Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Scholars of the Subcontinent Spiritual Empire on the Ruins of the State DH2015
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So we have a very small amount of
time and we have a lot that we
want to go through. Okay?
So a couple of
a couple
of rules that will put what information you're
about to learn into context.
1 is what?
It's a famous
saying attributed to Seda Abdul Abimbul Mubarak, one
one of the MuhaddiThin who is narrated in
the Sihas Sita, all 6 books of hadith.
What does that mean?
The the MuhaddiThin were brutal about who they
chose to narrate from. Right? Imam Bukhari is
a student of Imam Ahmed bin Hambal. 2
of the greatest Muaddehtin in the history of
Islam. Right? Bukhari doesn't narrate one hadith from
Ahmed bin Hambal because he has all the
hadith that Ahmed bin Hambul has, that he
needs for his sahi from other than him
with a shorter chain. So when someone narrates
from another, it's cause they need to because
that's the only person with that short of
a chain of a hadith. All 6 books
have his hadith in them because he's a
very important person. He said that this chain
of narration
by which we narrate
anything about Deen. Okay?
If it wasn't for that chain of narration,
anyone who wanted to say anything about Islam
would have said whatever they wanted to say.
Okay? So if someone once asks you, where
did you you know, you say something, well,
you know, in Islam, blah blah blah. And
they say, well, where did you hear that
from? Say, this is a good sign. It
means that that chain of narration is still
there. Okay? So there is a need for
us to understand
who is in this chain of narration.
Okay? Second thing, hadith of sin the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam narrated by Sidna Anas
bin Malik or the Allahu Ta'ala Anhul.
That a man came to the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and asked him,
said, when is the the day of judgment
going to be? The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam turned the question around on the questioner
and said, what have you prepared for it?
And so
the the the questioner says, I haven't prepared
much for it in terms of fasting and
prayer. All I know is I love Allah
and I love his Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam replied to that, that a man will
be with the one he loves.
The man will be with the one he
loves. You Muqiyama. Forever you'll be with whoever
you love. If you love these you know,
whoever you love. If you love the basketball
players, you'll be with them. If you love
the football players, you'll be with them. If
you love the NBA, alaymusaat al Islam, you'll
be with them. If you love the oliya
and saliha, you'll whoever you love, that's who
you'll be with. Said Anas bin Malik
he said, there was nothing the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ever said that
made us as happy as we are happy
to hear that. Why? Because they're constantly in
doubt as to whether or not their own
good deeds were good enough to be accepted
by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We are people who assume it's like money
in the bank and doing Allah a favor.
By attending daruhikma
or by
praying on Fridays, or by praying 5 times
a day, or by fasting in Ramadan.
It's not like that. It's not like that.
Rather, Allah is the one who did you
the favor even to allow you to do
these things. The sahaba were very sensitive about
these things. They were afraid nothing would be
accepted. But he said, we were happy. Why
did he say that this is the happiest
thing that we ever heard? The happiest hadith
occasion that we heard from the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam? The reason is because they
knew they loved Allah and his rasul, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
So to love the people of piety
is itself, in and of itself, an act
of worship. There's a long discussion about what
the virtues and benefits of that are. We
will suffice with just this one hadith. It's
a Sahih hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and it's narrated in the sihah
and it's something that will suffice with because
of the shortness of time.
So I am a person I've like mashallah
2 half of the family.
You know, they're not very well acquainted with
one another. Insha'Allah, the the the West African
half, insha'Allah, and the North African half, Sheikh
Rami, will talk about tomorrow. I'm equally happy
to talk about it if anybody ever wishes
to know. But for now, there is another
half of the family, which which is what
the ulama that we learned from in the
Indian subcontinent. So you say Indian subcontinent. So
many people say, Sheikh, how come only this
ulama say this? How come this your alama,
say that? The other thing, the other thing.
How come, you know, this, you know, moonsighting
and praying on time and eating halal and
blah blah blah. Listen. This This is not
a deen of the Indian subcontinent. You understand
what I'm saying? This is the deen of?
Sayidna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's the
same Quran. The same hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's the same deen
that all of us have.
And trust me, I've been through all the
continents of the world, I've been through all
of the
major centers of Islamic learning or at least
the majority of them, And I'll tell you
the amount of
and honor that our ulama have from the
Indian subcontinent amongst the ulama of the world.
It's something that a jahl may not understand
it, but a person of will understand it.
Otherwise, the reason what's the reason that the
books of these Indian masha'ikhar read in the
other countries? What would the reason be if
it was just some local variant of bida
or Allah knows best what?
I don't say that the Indian subcontinent is
the markers of our in the world. Rather,
the khair of Sayna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam
is something that will be jari, it will
be flowing like a river in every land,
every continent, in the heart of every believer
from before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created the
heavens and the earth until
until that thing that will never end in
Jannah, in the akhirah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will never let it end.
But but what do we what do we
understand? We understand
So So we should appreciate masha'Allah. Mullana Bilal
is here. Mullana Kamaluddin is here. Mufti Abra
is here. Ulama from Darul Qasim, Darul
from this madrasa, from that madrasa, from all
of these institutions, they're here. And there's a
plethora of ulema that have this connection. So
you should also know I want to share
with you who are these people because your
connection to the dean is through them.
Your connection to the dean is through them.
Right? The ulama are the. Allah commands that
you ask, ask the people of knowledge if
you don't know. These are the people of
knowledge that are available to you. There are
others also, their chain of narration is just
as noble, just as honored, and just as
respected in our hearts, but the ones that
you take from because of karaba, you should
know
know more about them. You should know more
about your father than you know about your
uncles. You should know more about your brothers
and sisters than you should know about your
cousins. And all of them have
a place. All of them we keep sila
torahim with. We keep kinship bonds with all
of them. This is not a matter of
superiority of 1 over the other. You understand?
My bad like a little kid, my dad
can beat your dad. It's not about that.
There are people who get like that. Those
people are very irritating.
Don't be one of them, please.
May Allah TA give me tawfi not to
be one of them. So the story that
we wanted to talk about now, right, the
title of the talk is what? It's a
it's a it's a it's this the it's
what what is the title of the talk?
You have the the,
right? The scholars of the sub congress. It's
the subtitle, I apologize.
Right? Spiritual
empire on the ruins of what? Of the
state.
So there was this great empire, the Mughal
empire, that ruled over the Indian subcontinent for
several centuries. It's a very beautiful story. You'll
find there's a number on YouTube and things
like that. There are a number of very
good documentaries.
The documentaries are made by Westerners, by people
who are not insiders, by outsiders. It carries
bias and all of these things. But still
you'll see a lot of khair. You'll see
the innovation, the imagination,
the the the the the the motivation.
You'll see the dynamicness of the people who
created those empires. Right? Right now, we're in
such a sad state. Right? We make judgments
about the deen and this is going out
of fashion, that's going out of fashion, this
is not practical, that's not practical. Let me
tell you something about practicality.
Everybody in this room, masha'Allah, some of us
are doctors, lawyers, engineers, ulama, we don't even
have the wherewithal to open a grocery store.
You know Dominic's and, what is it,
what's the other one?
Jewel Osco. Jewel Osco. You know how much
money it takes in financing, cash to have
vegetables come every day from different don't even
have enough talent to open a grocery store.
Okay? These people made empire. Their empires collapsed
over a century ago. People still go and
visit the cultural relics. Nobody is going to
go and visit the TV that we watch
all day and all night and that we
live by and will die by. Nobody cares
about it because we're not dynamic people like
that. That empire, go read about it. Go
watch a documentary. Go learn about it, insha'Allah.
It's also something very amazing, but it's not
what lasts. It's not what lasts. What lasts?
The thing that's for the sake of Allah.
Because every material thing of this dunya started
in this dunya and dies in this dunya.
Everything that's for the sake of Allah started
from before Allah Ta' created the heavens and
the earth from above the Saba'asalahuat
and above the Arsha'azim, and it will last
forever. It will have everlasting life with him
when all of these material and perishing things
around us die and they're dying right in
front of our eyes.
So what is it? The state is going
down. This Mughal Empire, which if you look
at the 3 large empires of the Muslims,
during the
late middle ages in the Renaissance period of
Europe, Right? There are 3 large empires. The
Ottoman Empire, which retains the caliphate,
which you should also learn about. It's something
that Muslims can be proud of. Right? The
Ottoman Empire. There's the Persian state and then
there's the Mughal Empire. The Mughal Empire in
terms of revenue, in terms of production, agricultural
production, and in terms of population,
it's like 7 times the size of both
of the other two empires put together.
All of them are important, but it dwarfs
them in terms of how the state happens,
how the state comes about. The more interesting
thing about it is that the Muslims managed
to make both of these states, the Mughal
state and the Ottoman state, as minorities.
Meaning what? Non Muslims didn't even accept Islam,
but they said, You know what? You Muslims
have a good thing going here. We're gonna
cast our lot with you, we're gonna live
with you, we're gonna live under your system,
we're not gonna read your salat, but you
guys seem to have a good thing going,
so we're choosing to cast a lot with
you. Many of them later become Muslims, but
they appreciate Islam both in the dunya and
the akhirah.
