Hosam Helal – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Episode 12 Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Come on over human hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala
Mabrouk Rahmatullah al Amin Sena Milena Muhammad Ali Juan early he
have little Salah to attend with the slim welcome back to another
episode of saviors of Islam. May Allah Subhana Allah bless you and
give you Janet for those who are mean I mean, I mean, tonight's
episode is about an individual that an imam of the hubby referred
to as the true chef of Islam and the leader of Muslims in his time
and the Hadith master and the proof how to Deen. He was an icon
in holding on to texts in withstanding all the injustices
that he endured, and not letting those injustices affect or change
what he knew to be and what he understood to be the truth. And
the man I met in a humble he was, he was orphaned, you know, his
father passed away in the same year that he was born, his mother
invested in him and said, I'm going to dedicate my whole life to
you. And that is why I wanted Subhanallah one of the reasons why
I met him Hammond, in his mother had he would make dua for his
mother, every single salah, he would make dua for his parents,
every single Salah because of the selflessness and the sacrifice
that his mother made for him at a young age. And that's a reminder
to all of our sisters watching this, do not underestimate the
power that you have as a mother we live in a society where you know
motherhood is not appreciated Subhanallah and an abuse of
insulin. You know, we will you speaking to the women of Medina,
one of the women raised her hand and said, you know, sort of Allah,
how can I get the same edger as you know, my husband as my father
as my brother, as the men in the community, and maybe some Salam
congratulated her question, he congratulated her advocacy, and he
called her an ambassador to the rest of the women. And then he
said his famous Hadith now before we tell you the Hadith, which is
very powerful, I want you to imagine as a sister, there's so
much expected of you, society expects certain things from you
self image, body image, culture, expect certain things from your
deen has expectations of you, your family, your career, your
community, so many expectations and it's very easy to become
fragmented. So in the abuse of Salem wanted to center the sisters
in the community and remind them of what is important and what
should come first. And so my sister, let me tell you this, you
cannot do everything at the same time, but you can do everything at
different moments and times in your life. You have to know what
to prioritize and when you have to know what to prioritize. And when
and there is a Selim said his famous Hadith, either of Salatin
Mara Hamza, when a woman prays her five, while solemn shahada her and
fast her month, what have you got for Jehovah and protects her
chastity while for Eid Zoda and serves her husband by extension
the family with respect and loyalty. She will be told P Lella.
Had holy Jana she will be told to enter Jana mean Jannetty sheets
shitty from any of the gates of Jana and Jana has a gates. So
imagine through your service to your family eight gates of Jana.
Open up what a blessing. So in my humble mother dedicated her life
to her son did not remarry, but said you know I'm going to invest
everything that I have into everything that I have into. So I
remember how humble he was brought up with his mother and she would
take him to the masjid and she would wait for him in the in the
specific sisters area or sometimes even outside for him to finish and
she would ask him questions and encourage him and helped him
memorize the Quran she noticed that he has a beautiful script
beautiful writing, so she invested so you could learn how to read and
write and how to even take on calligraphy. Imam Ahmed Mohamed
spoke Persian and Arabic his mother encouraged him to learn
both languages we can serve more communities and have access to
more teachers. He memorized the Quran, when he was 10 years old.
At 16 years of age, he memorized the Hadith, and he went to more
than 130 Different teachers of Hadith that were available to him.
He went and as he as he was, again in in the region of Iraq, he went
from Baghdad to Kufa to muscle or to every region he had access to,
until he collected all of the Hadith that he could. And
sometimes when he heard one Hadith and he wasn't sure what the
Senate, is this correct, is it authentic? Is it really what the
Prophet Muhammad wa salam said, sometimes he would get on his ride
and travel all the way to Shem. At least once in your life. He's
like, he traveled all the way to levant on his ride, to be able to
check the authenticity of the Hadith. Imagine committed to the
text. And finally what you know even when he was a kid, the rich
parents who had so much money invested in their in their
children with compare their children to Muhammad Muhammad, and
he would say we have so much money we invested
into our child and the child is nowhere near as 100 in the handles
adequate and added and respect and the way he carries himself and the
way that he treats his mother.
And the teachers would say, this is the edit from ALLAH SubhanA
Tal, this is Allah Subhana Allah is blessing he gives it to
whomever He wills. And it's interesting to note here the three
of the Imams of the former there who were orphans, Imam Malik was
orphaned. As we discussed, Imam Shafi was orphaned an Islamic
definition of orphan or an orphan is someone who lost his father,
and so was admitted Muhammad an orphan and that goes to show you
Subhanallah, the incredible system of Islam that empowers everybody
in the community, and gives the orphan an opportunity to develop
and to grow and become an icon in Islamic history. And that also
teaches us not to under value, or undermine any individual's worth
Allah Subhana Allah, Allah blesses, in ways that we cannot
imagine.
