and stuff's going on, and we're trying
to get the ballot. There's just, just a whole different world,
whole different world. So everyone there's, there's a niche you can
find. There's a way you can serve the community, right? And there's
multiple ways to do so. So
in, in my case, there was, there was a brother. He was making a
living off of what he does. He finds them, the rare manuscripts,
and he sells them, right? And then what he does, he specifically
advertises them, right? So, like any person, you got your goods. So
he goes, this is the name of the book. This is what scholar said
about the book. And he just, he props up the book. So I'm looking
at this. I'm like, this is really, really interesting. So I looked
through his whole page. He had like, 1000 books so I went through
and I look for the best ones. So that's what I did, right? So I
scanned through, then slowly, I started getting in touch with the
editors and researchers. So in the Muslim world, at least in Egypt,
they have a whole process, right till this day, they have the
jalat. Now, Jalad is a different term, right? If you, if you have a
old book, in fact, just happened to me, a book I bought in the
suitcase, the binding oil broke, right? There's a book, brand new
book from Egypt, the binding oil broke. So in Egypt for $5 you take
that book to the leather expert, he will leather bind your book.
You give him $10 and your book is good, as you know, right? So they
have this whole then they have the proofreaders. So there's 1000s of
other graduates. They're looking for way to make money. So they're,
they're there as proofreaders. You have a 300 page Arabic Book,
they'll read it, and they'll correct the mistakes, and they'll,
they'll edit it, right there this. So there's a whole team of people.
So over three years, I kind of learned the hard way.
One of the bad mistakes that I made. I didn't know Ottoman
Turkish, and I hired a translator. He flees me for $30,000
but to be fair, it wasn't my money. It was the umas money. At
the same time, I tried my best, but thing is, I can't see his
translation. I can't check his work. He only translated 1/4 of
the book, and he sent it to me, and I'm like, Okay, looks okay,
but he was supposed to translate the whole book. He translated 1/4
of it and sent it to
me, right? And unfortunately, I hired him through Upwork, right?
So I thought, I'm going through a reputable American organization,
Upwork. Said, Too bad, right? You're you had 30 days you're
supposed to check the work, and within you have three days to
respond. I'm like, I don't know the language, so Upwork.
Upwork messed me over as well. So you can't, you kind of learn the
hard way. You figure out who, who, who are real people. And now I've
learned, send me the work first, and I'll check it then. Also need
the money so you learn certain lessons. But hum, though, we have
a team of of workers.
One of the other interesting books that we we just completed,
tashniful Asmaa before tasmi Attend right darsalam, I had clear
instructions. This is a.
Don't talk about this book, the only advanced students, and shut
off the mic if you're going to do it right. So I had clear
instructions there the students. That only increased the interest
of the students even more. They see the book and right in front of
me, they're like, tell us about this book. I'm like, bro, I got
instructions. Bro. I got clear instructions. So that book is
very, very fascinating.
There's three manuscripts in the world. One of them was from
Princeton.
Alma died from these people in academia. I remember what myself
and Mohammed went to Princeton. I had my Princeton ID card, but it
expired. I went two years ago. It's already expired.
2022,
so,
so a lady online, so Princeton's five hours from a house, a lady
online, may Allah guided Islam. She says, anyone that wants a
manuscript from Princeton, message me and I'll send you a copy of the
manuscript. That's very, very nice of you. So there's a, there was a,
okay, you got your copy. So I took that there. But then they, they,
they gave me a new No, she that same lady. She
gave me one. That's, it's a reissue, actually, Okay, this
one's gonna expire. Okay, good answer,
right? So,
so the short manuscript, right? A smart so, it's a book on marriage
and the guy the Sunnah of marriage. So one manuscript we got
from Princeton. Now, how I ended up there, and I guess this the
irony as well. I tell people, I have to pay money
to get our own Muslim manuscripts from the non Muslims who stole
them from us, right? This is, if you summarize, that's literally
what's happened. The second Manuscript of the Book is in the
Escort library in Madrid. I've yet to visit this place, but
a tragedy as well. I really don't know what to say.
They say the amount of volumes of books just in Abdul Rahman
Nasser's library
was
millions when they were in the millions, and it's famous in
Granada to you visited today, the friar ordered 30,000 mahtoots In
the Old Town Hall to be burned in front of everyone, 30,000
manuscripts in front of everyone. He ordered them to be burned.