And if not in the akhirah, they at
least appreciate it in the dunya. So what
happens is when the state is declining
the reasons for the decline of the state
are not what we want to talk about
right now. When this state is declining, it's
in that context that Shawwal Iyalai is born.
Shawwal Iyalai is a Muhamdiddth. He was from
Delhi. Delhi is the capital of
India now. That's how we think about it.
Right? We think about Delhi as the capital
of India. Right? Who's the one who rules
from Delhi right now?
Right? There's a Hindu nationalist government.
They really don't like Muslims. Okay? They really
so we associate Dili with what? With shirk
and with kufr
and with the hatred of Islam.
But Dili was
conquered by the army of 2 Qutubs.
Who? Qutbuddin
Aibek. Right? He was a slave king.
He was a slave king. The Mamluk dynasty
in Egypt was not the only Mamluk dynasty
that we had in Islam. There are many
of them. Right? He was a Turkic slave
who became king.
Right? Because when people think, look, Islam is
so horrible, it tolerates slavery, the slavery of
Islam and the slavery of America, it's like
apples and oranges. It's not even like apples
and oranges. It's like it's like, you know,
like apples and like anti matter. It has
no no comparison.
When is it in America or in the
West that a slave ever became king of
anything? It was illegal for them even to
learn how to read, right, much less to
fight and own property and teach. And many
slaves became ulama, they became free slaves or
more wealthy
and intelligent than their masters, etcetera. It's a
completely different system. Nobody studies the Sharia anymore,
so how can I explain it? I only
have an hour to talk, and that hour
was cut into 5 minutes because people don't
know how to park properly. So what am
I supposed to do? It's a loss, you
know, for all of us. All of us.
Congratulations. It's a loss for all of us.
So what happens is
with 1 of the.
Right?
Is
a
according to one of the opinions, it's a
village
next to the Uzbek city of Ash, which
is currently in Kyrgyzstan.
And so he came as a student of
knowledge and as a student of the spiritual
path
and on horseback,
they conquered for the sake of Allah as
Mujahideen fisabilillah.
They conquered the city of Delhi in the,
like, the 1200 or the 1100, something like
the 12th or 13th century.
They conquered that that that city.
They went to the temples and they smashed
the idols of the mushrikeen
and they built a masjid in the center
of Delhi called what? The Kuwatul Islam Masjid.
Right? You know a little bit of Arabic?
Right? What does Islam mean?
Word to the bird man, masha'Allah. He never
he never lets me down, masha'Allah. Right? It
means what? The might of Islam, the power
of Islam. Imagine that. There are some people
right now having a heart attack. Why is
he even even saying these things right now
in front of everybody? Right? Those were people
they had guts, they had honor, they had
dignity, they had ambition. They were going to
do something good with their life or they're
going to go down
trying. There weren't people who were halfway people
who are
happy with an existence of mediocrity. Allah Ta'ala
gave them fathat. Allah Ta'ala gave them victory
over their enemies. From that time until the
time, Delhi falls to the British.
Okay? Delhi is a city of Muslims. No
kafir lives in Delhi.
A kafir can come and clean the houses
there, a merchant can come and trade, buy,
sell and trade, but
they can only enter the gates of the
city when?
After the sun rises and they have to
leave by the time of Madrib. Because it's
a city of who? The Muslims.
This is something all of us should understand
that. You know how we talk about Andalusia,
oh, it's Muslim Spain fell and all this
culture and blah blah blah. Right? This is
no less of a tragedy that this slipped
through the fingers of the people of Islam.
What was that Dili, that walled city? Right?
Dili, Agra, all of these cities. What were
inside of those walled cities?
100 of okaf.
What is a raqf? A raqf is an
endowment. A raqf is an endowment by which
the masajid run, by which the madaris run.
You see, people weren't having fundraisers for all
of history.
You understand? The prophet
and Sahaba did it at one time. They
built empire and then they made systems by
which all of these things can run. You
know, paying
$3,000 for a parking spot and all of
these they had okaf by which these things
ran.
Right? And so there were 100 of okaf
within the walled city of Delhi, amongst which
there were 100 of madares that taught for
the low price of free.
Hospitals that treated people for the low price
of free.
Go to the hospital, the most pious of
Muslim doctors, with the beard
and 40 days 4 months and Hafiz of
Quran and, you know, Bey'a with Fulan and,
you know, Masha'Allah, all the marks of piety
and try to get free treatment.
Try to get free treatment. If
someone gives it to you, ask that doctor
to make dua for me as well.
Hospitals.
Where they treated people for? Free.
Right? They had hotels and lodges where travelers
could come and stay at cost. If they
didn't have money, they would stay for free.
Places where they would distribute food for people.
Right? They distribute food for for people. For
what? For free. These are our traditions. This
sounds like an interesting place. People say, well,
I wanna I wanna move to Chicago. You
know, Chicago is so much deen, mashaAllah. Chicago.
Chicago is so excellent. The Chicago of the
deen is so wonderful because they put on
Dawah Hikma for free 3 days in the
entire year. It's good. It's a start. Allahu
Ta'ala reward our ulema that had the vision
that say, okay,
What you cannot achieve completely, at least you
shouldn't abandon completely.
Right? But they used to have all of
this this was what they had 247.
The deen of Allah ta'ala, the love of
Allah and Hisr Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This was the environment that was there. Yes.
The emperors of the Mughal Empire were people
of, the people people of excess and of
gluttony and of waste and of, you know,
intrigue with one another politically.
But that is what the affair of kings,
the people, the normal people of the empire,
and the normal people of its metropoli
were people who loved Allah and His Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
From amongst those from amongst those okaaf was
the madrasah Rahimiya
that that, sheikh Tamim talked about, which is
a madrasah of bin alim by the name
of Shah Abdul Rahim.
He was a person of dhikr and of
piety and of taqwa and of immense knowledge
and he was a fatiuh of the hanati
madhab. And he was a master of both
of the Quran and Sunnah, and also a
master of the rational sciences as well, of
logic and of philosophy
and and of the rational sciences as well.
He had a
son. His son, his name is Ahmed, Mu'laqab
bi Wali'illah,
who had the nickname of Wali'illah. Imagine someone
has a nickname like that. What do we
say? This is this is this is whatever.
Like, this guy has hops or this guy,
you know, whatever. He can dunk or what.
What is this guy
young man's nickname? Waliullah.
He studies everything that he can study from
his father and then he says I want
to study more, so his father arranged for
him to go to Hajj and to go
and study in Haramain Sharifin.
The institution of the Haramain Sharifin is something,
oh, la il al-'Adin. This is part of
our deen as well. Okay? Don't get too
caught up. People say, oh, they're making this
hotel and they're making a tourist and they're
making this, that, and the other thing. Well,
why? It's true. It's bad. What's happening? It's
not good. It's not a good thing. Why?
Because the people, their hearts have turned to
the dunya and so they're trying to dunya
fait. But the khair is still there. Remember,
the black stone is not from this world.
Right? The Kaaba is not from this world.
The Hajj and the Umrah are not from
this world. These are things that
are I know it's bad all these hotels
and gadi shopping and all of these other
kind of things. Right? I know it's bad.
Don't focus on the bad. Focus on what's
good. Why? Because the you know, focusing on
the bad things bad people do are not
gonna benefit you. Focusing on the good that's
there, it will benefit you. Right? So these
institutions of the Haramain shalayfain, both Makkah Mukallam
and Madina Munawwara. Right? By ijma'a, the consensus
of the ulama, the space in which the
sacred body of the Rasul salallahu alaihi wa
sallam is the most sacred
place in the earth, in the heavens, in
the earth more sacred than Jannah, more sacred
than the arsh of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That place is there, you benefit from it,
I benefit from it. You may not understand
how and why but there are people who
understood and they did great things. So this
this this Waliullah Ahmed, the son of Shah
Abdul Rahim, he goes and he's a genius,
He goes to the Haram Sharif to the
Haramain Sharif in Makham Makkarm and Madinah Munawwara
where he meets all of the other ulama
that are coming from Hajj and the ones
that are there. He learns from them and
he becomes rapidly beloved by the ulama and
he reads from one of the Muhaddithin, Muhammad
Tahir al Kurdi, amongst a number of other
ulama.
Right? From West Africa. All these names, if
you look in the all of the different
names of the from the entire world that
they read from. Right? So from this Muhammad
Sal, Khurdi, he takes the ijazah for the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
From what? Bukhari, Muslim,
timidity, etcetera, all of these books that we
know and many of the books that we
don't know. He learns them. Right? Uh-uh
Al Kurdi says about his student, he says
that I give him the ijazah and the
chain of narration. He's the one who explains
to me what the meaning of the hadith
is.
That's how intelligent this is how intelligent he
was. This is not something that is unbelievable.
