Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn My Virtue Over the Least of You Ribt 03052023
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I think that we've read it last week
as well, but since or the last like,
2 weeks ago as well, but, I'm not
a 100% sure. So in to make sure
that we finished the book,
I thought I'd read it again. That Abu
Said Al Khubi Radhiallahu Alaihi Wasallam who said
that the messenger said
that a believer will not be satisfied
or satiated
from goodness until,
his end is in Jannah.
And, in a number of other narrations of
the same hadith,
it's explicitly mentioned from that good
from the good things that a person hears
that they'll keep wanting to hear good
over and over again. The remembrance of Allah
and his Rasool
the remembrance of Jannah,
the remembrance of good deeds,
the enjoining of that which is good and
the forbidding of that which is evil.
And the,
exhortation toward righteousness
that a person who who enjoys hearing that,
the believer will enjoy hearing it again again
and again and again, and they'll never be
satisfied. They'll never get enough until,
this desire will take them to Jannah.
Abu Ummam
who he mentions that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
the virtue of the person of knowledge over
the worshipper
is like
my virtue over the least of you.
This is a big
this is a big
statement by the Messenger of Allah
This is an understanding that the Ummah used
to have at some point and seems to
have lost now
in its current
neo Protestant form,
which is what? The virtue of a person
of what?
The virtue of a person of what?
Of knowledge
over
a worshipper.
He said
is the virtue of
me over the least of you.
Meaning what?
That the knowledge is itself a rank.
The knowledge itself is a rank with Allah
Ta'ala. This is a different issue what the
definition of is with, with the
advent of Islam.
What does mean?
Does it merely mean information or does it
mean something else?
And
is a, you know, is knowledge is
in our tradition,
not just
information, the ability to prattle off facts, but
an understanding of the way things are, what
the nature of things is, what the nature
of reality is.
And it's described by a number of our
aslaf as noor,
as a light, something that allows you to
discern
what the essential reality between one thing is
and what the essential reality of another thing
is.
But he says that the
virtue of the person who has that knowledge
over the person who has been given a
great amount of worship
is like the virtue
of myself over the least of you. Now
tell me something. The Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam,
did he used to worship a lot or
a little?
A lot. Right? He used to pray literally
the whole night. He'd pray until his feet
swell up. He would fast,
so much that people said he would fast
sometimes until we thought that he never opens
his fast. He went on jihad, all
of the different types he gave charity. Every
single type of worship there was, the Rasool
outstripped other people in it in quality and
in quantity.
However,
he's saying this, and it's not in order
to disparage to say that worship is stupid
or a waste of time. It has a
role
and has a function and has a benefit
that you get from
it. But he's saying what? That it's still
the knowledges,
a greater path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
How much greater? It's
like the difference between myself and the least
of you.
That the knowledge itself is a maqam, it's
a station with
even if a person never practices it.
This is the reason I made the kind
of protestant protestant comment. Why? Because
we're replete, we're in a society which is
replete with people who say that there's,
you know, the person who has the knowledge
and he doesn't practice, you know, he's x
y z bad person. He's this. He's that.
He's the other thing. He's the other thing.
He's the other thing. And
the meaning
that they derive from this and the meaning
that they project from this when they say
this and
how they say it
is
to say that the practice is more important
than the knowledge.
And this is absolutely 100%
false and it's not what the teaching of
the Quran is, nor is it what the
teaching of the sunnah is. To say that
knowledge has no value without practice, it's completely
erroneous. It's a wrong understanding. Otherwise, the messenger
of Allah
superlative station in knowledge and a superlative station
in worship.
So what would he have said? He would
have said the virtue of the worshipper over
the person of knowledge
is like the virtue virtue of myself over
the least of you. But he didn't say
that. He said it the other way around.
Look, the issue with having knowledge and not
practicing it is this, is that the knowledge
is like a like
a
table spread filled with food.
The table is already set.
If you're there, you may as well eat.
How sad would it be? The table is
already set. You may as well eat. It's
as if, you know, you did all the
work. You put in the effort. This is
your
it's like, it's like something you earned. So
why would you why would you leave it
on the table and then go hungry afterward?
But that being said, the Rasul
himself is described in the Quran as saying
commanded to say by Allah Ta'ala, say,
that I am
a human like
He's
commanded by Allah to say, I'm a human
like you. Now is the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam a human like other humans?
No. I mean, he's a human in the
sense that he's a human being. Right? The
all of the awarat that pass over human
beings also can pass over him, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He's
different than other people. So the the Qadr
Mushtaq is basharia, what's the difference is the
wahi.
The is the part of the Risul Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam's
which is all knowledge, it's all ill.
That I was given the knowledge that your
your god is one god. Tawhid itself is
a an expression, even to this day, it's
an expression that means the doctrine of worshiping
only one god, but it's also
an expression meaning all of the of Islam,
and all of the beliefs of Islam, from
which
the flows from which the whole idea
of the Hadith
flows from which the entire apparatus of how
we engage with the Quran flows, it's the
essential part of Islam.
A person might not even know
or
but if they have to,
they have the key to Jannah.
They may need to spray a little w
d 40 in the door to get it
open, but it will open.
It will open.
So this this
thing that makes the rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam different is what? It's knowledge. And then
think about it from the flip side. Just
doing good, being a do gooder.
