Hamzah Wald Maqbul – The Sorrow of Separation Murbit Ahmad Fl and Sjidah Bj CLE 02052021
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Verily to Allah we belong and to Him
do we return.
And that in the face of every sadness,
we can remember
that
this Ummah will receive the Shafa'a of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the day of
judgement
and will be given to drink from his
Mubarak,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the day of judgment.
And that his
is 1 in which,
the face of which, no sin,
can
withstand forgiveness.
For all of those who are true to
Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and tried their best.
In the past 2 days
2
very special people from the Ahlul El and
from the servants of knowledge.
In my life, Allah
has chosen to take them back into his
mercy.
Yesterday
the Sheikh
Murabit Ahmed Fahl
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
forgive him and raise his rank
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala immerse him in his
mercy.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala raise his rank amongst
his Aulia.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make all of his
students
worthy representatives
of his knowledge and of his service. Allah
give them from his Ta'id and from his
Madad
If not for any other reason than for
his sake,
that which will keep his,
his scroll of good deeds
being continue continuously filled,
more and more, with the passing days even
after he left this temporary abode.
He was from amongst the senior students of
Morabit Al Hajj,
our
Sheikh,
who was well known,
who lived over a 100 years and who
was known in the entire Mauritania and then
thereafter throughout
the the olamah of the world,
because of his,
knowledge,
because of the
completely,
otherworldly,
level of knowledge he had, his ability to
memorize,
his having memorized more books than a person
can carry
not just the Mutoon of Elm but things
like the
tafsir, kurtubi, and the lisan al Arab,
you know, the 10 volume tafsir, kurtubi, and
the lisan al Arab, which is I have
a copy and edition at my house in,
I think, 26 volumes classical Arabic dictionary.
Not only has the meanings of words, but
the adila from the Quran and from the
sunnah the proofs from the poetry of Jahiliya
etcetera
not to say that these are the only
books he memorized but
examples of
just this otherworldly
type memory and intellect Allah gave him penetrating
piercing insight
The students of knowledge came to him through
the entire world
and,
people have been with him continuously,
for nearly a century
and none of those people can recall ever
seeing him do anything that could be even
remotely construed as a sin
and Allah you know Allah
knows the secret of what's in people's hearts
but even myself all my time that I
was there in Tuemarati was literally in the
in the eye of the people,
constantly
and all he would do is pray his
salat
and,
when it wasn't time for salat,
he was just constantly reciting Quran
or responding to salams
or occasionally
reading some verses from the Qasidah Burda and
the praise of the Prophet SAW
and,
were giving duas to the students and
I swear I never heard him
from his own side talking about anything,
or speaking anything other than that.
And
from his first generation of students most of
them had passed away because Allah gave him
a an abnormally long lifespan
and
uh-uh Murabit Ahmed Falaal was from his senior
students
to give you an idea of
what type of student he was. Murabit Ahmed
Falaal also
married one of Al Hajj, his daughters Rahaima
and,
from
that Mubarak marriage and from that pure house
came,
Sheikh Abdullah,
with Murabit Ahmdfal, who is also teaching
in his grandfather's
Mahdara and Madrasah,
a man of elegant and beautiful manners.
If
Ilm, if knowledge had a prince,
it would have been him.
Not so aloof as to not know what's
going on in the world,
but, also,
not affected by it with the regal poison
dignity.
His father Murabit Ahmedfal who just passed away,
he had his own Mahdara, his own madrasa
that he would teach in
and like Murabit
Al Hajj,
his Mahdara was in the desert. It was
in the Badia, far from any roads,
and,
you had to had to walk from the
road for several miles to get there. It
was called the Ein Khashbah or you had
to take a 4 by 4 to get
there.
And sometimes we would pass it on our
way to to emarat which was the Mahdara
of Murabit
Al Hajj
And, it was lower. It wasn't as high
up on the mountain, so it was significantly
hotter.
But students would come from all over, not
only Mauritania, but from, all over the region
and ultimately all over the world to study
with him as well.