It's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
May Allah make shine and make bright
the face of such a man or such
a person
who hears something that I said and then
he memorizes it and he protects it. He
keeps that he keeps it like protected inside
of his heart and then he gives it
to somebody else. He passes it along to
somebody else. Farooqba sam eren. Right? O Aminal
Mubal Nir. Why? Because sometimes
a person who hears something
will
understand what he hears more than the one
who tells it to him. Or in a
different
That it's possible somebody carries a piece of
information and they don't understand it. And it's
possible somebody carries a piece of information and
gives it to someone who understand it more
than he does.
So he takes
the the the the chain of narration of
the hadith from these masha'i and he takes
the books of hadith from these masha'i.
They give him they give him ijazah, they
give him
the permission to narrate these books of hadith,
and they say, go. You've learned everything we
have to offer you, and we've taken from
you great benefit. Now go and do whatever
you want in the world.
We're we're with you. Our duas are with
you. Our prayers are with you, and our
permission is with you. So what does he
do? He comes back to Delhi and he
opens the madras.
Now this is something I'm going to he
continues teaching the madrasa Rahimiya, his father's madrasa
and Dili. Okay? I'll tell you something right
now. I'll tell you something right now. Before
shawali'ullah, the study of hadith in the Indian
subcontinent was very weak. This is somewhere in
the earlier 1700. Okay? The study was weak.
What was strong in the Indian subcontinent?
The study of fiqh.
The study of the fiqh specifically of the
Hanafi Madhhab. It's one of the great centers
of the
Hanafi Madhab, Al Fataw
al Hindiyah,
right, which is a set of Fatwa collections,
Tatarghani, Akazikan, etcetera. Right? These are,
are,
put together and developed under
the auspices of the Mughal state.
Right? Because running a madrasa and running all
these illni things is not easy. Something that
requires teams of people who are specialists
and, you know, people who collate them and
judges that will give verdicts about things. It's
not an easy thing to do. So what
happens is most of the people are working
in fiqh. Why?
Because if you know fiqh really good,
you are going to be appointed as the
judge of a city. And if you're appointed
as the qadi, as the judge of a
city, you are a big shot. The judges
used to make more money than anybody else.
The judges used to have more respect than
anybody else. There are many functions at a
Qadi that a judge had in the Islamic
State, Right? Not
these crazy people in in in in the
back backwards of Syria and and and Iraq.
The actual Islamic State. Right? The the the
judges had many functions other than just giving
verdicts. Why? Because the people respected them. They
say these people are the ones who know
the shara'aballallahu alaihi
wa sallam better than anyone else. So when
somebody wanted to,
get married, they asked him, you
marry
my my my daughter off to so and
so. When somebody wanted to give a walk,
they say, you be witness for their walk.
When there are disputes between people that are
not of a legal nature, you
settle the disputes, etcetera, etcetera, to the point
where the judges had a higher political authority
in many cases than even the kings had,
and that the governors had, and that generals
had. Why? Because they're untouchable. A king may
be assassinated and another king will come in
his place. Nobody would ever touch the qabi.
No one would ever say anything to the
qabi. Right? So what did the students spend
their time studying?
Fiqh. Why? Because it's gonna get you ahead
in the dunya.
Well, some of them did it for the
sake of Allah. Some of them did it
for the dunya and then later on made
tawba. But whatever. The people that their their
turkeys, their focus was on fiqh. I want
you to understand this. Right? Because sometimes we
say, Oh, glory days of Islam. Now they're
over and we're, you know, done with. It's
not about that. Right? The people, the problems
that we have nowadays, they had also. Right?
Nowadays,
why are there not students of knowledge? Why
is it that all the people who are,
you know, doctors and engineers, their last names
are Sayed and Qazi and Sheikh and, you
know, Mufti and whatever. Right? Why? Because the
minds, the best minds we used to use
for the service of the deen, now we
use for the service of the dunya. And
although there's nothing wrong with being a doctor
or with being
an engineer, One would hope at some point
or another, they would have at least kept
some spare change for Islam.
No problem. All the smart people and intelligent
people of high nasaab, Right? They left this
work, so mashaAllah, people like me can fill
in. It's good for me. It's overall not
a good trend, but for me mashaAllah, Allah
gave me
a place to step in because nobody else
is doing it, so I have nothing to
complain about. But on a umawide
scale, it's not a good trend. It's not
a good trend. So what happens? Who is
gonna study hadith?
Nobody's studying hadith. Why? Because you're not gonna
make money being hadith, and the hadith doesn't
rule anything.
The the job of the hadithine is very
difficult. Why? Because they oftentimes have to memorize
memorize
names of narrators, chains of narration,
books, you know, they have to memorize them
by rote. You know, there's like very small
differences between one narration of the hadith that
comes through one chain and another narration that
comes from a different chain. You have to
keep the differences straight. It's something that's not
an easy job to do and there's no
dunawi reward for it. So the Indian subcontinent
didn't produce. They produced Shah Abu Haqq, who
was another, one of our great ulama, who
was also during the life of Alamgir. They
say he started teaching hadith on the same
scale Shah Ali'u'llah did and then his son
was completely trained
as an alum and as a muhaddith, and
the government gave him a job as a
qadi, as a judge. And they stopped teaching
hadith and that chain ended right there. Okay?
Shawwaliullah,
he had an added benefit, which was what?
He taught the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam amongst other things. His madrasah,
the madrasah of his father, the madrasah
People used to come from all over the
subcontinent, all over the world to study with
them. Right? They used to come to study
with them. Why? Because this is now the
only stop in the Indian subcontinent
that you can read the hadith of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam from the sihasita
and from other books and you can have
a chain of narration that connects you back
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How
nice would
that be? How nice would that be? What
if I said I have something? I have
the mizuak of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Who would like to have it? Who would
like to have it? Mashallah, his brother, he
likes so much. He straight up involuntarily raised
his hand, mashaAllah,
make him and all of us with the
one we love, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Who would
like that? Right? What's more meaningful though? Although
we say nothing about the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam is without meaning or without blessing, anything
that has any connection with him is great.
It's greater than this world. It's greater than
the hereafter in our in the eyes of
Allah ta'ala in our our our eyes. Right?
So who would like to have the miswak?
What's more meaningful than that miswak?
If you have this spiritual connection that you
are the one that he made dua for
you.
May
Allah make his face shine. Who heard what
I said and saved it, preserved it in
his heart, and then he gave it to
somebody else.
Who wouldn't want to have that connection? You
think he said that for free? He's the
one that comes in the hadith of the
Prophet
The judgment, yalmuqiyamah,
will not start
except for through intercession. All of the
will be afraid to ask Allah for intercession
even though they know they're going to Jannah,
but the fear of Allah to Allah's judgment
on that day will be so much. And
the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam when the people come to
him. Right?
You're the one who was created for it,
O Messenger of Allah alayhi wa sallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He'll go into sajda
and a doctor when he goes in his
grave he's not a doctor anymore. An engineer
when he goes in his grave, he's not
an engineer anymore. The president of the United
States, Mumkad and Makir don't give a damn
about how much of the electoral college you
got. They don't care. You're not president anymore
once you enter into the the the earth,
once the earth eats you. But what the
nabi is still a nabi when he's in
in the in the the the the
in the grave, in the hereafter, he's still
a nabi alayhis salatu alayhis salatu alayhis salatu
alayhis salatu alayhis salatu alayhis salam. He goes
into he will go into sajda and Allah
will put in his heart that he will
praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with some words
of praise that nobody ever thought of before,
no one ever said before. Because of which
Allah
will tell him,
raise yourself from your sajda. Oh, my messenger,
raise yourself from your sajda.
Ask now, so I can give to you.
You're waiting for this, I was waiting for
this. You stand up, ask now, so I
can give to ishfa to shafa.
And make intercession for somebody, so I can
inter so I can accept your intercession and
forgive that person. So when he makes a
du'a for somebody sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
it's not a joke. He's gonna Allah is
the one who promises he'll deliver.
Allah is the one who will deliver the
promise of the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
How many other people are dusty
are dusty
and disheveled,
but Allah loves them so much that if
they were to swear an oath by Allah
to Allah for something that wasn't even true
or wasn't even happening, Allah would make it
happen. Allah would make it true because he
takes it personally, that person's qasam. And whom
better for that than the messenger of Allah
salallahu alayhi wa sallam? Who wouldn't love that?
Who wouldn't love that? That you go and
you take the hadith from the prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam and then you're the one
who he's making du'a for you, and you're
the one who's making du'a for you. Allah
takes it on himself to deliver on that
du'a, to deliver on that du'a on the
day that people will sorely need those things.
So So you bet people came from everywhere
to learn from him. Now,
you have, Sheikh Falan is here in this
city, and Sheikh Falan is in that city,
and we don't have time for any of
these things anymore. And we bust the chops
of our ulama. You only have 5 minutes.
You went 3 minutes over the khutba time.
We're not gonna invite you again. Right? This
is not how those people were by the
way. Okay? This is not how they were.
So people came to study from him, from
all the corners of the subcontinent and from
different parts of the world and his students
will then go and sit in the Haramain
sharifane and teach the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which they're doing to
this day, by the way. They're doing to
this day, by the way. Right? How prolific
was his sanad?