Like, people say nowadays, well, it's not it's
not that important. You know, whatever your religion
is, it's just what's important is just you
be a good human being. Right? The people
who say that are, like, the worst human
beings ever. In fact, you cannot even
accuse them of not putting in effort.
The 20th century was filled with all sorts
of weird movements
that were essentially
movements that wanted to have a better future.
They wanted to remake mankind in a into
a better form.
That's Stalin and his communists that killed god
knows how many millions of people. That's Hitler
and his Nazi party. They literally they called
it eugenics program. They wanted to reshape the
human race into, like, it's the best form
it could possibly be, you know. All of
them, they're built on what?
Good intentions. 1 might say that the people
at the top are cynical, but what drove
the engine wasn't cynicism. It was a whole
lot of
of of sincerity by a whole lot of
people, because if everybody's cynical in the system,
the system doesn't work.
There are a lot of people who believed
in it. They put in effort, sacrifice,
they they they they drank the Kool Aid,
they preached the word,
they they put in the effort, they thought
that this is even, you know, even if
I die before I see this, at least
one generation will see this plan of, like,
communism where, like, we're gonna, all of a
sudden, you know, somehow eradicate poverty and, like,
radically redistribute
wealth amongst everyone so that there's, like, this
equal equality and, like, a better life where
the poor don't, like, get,
left out to die like trash.
But what happens, they they're the ones despite
their
massive effort and despite their good intentions,
because the
they lack knowledge, because of their lack of
access to wahi, and because of their lack
of apple, their lack of ability to reason
through things properly.
They ended up causing and inflicting on the
world the worst of horrors. Look at the
Chinese Communist Party. Look at the Russian Communist
Party. Look at Nazism. Look at fascism. Look
at all of these I I ideologies.
We live right now. The people who are
trying to push, like, 78 genders on you,
they also think they're making the world a
better place. The people who are trying to
make America great again, they're also literally, they're
trying to make
America at least a a better place.
They may not have nice things to say
about other countries, but at any rate, most
of them don't seem to be antagonistic. They're
just like, hey. We wanna take care of
our own our own home.
All of it though, it should be clear
to a person who has any half half
weight of intellect that it's not going anywhere
productive.
It doesn't seem like it's making any sense.
The Rasul the
the the commandments of the Quran are very
normal and simple and reasonable commandments.
People read them,
and the problem that they have with the
Quran is not the fact that it says
that, you know, there's no, you know, the
the most honored of people is not black
or white or Arab or non Arab, but
it's the one who fears God the most.
The problem they have is not that
the,
like, keep your clothes clean, you know,
you know, they don't have a problem with
that. They don't have a problem with telling
people not to worship idols in general. They
don't have a problem in general with, you
know, being good to your parents or with
not lying or cheating and, you know, stinting
one another and buying, selling trade.
If anything, they have a problem with what
this oh, this is very it's very,
totalitarian. It just really is, like, single single-minded,
like, monolithic, like, this one thing that forces
everybody to come to terms with what? With
reasonableness.
With things that are in general reasonable.
So they'll, like, nitpick, like, little things to
object about in the Quran. Right? So people
object, oh, how come women, like, only inherit
half of what a man inherits? Well, where
was your objection when it, you know, like,
the Quran mentions that a man has to
give a woman,
a Maharin, not the other way around. Right?
There's a system you didn't understand that you
objected to it.
But the objections are all like like this.
Why? Because a person wants to weasel out
from having to submit to what they essentially
would accept as being a relatively good thing.
In general, many people, actually, if they look
at the teachings of Islam, even the most
antagonistic people, they'll be like, yeah. This really
sucks and I hate it and I hate
the Muslims. But, like, you know, if I
had to be something other than what I
am right now, I'd rather be this. I'd
rather these guys, whatever. Why? Because it's reasonable.
All of it is reasonable.
We, as Muslims, take the reasonability of Islam
for granted. Even like secular Muslims, people like
secular let me get their culturally
tied to Islamic civilization.
So they may actually prefer to celebrate Eid
rather than celebrate Christmas, or they may prefer
not to eat pork or whatever. Right? Or
they may say, okay, well, I'm gonna drink,
but not in front of the kids. You
know, like, because culture, they're they're cultural Muslims.
Right?
They benefit because we take all the reasonability
of Islam for granted. They benefit from it.
And then once they fail to transmit the
understanding of why these precepts are useful to
the next generation, then the next generation is
the one that will go completely off the
off the reservation and things will fall apart.
You won't see things fall apart right away.
The point with all of this is what
is that it's the knowledge
that
allows the door to open for making the
world a better place in a way that's
not completely horrific and it's not a complete
nightmare.
You don't have, you know, situations where Muslims
conquered a land and, like, went door to
door basically telling people either become Muslim or
we're gonna kill you.
At most, people are upset that we belong
to a Persian civilization, we belong to a
Phoenician civilization, Coptic civilization,
Hindu civilization,
Iranian civilization, whatever. And these Arabs came to
us and, like, basically, subjugated our our sovereign
nation state. But as individuals,
what did they get in return? They got
in return the language. They got in return
an access to culture, to arts, to movement
throughout the world. They got access to, you
know, running water, and nice clothes, and nice
things to eat and all sorts of things
in return, and they don't appreciate it, but
they got some benefit from it.
In general, Islam did inflict horrors on people.