Imam Muhammad in the humble at the age of 40, he was ready to teach.
He was ready. His teachers told him, you're actually before that
way before the age of 2732. He was told many times teach, teach, and
he waited finally, until he was 40 to teach the community and he
wanted to be at an age of maturity, he did not want to make
mistakes, and he considered the responsibility of teaching and
educating to be a very heavy one.
In Baghdad, when he finally became a teacher, he had more than 5000
students who would sit with him and learn from him and consider
considered him to be the best teacher available to them. At that
time, two things stand out about Imam Muhammad Muhammad, number
one, the way that he invested in his daughter, and the way that he
empowered her growth and to His justice, his fairness, his sense
of dedication to the Prophet Mohammed, Salah Salem, and to the
text standing up at a time when the Ummah almost in its entirety,
failed a test known as the Mishnah. So what is this
situation? Let's first begin with the daughter of Mohammed Mohammed,
and Imam Shafi and he was one of the teachers of admitted and
humble and an imam Shafi in love documenting the humble and humble
love that Imam Shafi so they had this beautiful respect for each
other, not just a student teacher relationship, but a friendly Kullu
you know, colleague to colleague relationship, as a man admitted to
him but invited a chef it was his dream come and stay with me the
next time that you visit era, the mammoth chef revisited, and when
he was staying in Africa didn't humbles house, the daughter of
Alabama chef, it was so curious. She was so excited to finally I
get to meet a chef, really the one that you make dua for every single
time, the one that you love so much as your teacher, I want to
meet him, and I want to see what he's like. So in her mind, she was
expecting him in Imam Shafi to spend the whole night in prayer to
get up and to spend the whole night and pm so she's waiting and
waiting and waiting and waiting. And the whole night buzzes by
fetcher comes and then I'm sure if he does not get up to us to make
one or 2pm So she comes to her dad in the morning just Dad I'm a
little bit is this Are you sure this is your teacher? Mama Chevy.
I've never seen you a single night of your life without praying and
shuffling did not pray last night. pm the extra no effort. So what's
going on there? So look at event, Mohamed, he tells his daughter, go
and ask him yourself. Allahu Akbar, empowering his daughter to
go and ask herself go and ask for yourself. See what his responses.
So the Imam Shafi welcomes the question, reads the question with
a smile. And he tells her well, I am traveling. And as a traveler,
you do not have to pay the extra pray the extra prayers except with
her. And it did not make wudu because I kept my will do from
last night. And I wasn't just staying in my bed sleeping. I was
thinking about a single hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam went to visit Anna Sidney Malik's brother when Anastigmat
his brother lost the bird that had bird. So imagine the pet bird dies
and innocent nomadic comes looking sad. And then just some ask what's
wrong is my brother is sad because he lost a bird. And maybe some
Selim says let me go and make him feel better. So the mom shatters,
I was thinking about this situation, this single episode
from the Syrah and extracted 70 or so lessons from it. One lesson
that you could keep a bird another lesson, it's important to read the
body language of others and check up on them and make sure that
they're okay. A third lesson is that you can give a nickname to a
child because then they can call the child by his nickname about
omae.
Secondly, it's good to use poetry with children. Yeah, but our main
method in the way of all about what happened to the delay, that's
when he was selected. So imagine remember, Chevy was sitting and
thinking about that one incident and extracting all those lessons
from it.
So he
were given a beautiful, a beautiful lens into the way that
Imam Shafi treated him and didn't handle the love that they had for
one another. And the way that I've met him the humble, treated his
own daughter and empowered her to ask questions and to be curious.
And that in itself translates into amazing, amazing things in the
future because he might not even humble his son becomes a judge
eventually, and his daughter has enough knowledge to be able to
transmit and to be considered again, one important inflow is an
important influence in certain disciplines of Islamic knowledge.
The importance of investing in our daughters the importance of
empowering our children, Imam Ahmed Inhambane, is famously known
for his position against the Khalifa at the time, multiple
calibers actually, beginning with element moon and then onto an
Matassa, and then on to Allah, or before morphism and worship and
then in worship and martyrdom. And then finally, number two, what
killed so imagine he stood against all those believers, one and my
moon decided to endorse the opinion of Mr. Tesla and Mr. Tesla
were, you know, usually usually quite lenient and quite open
minded. But when it came to this issue, they were the rationalist.