The majority, not by a little bit, by
a long shot, the majority of assanid mutasila
have connected,
chains of narration by which the books of
hadith are narrated. They're still narrated by chains
of narration, by the way. Even though we
don't invest in the people who can tell
you what the asanid are of those hadith,
they they exist. There are people who still,
who still narrate. We heard them from the
masha'a with the connected chains of narration. The
majority of the transmission of the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the
world today comes through Shahwalullah's,
chain of narration.
It's the only one that's proliferated at this
time on a massive scale.
All the other ones, you have to go
to specialists,
in order to receive them. This is the
only one that you can publicly go to
a madrasah, enroll no matter what race you
are, what work, what country you are from,
whoever you are. You'll get it you'll get
this what without any questions asked. You don't
have to be a specialist or of a
certain family or graduate from a certain school
or whatever in order to get this chain
of narration.
What what do I mean? I'll explain to
you. Okay? One time there's a there's a
there's a madrassa in Pakistan somewhere. I went
to go visit the sheikhul hadith of that
madrassa. He, he was a person of such
honor and such such a high chain of
narration amongst our masha'i that one of my
sheiks said, let's go to him and I
want to ask you for myself to for
his ijazah to narrate hadith. Okay? He says,
just shut up and play along. We'll see
if you can get you in also. Saraghi.
Okay? So he says, when we're right about
to go into the door, he says, okay.
When when I speak to him, I'm going
to speak with him in Arabic because he
used to be a Ustad in the the
Jamia Islami and Madina Munawara back in the
day. Now it's like been Saudi eyes. In
the old days, they used to have ulama
from all over the world teaching there on
a very wide scale. Right? It was a
jamya'a in the true sense of the word.
So what happens is he says he says,
just be quiet. Stay quiet. Okay? Stay quiet.
Don't you know, and if you say something,
say it in Arabic. So he'll think that
you're also an advanced student, and he'll give
you he'll give you the sanat too. So
we had a very pleasant conversation. He's a
man of very good akhlaq, a very happy,
lively, jovial person. And then afterward, the sheikh
made the the request for the ijazah to
rewaiyah, and then, he says, okay, go bring
2 copies of my ijazah. I said, yes,
got it.
Nailed it. Right? And so it's a piece
of paper brothers and sisters. The haditha is
there. You don't need the paper. If the
paper is there and there's no haqqiqah in
the heart, then it doesn't mean anything. But
fine, it's a tavakira. It's something that reminds
us of the messenger of Allah, so all
of us would love to have it, masha'Allah.
Say, masha'Allah. Alright? So what happens is he
brings the thing, he says, are there any
graduates of the the the, Jamia Islamiyah and
Madina Munawara in your area where you live?
He asked me in Arabic. I said yes.
He goes, how do they treat you? I
said, they bust my chop's shit. They they
don't they don't leave me alone. They said
these guys are and they're making up their
own Islam and blah blah blah, etcetera etcetera.
He says to his Khatim in Urdu, he
says, go bring bring my seal. He brings
a seal this big, made out of silver.
He told me that, he said the seal
is made out of silver. Right?
You know, the seal, the stamps that you
put on things? It's an old school seal,
like Ottoman style seal. Okay? And he puts
it in the ink and bam, he hits
it on the on the the ijazah that
he gives me. And he says he says
what? He says that, he says if they
ever bother you, tell them you have ijazah
to narrate hadith from the Jami Islamiyan. I
looked at it. It was the ijazah
of the jami al salamiyan in Madinah Munawwara.
Right? You know what he told me? He
said all of the all of the students
of hadith that received the Ijaz of Turiwa,
they received the Ijaz of Shaw'ulullah.
This is not just some Indian thing that
we're making, whatever. Shah'ulullah is an amazing person.
The books he read are read throughout the
and of,
of of of of of of of of
of of of of of of of of
of of of all of these different of
all of these different sciences and he wrote
on them. He was the first one of
the basira
to write a translation of the Quran in
the Persian language. He was the first I
mean there's so many things. He inaugurated a
new age. He's a person with so much,
spiritual power inside of him. What is spiritual
power? It's the power to be able to
not be engrossed in physical things but to
think about what's spiritual. He used to sit
in meditation in muraqabah. He used to sit
in meditation from the time of
Fajr
until the time of Dhuhr in the Jamir
Masjid in Delhi. Okay?
India is a very hot place. They're going
through a heatwave right now. It's about a
125
during the day. Lest you think that, like,
whatever, I'm in the air conditioner and fans,
and I'm sweating over here wiping my face
after every 5 minutes. It's hot. Right? There
are flies literally everywhere. Whoever has been subjected
to the adab of flies When I came
back from Pakistan, Mauritania,
I couldn't sit anywhere. I would carry my
my,
this, rida. I would spread it over my
legs because I was so annoyed when flies
would come over my legs. It took me
years to acclimatize to the fact that there's
like almost no flies over here. Alhamdulillah.
Right? He would sit in muraqabah and flies
would be all over his body, crawling all
over his body. It wouldn't distract him.
Why? Because the mind is thinking about something
else.
Right? These are things, by the way, you
and I can do also if we really
wanted to, but we just don't want it
bad enough.
The people will come with great things and
you'll
you'll be asked how come you didn't do
it? I guess I just didn't want it
bad enough. This is the chance you get.
You're not gonna get a second shot. You
can do what they did as well, if
you want it bad enough. And if you
are, you know, want to look at your
phone again, I guess you could do that
too.
It's your one shot. You do whatever you
want to. So what happens is that he
he does this and he teaches on his
father's madrasah and he dies. He has then
3 sons. I don't know if he had
other than them, but 3 sons that are
very prolific.
One is the one who has mentioned sha
Abdul Aziz.
The second one is
the and the third is shaabu Qadr. Shaabu
Qadr was the first one who,
I apologize, maybe one of you can remind
me. 1 of I
think is the one who first wrote
the translation of the Arabic Urdu into Urdu.
Right? How did he
write that translation into Urdu? For an entire
decade, he made it a tikaf in the
masjid.
He wrote it while making it a tikaf,
he would make dua
and istikhara over every ayah when he wrote
the,
when he wrote the, when he wrote the
translation. Because the Quran is an
etcetera, etcetera. The Quran is the greatest amana
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ever received.
So So they used to take that amana
seriously. Now we have, like, okay, you know,
starabi time. Are you hafiz? Yeah. I'm hafiz.
I only make like 3 mistakes every night.
Okay. Hamdulillah, mashallah. It's easy for me to
bust chops because I'm not a hapiz. I
never let dua'awi before. Allah reward our people.
But it's an amana people used to take
much more seriously than they take right now.
Right? So he made i'tikah for a decade,
and he wrote this first translation of the
Quran into the Urdu language. All of these,
you know, sons are just geniuses. They do
all kind of visionary type projects. Okay?
Shadda Aziz,
being his father's
successor,
master Mufasser, master Muhadid, master Fati,
Master,
Mu'ta Kellim,
scholar of aqidah, master in all of these
different sciences. People came from all over the
world to see him.
When he was, in the earlier part of
his life
after his father passed away,
he said he saw a dream. He said
he saw a dream in in which he
was standing outside of a house. The inside
of the house was who? The messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And his job
was to what? People are passing by. Call
people into the house. Tell them to go
inside of the house. When he woke up,
he went to one of the 'ulama of
dili and asked, what is the
the interpretation
of this dream.
And so the the the person he asked
said, why are you asking me? You're the
Yusuf of our age. Why are you asking
me? He says, No. I need to hear
it from someone other than myself.
He says, Well, the interpretation of your dream
is what? Is that you will have such
a student come to you because of which
Allah will revive the sunnah of the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
3 days later, there is a sayyid, someone
from the Ahlulbayt of the prophet by the
way, Shaw
and
Mujadid al Thani, both of them are descendants
of Sayna Umar
Now we have Masha'Sayed
and Farooqih and and Siddiqui and Uthmani and
all of these different nesabs, Ansari and Qurayshi,
etcetera.
If you don't do anything with it, it's
not gonna benefit you. If you do something
with it, you'll find that when you put
the pedal to the metal, your car goes
faster than other people's cars. You just gotta
do something with it. If you don't do
anything with it, then you're gonna go where
everybody else goes as well. This is a
warning for all of us. Otherwise, you know,
those people were the ones who used to
run the ummah at some point.
From some gong, the back pain is somewhere
in Punjab. We're doing this work because our
noble people, they they they gave it up.
Our noblemen gave it up, so the people
like us are the only ones left to
do this work. You can take it back
again if you ever wanted. It's there for
you inshallah.
So what happens is this from
a
a a village in,
in in, Northern India called Rai Bareli. Right?
There's 2. There's 1, Bans Barelli. That's a
very different place and there's 1, which is
where
a number of our olema in in the
later times are from also including Moana Abu
Hassanali Naddui and and Moana Rabi Naddui. A
number of the masha'ik are from there. So
in Rey
Bareli, there was a sayyid who came to,
take the Be'a, to take the tariqa of
tasawwuf
from Shahdul Aziz. His name was his name
was Ahmed bin Irfan.