You see this, you know, like you have
these like weird,
you know, you have like You go on
like far right Hindu websites, so they're, oh,
so and so came and he killed like
9,000,000 people. Do you know how hard it
is to kill 9,000,000 people? Muslims slaughtered 9,000,000
people because they didn't accept it. You know
how hard it is to kill 9,000,000 people?
Like as a
as a
logistical exercise. Right? Because we have some corporate
corporate guys here.
Like, how
how would you like, someone gave you a
budget. How much of a budget would you
need to kill 9,000,000 people
within, like, a decade?
It's really difficult.
What do you do with all the corpses?
How are you gonna
your your your your knives will all go
dull. Like, what are you gonna do with
it? The Germans, who are completely 100%
known in the world, and famous in the
world as being the paragons of efficiency.
A brutal and merciless efficiency in everything that
they do.
Literally only racked up the count to 6
before, like, they even they couldn't do it.
And what they did was horrible. It was
literally the the,
Like, it was the example for all of
mankind until
of, like, the spectacle of cruelty.
And they could only rack up 6. This
is all complete nonsense. This didn't happen. It's
not even practical. This is one of the
reasons, actually, Muslims conquered so many places, is
they didn't waste their time on doing stupid
things like killing genociding populations or even forcing
them to become Muslim. It's a waste of
time and effort. How many people are you
gonna beat up and force to, like, do
your way? There's a reason America is more
powerful than most totalitarian states in the world.
It's because they waste all their time trying
to put people in jail and beat them
and to, you know, convince them to do
this, that, or the other thing. America has
made, like, an art
of letting people do whatever they want, but
still getting your money out of them and
then funding whatever you need to once you
have your their money in your hand. Right?
The point is is with all of this
is that the the the the ilm of
the deen is what saved our forefathers from
inflicting these types of horrors. And you'll see
that people who are misguided,
even within Islam, right, look at who are
the people who caused the most suffering in
the
Ummah. Right? You see, like, people like ISIS,
they're blowing up Masajid. They end up killing,
like, manifold more peep Muslims than they end
up killing non Muslims. Not that it's, like,
a good thing to kill one. But I'm
just saying, like, even if they say, oh,
look, we're, you know, we're fighting on behalf
of you're just killing Muslims. Right? You're just
killing Muslims.
And the fighters, people literally they don't they're
people who don't know the Fatiha. Look at
this weird Paris bombing that, they did, that
nightclub,
it's not bombing shooting that that that that
happened a couple of years ago. It was
in, I think, 2,000 and,
like,
18, 16, something like that.
The guy literally, like, joined ISIS out of
a gay bar. Like, the one guy who's,
like, alive.
It doesn't betray. It's not like these are
people or students of knowledge who follow Quran
or whatever that are doing stuff like this.
The illm prevents a person from going down
that route, and the lack thereof is dangerous
in a Kafir, and it's also dangerous in
a Muslim as
well. And so this is why you have
to understand, there's a reason the Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said this. There's a reason why
he said this, and this lack of appreciation
for the ilm is what will make us
go down the same.
Lizard hole that other people went down before
us. People will say, even if you never
Ramadan.
Ramadan. What do you think you're gonna get
more reward for? Knowing how to fast Ramadan,
keeping that knowledge inside of your heart, or
actually the fast itself?
The Rasool
said hadith attributed to him. Mentioned
that it is
This is why he was literally sent this
revelation was literally sent from above the 7
heavens and above the Arshah Adhim. We don't
give it its due credit, its due value.
You'll see that the knowledge that you have
of of an act will actually reward you
more on the day of judgment than doing
the act itself.
But the thing is we don't value the
knowledge. That's why nobody learns it anymore. Nobody
learns it anymore. That's why we make a
crap show out of, like, so many things
that we we do. It's like Midas, but
with feces instead of gold. Everything you touch
turns into crap. It's not a good thing.
It's not the way of our elders, the
way of our forefathers. What did they used
to say? They used to say,
a person for for a person to make
it, they they a little bit of
good deed is enough. But you should do
it right. You should do it well.
And that requires what? That requires knowledge. That
requires that you're sure your knowledge should precede
the act. That you you don't just do
something and be like, Yeah. Mufti Saab, you
know, this is not did I do it
right? No. Learn the thing you're gonna do
first and then do it.
You should have more knowledge than you should
have action.
The limiting reagent, it should be what? The
action. Right? Imagine a person a person wants
to go hunting. They want to hunt 7
ducks,
and they go with 6 bullets.
Does that make sense? No. You should have
more knowledge than the action.
You're not gonna bring any action that's worthwhile
on the day of Jesuit or, for that
matter, in this world if you don't know
what you're doing.
And, you know, a good intention is not
it's it's an important start and it's a
necessary start, but it's not a substitution for
knowing what to do and how to do
it.
And then, Rasu
says, he said, indeed, the angels, in the
heavens
or in indeed, the angels and the denizens
of the heavens and the earth,
including the
ant, which is in its ant hole,
and the whale.
All of them, they they pray for the
one, amongst the human beings that teaches human
beings good things.
And why is that?
As long as the remembrance of Allah is
here in this world, it pushes the away
from us.
And it fills this dunya with barakah.
Every one person who stops saying the name
of Allah
every time a person
less says less,
the people, the dhikr leave, and the people
of Tik Tok come and replace them. It
saps a little bit of the and the
barakah from this world. And, the animals feel
it. People feel it. People who are themselves
not watching TikTok,
they feel it.