My good friend and, dear brother, Sheikh Morabit
Benavides,
who is,
from California
and accepted Islam
in in his younger years.
He actually studied in Ein Hashba. He read
a good amount of the Muftas or Khalil
and Malik Iffik from Robert Ahmedfal,
and he read Solaam,
the master book of of Mantik,
of of of logic,
from him and other things as well.
And, my condolences to all of you be
able to Sheikha Abdullah and to,
to Murabit Benavides and to anyone who who
who met him.
He was a man of of of
knowledge that was commensurate with what we described,
that that that, you know, to be known
as an Aleman as a scholar amongst the
Mauritanians is not just a matter of
graduating with a degree or a PhD or
whatever
rather it's a great station
amongst them because,
you know, it is a land that gives
so much importance to Elm
but
on top of this kind of very deep
and very
oceanic synthesis of knowledge based on the precision
of memorization.
On top of that,
he was a man of
very beautiful akhlaq
and you know when you live in the
desert when you're a Bedouin there's a little
bit of roughness,
that's customary and normal, in,
in the personalities and the characters of many
of the people in the desert,
that we just kinda come to take for
granted. It's just the culture, you know, when
you meet a Bedouin, there there are some
effects that being in the heat and being
in the desert for so long has on
a person
that you just take for granted you know
you might be offended if someone deals with
you that way uh-uh in the city but
with Bedouins just kind of come to be
expected
and in fact the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said that for this reason
that if a
a city person and a Bedouin,
come together for the salat, it's a makru
for the Bedouin to lead the salat just
because of the awkwardness. Even if the Bedouin
is a person of knowledge or whatever or
a person of piety.
But Murabbid Ahmed Fahl, he had such
transcendent,
character. I remember we we we stopped and
visited him on a couple of occasions
and,
you know, one time,
the driver
the driver was, I believe he was a
Wolof speaking brother from Senegal
and, he knew a little bit of Arabic
but he didn't he didn't seem to be
like, you know, the type of guy who,
you know, keeps company with the ulama constantly.
And on top of that, he'd been smoking
and the Malekis,
in general, had been given the, giving the,
fatwa
of tahareem of of the,
illicitness and unlawfulness
of of of smoking
for centuries unlike some of the other Madahib
and so this man smelled like cigarette smoke
and
I myself cringed like this guy is gonna
come in, like, you know, visit the Sheikh
or whatever,
and this is my own shortcoming. I'm not
saying that, like, this is the way you
should be. Obviously, it's not because we didn't
see it from our elders, but, you know,
you you know, you think you're something and,
you know, so you judge people and then
you see the akhlaq of the masha'ikh and
you remember, oh, right. I'm nothing. I should
just shut up and just observe what's going
on.
And so
I saw him, Murad Ahmed Falah greeted him
with so much honor and dignity and,
you know, people like that, when you lay
eyes on them, you have no choice but
to love them.
And, this, this driver, he,
just like that, you know, he he he
he, sat him close to him and, the
driver, you know, showed his respect, which is
customary. It's a way of showing respect to
elders in other parts of the world. You
know, he he laid his hands on the
shift's head and massaged his head and his
shoulders
And,
not one at one not one point did,
the shift treat him with any less respect
than he treated anybody else in the Majlis,
nor did he cringe or,
show any sort of negativity toward him. And
you could see, that he won, this man's
heart.
And that just makes me think about, you
know, that the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he
won people's hearts like that, you know, and
we think like, oh well, you know, for
Islam to like make it into people's hearts,
we have to give a real fancy talk
or, you know, have really good lighting or
cameras on a YouTube video or some nonsense
like that. But,
that's that's what it was. It was that
thing and that thing can't be bought or
sold, it's not cheap and,
you know,
I would ask the masher for duas, I
would ask Murabit Al Hajj for du'a. He
would lay his Mubarah hands insha'Allah.