Right? He would later be,
Al Mullakkab Bessayid Ahmed al Shaheed. He's the
Sayid Ahmed the Martyr. You know where this
is going already, right? So what happens is
this Sayid Ahmad comes to the shaykh and
stays with him for 3 days. He's illiterate.
He's illiterate, by the way.
But he impresses the shaykh by the things
he says and by the way that he
behaves and he keeps himself. That the shaykh
says, Look, after 3 days he says, You're
like special one. Okay? I give you ijazah.
You're you're masha'Allah. You're also a sheikh as
well. I can't do anything with you because
Allah gave you such such this happens rarely.
Everyone thinks that it's them that it's gonna
happen to. If you think that it's you,
then it's definitely not you. Okay? But it
happened
this happens every now and then. Some people
have this nisba miladuniyyah.
Allah
gives them this one thing that even though
ulamar like what is this treasure? From the
treasures
of this ummah. What is this treasure? So
he says to him after 3 days, Go.
You've taken everything you can from me. Maybe
I'll learn a thing or 2 from you.
Go and teach the the deen of Allah
to other people. You can hang out with
my brother, he'll teach you a couple more
things, and then you can, you can you
can go and you're a sheikh. Go teach
people, call them to Allah and call them
to the sunnah of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And in in fact, here's a
nephew of mine. Right? This man was what?
He's illiterate.
Right? It shouldn't it shouldn't flabbergast you that
an illiterate person would be so respectable and
have such a high maqam in the deen.
Why?
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam was nabiil ummi alaihi
wasallam. He's an unlettered prophet. This doesn't happen
with every illiterate person by the way. This
is something that happens very rarely. But what
happens, Shabd Aziz is the pinnacle of scholarship.
You know? To be someone of quality, it
takes one to know one. So it's not
just someone who was saying these had things
happen like with the Latvia or whatever. They
have those weird types of weird people in
the subcontinent and in other places as well.
There's a illiterate person, he stays quiet and
and they say that you go talk to
him, tell him your problems, and then he'll
bam, he'll kick you and then you'll be
forgiven. That's a fraud.
Right? And then you leave you like 50
rupees and you move on and there's like
a line of pea that's all a fraud.
Right? This is not just like some some
some some, you know, like
person ignoramus who's saying this. This is the
ijazah of the most literally the most learned
of our ulama.
Shaa'ghlah,
who's more learned than him. He's like he's
like he's like
the mithala of him is like the mithala.
Sayna Yaqub alayhis salam, the son of
the the best of the best of the
people and the son of the best of
the people. He's
masha'Allah.
In Alem, a scholar of the highest caliber,
and he says, Go, you can't learn anything
from me. In fact, not only that, here's
my nephew. He's my best student. He's my
most learned student. Here's my nephew. Go take
him with you as well. And, you know,
teach him whatever you have to learn. I'm
too old. I'm too weak to be able
to move with you. But this guy is
a young guy. He'll benefit from you. What
did he do? They went from city to
city in the Indian subcontinent,
calling people back to the correct practice of
the deen and and to the sunnah of
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and castigating them for the impious
innovations that crept in. Somebody is worshipping a
grave somewhere. Somebody is making tawaf around a
grave somewhere. Somebody has bizarre
ideas about Allah, bizarre ideas about the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Somebody is cheating somebody
with the zakat money. Somebody is cheating some
somebody's children, wife wives, sisters. Somebody's doing all
kind of weird things were happening. He went
from city to city for 10 years in
this, reformist campaign.
Wherever he went, the ulama of the city
were people who went to oppose him. And
then they said, Oh my God, this person
has tied our tongues. This person is the
one that we've been dreaming about. This is
something that doesn't just happen in India one
time. It's not like a tall tale. In
Al Miryah al Mu'arib, there's a, a weird
fatwa,
a really strange fatwa, a wondrous fatwa in
there about the people of a certain city
in Morocco
right to the fukaha fast.
Right? About a person, they say, This person
is a troublemaker. He's from a tribe of
troublemakers.
He comes to our he comes to our,
villages
and he tells people that, you know, you
have to pray all your prayers that you
missed, you have to make up your missed
prayers, that if you want to,
take the bay'a and become a a Sufi,
become a person of dhikr, before it will
allow you to do any dhikr, you have
to pay all your debts off, you have
to ask for permission from everyone you ever
did zhun to, you have to do this,
that, and the other thing. He forbids the
men and women from free mixing with one
another, he forbids us from our musical recitals
and dancing, He forbids us from this, that,
and the other thing, and from visiting the
graves and doing the the the the practices
that our forefathers did when visiting graves. The
graves are such shaykh that they are so
nubarak that their presence in the land is
what makes the rain come down. And he
forbids us from doing all of these practices
at the graves of such sheikhs. And you
know all of these lists laundry lists of
complaints that they make against this person and
they send it to the the fuqaha, the
people who were most learned of the ulama
at that time and fast in that region.
So the fatwa that comes back is amazing.
He says he says that the Fati Abu
Imran al Fasi, one of the most one
of the most, prolific and well known of
the fuqaha of the Maghrib, he writes back
personally to this fatwa and he says, SubhanAllah,
we thought that the qualities, the good qualities
of deen that are in this person who
you're complaining against, we thought that the people
who have all those good qualities are gone
until Youmukhiamah.
But you have someone like that amongst you.
We thought there's nobody alive in the world
who has even a tenth of these good
qualities. Every single thing he's commanding to you
is from the deen of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. If you're telling the truth about him,
this guy has so much barakah in him.
He's the one because of which the rain
comes down on your heads, not the people
who you're talking about in the graves.
Right? This is something that happens. So Sayyid
Ahmad is one of these people. So he
goes and he preaches in these big cities.
Right? India is not a joke. The cities
each one of the cities of India and
the Indian subcontinent at that time has more
people than entire countries of the world. Okay?
And they're wealthy cities as well. India is
a wealthy place before the British ransacked it.
It was the most wealthy country in the
entire world.
Okay? They have Alqaf, Madaris,
Masajid, and they're settled and and and,
established people. And so what ends up happening
is he goes and preaches and the ulama
come to oppose him and then they say,
Wow, this guy actually has what we read
in the books. We didn't think this even
existed anymore. So ulama will come and take
beha. They will take the oath of allegiance
with this person. They'll take the oath of
allegiance with this person and they'll say, we
want to join you. Forget about our masjid
and madrasa. We want to just join you
and go with your with your group when
you go preaching from place to place. What
happens? He will take the people who came
with him and leave them in the masajid,
and he'll take the ulama from that city
with him to the next place. They'll go
like this and do this for 10 years
and then he'll say, I haven't made Hajj
yet. I want to go and make Hajj.
Okay? I haven't made Hajj yet. I want
to go and make Hajj. And then he'll
take his group with him to the house
of Allah to visit the Messenger of Allah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam in Madinah Munawwara, and
they'll come back. After which, he sees that
the state has rapidly decayed, and the Muslims
are in trouble right now. When the state
decays,
the Muslims become
people who are victims and people who are
in the precarious situation that we see right
now.
Muslims in Thailand, killed, nobody cares. Muslims in
Burma, killed, nobody cares. Burma is not like
a superpower of the world.
It's like a back backwater place in the
middle of nowhere. Nobody has the gall to
say anything to them.
They kill people with impunity. They treat our
people like garbage, like worse than animals. They
do things to them that if people did
it to animals, the entire world would start
a war. What is it? Right? What's happening?
That's on top of the problems that are
happening in India and Assam, the problems that
are happening in Kashmir and in in Afghanistan,
and Pakistan, and Sham, and Iraq with this
whole ISIS clowns running ras shot and making
a mockery of the deen, with the things
that are happening in, you know, the Central
African Republic,
entire villages with masajid, with imams, with hafad,
with Quran, with madaris, Entire villages from the
first to the end of it, all of
them are either killed and their houses are
burned and they're kicked out. Nobody in the
world even cares. Sometimes the Muslims are the
ones who care the least about ra'udhubillah.
This wasn't always the the case. There was
a state to protect these people. And where
did the state come from? There's a story
about about about Sultan Suleiman al Khanuni, known
in English as Suleiman the Magnificent. He was,
one of the greatest emperors of the Ottoman
Empire.
1 of the ulama from Plavdiv, the majority
of the the good lands of the Ottoman
Empire were in Europe. They're now gone. Now
they've been ethnically cleansed, genocided the Muslims out
of them. You know, Greece and Bulgaria and
all of these places, Macedonia,
the Balkans. You'll see like in Greece, like,
you know, there's Ottoman architecture all over the
place. They say, oh, these are these these
are Greek cultures. It's not your Greek culture.
You weren't eating shawarmas before the Turks came
to your land. You weren't eating, you know,
you can call it a giro, but it
means the same thing, to rotate.
Right?
It's the exact same thing you learned from
the anyway, so what happens is what? Right?
One of the ulamaq comes to the suraman
al Manuni. They say that he used to
sleep in never sleep in the same room
twice because of the threat of assassination.
The only person who knew where he was
was the sheikh al Islam, the chief alim
of the empire.
Okay?