The animals feel it. The angels feel it.
The the jinns feel it. Everybody feels it.
And so that's why they make dua for
those people who,
who are still keeping this remembrance of Allah
alive.
And so here's the usage of the hada
as a harf,
at.
So this is Hatan Namlatah, not Hatan
and tell the whale itself. Right? So this
is another good thing people
in the Midwest. Nobody really recycles or cares
about the environment here. I'm from Seattle.
Stop drinking
bottled water and plastic
bottles. They end up pumping that stuff out
of, like, the stomach of beached whales. A
catheter should be like, yes. Awesome. Right?
But why would we want to kill the
whale? They're on our side. They're meaning to
offer us. A kaffir would be like, yeah.
It's one of their guys. Let's get them.
Right?
They're one of ours. Like, why would we
wanna
why would we want that to happen to
the birds? And we had to take care
of all of that. Right? I've seen, many
Burger King Burger King, Khalifa guys. You know
Burger King Khalifa guys? They said preach about
the
and the
they're eating haram burgers. Right?
So Allah
I'm putting a Khalifa in the in the
earth. Start by taking care of your Khalifa
now. Who here wants to establish khalifa? Raise
your hand. Look, I'm raising my hand. Who
here wants to establish khalifa? Right?
You got your khalifa.
Why are you not using some sort of,
like, passive pacifist hippie or Sufi? You're that
kind. You came in the wrong place, bro.
Yeah.
We're not just just the the the it's
important to be good person so he's, you
know. Like it is, but we're not the
you know what I mean? Right? So you're
Khalifa now. Go take care of it, all
of this, Allah will ask you about it.
So this is why this is why though
that they they make so there's another narration,
on. So notice that these
are different companions that are narrating very similar
of knowledge.
Who is one of the,
master Quran reciters,
from Hazaraj. From amongst the, there were people
that the used to learn the Quran from.
And from amongst the Ansar, there were people
that the Ansar used to learn Quran from.
All of them were from Khazraj, the Hafaz
that the prophet
had authorized to teach the people Quran, Abu
Darda
who was one of them. And with the
memorization in the Quran in the old days,
used to come
the understanding the knowledge of it as well
and the knowledge of other things that are
necessary for a Muslim. All of it.
Now we have, like,
books, hadith, etcetera.
All of that knowledge is wrapped up in
the Quran. It's just that a person has
to have enough to be able
see it, have enough understanding, to be able
to see it. Otherwise, anybody, once you tune
your head out, you know, all of it
will pass somehow or another, right, if you
tune it out. So Abu Darda
who was, sent by Sayidna Umar who
to teach the people of Sham their deen.
And he was himself a master court on
reciter that the the Ansar used to learn
from.
It's a beautiful,
narration.
Abu Darda
who said, I heard the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say,
whoever takes a path
upon which they seek knowledge,
Allah will make easy for them a path
to Jannah.
So Mubarak to all of you,
to all of you. You obviously didn't come
because we serve a good dinner afterward.
There are other there are other
and you can go, you'll find a wife
easier or a husband easier or whatever. Right?
This is not that joint.
To all of you that the messenger of
Allah gave you the that he'll make easy
for you
a path to
Jannah. Obviously, someone might say, well, it's not
me because, you know, I don't know. My
dad forced me to come or whatever. My
dad forced me to come, you know. He's
like so kind of Milan or something, you
know, and made
me come. Right? The for those people is
different. The good glad tidings for different that
the angels say, you know, you just came
because pops made him come. Right?
And then Allah will say to the angels
and say,
those are such people, even the ones who
just keep company with them, they'll never be
wretched. They'll always be happy. Right? But if
you made the intention, you're gonna come anyway.
You may as well make the attention. Right?
Okay. I get it. It's boring. It's boring
for all of us. Right?
I get it. Even even if it was,
I know not for you. You're pies. You're
Sufi You make zikr and stuff. You should
make dua for me. I respect
that. But the thing is this. Right? If
a person that crossed their mind that they're
really just kind of boring, say,
I'm coming anyway.
There'll be some part of the ilm that
will benefit me. It will benefit me in
this world. It'll benefit me in the hereafter.
Will open the path. And then when you
see, you know, like,
oh, look. The path is opening on the
day of judgment for me, and it's easy
for me to get a dunna. I thought
that was just like a hadith or whatever.
Right?
Really?
You thought it was just Baqwas, like, you
know, like, you know, like, just Pius, like,
Bolanasaab
Baqwas, like no. It It will happen. It
will happen. It will happen in this world.
You'll see it open. And on that
in the day of judgment, you'll see it
open up even clearer. And And don't be
surprised on that day.
Don't be don't be one of those guys.
Don't be surprised. You'll see it
inshallah. And it says that Allah, I will
make easy for them to pass to Jannah.
And indeed the angels, they spread their wings
and lay them on the floor, out of
how pleased they are with what the student
or what the seeker of knowledge,
is doing. The the what what the seeker
of knowledge is doing. And the angels are
what? They're pleased with good things.
They don't eat and drink in that sense,
but they're
even though they don't need it for energy,
like, the body is newer.
