Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Survive By Drowning The Eternal Brotherhood of Knowledge, Qasim alUlum, Toronto 11132017
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So
a little bit of background of why I'm
here right now.
In the
summer of 2,008,
I was imam in a small town
in Northern California called Chico.
While I was there,
somebody,
passed out in a city hall meeting.
And, there was a convert brother by the
name of Jacques.
He said, I read the article about that
person who passed out,
and the article reported that they were pale
and unresponsive.
And Jacques remarked, that could describe everyone in
this town.
Anyway,
it was it was out in the middle
of nowhere. It was it was not close
to any city or whatever.
And so,
their
habit was to read,
ate rakas,
reading out of the,
and was like, that's not happening this year.
So I called I I called her on
was looking for where I could find Hafez.
Usually, in those days, they would call people
from England,
and several very joker like individuals,
have made the rounds,
several pious ones as well.
And someone told me, no, there's in Toronto
that have hafas that are that are willing
to go. So here's a number call someone
called Mufti Adam Koya. I have no idea
who it is, so I called him up.
And I said, we need Hafiz. Is it
too late still? He's like, we'll see. We'll
think about it. I said, but I have
one shot. I don't want I don't want
kids that are gonna come play video games
and watch movies.
I said if if if that's what you're
gonna send me, I'd rather just, you know,
read short surahs myself and just do the
tarawih like that. If you have some kids
who, like, you know, wanna have a very
spiritual Ramadan,
and,
you know, if they want, I'll teach them
whatever few books I read myself.
They wanna learn something, then, you know, send
us. They're like, okay. We'll look for some
kids like that. So Mufti Saab and and,
they sent their own sons.
I found that out after, like, a couple
like, out of after a week of you
guys being there that okay.
So that gives you an idea of,
what kind of people what kind of people,
Mufti Saab is and what kind of person,
Qari Saab Qari Saab was Allah,
forgive him his sins and give him a
high high rank.
So I was hard on them.
I noticed
is, like, really nice to you. He actually
refers to you as,
which I find amazing,
so I feel like almost a responsibility for
giving you the that that that
that's being displaced by the, like, extreme love
your father has for you. You should appreciate
the fact that he's
really nice person,
which is the impression I got when I
first met him as well.
And so,
the book that we decided to read was
the which
is probably whoever's taken that class with with
him, he's probably made you memorize like I
made them memorize.
And,
that's the
to the study of hadith. Then later years
later, I found out that he went to
Saharanpur and and and did
hadith with Sheikh Yunus.
And I said, this man is the walking
tafsir of the the saying of the Arabs,
that you if you feed your dog too
much, make him too fat, one day he
might eat you.
So,
I have to ask him questions about about
a hadith and takrij,
and, and and what the hookahum is about
a hadith because, really, I don't know all
that much.
But this is the barakah of
of what this is the barakah of
making Amal and acting on what you know.
It opens doors for things that weren't possible
for you from before.
And so I don't know all that much
I can talk about.
Our Mufti Saab and our elder, elder Masha'ik
and Olama,
they are a a treasure Allah has preserved
for us because they're the ones who met
those Masha'ik we couldn't have met.
There are so many masha'ik we didn't met.
Mawlana Masihullah Khan Sabrahima,
who was described by everyone who met him
as a Madir Dad Wali, a person whose
williah started from from
from the day he was born.
An unusual person. There are very few people
in the Ummah like that, but there are
people in the Ummah like that. You probably
won't find them in the mall, though.
The you know,
Hazrat Sheikh
all these elders and things like that,
they met them and we didn't meet them.
So our elders that are with us right
now,
they preserve they preserve the barakat of of
that. And this is one of the interesting
things, like, I teach I teach classes on
the solo. Not like, pay me $50 and
I'll like, you know, cure your black magic
type of the soul, but like the purification
of the heart type.
And from a very academic point of view,
you know, people will be surprised. It's just
the same thing. I taught them something very
little, and then later on, they realize, wow,
this guy is much more corrupt than I
am. But the the ilm is an amana.
Right? Don't ever don't ever think that, oh,
I can't say this because I haven't done
it myself. Hazratanir,
he
said that that you should preach to the
people about the thing that you're weakest in.