And there's nothing wrong with rationality. But the went to the
path of being overly rational, when he began to ignore the text
of the Quran and rely way too much on the intellect. And the
Hollyford mamoun He adopted the opinion that the Quran is created.
It's not the word of Allah, it's a created entity. And there was a
lot of debate back and forth and the powerful society, the Khalifa
decided at the time to use his power and influence to make sure
that everybody adopts that opinion and in their mind, we want
everybody to accept rationality and we hope that a leaning towards
the mind and towards logic will open up the community and allow us
to, you know, thrive and succeed. And Imam Muhammad Muhammad was one
of four Imams that refused this and he said, No, I don't see any
any evidence for it in the Quran and the Sunnah no evidence, Allah
Subhana Allah Allah says Allah man, I lemon Quran. Hello
Collinson. He created the human we didn't say hello Quran. He didn't
say that the Quran was created. The Quran is the eternal word of
Allah subhanaw taala. And like his knowledge always existed in a way
that is beyond our capacity to imagine articulate, it is only
Allah Subhana Allah who can truly understand. He's He's essence and
the reality is around, you know, the attributes and the names. And
of course, this was a big discussion in the OMA. But it was
so heavy, it was so heavy, that people were jailed, no matter how
member was jailed, and whipped once, twice, three, four or five
times, and every single time he would refuse. Finally, it was only
two scholars who maintain their opinion, everybody else out of
fear of persecution, the city No, we've done the best that we can.
There's no other option you're forcing and whipping us, we're
gonna say whatever you want just to save our lives. And then 100
refuse, once, twice, 34567 times, one khalifa to the next, he
refused. And he said Bring me evidence from the Quran and the
Sunnah I will believe you otherwise I will never believe and
I will never adopt an opinion that I don't consider to be correct and
authentic, just out of pressure.
And find that it took long years, for the Khalifa eventually to
recognize that I've met in the humble was right. And assuming
that the Quran is created with me, like anything that is created, has
a beginning and an end has limits to the Quran is limited, the Quran
has a beginning and an end. And that would of course, cause or
that would cause many, many issues in the way that we interact with
the word of Allah subhanaw taala. So we believe that the word of
Allah subhanaw taala is eternal. And that becomes the default Sunni
orthodox opinion, the default opinion of Muslims that consider
themselves to be Sunni. One person stood against all that pressure
refused, and said, I will only say that which is true, according to
the Quran and the Sunnah. Bring me the evidence, I'll believe you
otherwise, I will refuse to compromise what I believe to be
true. How many of us are willing to hold on to truth in that way,
are willing to not let go, even if we're whipped even if we're
tortured, even if we're hurt, even if we're banished as an as
Baphomet and humble was banished from Iraq. This is the legacy of
Imam Muhammad Muhammad and that is why he's known as the Imam is
Sunnah and that is why he's known as the proof of the deen the
religion of Allah subhanaw taala. And some people consider him to be
in the same category of influence as Abu Bakr because Abu Bakr
wouldn't be so sellin passed away. He had to make decisions that many
people most people disagreed with. But eventually the community
realized that he was right. Similarly admitted and humbled was
one
On when nobody else was ready to make that stand.
But he wasn't aggressive and harsh about it. He was an arrogant in
the way that he expressed his opinion. He was polite,
respectful, when he spoke to the highly visible Khalifa, I have
nothing but respect for you. You are somebody that I consider to be
close to the prophetic family, you're and he would politely, but
I refuse to accept I have no evidence. There's no evidence that
you've presented me bring me the evidence, and the end and all
these discussions and debates with those who held that opinion. And
every single time they were beat, defeated. With the arguments of
amendment and humble, there's not enough time to go through the
arguments. But I encourage you for homework, to read the debate back
and forth to ask your family your children have this conversation
with them. And some of it is of course, dense, but of course, you
can simplify it in a way that is accessible. When a man made him
the humble passed away.
So many people, some say 800,000 people came to witness his
Janessa. And when his story as his passing as he passed away, may
Allah give him Janet, for those that are all of our scholars whose
story was so influential, that some say more than 2000 and some
say even 20,000 people became Muslim that were not Muslim,
Christians and people of the Jewish community became Muslim,
after hearing his story, and his tenacity and the arguments and the
proofs, and the love the characteristics they carried
himself with. May Allah Subhana Allah make us from those who stand
when everybody else falls. And may Allah Subhana Allah make us
committed to truth and to the text of the Quran and the Sunnah and to
argue with evidence and to refuse to accept, accept with evidence.
Does that go McLaren? See you next time was salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.