It's itself energy. Right? But the thing that
keeps them going, the thing that makes them
happy, like a human being, if you give
them money, they become happy. Right? You give
me money, I become happy. Not a very
good Sufi. Right? Right? But, you know, like
like, you give someone money, you give someone
something good to eat, you do something good
by somebody, they become happy. Right?
So the thing that the angels that drives
them is what? Is is worship with the
remembrance of Allah. That's what makes them happy.
And the thing that annoys them or upsets
them is
dirty things and the disobedience of Allah
So imagine that this is one of the
things that it makes them so happy. They
come like
like into a trance. They mellow out, they
spread their wings and lay them on the
floor
out of, happiness, like a pet would do,
you know, out of happiness that look
how how wonderful it is, the thing that
these these people are doing.
Well, in in indeed the
person of knowledge,
everyone in the heavens and everyone in the
earth,
including the whales inside of the sea, all
of them, they ask Allah to forgive that
person, the person of knowledge. And the virtue
of the person of knowledge over the worshipper
is like the virtue of the full moon
over all of the other stars.
This moon is so much brighter,
it's so much bigger.
The night of the full moon, you actually
cast a shadow,
whereas you'll never have shadow by starlight. You
cannot
you can tell directions by starlight, but you
can't tell what's on the ground by starlight.
But you can tell what's on the ground
by moonlight. It's very bright.
It's very bright. In fact, just last night,
though, when I was sleeping, the the the
way the moon was, it literally woke me
up. Like, I I I have very sensitive
light,
will wake me up.
So usually, if it's, like, after fudge or
I'm trying to sleep, I wrap like a
a a like a t shirt or something
around my eyes because it will wake me
up. The moonlight actually woke me up at
night. How bright it was. And I can
tell you all sorts of fun stories about
the Badia, also how bright the moonlight is,
over there as well. But, otherwise, this is
gonna just become reminiscing about Mauritania stories, and
Jawad's not here. So,
it's no fun.
So this is the the that that the
virtue of the person of knowledge over the
worshiper
is like the virtue of the full moon,
over all of the other stars.
And indeed, the people of knowledge are the
heirs of the prophet salayhi musa to Islam.
So who inherits from you?
It's not a stranger. Right?
My children. It's the people who are closest
to you in relation.
So if you have children, your brother will
not inherit from you. If you have a
brother, your uncle will not inherit from you.
If you have an uncle, your cousin will
not inherit
from you. If you have a father, your
grandfather doesn't inherit from you. It's the person
who's closest to you in kin. This is
a
for everybody who loves
and everybody
who desires knowledge, which is what the people
of knowledge are the heirs of the prophets
And indeed, the prophets didn't leave behind gold
coins or silver coins. They left behind nothing
except for knowledge.
And so whoever takes it has taken a
a great share.
It so happens this is the part of
the book we're on right now. I'm not
just doing this to, like, whatever, puff up
the, like, or
whatever,
would I I'd be lying if I said
that these these hadith still make me so
happy to this day. It really makes no
sense to me after hearing this why a
person would not,
spend a significant amount of their time learning
ilm. I understand, you know, sometimes life is
what it is. Not everyone can, like, do
it as a
profession, but why people are not excited about
it, it kind of fogs and boggles the
mind.
You know, even even Abdulrahman al Dahil,
the the last son surviving
son of the house of Umayyah
sprinted across North Africa to make it to
Spain so that, like, the the black turbans
of wouldn't, like, cut him down like a
dog.
And, all the difficulties he went through in
order to cement rule in Andalus,
and keep the bloodline of their family alive.
And
what what was his
to his children? That, like, I fought all
these wars and survived all of this for
you. You guys don't worry about any of
this. Just study knowledge. I just did it
so you can study knowledge. His father,
Hisham bin Abdul Malik himself was a person
of knowledge,
and is a person who loved ilm.
Was up and down, not everyone was the
greatest and not everyone was the evil evil
either. Right? I guess if you count, then,
yes, one of them was the greatest, and
Saidna Muawiyah was pretty pretty pretty pretty high
up there as well. But not all of
them were Yazid either. Some of them were
good people. I think this is also another
thing is that the amount of violence that
came with the overthrow of an Umayyah,
was probably
accompanied by some, historical revisionism
by the people who take the throne afterward.
But, Hisham Hisham bin Abdul Malik, by by
whatever counts, he was
a brilliant administrator, and he's a person who
loved and cultivated scholarship. It's probably where he
got it from. But from amongst their line,
there
are that, make it to the to the
that the Habib, like, will mention in his
and, scholars that rule over, Andalus. And if
you look on the other side, the, Banu
Abbas as well,
Harun Rashid,
cultivated, like, the best of the to be
the tutors for his,
for his children. The people understood that this
is why you even compete with each other
for the dunya so that you can get
some piece of the because it's not an
easy path to take.
Otherwise, this idea that you're gonna become rich
and then turn your back on all of
these things, it's not part of the logic
of Islam.
It's not part of the logic of Islam.
It's not.
Kings, even tyrants in the old days, they
used to enjoy this. They would do that.
They would like to be amass great power
and great wealth, and they would call the
greatest scholars of the different parts of the
Muslim world, and they would sit and learn
theirs from them, you know. And they may
don't even understand any of it, but it's
just one of those things, like, just like
it's the same way that, like, Barack Obama
will call, like, you know, so and so
pop star to sing at his inauguration or
whatever. They still they still held these things
in great esteem even though,
you know, just because Obama goes to a
NBA player doesn't mean he doesn't he actually
knows how to play ball or you know
what I mean? But it's just
they held these things in esteem.
