Hosam Helal – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Episode 12 Ahmad ibn Hanbal

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.