You know, not to not to make a
judgment that only Allah has the right to
make, but you know, we hope that inshaAllah
Allah,
you know what we saw from him that
that such a man is Mubaraka and Allahi
Tabarak Wa Ta'ala that,
that he would lay his hands on my
head and he would say,
Allah
fulfill all of your good desires,
your desires to do good and may He
keep you in a good state always and
may He
let you pass from this world in a
good way
And, so that was Murabit Al Hajj.
I went to,
I went to Murabit Ahmed Fahl and I
removed my turban from my head and I
put it in front of him hoping that
he would place his hands on my head
as well and asked him to give duas
as a custom of the students in front
of their mashaif
and he gave me the
dua
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be
your desire
and my desire.
I never heard those words
before that
nor have I heard them since and
like what kind of person says that?
You asked them for Du'a, make Du'a for
me and they say what?
May Allah Ta'ala become your desire and become
my desire.
Abnow, he's passed into the mercy of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be Ibnihe.
Everybody in this world is going to perish
one day, and the only thing that will
remain forever is
the countenance of your Lord possessive of
majesty and of generosity of nobility.
So imagine
what kind of Eid ul Barak it would
be for that soul to return
to the Rabb that he made dua in
his life
for himself and for others that Rab Tabarak
Ta'ala should be your Murad, should be the
object of your desire, the object of your
Iradah.
And so I don't want to make this
into a geography.
People like this, I don't know how to
describe them properly
and to be honest with you, if I
could describe them accurately, people like Morabit, people
like, you know,
Azar Chishdi Saab, my Sheikh, who passed away.
So so many people asked me to, like,
write some biography or give some recording or
something
about about him as many people did when
he passed away. He's a very loved person
and he taught many students. He trained an
entire army of Muaddehtin,
and, and, you know, people of understanding.
And, I don't even know, like, I I
just I don't even have the courage to
do it because I know if I describe
these people properly, nobody would believe me.
If somebody described them to me in the
way that I knew them, I wouldn't believe
that person.
But, at the end of the day we're
people of Iman.
If Hamza is telling you that you know
about these people correctly or
incorrectly
trying to inflate his own teachers or people
he met in order to get a following
or whatever which is the way everybody is
the way I am, I said way everybody
is Allah Ta' forgive us except for the
mercy of Allah it's the way everybody is
and it's the way I would have been
and
whatever so don't trust me but trust Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, trust Allah Ta'ala and trust
the Prophet that there are people from the
Ummah that are like that that you have
to see them because if you
if you have like any sort of like
reasonable mind and someone described them to you
accurately there's no way you would have believed
them.
But then if you travel enough, you realize
that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
Allah
make his grave
an ocean of light. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
make his students
his son,
Sheikh Abdullahi
uh-uh-uh, Ahmed Fahl and,
Sheikh Murabit that we have with us in
America,
our peace of Murabit Ahmed Fahl with us
in America, whoever else studied with him. There
are many people who visited him and read
maybe at least 1 or 2 duroos with
him. You know, Allah Ta'ala
give them, give Muhammad my teacher, Muhammadul Hadameen,
who I sent him condolences, I knew he
would be heartbroken and he sent me back
a message and you know it's like it
sounds like he's trying to hide the fact
that he's crying
because if you knew these people, he would
cry. You know that there's no
$1,000,000,000,000 bailout package that that you can spend
enough money to make someone like this again
it's just a gift from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala and
all we can do is show Shukr and
make Duwah that Allah Ta'ala,
you know keep their knowledge alive and that
He crowned
with this whatever
thing that He gave to them that He
crowned somebody else amongst us and not take
it away from us
with some part of it
Insha'Allah so that there's Hidayah and there's guidance
in the Ummah Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make
all of them
these princes of ilm like Sheikh Abdullah and
Sheikh Muhammadu Hadamim
were these successors to carry the work of
their of their of their
their ancestors and their forefathers.