Because if you have a a a a
a a proper heart inside of your chest,
one day after saying it again and then
again, your own shame will cause you to
rectify yourself.
So,
you know, the Tasawwuf has an influence on
things. That's my my my theory, it has
influence on ilm in a way that people
don't want to admit.
So there's this discussion in Hadith about who's
a Sahabi.
So there were prominent who had the opinion
that it's not just someone someone who was
a Muslim at the time of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and and saw him
and
whatever.
But that person has to have spent some
decent amount of time
with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And that's not the opinion that that that
the Ummah has accepted over the passage of
the centuries.
And my my feeling is, or my thoughts
about that, which may be wrong,
are that this is actually the influence of
the
hadith.
Why?
Because your nazar, your gaze is like a
portal to the heart.
When you look at someone or you look
at something,
what's inside of your heart will, like, touch
that person.
And when you see someone,
what that person's spiritual state is, it will
be drank into your heart as well.
It has in that that isharaab, it's not
that they actually melted the statue and drank
it literally,
nor is it from hearing it, it's from
what? It's from seeing it.
And this is something this is a concept
that's there again and again in,
amongst the sufia and kiram, and it's borne
out by the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Right? There are some armies that will be
given victory because amongst them, there is a
Prophet of Allah Ta'ala.
And there's some armies that will be given
victory because amongst them there's someone who met
a Prophet of Allah Ta'ala. And there's some
armies that will be given victory because amongst
them is someone who met someone who met
a nabi of Allah
So
going with that with that concept,
right, going with that concept,
on one side, you can understand why everybody
looking at * is a bad thing. What's
the greatest deed someone in this ummah could
have greatest maqam someone in this ummah could
have attained?
So the sukhba of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
You don't have to fast, pray, anything. It's
what all it is is you are you
have iman in your heart,
and either you see Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
or He sees
you. Right? Abdul Adnu
ibn Maitum Radhiallahu Anhu,
He was blind, so he couldn't see Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And so the Azwad Mutaharati entered the room
and they didn't cover themselves. Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam says, what's wrong? How come you're
not covering yourselves? He said, he's blind. He
said, are you too blind also that you
don't see him?
So what seeing Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
being seen by Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
that's what your eyes were made for. That's
in one instant. You do what? You know,
a 100 years of nawafil and fasting, sadaqa
is not gonna do for you.
That's on the good side. On the bad
side, if you're looking at the haram,
that's not what you were made for. That's
not what your eyes were made for. That's
not what your heart was made for.
It's like taking the Ithar bottle and filling
chutney in it. You know? Even if you
put Ithar in it afterward, what's gonna happen?
You have to wash it, like, with chlorine
or whatever. Right? Otherwise, you're you're gonna put
on you think you're putting on, like, whatever
or
whatever
or whatever weird. Someone once brought a bottle
of Sahir al Arab. That's that's what the
name of the ither was called. I'm like,
I don't think I don't know if I
wanna put that on. That doesn't sound like
something I wanna put on. But,
you know,
what is it you're it's not what it's
for. You're you're ruining something that's really useful.
Unless the person says stuff, otherwise, this is
crazy Moana Saab from America talking about *.
Mufti Saab sitting right there. Look. What is
the definition of *? Is it the definition
Looking at the aura of a man for
a man looking at the aura of a
woman for a man, if you just you're
sitting at home and just watching YouTube video
and you see a woman with her head
uncovered.
Thus, you already crossed the line with Allah
and his Rasool
Afterward, it's a quantitative difference. It's not a
qualitative difference.
Once you cross that line, the rest of
it, it's like, you know, it's like, it's
like, you know, you know, ordering 12 or
13 of something. It's not really that big
of a difference, really.
Your eyes weren't made for those things.
Your ears weren't made for those things.
They were made for something else.
And so
my eyes
weren't able to see those people.
I wasn't able to meet those people. Our
elders were able to. You might get into
a fight with them. They may be harsh
with you in class. They may be unfair
with you in class. They may, you know,
you know, do something to make your life
very difficult. You may say something and they
don't understand what you're saying, and so they
yell at you or whatever. These things happen.
They always happen.
But
Allah made a decision before he created the
heavens and the earth that they're the ones
who are going to meet meet our elders
and our,
and you're not
you're gonna meet them.