So this alim goes to the sheikh al
Islam of the Ottoman Empire who is a
madrasa friend of his and says, I need
to talk to this sultan right now. He
goes to him in the middle of the
night, wakes him up from his sleep, and
says this is, one of the alama he
wants to talk to you. So what does
he do? Kill him off with his head?
What is this?
No. He comes out and he says, okay,
what what is it? You know, what is
it? It's obviously important. It couldn't wait till
the morning.
He says he says what? He says, I
I I saw in a dream that the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
that the people of such and such place
in Europe are on the verge of being
killed
and on the verge of being destroyed, on
the verge of being plucked from the land
in such and such place in Europe. He
says, if this happens under your watch, the
Messenger of Allah told me to tell you
that that don't ask for my shafa'a, don't
ask for my intercession on the day of
judgment.
He was on a horse outside of Istanbul
before Fajr arose from that night.
If anyone said anything like this this was
actually something that these things happen by the
way to this day as well. I cannot
divulge, you know, like what what what we
know and what we don't know. But the
thing is that what? Those were people they
took it seriously. They took it seriously. He
was on horseback and out of the city.
Once those people were gone from the ummah,
then what is it? It's free season. Right?
The whole what is Ukraine right now? The
Russians and Ukrainians are fighting over it. It
was all populated by Muslims. They completely genocided
them. In fact, there are many people in
Ukraine that are basically the offspring of the
raped Muslim women who are left after the
men were all killed off. Like not a
small amount, probably like 20%, 30% of the
population.
And how did Russians come to Ukraine? They
settled the land of the Muslims after, after
the Muslims were completely genocided from that from
that place. They were all killed off. Right?
What about
many places in the Caucasus, many places in
Central Asia, many places in China, right, many
places and they're doing it still to this
day. There was a time that people used
to protect. So say that Ahmed Shahid he
comes back from? He comes back from Hajj
and he says, look the state is collapsing.
The state who's going to worry about the
old people? Who's going to worry about the
children? Who's going to worry about the farmer
that doesn't know how to fight and even
if he tried it would be a joke?
Who's going to worry about the ulama? Who's
going to worry about
the students of knowledge? Who's going to worry
about all of these people
that to save them and defend them in
battle is not going to win you any
prestige, is not going to win you any
political power, these people don't make enough money
or income in order to increase the tax
revenue of the state in order to make
it politically viable to save them. So what
did they do? They say, We're gonna go
out in the path of Allah ta'ala and
protect these people.
And what happened? The ulama, they left their
own mashaikh. The sheiks of Tassowuf imagine this.
Have you ever seen a sheikh of Tassowuf
in his murids? How clingy they are with
one another? Have you seen that before? The
sheikhs themselves at that age, all of the
sheiks of the subcontinent, what did they say?
They said to their murids,
leave. Your be'a with me is done. Now
you join. This person is doing the work
of Nabuah. We all join together. We take
bay'a with the same sheikh and we do
the same work. Right? Even
even our own tariqa. Right?
Hajjib, his Sheikh, his Sheikh told him he
wrote a letter with him. He said that
your with me is done. You take through
through a letter with this sheikh and, whatever
he tells you to do, do it. And
what does the sheikh tell him? He says
don't come and fight with us. Allah saved
you for a different purpose. You stay in
your place and you keep teaching Quran to
the children. One day, Allah will take great
work from you. What was that work? We
don't have time to talk about it today.
Right? So what happens is they go and
they fight in the path of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for 10 years to protect those
people nobody else will protect. Okay? Majority of
their fight was what? With what? With the
Sikh empire. Now there's a very big difference
between the Sikhs that you see at the
airport or at the gas station or, you
know, at school or in college or whatever
now and what they were before. Now Sikhism
has kind of reverted into a a kind
of a very ecumenical interfaith,
perennialist type of movement.
In those days it was a bloodthirsty
and violent and very intolerant movement,
that that really resulted in a lot of
destruction. Right? They say now that we are
people who respect all religions. The fact of
the matter is if you read the history
of the Indian subcontinent, the wazir Khan masjid
in Lahore,
It was turned into a stable.
So many ulama were killed. So many women
were were there are still to this day,
by the way, there are still to this
day, by the way, Muslim women who were
abducted by
by sick horsemen
and by sick,
marauders
during the time of the subcontinent
and they're taken into slavery and kept in
houses. Some of them may be alive to
this day as well, and all we can
do is complain to Allah because
we have no power to do any anything
about any of this. This doesn't mean everyone
with the you know, every sick person you
meet is like there to stab you in
the face. Okay? We treat everybody, you know,
we give them a chance, and we treat
everybody as an individual, and we give everyone
the human dignity that they deserve. But as
a movement, it's a completely morally bankrupt movement.
It's hypocrisy, what they say now, how they're
tolerant. They're not tolerant of other people. Okay?
We have history to prove it. The difference
between us and them is they say we
accept everybody
and everyone is true. Why don't you accept
everybody? Because you were intellectually defeated. We said
from the day 1 that what our Nabi
You used to say that at one time.
Your olema were defeated in Munazar and you
were also militarily defeated. Now you morphed into
a a lower state. We're still we still
say the same claim. The claim the word
doesn't change with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Don't argue with me. You cannot change what's
the reality in front of me. You can't
change it. Right? So what happens is they
fight. Majority of their fight is against this
rapidly expanding
sick empire, which is basically on the *
and pillage and the
crumbling remains of
the
western lands of the Mughal Empire. Alright? And
so they fought for 10 years until a
battle happened in a place in Kashmir called
Balakot. Okay? Something very interesting happened during the
lifetime of Sayed Ahmad Shahid, by the way.
He was at the grave of 1 of
the oliya, of 1 of the mashaikh, and
one of the saints, And he was telling
people, don't do these bida'at that you're doing,
this tawat that you're doing, this free mixing
between men and women that you're doing. You're
making dua to the grave. You should be
making dua to Allah to Allah, etcetera. He
was telling the people not to do these
things. An old woman who was there, who
was one of the people doing all of
these things, she said, look at you. You
think you're so pious? You think you're so,
you know, reviving the sunnah and everything? Look
at you. Look at you. The people are
gonna love you for this one day. You
will die. They'll make your grave and some
other old woman will sit and make all
the bidda'at that you're fighting against at your
grave one day. Watch.
He said, SubhanAllah,
You Allah. When I die, make my body
disappear. Nobody ever finds where my body is.
So what happens that battle of Balakkur?
Right? The 6 overran his army. There's an
army of Fukaha and ulama muhaddithin.
The 6 overran his army.
Right? What happened was there was another Muslim
army from one of the local kingdoms
that was supposed to fight with them, and
they they abandoned abandoned them at the last
minute because of a monetary inducement that was
given to them by 6. He was betrayed
basically by the ummah. Okay? He's not the
1st sayyid from the Ahlulbayt of the prophet
that betrayed that was betrayed by the people
of this ummah and he's not the last
one either, by the way. Right? It's this
is one of the miracles of Islam that
the sadat, the the
prophet still stay Muslim because of all the
abuse that happened with them. And it continues
to happen with them to this day, But
it's because the dean is haq. Otherwise, nobody
would have had patience for all of these
things. What happens? He's abandoned and so only
his mukhlesin are with him on that day.
Okay? Shay Ismail, his nephew of Shahbaziz,
he's martyred that day. Sayyid Ahmad is martyred
that day. What ends up happening is the
6 used to desecrate the graves of our
ulama. They would dig up the corpses and
desecrate the graves. So they buried him and
they buried Shah Ismail Shahid. 3 days later,
what did they do? They disinterred the the
graves. They disinterred them from their graves and
buried them in a secret location. Nobody knows
where either of them are buried.
The the the
the Magbala is still there, the graveyard is
still there, the other shurhadah are. There was
an earthquake in Balakot in Lahore. I don't
you weren't in Pakistan at that time, were
you? Yeah. We were all in Pakistan at
that time. It's from all the way from
Kashmir, I could feel the earthquake in Lahore.
Right? So many like, almost a 100000 people
were killed in that that earthquake.
Right? They say and it was the epicenter
was in Balakkuk.
They say that the the graveyard of the
shohada was all the graves around them were
were mixed up like a salad. The graves
of the shurhadah were unaffected.
They're unaffected. And so what happens is even
the empty 2 empty graves of shah'i there's
a marker there in both of them. The
2 empty graves were were also undistrupted undistrupted.
What happens is the the remnants of that
army
the remnants of that army that scattered from
that place,
right, they laid low for quite a long
time. Okay? The remnants of that army were
ulama, they laid low for quite a long
time, and from the fragments of that army,
from the fragments of the remnants of that
army, one of the mashaikh here, one of
the mashaikh there. Why is it that Deoband,
right? This madras that everyone takes the name
of. Does anyone even know what Deoband is?
It's a village in the middle of nowhere.
Right? Where's Moan Zakaria Moanakali Ahmad from? Saharanpur.
Where is that? I mean it's a little
bit bigger than Deobandha, but it's also a
village in the middle of nowhere. Where's Rai
Barelli?
Nobody knows where Rai Barelli is. No one
knows where Bans Barelli is. Nobody knows where
any of these places. Why are there villages?