Right? Where is civilization here? Where is value of knowledge,
right? You don't like the manuscripts to leave them alone,
right? What issue do you have a burning them? So the Escort
library today contains maybe, how many, 15, 20,000 manuscripts, from
500,000 or more, how many are left? Pretty sad. So one, one of
them, one of the copies of the manuscript I had. I messaged them.
I become friends with them. Many of these libraries now because
they make money from me. So I gotta send 300 euros over, and
they send me the PDF. And the third copy of the manuscript was
from Tunisia. So think about how these manuscripts, the original
book was written by a scholar from Egypt. Manuscripts ended up in
Tunisia. Manuscripts ended up in Spain, and manuscripts ended up in
ended up in Princeton. This scholar, Ibn walayn, is also a
Maliki scholar, spent 40 years in the company of a sheik Jalal adzu,
40 years jalaladin suit, is famous for a number of things. Now's not
the time, but the number of books written by jalani SUTI, they could
even there was a conference in Italy. Non Muslims held a
conference in Italy just on Jalad non Muslims, they are in academia,
and they each wrote a research paper and they published that into
a book. So I tell people, they value Jala di SUTI, more than we
do, right? I asked the guy say something on Jala din SUTI. They
say, yeah, he was Jalal. He was great. Two or
three things about him. I'm like, come on, you have you got to give
me more on Jala din SUTI, Jadin SUTI, he was Jack of all trades.
Jalalayne is written by him in the field of tafsir alone. I think
he's written about four or five books, and if we had a little bit
more time, I'll test them. You got Oh, honey, bring the book. Yeah,
bring the book.
Okay, honey, Bring the books from the car. Okay,
yeah, we should have told them to bring the book too. When he comes
again, tell him to bring the book from bring
you.
So I sat with the students at Dar Salam. I had about I said, we're
gonna start with the questions, and they're gonna be some easy
questions for $1 some questions for $5 and some questions for $30
okay, okay, so just to show you guys, just to show you guys, looks
a little bit hot, but
hot off the precipice,
don't
tip the.
Is so this, this was the only manuscript
in the world.
This is it's this isn't the writing of him a bar, but it was
the only Manuscript Found in the world, the only copy found in the
world, and also worth noting as well, the cut the Moroccan hut is
unique. Right? To read the Moroccan cut you it's a unique
style of writing. I'm not too good at it, but they're all the all the
manuscripts from Spain come from the same hut. This one's a little
bit easier to read. I think it's the this is a little bit more
coupon. It's
a little bit more easier to read because he go through the book.
But in the grand scheme of things, I'm just to give you guys example.
Although we have we have the funds from America, we have the people
working overseas. It's kind of like what a lot of tech people do
nowadays. They outsource everything overseas. So just just
to give an idea of a book like this, from beginning to end, cost,
maybe $3,000 $4,000
right? There's also interesting story as well, Musa Kado that
recommended this, this island from Pakistan, Karachi. He runs a
brother, Sadi. I think he's just a sap student. So he's one of the
top scholars I've seen in the world, especially in the field
Tahrir. So just to give example, right? So I worked our agreement
with him.
The amount he gets paid an equivalent for working on two
books was 1 million rupees. Now for them, that's a good amount of
money. He's chosen now to do research full time, kind of teach
part time, so it gives them the flexibility.
So this is the book on nikkah. You guys can kind of see why the
Darsana students wanted
were interested. And this is the fourth book. This is the Ottoman
so you can say, from these books, you have kind of the Egyptian
influence, the Spain Moroccan influence. This is the
audit. So one of the other interesting parts of it is I get
to choose the books, right? So I kind of handpick the books, and
then I have the people working on them, and I oversee it, and I
generally send the funds as well. That's my job as well. So I'm kind
of the bad guy if I'm late on the funds. I have to deal with that.
So this is one of the more interesting books in history, Al
utami and NAS
so sneezing, the benefits of sneezing for the entire mankind, I
would say, in any language, is the most detailed book on sneezing
I've ever seen written in any language. And the author was from
the Ottoman Empire.
He lived approximately 500 years ago. And you can kind of see we
took the sneeze and then we got Alhamdulillah between us,
right?
And here you can see some of the manuscripts as well.
So this is some of the cool parts of it.
This is the word how the manuscripts. I think this is one
of them. This, this time we had three.
Your ride is here, and you're pushing the time.