That's all you have. If you cut that
taluk, then you're not cutting it with them,
you're cutting with who?
The Sahaba and Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
And so, you know, obviously you shouldn't go
extreme with it. I mean, imagine, you know,
someone someone sees their sheikh doing something haram
or something in Quran al Khasta happens that
really justifies cutting off from that one individual,
then you have to go to somebody else
who
is of that Tabakah. You can't do this
freestyle. You can't do this on your own.
It's not like skateboarding or ice skating or
something like you can't do freestyle.
If you don't have any connection to them,
it's like putting the out electrical outlet with
the wall, but there's no you're not connected
to the to the power plant. There's no
there's nothing coming out of it. You're just
a faker.
It's like, you know, they're they're snakes that
are extremely poisonous,
extremely poisonous. And then there are other snakes
that look like the poisonous snakes, but if
they bite you, nothing will happen.
You're just going to be a faker until
you connect yourself with your mashaikh and with
your elders.
And from what we've learned from our masha'ik
and elders, and I'll be very honest with
you. I'll be blunt with you as many
people have said that I often am. I
think personally, I'm a very tactful person, but
other people have said that I'm blunt.
So,
there are people who are sitting in universities
right now studying the dean.
And objectively, I can tell you they don't
know Arabic.
They don't know fiqh. They don't really know
anything what they're talking about. They just write.
They write well. This is one problem in
the Madars, people need to learn how to
write properly.
Not just in Arabic, also in the local
language as well, in English. And you see
that in the past, every place where the
Muslims went, wherever they they they made themselves
part of the culture, Always the greatest literary
figures are are all Ulema or Sufis. That's
it. There are always people of Deen.
They master the language of wherever they go.
We we have to we have to up
our game, not just in speaking. Everyone likes
giving Bayan. Even our Bayans are horrible.
You know, even people born and raised here,
they give band with the most atrocious English,
you know. This is the more superior is
to that and you hear these things, you're
like, where is this guy from? Right?
But writing is more important than than speaking
even, because you give one band. How many
people are gonna listen to one band?
10, 20, 50, a 100, 500, a 1000,
5000?
I you know, I put articles online. After
a couple of years, 10,000, 20,000 people will
have have have looked over the article.
You just can't compete. Writing will just get
to a a greater audience. And writing is
wonderful because when you write, it's not like
speaking speech is ephemeral,
it comes and goes, it's temporary.
So a person can't scrutinize it as much
as they can with writing. Writing is all
there, right in front of you. You read
it again, and again, and again. The person's
thoughts are like,
naked in front of you. You could scrutinize
them to us, to a degree that makes
that person's ficker very vulnerable.
Right? So you have to be very careful
what words you choose, what references you give.
But the wonderful thing is, that when you
write, that's how you can tell the difference
between the person who knows what they're talking
about and the person who doesn't know what
they're talking about.
And so
there are many people in universities, coming back
to the point that I was making,
that don't really know anything. I mean, I
know professors of professors of the Arabic Language
and University, tenured professors
that are people who say like, half a
yahufu like
type nonsense, like really incompetent people.
And I was embarrassed actually when I went
to Madrasa and Pakistan.
The Muertanians, I guess, just wrote me off
from the beginning and humored me. In Pakistan,
they expected me to know Arabic, so I
was embarrassed the level of, like, horrificness. I
learned Arabic at the uni I took 3
years Arabic at the university. It sounds very
impressive, but really it's it's depressing how incompetent
it was,
the the level of teaching. And, you know,
the weird things like all the Fil Amr
Samay, there's no there's no rule to it
and all. So, you know, when you get
called out by, like, a baton from the
village, like in, like, Thalitha as a Dora
student, you know, it lets you know, like,
what the standard the difference in the standard
of teaching is. Right?
So,
there are people sitting in universities,
they write bet they, in general, write better,
although, you know, there are still mothers of
people who write well, and that's something that
can be fixed very easy. That's not one
of the ulumuwahi.
But they don't know what they're talking about.
They'll get jobs that pay better than your
jobs
on average.
And in fact, our
community will give them more authority with regards
to Dean than they will give to you
as madrasa teachers and madrasa graduates.