Whereas now,
whatever is happening now is happening now.
The one about whom,
said
that
that I'm pleased with for my Ummah what
Ibn Ummi Abd is pleased with for my
Ummah and I dislike for my Ummah what
Ibn Ummi Abd disliked for my ummah, which
was a diminutive nickname of Saydna Abdullah bin
Musroda
He was a herder. We used to herd,
sheep for Abu Jahl in He wasn't a
a person of high, nobility
status. He was from. He was a Bedouin.
But because of Islam,
he was one of the great masha'ikhin, one
of the great, Mujtahhidun
fukahaab, the companions of the Allahu on him.
So he said, I heard the the messenger
of Allah
say, may Allah make bright
a man or make shine a man who
hears
from us something,
and then will pass it on to another
person, will deliver that knowledge to somebody else
just as as he heard it.
And how many a person?
Rubamu Balarin. Oh, I'm in Sami.
How many a person?
The information will arrive to them, and they'll
understand it. Once it comes to them, they'll
understand sunnah
that
the sunnah
that
are
literally meant to be passed on. They may
not have been for the companions of the
Allahu and whom the prophet
sent them for other people.
Those nations, those people, those scholars, those ages,
those times, those circumstances
that he his life didn't
directly touch, you know, before he
passed to the Barzah alaihi
wa
sallam. And so they're preserved for that reason
because that knowledge will be useful to somebody
later on. So in that sense, who knows
who's the sheikh and who's the student?
Maybe someone hears something, and you'll understand it
in a way I don't understand it if
you didn't hear it already.
Or maybe you'll tell it to somebody, and
that person will understand it in a way
that you didn't understand it.
And guess what? In the process, all the
people who preserve the knowledge and pass it
on, they get the reward for it.
Why? Because the messenger of Allah
said, how many how many a person receives
the person who originally heard it.
This is another
important hadith. Muslim mentions it in his, the
Muqaddimah of his,
Sahih.
With that Abu Hurair
who said that the messenger
said, whoever
is asked about knowledge,
knowledge that they have with certainty.
Whoever is asked about knowledge here, the knowledge
it means the knowledge that they have with
certainty, not hearsay or I heard someone say
this or,
you know, I read this on Facebook post
or on I heard it on a TikTok
or whatever. Right? But knowledge that a person
has with certainty, that whoever's asked about
knowledge and then they hide it,
then they obscure it.
They will be
bridled with rains of fire on the day
of judgment.
You know, rains like the like the animals
have the rains in their mouths
that
that the rider has to control them, that
they'll be bridled. They'll be basically tied up
and muzzled up and bound up with,
rains of fire on the day of judgment.
So
in Islam,
if somebody is threatening you with death
or grievous bodily harm or grievous property damage,
you are allowed to, in that moment, if
you wish to,
lie in order to save yourself.
And if you wish to, you're allowed to
tell the truth as well. And whatever difficulty
you go through,
you'll be rewarded for from Allah
Ta'ala. In that sense, we don't have this
idea of taqiyah that
the Rawafid have that
Taqiyyah, I think, like the definition
that Sadiq
ibn
gives, and he's kadub and and
what nonsense is filled in those books. That
he says that taqiyah is
to hide or change the truth for any
maxa the person has,
or objective a person has to get some
benefit from, either in the din or in
the dunya.
Dunya. We don't believe in that.
But we have now 2.0. Right? Because we're
not Shias. We're Sunnis. Right? So we don't
believe in Taqiyyah. So what what do we
believe in? We believe in hikmah.
We believe in what?
Hikmah.
Look. Hikmah is wonderful. Okay? If a person
just became Muslim right now,
you may not wanna find the one most
triggering and controversial issue that, you know, is
not even relevant to them to tell them
right now.
Because they have to learn how to pray,
and they have to learn how to that's
100%. I get it. Right? This is one
extreme. But what's the other extreme?
The other extreme is that you have so
much jikmah that a person in their entire
life passes by, and even some issue is
just a basic issue of and the deen,
they never hear because of what? Hikma.
This is what's meant by this hadith, or
this at least is what what's included in
this hadith.
Is that the truth is the truth.
Sometimes it is a bitter pill.
Some people, there are certain issues that are
beyond their pay grade or the capacity to
be able to understand. Certain issues are not
even relevant to certain people, so why should
a person bring them up? But those parts
of the din that a person has so
much, quote, unquote, Hikma, the entire lifetimes will
pass by, and nobody ever knows about it.
Nobody ever hears about it, which is a
number of issues that we have in America.
Like, one of the fun things is, like,
you know, people who lived in America,
and, you know, practice Islam for long enough,
your pops will tell you this. Right? There
are so many things. At some point, someone
just said, like, okay, you're Hanafi and you're
Shafi'i, and these are Madhavs. Everyone's like, oh
my god, what's fiqh? Right? And then all
of a sudden, people realize someone says, Amin
out loud, and someone says it quietly, and
somebody puts their hands here, here, here, whatever,
and then they start fighting about it. They're
like, man, I wish it it was back
in the old days when nobody even knew
anything about any of this stuff and, like,
we were just, you know, know,
peace and calm with one another. This cat's
out of the bag now, man.