Okay? Thank you for sharing with us. We had had you for more time a
year, for purpose, muscle,
everybody. Migdu offer Mukti Saab, for his health, his time from his
family and all of these things that that he left behind, and he's
leaving behind in terms of beneficial knowledge for people,
on top of his students, on top of the work for the halal
integrity of the halal food chain, on top of all these other things
that you know about and you don't Know About inshaAllah. So keep him
in your DUA.
Inshallah. Time.
It's okay
if you're
not gonna post it online. You for
posterity,
okay,
get unlocked.
So I'm the type of person I'll get canceled if there's any quotas in
the online.
We'll just
read a little bit from the so the siosa of the
DARS continues. InshaAllah bin Hala mean, sallAllahu, taala,
Salama, alasi, Muhammad,
WA
Allah Ali. He
was
Kari ha i And masjid,
it's
a chapter regarding the prohibition of eating
garlic or onions or, I believe, leaks Allah. I'm not 100% sure
about that,
from those things that have a bad smell from entering the masjid
before getting rid of that smell, except for, out of dire necessity,
the theme of this kind of system of a hadith that we were reading
up until now is, what is it those things that are detestable to the
angelic presence. There's a harm in in walking around in the
condition of having those things, and so you have to get rid of
them. And so I suspect that one of the things is that the onions and
garlic in the old days were a lot stronger than they are now. We
artificially select out a lot of traits for for domesticated crops.
And so apples now are not like apples used to be like 1400 years
ago. Onions are not what these 314 100 years ago. Livestock are not
what these to be, you know. So we select traits out, so I expect to
smell a lot worse. Point is, don't come into the Bastion some smells
bad, even if, in this case, it's not, it's not just, it's not
haram, but those things that annoy people also annoy the angels. So
that's that's the that's the idea, the concept, and in the Ummah, the
Allahu anhuma, and then the sallullahu, alayhi, wa sallam, and
akala minhabi, shajarati, ali tauma, Falaya, karaban na
majidana,
mutapa na alehi, ali wa Taala said, the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wa sallam said, whoever ate from this tree, meaning garlic, let
them not come near our. Masjid
rufi Rewind masjidana, let them not come near our. Masjid one
anabu, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, a man akala minhati,
Falaya para Banna. Alayhi, salayan alehi, Sayyida Allah. Anu said
that the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi salam said, whoever ate
from this tree,
let them not come anywhere near us and let them not pray with us.
Muktafak on Alaihi, one Javier, Allah, anhu, Allah, Allah.
Azza,
masjidana, mutasarily Muslim in man. Akala Soma when qurafana,
masjidana,
Minna,
minma, ADAMA, so say that jabirah narrates the Prophet sallallahu.
Ala Salam said this is something important to understand when you
read the Hadith about the Prophet Salla sons, words about eating
onions and garlic and Korath. The point is, is that
he was especially, he especially detested these things. Why?
Because it was actually his job to receive, why from the angels and
to commune with the angelic presence. More so than you know,
it's not your job or my job, so it's at some point or another. It
may not be a good thing, but it's not going to interfere with your,
you know, basic, whatever. So he uses really strong words with
regards to the eating of these things and not getting rid of the
bad smell. But the reason his words are stronger, and it's
important to him, as mentioned in this hadith, as what?
What's that? You know, what the reason behind it is, because the
prayer is valid. You know, no matter how many onions you eat, a
whole sock of onions, it might taste weird, but, like, I don't
know, mashallah, apparently that our brothers from the Central
Asian areas, they like eating onions, like it's an apple, uh.
It
my older sister in a fit of political incorrectness, but she's
a woman, so you can't kill her. She She once made a joke about
that to her Afghan kandahario, best friend, that this is why the
women over there probably wear buckles, because the dude smell
like a honey, but it
was a joke. Maybe not. If I don't hit or miss, if you don't like it,
go kill her inshaAllah, give me a Lum.
But the Jabra radon, who narrates the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam, said, Whoever eats
garlic or onion, let them stay away from us, or let them stay
away from our masjid. And in the narration of Muslim, whoever eats
onion or garlic or Korath, let them not come anywhere near our
masjid, because the angels are
are harmed or irritated by the things that irritate human beings.