However, despite all of that, despite all of
that, and this is no exaggeration,
I consider this to be
superior to that, not in a way that's
even comparable.
Why?
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Whoever Allah
wishes good for, he gives them understanding of
the deen.
So even if you get paid more, even
if you're a doctor, professor, you have a
good job, you get respected by some people,
or every everybody.
Doesn't matter.
Whoever Allah wishes good for, he didn't say
he's gonna give him money. He didn't say
he's gonna give him status and honor. In
fact, it's the flip side around. Right? What
is the Hadith?
There's another narration.
And I feel like this narration is like
a tafsir of the other one because the
ulamar, the amfal, and then after them is
the salihain.
And that's worth more than anything in this
world. I remember in in in in in
Lahore in Madrasah,
one time,
our Ustajimullah
Hassan Saab, he said in Bayan, he said
that if you if you get a job
sweeping the floor or cleaning the bathroom in
the masjid,
So it is better than being the chief
of police
or or like some high level functionary, you
know, in the government.
He said if you get a job being
the imam or the khateeb in the masjid,
he says, it's better than being a president
or prime minister of a country.
And he said, if you get a job
as a mudarist in the madrasah,
and he paused.
He said, I find no mifal that that
I can make analogy to it in this
dunya.
And,
you know, some people
don't believe that and that's why they'll never
come. Some people believe that right now and
something will happen to them in their life
later on, and they'll be like, oh, man,
all these movies fed me all this and
now I have to pay my bills. So
I'm gonna go join real life and whatever.
But brothers and sisters, this is such a
ship.
The the the blessed ones and the happy
ones, they're not the ones who look for
the life jacket. They're the ones who dream
about sinking in that ocean.
So if that's the choice Allah made for
you, then this is like a great for
you.
This is to the to the end, this
is what we want to do. So the
fact of the matter is not all of
you will become Masjid Imams.
Not all of you will become teachers in
Madaris. Not all of you will become,
you know,
whatever teachers in Islamic schools. Maybe somebody will
get a degree as an engineer or become
a doctor or, you know, work you run
a business or whatever, all of those things.
Whatever you do in order to pay your
rent, that's something different.
Everyone has to do that. Just because, you
know, you're you read the Hidayah in life,
you know, graduated with, you know, a sunad
and and the that doesn't mean you don't
have to go to the bathroom anymore.
Everyone has to make a living. There's certain
of this dunya, everyone has to fulfill
them. But remember always, there's a difference between
your job and your work.
If you have to make coffee at Tim
Hortons in order to pay your pay your
rent or you have to drive a taxi
in order to pay your rent,
there's no shame in that.
You're doing something if you're doing something halal,
there's no shame in that. I mean, I
guess, Tim Hortons, maybe they serve pork or
whatever. But, you know, if it's like the
Halal Tim Hortons. Right? We're right next to
whatever Abu Bakr Masjidou and so they get
turkey bacon instead. There's no shame in that.
There's no shame. You know, Desi culture, you
know, we kind of the caste system is
a thing that, like, kinda
visits us again and again. I
though I love the one of parts of
the Bataan culture and Mexican culture is the
same thing in both of them. They don't
have they don't have a neither of them.
They don't have a
a concept of an important job or an
unimportant job. It's just if you have if
you're working, it's honorable. If you're not working,
then you're bummed.
Right? So whatever whatever you're whatever you're doing,
whatever job you do in your life, that's
fine. That's okay.
Even if you're not imam in the masjid
or whatever, that's
okay. But
that's your job.
What is your work?
The service of the Ummah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The service of the Deen of Islam, that's
your life's work.
Your job can be whatever. You'd have a
side hustle in order to pay your bills.
But what is your life's work?
The service of the dean of Islam and
the service of the ummah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasalam.
And out of out of that, which is
a general category, there's a very specific there's
a very specific role that you have to
play. You know? The hospital, if it doesn't
have janitors, it's people will die of infections
and things like that. They're important as well.
Without them, the hospital won't run.
But who's the most important person in the
hospital? It's like the doctor or the surgeon.
Right? Because without because those are the hardest
people to find to do the job with
the the skill, and they have a shutoff
that's
intuitively understood by people. We don't have to
explain why. It's not like a or whatever.