Why? Because the ulama rebelled against the government.
They had to lie low, man. They had
to lie low. People were coming to kill
them. Right? This is one very interesting thing.
Right?
If anyone is watching
and has any romantic notion about ISIS,
right, about Hizb ut Tahrir,
about any of these kind of nut headed
groups that are going to start the caliphate
without any reference to the the the the,
you know, preserving the ilm of the deen,
preserving the fiqh of the madhhabs, or who
think that our old ulama are sellouts and
we need to have a new thing in
order to bring Islam back to life or
whatever. Let me tell you something. Right? Those
people actually did something for the sake of
Allah and for the deen. They sacrificed. You
read the history, they sacrificed.
I'm out of time right now. I don't
have time to tell you what the sacrifices
that these people did after. This is just
Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed
The same people who preserved the fiqh, the
same people who preserved the hadith, the same
people who preserved the aqeedah, the same people
who preserved the tasawwuf, those were the ones
who were there out front to preserve the
lives of the people of the sunnah. Nobody
else wanted to preserve. Those were the ones
who fought to protect those people who had
no money to repay them. Those were the
ones who fought to protect the people who
are weakest and who are most vulnerable and
that nobody else cared about. Those are the
people who cared about them. So don't tell
me about the ulama being sell outs. Don't
tell me about, oh, you know, the sheikh
is preaching the masjid for, you know, you
know, for so many years and these guys
are now starting the caliphate. They're actually doing
something for the deen. They're not doing anything
for the deen. All they're doing is murdering
one another, bringing a bad name to Islam.
There are people fighting for ISIS right now
that don't even know how to recite the
fatihah.
You have no part of that whatsoever.
You have no part of that whatsoever.
I'm telling it to you right now. Read
your history, nobody reads history. These people are
the ones who are the salat and you'll
see what happens to them. You'll see what
happens to them. How much is there to
share? How little time is there to share
it with? Right? What happens is that the
remnants of this army is scattered. They lay
low for some time. They lay low for
50, 60 years. And then something strange happens.
Okay? The British Empire encroaches more and more
on Delhi. The Mughal Empire is now only
within the walls of Delhi. People will will
say that this is the emperor of India
and they'll respect them because of the respect
of the deen. They'll make du'a for them
in the Jumu Khutba, but there's nothing left
anymore. There's nothing left of the empire anymore
except for what's inside the walls of the
city. This citadel of Islam, Shabd Aziz teaching
in the Madrasarahimiyyah.
They're there but there's nothing outside of it.
And then what happens? A rebellion happens against
against the British. Right? This is in the
year what? 1857.
They call it the Indian Mutiny. The British
call it the Indian Mutiny. It's not a
mutiny. You're never our masters in the first
place. You weren't our masters then, you're not
our masters today, you'll never be our masters.
Our master is the master of the day
of judgment.
We never cared for you then and we
don't care for you right now either. If
anyone cares for them right now, right, we
care for you as human beings, but you're
not our masters. We don't follow your path.
We follow the path of the Rasool sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. What happened was there was
a mutiny against the
the British state. Many of the rich Muslim
principalities of the Indian subcontinent were actually in
cahoots with the British. Why? Because of money.
Because of money. That same dunya that you're
not gonna take with you to your grave
for the same reason that Muslims still sell
each other out to this day. That same
reason was why they sold out to the
British. There are 2 groups of people who
defended the Mughal Emperor
during that mutiny. 2 groups.
Okay? 1 was the Hindu,
the Hindu Rajput kings
that were loyal to the Mughal Empire to
the very end.
Right? Credit is where credit is due. One
wishes because of their bravery and their loyalty
that Allah gave them the kalimah of tawhid.
And Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam, his uncle Abu
Talib was not given Hidayah, so it shouldn't
surprise somebody that you may admire something about
someone and that person doesn't receive Islam. You
don't Allah tells the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, if we said something like
that to him, we would be good. The
fatwa of kufr would come down, but Allah
can say it. Allah can say you don't
guide who you want to. Rather, Allah guides
whoever He wills and Allah has more knowledge
about who is guided and who is not
guided. So those people, those 2 groups of
people, hudur ulema and the Hindu Rajput armies
that were still loyal to the the Mughal
throne, they were the only ones who were
defending Delhi when the British brought armies from
Punjab and from Central India and from all
these places, many other Muslims to siege to
siege
the the the the the capital city of
Delhi. Right? They make this kind of stupid
story about the cartridges having pork fat and
I'm sure that will happen and it was
annoying also, but people rebelled because they didn't
want to live under Kufr. They didn't rebel
just because of a small thing. Otherwise, if
that was it, they would have used the
bullet to shoot their,
overlords as they could have a long time
before that. Right? Because the British came British
There are many British people I like.
Don't shoot British people. But when they came
to our forefathers' land and they hung the
ulama and they talked garbage about their deen,
They should have their homeland is in England.
What were you doing enslaving people and profaning
the deen of Allah to Allah in the
lands of the subcontinent? That was a different
context. You understand? So they came and so
what happens these two groups are holding out
against the British.
The siege goes on, the siege goes on,
the siege goes on for so many days
The British, allied armies are not making any
breakthrough into the siege. Interesting
story, by the way. There was never at
any time more than 20,000 white people in
the Indian subcontinent during British colonialism.
The entire colonialism was with them, dividing and
conquering our people using them against themselves. That's
not their bad. That's our bad. You understand
what I'm saying? So next time you get
into a fight with someone in the masjid,
remember this is how shaitan got our forefathers
and this is how he's still getting us
right now. And once you wanna wake up
and, like, do something a little bit better,
then then then let's all sit down and
have a talk. Until then, it's gonna be
the same thing. So what happens? These armies,
majority of whom are actually from Muslim principalities
and kingdoms, are sieging Delhi.
Hindus are very superstitious people.
They believe in all this astrology to this
day. You know, like all of these, you
know, Indian governors and
rulers and leaders, like they consult with astrologers.
Not astronomers, astrologers to see what day is
auspicious for a wedding, what day is auspicious
for you know, soothsayers. They they they make,
you know, they they ask the soothsayers what
is auspicious for this, what is auspicious day
for inauguration as the prime minister of India
so I can sit on the in Delhi
like the Muslim kings used to in the
past? They ask all of these soothsayers about
all of these things. Okay? This is completely
haram and ar deen and for good reason
because it's complete hamakah. It's complete stupidity.
Right? But what happened? Right? They they they
the
the the Mughal city of Bili, the citadel
is being sieged,
and then one day something happens, an eclipse
happens.
An eclipse in Hindu astrology is very inauspicious.
It's a bad sign.
It's a very bad sign. The Rajput defenders
of the the garrison of Delhi, they lose
heart and they flee. They start to flee
from the city. The the British mow them
down as they're leaving. They all die
fleeing from the city, and who's left to
fight the the army of Muslims? The ulama.
The British sacked the city. They stole everything.
The Mughal princes had so much money, they're
so wealthy, they would the orders were what?
The princes don't shoot them, Strip them naked
because their clothing is so expensive
and so ornate that you cannot don't you're
gonna waste, you know, you're gonna waste the
the the value of just the clothing. Strip
and make it, then shoot him.
This happens, and even people from the subcontinent,
and one of the fathers of Chicago was
telling me that when the the partition happened,
this is not the king's, this is just
like a middle class family. They said that
our our, our family went through so much
poverty that the suits the women used to
wear formal occasions, they had gold and silver
thread in them. That that we went through
so much poverty, we had to burn the
clothes to get the gold and silver out
in order to, you know, eat. Right? So
this is like what? Just like regular aunties.
You know people who like go to the
masjid with you and I. This is their
situation. Imagine what the kings had. Right? Their
arms, their weapons, they had so much wealth.
They looted there was armed looting in the
city for for for for weeks on end.
They stripped the princes naked in order to
save their clothes before they shot them. They
hung ulama from every single gate of the
city of Delhi. Now the system
in Mauritania
right now is the system that we used
to have in the Indian subcontinent
before the British sacked our lands, which was
what? They say you know people always say,
oh, you studied Mauritania? Yeah, alhamdulillah, masha'Allah, study
mauritania. Who are those people? Who are we?
You know? And we'd be embarrassed if people
ever actually found out, you know? But the
thing is that what? That that that yeah,
I studied mauritania, masha'allah. You invite me to
come give a talk in your masjid. You
invite me for khutbah. What happens is that
the people in Mauritania people say, Oh, Sheikh,
how long is the course in Mauritania?
How long is the course in Mauritania?
What can I tell you how long the
course is in Mauritania? Every book you ever
read, you're going to memorize. If you don't
memorize, you didn't read it. Okay? So they
have ulama that have memorized more books than
a person can physically carry. Okay? And then
how do you become a'alim in Muertanya? You
keep studying study. You're a student of knowledge.
Your hair becomes white and you're still a
student of knowledge because you love Allah and
Hisr Rasool
and this knowledge is more precious to you.