Knowledge is knowledge. You gotta deal with it,
it exists.
You gotta cope with it.
So, in that sense, actually, the teachings of
Islam are not such that a person should
hearken and yearn for ignorance, as if to
think ignorance is bliss. It's not like it's
not bliss at all, in fact.
But the fun thing is in the Muslim
world,
these,
cats getting out of the bag have been
equilibrated.
Here, we have to reinvent the wheel from
scratch,
for whatever reasons.
Many of which make sense. We have to
kind of, like, reinvent the wheel and, like,
learn all these lessons the hard way over
and over again. The point is is this
is that so there are still many things
in American Islam. Maybe Chicago is a little
bit different because you live between
and you're gonna hear a lot of things.
Right? But,
the rest of the country is like that.
There may be certain things that a person
is very shocked to learn is actually part
of the deen, and they were always taught,
literally, like, always taught from the but it's
not Islam. It's not Islam. Then sure enough.
Sure enough. Right? What is it? It turns
out that that's what Islam exactly what Islam
teaches. There's so many things like that.
Little petty false fictions that that float around
that people do because it sounds better on
a, like, a political ad or whatever. Right?
But this is,
for those of you now that we've heard
the hadith of the Rasulullah, we know better
now,
which is what that the Rasulullah
said that whoever asks about something that's a
knowledge of certainty, whoever's asked about something and
then they hide it. On the day of
judgment, they'll be bridled with rains of fire,
The messenger of Allah
is narrated by the same Abu Hurair, the
messenger of Allah
said, whoever exerts himself to learn the knowledge
of something that should be learned
for the sake of
Allah
sincerely and purely for
Allah sake.
Mighty and majestic is he.
But that person doesn't learn it except for
in order to
gain some part of the dunya,
some merchandise of the dunya,
that person will not find the fragrance of
Jannah on the day of judgment.
They won't even smell it.
Meaning what? They won't even come close to
it.
Now, Masha'Allah, this is a good reason why
you shouldn't say I wanna be Fakih or
like the next, like, you know,
Muslim Muslim
Muslim Islam Evangelist YouTube star so that I
can, you know, drive a nice car. People
understand that. This also includes medical school. You
get that, you know that, right?
This also includes everyone who says, I wanna
like, earn a living to provide for my
family.
Whoever learns the knowledge that a person should
do for the sake of Allah ta'ala,
but they did it in order to get
some peace of the dunya. And this is
another thing my that
I read
the front half of the mishkats from and
a number of other books. He mentions this.
He says, don't think
that don't think that,
you know, running your store or doing your
business or going to work is
dunya. As long as a person is engaged
in those things and they remember Allah, this
is all 100% part of your deen.
The dunya is what? The part of this
material world which distracts you from
that a person wants obviously, what do you
mean by distract you from Allah
It means what? Right? Your favorite movie is
playing
downtown in the IMAX theater, and you just
got a ticket. And you're gonna go watch,
you know, some, like,
adventures of whatever.
Lord of the Rings of Star Wars, of
X Men, of the Marvel,
Batman, Superman, whatever.
Right?
There's a chance during that whatever cinematic,
extravaganza,
90 minutes, 97 minutes, or whatever,
that a person will not remember
There's a chance that many people, if they
were given that opportunity, they would go and
they might miss their prayer.
Someone says, that's not me. Okay. Good. I'm
not talking about you then. You guys are
pious people. You came to learn. Of course,
you cover your eyes in the kissing scenes
and all this other stuff. Right? So and,
like, you know, you wouldn't go to something
haram anyway in the first place. I'm not
talking about you. I'm talking about somebody else.
Right? The duniya the point is the duniya
is that part. You know, out of that
97 minutes, the duniya is the one minute
that the haram thing happens in, or that
even nothing haram happens, but a person just
forgets Allah, doesn't remember Allah That's what the
duniya is. Not all the duniya is haram,
by the way. Some of it is permissible.
But you also have to be wary about
that part of it, that what? That distracts
you. So this is not just a haram
duniya. This also includes the halal duniya, that
a person just wants duniya, that they only
learn the knowledge for the sake of the
duniya, meaning they won't smell jannah, meaning they
won't come anywhere close to it. May Allah
forgive us for those things that we did
for the wrong reason or in the wrong
way. And we always have a chance to
make and to rectify our intention for something
better and to do something better with what
we have. There are many things you can
remember
with and they're also enjoyable as well. If
the children weren't here, I would have described
some of them, but,
anyhow.
And so this is the last hadith inshallah
we'll read for today's
Alright. You're interested. What was that other thing
you're talking about? What's I'll talk about it
later.
Okay.
Don't worry.
It's good, I promise.
He convert he accepted Islam before his father.
I almost said converted. In America, like, they'll
beat you to death if you say convert
in front of revert guys or in front
of the convert guys.
So he accepted Islam
before his father did. And there's only 13
years age difference between the 2 of them.
So they actually lived an entire life with
one another.
Very interesting
pair, both of them. But
the of the son is higher than that
of the father.
Even though we don't hear as much about
him, I feel like. But a very, very
amazing individual.
Amongst their family heirlooms
is
the,
that they had a a scroll
that was transmitted through their family, through their
descendants.
That's the son of the the descendants of
that,
he was
he was one of the few people who
was allowed to write the hadith of the
prophet by the messenger
of
Allah during his lifetime.