Right?
So just like that, who are the who
are the?
Are they the Shuhada? Are they the Mujahidunafi
Sabilellah?
Are they the people who give give zakat
and sadaqa?
Who are
they? All of those people have a very
high makam and an important role to play.
The dakirin,
mussalin,
they all have a very important role to
play. Parents that raise up righteous children, they
all have a very important role to play.
But who are the
And you got his class kids. Right? You
guys haven't been doing Arabic yet, have you?
You know Arabic? I know. You know.
Right? You know Arabic?
Look at this.
I I like I like I like his,
you know, he has, like, ambition and he
has confidence.
I just hope you learn something inshallah. If
you learn something, then
but the
the the the idea is what? Right? The
the the olamma are the heirs of the
prophets. Heir means what? When someone dies, who
gets your stuff?
It's your your heirs. Your heirs are the
people who are closest to you, your closest
relatives, like a father, his son takes his
things in afterward. Right?
And then the and the ambia, but they
didn't leave behind gold and silver. What did
they leave behind?
Rasulullah
said they left behind nothing nothing except for
ills, except for knowledge.
And whoever takes it, that person has taken
a great portion. Now tell me, out of
all of the people we have
and we have,
Bukhari
and Muslim and Hidaya and all of these
advanced books, Which of the Asatizah and this
madrasah get the most salah? Tell me. Who
who wants to venture a guess? Raise your
hand. Or if it's a sister, you can
just blurt it out from the other side
of the part of the go ahead. Quran.
Okay. Which one? The one the your his
teacher?
Yeah. Any other theories?
Who?
Your teacher who teaches you.
Why?
Right.
Without learning Alif Batatha,
there's no way in heck you're gonna read
Bukhari.
So every single kitab you read after that,
your maktab teacher is like cashing in the
check, the swab check.
In fact, I won't even say he's cashing
the Suwab check. He's like robbing the Suwab
liquor store.
He's robbing the Suwab bank
because he's not even doing anything anymore.
Do you understand? He's not even doing anything
anymore, and he that's the beautiful part.
I taught this guy,
Manzuma Beihuniya. I didn't even do a very
good job at it. I just gave him
the book and said, hey. Memorize it. Okay?
He's the one who went back to India
and like whatever his stomach was upset probably
for several years, and like, you know, got
chewed out by Sheikh Yunus and like, you
know, all these things. And he had to
read books and make mutala, and now he's
talking to everybody about the musandif of this
and that and like, you know, the taghriz
and blah blah. I don't even know what
any of these words mean. Right? He's like
talking shop about these things and writing papers
and this and that, and teaching teaching you
guys. Now you guys even know more than
I do, honestly.
Right? I'll tell you a little secret. I
never memorized the entire manzuma bei paniye. I
just memorized the lines here and there, and
I fake it in front of the students
in order for them to think I memorized
it, so that they'll memorize it.
I'm, you know, I'm I'm a like a
I'm I'm a weak person. Like, I'm like
a like a Buddha who put on armor
and went into battle.
So the other army thinks, oh, look how
powerful the army is.
But, like, really, if you just come and,
like, hit swords with me, I would have
fallen over.
That's by the way, that's not a that's
that's, like, smart. That's not I pat myself
on the back for that because look at
what the result is. A And, b, who
did that before me? You know that when
said Abu Bakr Sadiq
when he sent the army of Osama bin
Zayed to go and fight the Romans, Medina
was completely, like, defenseless.
That's exactly what they did. They told the
old men,
like, the the people who were too old
to go and fight.
Like they were exempted from military service because
they were too old. Otherwise, the sahaba
would
not miss a chance to go on jihadfees
on the positive side because of the reward
and the negative side because everybody knew that
the only one who sat out was Munafiq.
Right? And it looks bad as well.
The old men who were exempted from going
out, those people,
they would do what? They were told to
put on armor and stand guard at the
gates at the at the gates of, of
of the city.
Why? So that the Bedouins Bedouins, a lot
of them, you know, even till this day,
they're brigands. They're just thieves. They just wait
for someone to to jack because there's nobody
to help you in the desert. Right?