Our,
Sheikh
Hadamin, Murabit Hadamin who is the cousin of
Murabit Al Hajj, he's still alive, he's in
ill health. Miqdua for his Shifa and Afiyya,
people like this I don't know I
don't know where we find people like this
it's
a great mercy of Allah that they even
exist in the first place
Allah keep them preserved and Allah propagate their
work and turn those hearts that are otherwise
inclined toward money and stocks and GameStop and
all this other fun stuff you know this
merry-go-round of the dunya this carnival
filled with
thrills and chills and spills and cheats
and
desires and whatever and it's gonna be over
in 2 days like every carnival is that,
that Allah take some hearts out of it
and and and reorient them
toward the higher realm and toward a a
a a a a a a a a
Dominion that never fades
nor decreases or never ends
Then after that today I received the news
that Sajid Abbaji the
the patron,
the benevolent,
and the generous,
and the noble patron
of Madras Aisha, Lil Banat,
in Karachi,
that she
passed away.
My
my wife,
studied and and graduated
from.
It was a unique institution in this age.
Before it, I have no knowledge of any
other institution
which would teach,
girls the same madrasa syllabus that the men
used to learn, not in the Indian subcontinent
Rather, they would teach them some, you know,
basic issues of fiqh and basic issues of
like folk a pida in Urdu and just,
have them be kind of like counselor type
figures but nothing nothing that that
that went deep into the, into the Ulum
like the Darshanazami
did for the for the for the boys
and for the men, in the subcontinent.
And,
the one of the sons of the first
prime minister of Pakistan, the first prime minister
was an individual, a relatively Anglo philic individual
by the name of Chaudhry Muhammad Ali.
His son, Chaudhry Amjad Ali,
he did, his medicine
in,
in specialization in in England. He did, I
think, a fellowship in Harvard as well. He's
actually, interestingly enough, a
charter signatory to the,
to MSA,
in in the United States.
His father, when he came back to
Pakistan, reportedly said to him that I sent
you to America and to England to learn
how to become a white man,
and what is this that you have your
beard and you have, you know, you come
back looking like a daresh.
But, Chaudhry, Amjad Ali Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
protect him and give him a long life.
He's an old man, and I met him
in Karachi a couple of I met him
in Madinah Munawara as well.
He he he came on Jamaat to America.
He's visited Dar es Salaam and all these
other places,
both
several years ago and as well as relatively
recently a very pious and Munawar person if
you see him. You see the nur in
his face.
He had this vision that he wanted to
serve the Ummah through establishing this madrasa so
that the the the the talented women
of our Ummah who are becoming doctors and
becoming engineers and becoming all sorts of other
stuff,
that they can, you know,
excel in the realm of studying Deen
and he said nobody wanted to back him.
You know the very few lama saw his
vision
and, nobody wanted to back him. He said
that the madrassa Aisha started
with my own mother giving her share of
inheritance, which was not an insignificant amount so
that this madrasa could be built. He said
in the beginning,
very few people, even from the scholarly class,
wanted to send their children to study, their
daughters to study, because of such something culturally
so alien.
But they started it and they studied.
And,
the entire education from the beginning until the
end,
6 or 7 years is,
is an Arabic medium
and,
to the highest degree,
quality is not sacrificed in that institution as
it is in some institutions, unfortunately,
which teach the Darshan Zami curriculum.
And
uh-uh you know it's gotten to the point
where he said Alhamdulillah now we receive
we receive
requests
from,
the the from the great mashaikh of the
Qom
for their daughters and for their granddaughters and
their nieces,
etcetera to, be given admission.
People come from all over the world. There
are students when my wife was studying there
that were from Turkey
or from
Morocco or from other parts of the Muslim
world that came to study there because it
really is a unique women's institution.
And
Masha'Allah
now if
a sister isn't a Hafizah,
they're, you know, they won't even take their
application
in most cases. And there's so much competition
to get in. So Sajid Abhaji, who passed
away,
was his niece, Chaudhry Amjad Ali's niece.
She, was a very,
intelligent and bright and capable individual
who made the decision that I want to
set aside my time and my,
life for the service of this knowledge.
And, her uncle basically convinced many of the
greatest Mashaikh,
in Pakistan to teach
her individually from behind the screen,
the uloom. And so she had the high
high highest class education
possible. Mufti Taqi,
Moana Abdul Rashid Noamani, Chishti Saab's older brother
who is himself,
the highest Sanhedrin Hadith
in Pakistan
for as long as or for much of
his life.