Meaning, that's going to keep the angelic presence away, and you
don't want to do that. So even though it's not, not just, it's
not haram, you know, because the things, what are the things in in
order of what we were talking about, first, like you're
urinating in the masjid, or like bringing nudges into the masjid,
or, you know, that type of thing, like riding on an animal that just
ate nudges, or whatever. This is obviously less than that, but
still, it annoys the angels. The things that annoy the annoying
regular people, like good, well constituted people. They annoy the
angels as well. I say well constituted because there are some
people who have issues as well, right?
A cousin of mine, he told me that heroin addicts claim up and down,
that being dirty makes the high feel even more amazing. I don't
know how or why he knows this, so maybe he was just making it up. I
don't know. Some part of me wants to wish he was. Another part of me
thinks he's probably has reliable sources of information for this,
sadly.
So, yeah, not that that's screwed up. That's the direct he used to
sign you're in the wrong direction people who are actually people,
you know, who things are healthy and fungus, you generally don't
like those types of things. So the angels also are, averse to them.
It's angelic character of a human being that makes you not want to
do that. Otherwise, there are other there are other animals and
human beings. Animal. We don't say that a human being is descended
from apes, but in as much as an ape is an animal and a human is an
animal, there's some sort of a human is a mammal, APE is a man.
There's some sort of overlap, right? Well, like an ape will walk
up and like, you know, re eat a piece of feces, which apparently
animal, zoological anthropologist called eating hot lunch, which is,
like, gross, right? Totally gross. But they'll do that. But human
beings, there's something inside of a human that is like, yeah,
that's not a thing to do. You're not even Muslim to understand.
That's not a thing to do,
except for some weird Jinn worshiping, Devil worshiping. You
know, people who psych them out into doing things like that. A
normal person, it doesn't occur to them to do stuff like that. That's
the angelic nature of a human being. Allah endowed human beings
with it that the other animals have a much weaker connection
with, if at all. She says that the angels are annoyed by the Things
that good people are annoyed by. One
Huma
Allah Umit humahan, rawahu Muslim,
so Abu Abdullah,
it's narrated from him that he once got up on the day of Jumaane,
and he said in his Khutba, then,
oh, people,
it is that you eat from two
trees that I don't find I find them to be nothing but detestable.
One is onion and the other is two plants, you know, I don't find
them, except for that they're detestable, the onion and the and
garlic. He said that I saw, indeed, I saw the Messenger of
Allah Abu Salim. When he found the odor of one of them from emanating
from a man in the masjid, he would order that they be thrown out of
the building, they can pray from the batiya side. So the batiya is
not exactly in the masjid. It's not all that far away, either, but
it's far enough that you can, like, join the prayer right in the
Mali. This is a,
this is a another nice proof of the Maliki school. Sorry, to dunk
on Hanafis and chafe is other people. But this is another
wonderful proof of the Maliki School, which is, what is that, as
long as you can see for no matter how far away you are from the
from the congregation,
and interestingly enough, in fact, the much of it is in front of the
as well. So you it's a proof also that the prayer is valid if you
pray in front of the Imam as well. There's a difference of opinion.
It's still.
Not preferable. But at any rate, the bhatiya is relatively far
away.
Says, go let them pray like, far from the Masjid. They can join the
Jamaat still.
They can still join the congregation, but let them like,
go far away so that they don't bother the people. They don't,
they don't obstruct the angelic presence inside of the Masjid. Uh,
now, Alhamdulillah, mashallah, I have a feeling like I said, this
is a theory of mine. I don't have to think of it. Maybe some
archeologists can go dig up some fossilized onion from back in the
day. I have a theory that the onions were probably far more
pungent in their order back then than they are now.
But so whoever he used to kick the person out to be to the bathe,
says, if you have to eat them, like, I love onions and I love
garlic, right?
He says, he says, so. He gives a little key for those people who
are like me, who like these two, hey, they're probably not as
strong smelling as they were back in the day, but even if they are,
it says, if one of you has to eat, eat them, then kill the odor by
cooking them real well. Still need them raw, like, cook them real
good. It will the heat will
take away a lot of that, a lot of that odor, odorous, pungent,
whatever. And just be careful about that. And in general, be
careful about how you smell, not just in the masjid, but especially
in the masjid. But in general, be careful about how you smell, how
your breath smells, how all these things are, because it's part of
the Adam of the angelic presence. SallAllahu, Rasulullah, Sayyidina,
Muhammad wa Allah Ali. He was savij Man.