So that the Bedouins didn't know that Medina
is defenseless. From a distance, it looks like
there's someone guarding this. There's no one there
was no one guarding the city except for
Allah Ta'ala. That's it. There's nobody guarding the
city. Even Said Abu Bakr Siddiq, despite being
Khalifa, he used to put in a shift
and be despite being an old man, he
used to put in a shift standing guard
with with armor. That's how few people were
left there. So I pat myself on the
back,
Good hamza.
Why? Because that's what what you need to
do. You need to be if you the
person who can do something is amazing.
The person who can't do something, the best
they can do is to try to help
someone who can.
If you're not a good leader, don't try
to be a leader. Don't if you don't
know Tajweed, don't try to be the imam.
If you don't know Ilm, don't try to
teach something.
The this is like a part of the
the calamity of the. We have all these
fakers who are trying to, like, you know,
displace the the real people. So you have,
like, a lineup, you know, like, they do
do the prison lineups. You know, you recognize
the person who robbed you or whatever. So
there's the jackal and the hyena and the
the the fox and the lion, and all
of them are saying, you know, I'm king.
And you can't the public can't tell who's
who.
Right? If you can't actually be if you
can't actually be a person of service, what
can you do? You can help someone of
service.
That's one of the brilliant things about the
Madars in the Indian subcontinent. Because I studied
in the east and the west. I saw
the Mahasana both systems. They're very different and
there's a lot of khair in both of
them. A lot of khair in both of
them. But one of the beautiful things about
the madrasa system, you can have some students
that are really, really not the most intelligent
people in the world.
But by the barakah sitting with the masha'i
for so long, the masha'i telling them, this
is your life's work. This is something even
if you have to do something else in
order to make money or whatever, this is
what what your project that you're,
you're doing. I've seen people graduate. They give
them I don't it's like a a crime.
They give some of those people a They
don't even know how to really buy it
properly. But that person, if all they know
is
they'll put on the turban and they're dastarbandi
once it gets on their head. They know,
told me I have to carry on his
work, and they'll sit and teach alif batataa
till the day they die, and they will
not leave their post.
They will not run from their post.
Now between the students of knowledge, those people
are not ulama.
However,
some of those people, despite their lack of
intelligence and learning,
will achieve the rank of the ulama in
a way that many of those smart people
won't. Why? Because they did something with it.
If you have a field of 50 acres
and you don't plant it, then when everyone
else is harvesting, you'll come up empty handed.
If you only have, like, a backyard,
but you planted a couple of things, at
least you'll have something.
Don't waste this opportunity to study, to learn.
This is another, in my opinion, allahu alam.
This is, in my opinion, this is a
tareef of the age we live in, that
the majority of the Ummah has put amal
over over ilm.
They say, oh, your ilm is worthless if
you don't make amal on it. I don't
think that with all due respect, I don't
see that as true.
The ilm is a sifa from the sifaat
of Allah
himself.
In the books of Kalam, this is like
one of the first mabahid is like, what
is the definition of illm, you know. So
they first start with the mantafi definition.
That definition cannot be true for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala because tasawwur and all this other
stuff, it it doesn't work. So the the
the actual definition of ilm, and this is
where Akita turns kind of Sufi a little
bit, you know. The definition of ilem is
it's one of the sifat of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And its reflection and its shadow hits some
parts of the creation.
This ilm is a life of its own.
Even you'll reach so many of the Hidayah,
who's going to ever go hunting
for their food?
Who's ever and if you hunt, you're probably
gonna use a gun, you probably won't. That's
hit another. I don't wanna get into your
can deal with that. Right? But, like, you
know, you're probably not gonna, you know, go
with the bow and arrow. You're definitely not
gonna train it. Who here has ever trained
a dog to hunt?
Who plans on doing it at some point
in their life?
Right. Okay. Masha'allah. Cool.
That sounds fun. Let me know how it
turns out.
You know?
Who who here is, like, gonna, like, you
know, read my side, like, buy cloth from
a bolt
that the cloth in the beginning is different
than the one in the middle and then
the one in the end?
Who here is have to gonna have to
worry about whether the dirham they have in
their pocket is chipped or not? I mean,
there's a lot of stuff that, you know,
who here is gonna own slaves?