So, I don't know that the the physical
artifacts still, is known to people that it
still survives. But the hadith of the
at some point or another, it was like
a annual ceremony. It would be taken out
and shown to the people and things like
that. But the hadith of it are are
widely transmitted,
in a number of, in a number of
books of hadith. So if you ever hear
that that, Isnat, that's what it is. It's
their their their family. You might it says
it's an interesting because
the names of the companions aren't mentioned, but
it's
5 generations that transmit that
transmit those hadith. So he said, I heard
the messenger of Allah
say, indeed, Allah will not
will not take away knowledge.
He won't just, like, take away the knowledge,
like like, * it away
from the people. That, like, one day people
will be like, what's the Surah after Fatiha,
but before al Imran again? Like, it's not
gonna be like that.
Rather, will take the knowledge back from the
people
by taking the the the the people of
the people of knowledge.
Until there will be no
person of knowledge left in the world.
And the people will take as their heads
or as their leaders,
people who are just just abject ignoramuses.
And they will be asked,
and then they'll give their answers to questions,
with no knowledge whatsoever
and they will themselves be misguided and they'll
cause other people to be misguided. It's a
hadith both of Bukhari and Muslim.
You can decide
if such people exist already right now.
But the issue is this is, like, we're
not a 100% and, like, you know, we're
not companions, obviously. And,
but we're also not all already at we're
not at the end, so it's we're it's,
like, so bad. There's still a lot left.
The books are still there. The are still
there. There may be few there may be
fewer people of knowledge. This hadith has a
very important insight,
which is if you see any of the
if you see any of the are still
alive,
hustle and move, and go go go see
them, go to them.
Whatever questions you have, don't leave them for
tomorrow. Take
ask them today.
What happens is the knowledge, once it transfers
from that person to you, it's still there
in the world.
But,
if there's nobody there to
ask, so there's nobody there to tell, then
it goes into the it goes into the
ground with with the shaykh. They say that
about Hafiz ibn Hajar. They say there are
entire branches of learning. If he didn't write
his,
which is it's it's, obviously, it's a canonical
commentary on Sahih Bukhari, but it's so much
more than that. It's so much more than
that. They say that if he didn't write,
his
entire branches of knowledge would have been buried
with him.
And if you read the book, it really
is interesting like that. I mean, it really
has, like, all sorts of stuff.
You They talk about AI now. The guy
is, like, literally, like, the
there's, like, some Hadith AI thing or whatever
that gives, like, okay, some okay answers and
some stupid answer. This is like what the
AI software is trying to mimic. Right? The
person already did it. People like him. People
like, people like,
Although, albeit in very different ways. Like, there
are different AIs. Like, Google has its own
and, like, you know,
Microsoft has its own or whatever. Right? Facebook
has its own, which apparently is, like, the
floppiest of all of them. But they're all
very different, but you see how they they
do that work. If you read the the
the in their books,
like,
they pose a question you never thought of,
and they'll answer it in a way that
you know you never would have been able
to do
enough research to be able to put pull
all the disparate pieces, of the puzzle together
to understand or explain it. Point is is
what? Not everyone's gonna write their knowledge in
books, and even if they do, not everyone's
gonna read it to even know where to
find it. If there's something you want, go
now. Go today.
Learn it
because nobody's guaranteed it tomorrow. Once you have
it, if the person you got it from
dies, it's still there in this world.
Then after that, the job is something else
is to teach it. But don't think this,
you know, Sheikh Amina is gonna be here
forever.
Don't think that,
you know, the teachers at
and the teachers at
and Moana Aziz, and the other elders, or
even the people are, and you don't think
that all of these
things are gonna be here forever. All these
people are gonna be here forever.
Otherwise, there was a time that Damascus was
also filled with was also filled with students
of knowledge. Now look what's going on. The
is
empty. It's the classes are not going anymore.
You know, the classes are not in session
anymore. All sorts of places.
Ibn Abdul Bar, you know. He was a
Qadi of Lisbon. Lisbon doesn't have a Qadi
anymore.
You know, Bakr ibn
Maklad,
He was a Muaddith.
They say that his musnad was longer than
the musnad of Imam Ahmad. He's one of
the Muaddith king of Andalus.
The Amir, who was himself a,
again, Banu Meyya, he was a a a
great patron of Hadith sciences.
He basically protected him, otherwise the Malekis would
have eaten him alive.
It's very interesting it's written in
the
written
in
the,
the habesir alaalam. I'm like, what? He must
have been saying, I mean out loud or
something, man. What's going on? I said, the
Amir, he had, like, he had he had
he had,
caliphial patronage, otherwise the Malekis would have eaten
him alive.
But, look, those places, there's no Maliki and
there's no Muhadid. None none of that. It's
all gone now.
And so, whatever you want, you know, they
still survive. They still are alive in their
knowledge. Somebody took something before
everything fell apart. So this is also,
this is how this is what we also
learned from this, that there's no state. There's
no madrasa. There's no human being. There's no
institution that will survive forever.
But the knowledge as long as people keep
carrying it, it will be amongst us. And
once it's gone, then, god, help us. Somebody's
gonna put some up on TikTok, and then,
you'll see you'll see fires will burn, and,
blood will be spilled. And may Allah be
our protection from all of all of that
and all of those types of people.