That those Mashaikh, they taught her and prepared
her and she was the the the the
kind of the pivot around which this entire
institution ran
and she,
facilitated herself, taught and facilitated the teaching and
the training of
a generation of sisters
who themselves would go on to populate other
women's madares. Now, this phenomenon of teaching the
girls darshanizami
is
very common in the Indian subcontinent and has
spread to the rest of the world as
well.
And she she she was the one who
trained that first generation of
of of scholars. She was a very close
mentor,
to my,
to my wife,
and,
you know, really helped her to work through,
what was a struggle for her to get
through. I mean, those that course is not
an easy course to get through,
and, she was very special to her and
very,
kind to her and, like a very motherly
figure.
And,
you know, my wife and kids are actually
in Pakistan right now. My wife went there
and she asked me, can I, you know,
help me? I wanna give her a gift,
a very special gift, you know, to show
her how I feel. And,
you know, I gave her one of, one
of my,
I have the ITER, which is the gulab,
the
the the the word, the rose of Medina.
It's my favorite ITER, and it's not cheap.
So She said, here, take this bottle and
give it to her. We owe her a
debt.
Really, to be honest with you, there are
many, you know, there are many women scholars.
If there's ever one woman scholar I had
envy that that, I wish I could study
with, it would have been her.
And I don't say these things, you know,
in order to sugarcoat or to you know
sound woke or demographically
appropriate or whatever
but
sohanAllah my wife got there and she said
come come visit
and my wife said let me quarantine for
a couple of days because I don't want
to get you sick
Qadr of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, she got
the
COVID infection and things went from one stage
to the other
and Allah took her back into her mercy
today.
And my, you know, say the Khadija poor
thing, she's crying and she has this bottle
of Ituran.
That's this dunya
and,
I just imagine how much sacrifice and struggle
she went through. She wasn't a person, you
know, we get these things like, you know,
well, how come, you know,
men can speak in MSA and how come
women can't and this and that, these types
of like, you know, you know, can the
sisters give a talk, you know, in Jum'ah
and then like just the brother leads the
a lot and whatever. And these are the
type of questions we get nowadays, and they
make sense to a certain people who don't
know anything else other than that. I'm not
trying to belittle them or whatever.
But this is a woman who was
at the top elite echelon of knowledge
and she chose to serve from behind the
scenes and she literally brought a revolution
to the the the the the women of
of her country into the Ummah
and
my condolences to all of the sisters of
mother Ras Aisha
Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give you Madad in your
knowledge and in your
piety
and in your practice and in your teaching
Allah give you his
and his
that you carry on Sajjad Labajid's work
And may
Allah give her that honor from behind the
pardah, she never came in front of any
non marham men. Allah
give her that Maqam through her pardah and
that honor and izzan
from behind the pardah in this world and
in the next world that a 1000 CNN
news anchors couldn't have and that a 1000
keynote speakers in front of everybody couldn't have.
The one who lived her life
like Sayedah Fatima radiAllahu anha alaihis salam like
Sayedah Mariam alaihis salam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
preserve preserve her dignity and increase it in
both worlds
I mean
I mean I mean
such people
for all the people we mentioned
there are those people that I just think
sometimes you know the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when someone makes du'a
for their brother
when they're not present
Allah sends an angel to say Amin for
you too through the barakah of this
incredible amazing hadith of the Prophet such people.
I really think that most people when you
make dua for them it benefits them
but these are those few and precious people
that
Allah knows best, but by Allah's grace and
permission, we hope
that such people are those that when we
make du'a for them, it benefits us far
more than it benefits them because they settled
their accounts with
as far as we could tell far before
they made that journey
Allah keep their
their their their fiyud and
their barakat amongst us and their good work
going amongst us and not take it away
from us because of our sins and because
of what the imbeciles amongst us have done.
Allahu'l make not make me and not make
us from amongst those imbeciles either.
Allah
Subhanahu
wa
Ta'ala
give
from
His
father