Probably nobody.
If you do
weird, please don't email me afterwards.
You know what I mean?
It's just not gonna happen.
But are you saying that because there's no
amal, the ilm has no value?
The entire ilm has value. The ilm has
a life of its own. The ilm learning
the ilm, even if you make amal on
it. I'm not saying don't make amal or
that amal is not a big deal. Right?
It's important. You have to do it. Otherwise,
you're gonna go to jahannam, and no one
would like that. Right? But still
still, even if you do make amal on
your ilm, inshallah, you all make amal on
your ilm. You'll
be surprised.
Learning the knowledge and keeping the knowledge in
your heart will give you more reward than
the actual will.
So all of a sudden, what you're doing
in this, like, place above what's the name
of the the building?
Smiling Jacks. Smiling Jacks.
Yeah.
There's some jokes I'm gonna make, but our
elders
are present, so I'm gonna refrain at this
time. But anyway,
What you're doing here above Smiling Jack's
and, like, above the weird, like, Polish deli
that's probably more majority of what they sell
there is haram,
all of a sudden seems more important than
it did when you, you know, first thought
about
it. So Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, inshallah, everyone
should make
dua from their heart,
from the depth of their heart that if
they feel this importance of this ill, that,
you Allah,
we thank you for letting us be connected
with it right now, and we pray that
you and with all due respect,
I I I expected better from you than
to say something like he finished his studies
in such and such place. Who here plans
on finishing their studies?
It's not it's not you. We don't do
that. The only reason we have the sunnah
then all of this other stuff is just
so that,
you know, under the principle of the in
the line of the blind, the man with
one eye is king. It's a political it's
a political,
tool that our our elders gave to us
so that the juhal don't take over the
masajid. So that someone who knows something
will always have the upper hand over someone
who knows nothing, or worse yet, someone who
knows nothing and thinks he knows something.
However, between us, the secret this is not
the Jummah Khutba. This is just between us.
We know that that that we'd we really
we we know perilously and pathetically less than
what we should,
and, and this is something that we're we're
going to keep doing until the day day
that we die. We'll never finish we'll never
finish this this thing.
Right?
It's something you you know,
where is, Ibrahim?
I called my,
my called my my teacher and Hadamim's eldest
son that I I read from in the
Emirates
when I was, like, a couple of days
before our the the star band in Madrasa,
before our graduation.
And I told him, I said, I go
He said,
He said, that's beautiful. Take the
Right? Take the turban,
but leave in Pakistan.
Right? Between us,
what is it? Is it a joke? Is
it What is it? Is it a bad
joke that's not funny?
We know we Allah knows best, you know.
Who who has Ijazah? The Ijazah has a
because we talk about the the influence of
Sufism on on on Ilm?
The Ijazah has a outward form. And this
isn't as well. This I heard this from
the masha'id themselves. The outward form, someone says
something or write something for you and you
get the Ijazah.
The the the reality of it is what?
It comes from Allah Ta'ala and He'll show
the entire ummah and He'll show he'll show
everybody who has his ijazah and who doesn't.
The one person who is teaching
and
he he he
doesn't do it like, oh, man. I'm stuck,
mocked up teaching, you know, it's both difficult,
the kids blah blah blah. No. Although you
feel like that, that's something you can't help.
But, you know, it's not the person who's
saying that all the time. The person who
has if you have the for the rest
of your life till the day you die
that you never abandoned your post, that that's
you never flee from the field of battle.
Right? We're not soldiers.
A soldier, if he runs from the battlefield,
he's a coward.
What are we? We're students of knowledge. We're
we're we're we're teachers of knowledge. We're students
of knowledge. If you abandon your post, what's
the what's the what's the punishment for fleeing
from the field of battle?
Allah Ta'ala won't look at you in the
You'll ask him first things, he's gonna just
ignore you.
The person who the person who taught Alif
Batatha,
for the for his whole life, did he
engage in some level of if not even
the most basic level? He engaged in some
level of
and
he died as a island. That's Allah gave
him his ijazah.
And the person who
knows how to, you know, use fancy words
in Arabic and in English and can drop
the names of this book and that book
and whatever.