This is not that we talked about is
more precious to you than the dunya and
what's in it. And then one day, if
you're a smart person, what will happen? Everybody
who has more knowledge than you in like
a 100 mile radius will die, and then
you'll become the sheikh.
And if not, you stay a student for
the whole rest of your life. Okay? When
we say
every half an hour they're hanging ulama 2
by 2 from every one of the gates
of Delhi, we're not talking about someone who
did a short course,
you know, like myself, you know, who went
5 years and they said, okay. He's an
American guy. There's no Islam there. There's no
Deen there anyway. So we may as well
give him the sunad. Right? He didn't do
a short course from so and so place,
the 6 year, the 12 year become the
8 year, become the 6 year, become the
5 year, become the 4 year, become the
2 year weekend course, etcetera, etcetera. Khasnah, you're
moulana. That's not how it was, brothers and
sisters.
These ulama are those people who studied until
everyone else
was dead that had more knowledge than them.
They're hanging 2 of them every hour. You're
talking about 40,
50 years of scholarship.
Genius people. Chhuda'at.
Right? You're talking about Ruath. You're talking about
these genius people. They're getting killed.
They're getting killed one after the other. Like
Sheikh Tamim said, You wanna end up like
your mullah brothers? Why don't you become an
engineer or a doctor?
You're not gonna become a judge because your
system is not gonna run anymore. Your system
is not going to survive anymore. Become a
doctor. Why? Because the doctor is the biggest
thing you can become under the British colonial
system. You'll never become a general, you'll never
become a judge, you'll never become a governor,
you'll never be we won't even make you
a manager at the post office anymore. This
is the only thing you can do. Right?
We now are cogs in someone else's system.
There was a time that we used to
run the system ourselves, and it was a
good time. It was a good time. People
come to see our buildings and see our
aafar. At any rate, what happened? They said,
Don't don't don't this talab al fatiha reading
Quduri, reading hadith sahibu hari. Leave it alone.
We'll kill you. Just leave it alone. Just
leave it alone. We left it alone.
We left it alone. So this is what
happened, right? After that, the ulama that survived
from that 18/57.
A janat of our ulama who's a sanad
that we have, right? We named
the the the sheikh Hajim.
He fought. Right? There's a battle in a
place called Shamli in North India that was
concurrent with the siege of Delhi. He fought
in it. 1 of his Khulafa,
Hafizdaman Shahid
was was murdered in that battle
after whom
Kassim, the madrasa in Chicago is named. Right?
And Mullah Rashid Ahmad Gangahe.
Many of these ulama fought in that battle
in 1857.
Many of them fought, some of them were
even shahid. After this, they had to lay
low and they had to lay low. There's
a story from the time of the salaf.
Right? There's, one of the associates of Saidan
al Hasan al Basri, Habib al Ajami.
He was a Persian who became Muslim. Super
pious, never learned to, you know, speak Arabic
quite as good as the Arabs did, so
they used to call him Ajami, the non
Arab, you know. So what happened was the
enforcers of Banu Umayyad break into his room.
It's him and Hasan al Basri.
And the the the Banu Umayyad doesn't like
Hassan al Basri because he's politically associated with
people who don't like the rule of Banu
Umayyad. And so the soldiers
ask him, where is Hasid al Basari? He
says he's right there. They look at him.
It's one of the miracles. It's one of
the Karamat of the Masha'if. They couldn't see
him.
So where is he? He's right there. And
they beat him. They beat him. They said,
don't joke with us. We should kill you
for this. You don't mess with us. Why
you know, like, if you see where he
is, just let us know, and they leave.
Hasid al Basri after they leave, he said,
why did you do that, man? They were
gonna kill me. He said, I know. I
know. I shouldn't have done it. The sharia
says, I shouldn't have done it. I just
felt so ashamed in front of Allah ta'ala.
How can I tell a lie? Right?
Obviously, the age is a little bit lower
so the miracle decreases a little bit. But
something very similar happened to him. They were
looking for him. Right? Mahaji and Dagulah. They
call him Mahaji and Magi. Why? Because he
had to flee as a refugee. The British
wanted his head. Right? So it's a very
dramatic story how he got out of the
subcontinent. They almost caught him in the in
the British part of Aden in Yemen. But
he finally,
he made it and he lived out the
rest of his life. He's buried in the
Jannatul Ma'ala, the graveyard of Makkumukarama in which
Saydul Khadija
and he's buried. Right? So what happens is
that that Hajim Dadullah
his his his khalifa, qasimna notwi the British
are looking for him and he's in a
masjid and he's surrounded. And he thinks to
himself,
man, if they start shooting and everything, it's
just gonna ruin the masjid. I'm dead anyway.
So, like, let's just let's just do take
go out and take this outside so that
it doesn't soil the masjid. So he calmly
gets up and walks outside of the masjid.
These, soldiers are sieging.
They said, where is Qasim? Tell him to
come out.
Do you see where Kacem is? Do you
know where Kacem is?
He said he was here just a very
short while ago.
Well, if you see him, let us know.
And he walked away. He walked away. Okay?
Darul Qasim is the madras I taught there
almost 3 years, masha'Allah. It's there. Go benefit
from it, masha'Allah. This ilm, trust me. There
was a lot of adventures that were involved
in bringing this to you. I didn't even
tell a tenth of the story. It was
that great peril that this package was delivered
to you just to say, I don't, you
know, I don't want to wake up on
the weekend at 10 because I like to
sleep till 11. Right? What happens is that
the original darul qasim is that
that that sheikh Tamim
mentioned. Right? We don't have time to go
through all of that. The time is over.
The slot is in 5 minutes. But in
short, right?
Are the ones who build
Okay? Afterward, their prize student, Sheikal Hind, after
which the Sheikal Hind program is named. Who
here did Sheikal Hind at at Darul Qasim?
Anyone?
No alumni from okay. Anyway, so the the
me and Moana Bilal taught at Masha'allah.
Mufti Kamani and other people also taught at
that program. Right? The shayefullhind is they're they're
they're basically the person that they that that
that is their trained, disciple both in the
tariqa of the soul and in fiqh and
in hadith and in all of this stuff.
Amazing person, don't have time to talk about
him. Just a super amazing person. Right? And
then after him, his student
Moran Rasha Kashmiri, the Khatimatul
Hafal. He was a person who memorized every
book he ever read. He memorized every he
had a photographic memory and used to quote,
you know, like books that he read 40
up to 40 years ago. He used to
quote by memory. One of the miracles of
this ummah, his books are read by the
Arab ibn Ajam to this day, by the
Arabs and the non Arabs alike.
He has a beautiful commentary on on Tilmudi,
so the jamaah of Imam the sunun of
Imam and on Sahih Bukhari as well, amongst
a number of other books on aqidah and
different topics that he wrote. After him is
who? Sayed Hussain Ahmed Madani. After he he
passes away, Sayed Hussain Ahmed Madani is the
rector of Dawah Arun Deoban. Who is the
teacher of my sheikh, Imran Abi al Sheik?
What's your link to Hazrat Madini?
But he has he jazzed through Mullana Silamullah
Khan Saab from Karachi, who's also a direct
student of Sayyidusayn Ahmed Madini. All of these
incredible people, no time to talk about them
because we have to we don't have time
because there's other important things to do, I
guess. And, and and what and then after
him who's the rector of the Aralu Undioban
is,
Qari,
Tayb Al Qasimi,
and the teacher of a great number of
olamas that are here in Chicago. Right? So
when somebody says this is like some weird
stuff unions are making up and blah blah
blah, remember all of these things I said
to you? We're not making it up. Up.
This is a chain of narration. It's connected.
InshaAllah, one day if we have a chance,
we'll talk about what's above and what's below.
InshaAllah. But remember, this is a chain.
We're connected to it. You can be connected
to it also. All it takes is what?
What it was the hadith we read in
the beginning of the talk? We said this
is the usul of this talk to understand
this talk. Right?
I all I prepared is that I love
Allah and His Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
What did the messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
said? He said, the person is with the
one he loves. So at least put some,
space in your heart to love what they
loved and understand that to take the deen
to you, there was great sacrifice and great
peril. People got beat, people got shot, people
got killed, people were hungry, people there. People
were executed by the British, masha'Allah,
and you know, they they they kept a
fast on a blade of grass so that
they could be shaheed when they were shot
or hung by the British in a state
of fasting. They did suhuran on grass, There
are people like that in our sun,
Don't take it lightly. Don't, you know, abuse
your mohli, whoever mohli comes and gives you
chutba or who teaches the Quran to your
children. Realize that this is a Mubarak sanad.
Don't think of them as other people. These
are our own people. They loved us. We
love them. They're our own people. If there
are shortcomings, overlook them. Make dua' for them.
Feel like you're part of the project so
that Allah, ta'ala, yawmukiyama,
you can be with them also. And if
someone, Allah, gives them tawfiq, to study the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
go ahead and study it. It took a
lot of effort to get it to you,
mashaAllah. And if you take it, the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's duas are for you.
Those duas Allah will, you know, make good
on them one day. This is our don't
say inshallah. This is our iman. Allah will
make good on them one day. Don't say
inshallah because he will. He already said he
will on his own in