Those people, if they bounce and they spend
all of their time
seeking,
you know, money
or better yet, seeking riassa, that they still
wear a turban, they still have a beard,
and still hang out with the Madrasa crowd
and with the religious crowd, but they're just
trying to, like,
get a leg leg up on everybody
and going after, you know,
positions and prestige and whatever.
That person abandoned their post.
Right? That's all it's a very simple prescription.
It's not like super complicated.
The person who runs from from their position
and abandons it and then gets disenchanted and
does something else.
That person
that person, you know, like,
you can write all your Ijazas in the
world. If Allah didn't give you that Ijazas,
then what benefit is there in it?
And so to make a long story short,
to wrap it up because it's gone on
too long anyway.
But,
you know, on the practical side, it's not
easy.
It's wonderful. We'll like to be a
until we're blue in the face, and then
we'll go out into the rest of the
world. And it's hard, you know. You still
have to pay your rent. You still have
to get married. You still have to all
of these things.
And,
the the issue is that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, the, you know, the two sides of
the coin is that, yes, it's a sunnah
to smile
to other
people. But inside of his heart, he was
described as.
He'd go from one grief to another.
And to do both at the same time
is utterly remarkable.
And if you want to be like Rasulullah
sallahu alaihi wa sallam, you're going to be
a, you know,
and you're going to take your share as
much as you're like him,
that's how much of a share that you'll
take of the this
brokenheartedness
that carries
with it. The brothers, the sisters, the elders,
the youngers, you know, you guys are, like,
you know, doing, like, whatever the 17th bar
while some other kid is sitting at home
playing PlayStation. I'm not gonna lie to you.
You guys probably know that it's not easy.
You know, Carlos Abi yells at you for
not, like, whatever. Sometimes you prepare your
and you prepared it right, and just for
whatever reason, you can't read it when the
comes, you know, and you get yelled at
and, you know,
it's hard. It's not and that's just the
beginning. It gets harder. The further you go,
the harder it is. Right?
So
what's my prescription?
If you can be like,
you know,
the model of, like, Sufic heroism and, like,
just trudge on, good for you, make dua
for me, For people like me who it's
difficult for.
Right?
If you need to take a break from
things, if you need to ease up, if
you need to whatever,
that's fine. Go
to the halal HMA place, eat a burger,
take the evening off, but be
Why?
Everything will be judged as according to where
where it ends,
how it ends. If you have to take
a break from all of this, like,
carrying the burden of, like, prophetic knowledge and
all this stuff, it's not easy. Right?
Go ahead, take a break, but never have
the intention that I'm gonna leave this thing.
Whatever happens in life.
Even if you leave Madrasa in the middle
for 10 years 20 years,
Always have the inside of your heart, I'm
gonna come back one day.
And don't ever be ashamed to come back,
even if your teachers yell at you and
scold you and beat you. Who cares if
your teacher is yelling at you? Allah is
happy with you.
Never have the attention intention of abandoning this
thing. This is it. It's it's it's blood
and blood out.
That's like like how gang members do, but
they're doing haram stuff, like selling drugs and
things like that. Right? It's what? Blood in,
blood out.
You come in you come in wearing the
white cloth of your turban and you leave
wearing the white cloth of your coffin. That's
it. There's no once you're in, you can't
you don't leave this thing. That thought just
get it out of your mind. Allah
give all of us so much that that's
so so much it's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable how much that is. If a
person Allah lets them die on this path,
this is this is more than love. It's
more than money. This is like
entire nations of the earth will will have
for
because of how much this is. And everyone
is going to die. Everyone is going to
die.
The prime minister of the country, like, goes
on, like, a vacation on a private island
on a yacht with Al Khan or whatever.
Right? Those people have nothing compared to what
this is.
If you don't believe that, like, maybe you
haven't been paying attention.
Everyone is going to die. I'm not threatening
them, Insha'Allah. They all have long life, Right?
But even if you live 200 years, you're
gonna die eventually. Right?
Everyone is going to die. And that day,
madrasa will have looked like a very attractive
proposition and a good idea. Intelligent people are
the ones who think about tomorrow, not just
Okay. We thank for coming inshallah.
And, we plan on
seeing Moana again inshallah sometime mid January
for
a workshop with
the Javier.