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The speakers discuss the importance of communication and sharing knowledge in order to contribute to the world. They touch on the use of hesitation in English and the success of speaker's hesitation in explaining themselves. The speakers also emphasize the importance of acknowledging and learning from people with similar experiences.

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Hamad

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after returning from Cairo ship had been had begun passing on the ocean of knowledge that he acquired abroad. Not long thereafter, he was forced into exile in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There he taught at the University of Imam Mohammed bin Salman for 23 years. Like Schiff is known for his mastery in the field of Hadith. He had also mastered the other branches of knowledge, knowledge, like jurisprudence, language, etc. ship had an immense love and attachment with our lemma of the indo Pak sub subcontinent. Among them were Maulana Muhammad Yusuf had been noting, Muhammad, heavy word, man, as me Mullah Mohammed Yusuf hindawi, molana, mercy Hola, Han and others rahimullah.

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He visited numerous countries of the world world for the purpose of spreading knowledge and meeting are not some of those countries are Jordan, Palestine or Kuwait, Qatar, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa, Indonesia, Rooney, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, and several European European and American countries ship up to the Fed duck Ramallah with his last on ninth show while 14 1716 February 1997. He left behind a rich wealth of books and students, his books number of 270, some of them being annotations of other classical works. He was well applauded by his contemporaries, as well as teachers.

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They see when they could asylee Hina Tansy Lord Rama,

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that when you spend time remembering the great scholars, mercy showers upon those gatherings.

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It's something that I enjoy doing in my personal time.

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I enjoy reading the biographies of the great scholars of the past.

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The reason for this is by reading their biographies, not only does it serve as an inspiration,

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but it's a glimpse into what the human being can actually do if their moral compass is correct. And if they're properly driven.

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You find yourself reading these biographies and reading the lives of these individuals.

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And on one hand, there's a smile because you're so proud of how much these people have accomplished. All the great things that they've been able to improve in their lives in the contributions they left behind for people like us.

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But then, that joy turns into a bitter pain because you glance over to the mirror, and you see what the Muslim has become today.

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And where we are, and how far we've drifted away from being able to accomplish our true potential.

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Shahada Fatah bovada Rahim Allahu taala. Wasn't from a family of scholars. His father was not a scholar of the dean. Rather, his score his father was someone who had immense Merhaba and love for scholars. He was someone who was regular in the gatherings of the righteous in the pious.

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And it was this interaction that he had with righteous people that inspired him to guide his son to coach him on the path of studying the deen

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show called The Fatah Buddhadharma. Allahu taala.

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was from Shang

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from Hallam. And, yes, he gained a lot of his knowledge in Damascus and in the circles of knowledge throughout Shan that he traveled the world for seeking knowledge.

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A great portion of his studies were acquired while he was in Egypt.

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But he didn't allow an institution or an organization or even a few years of his life to cap off his studies. He was a man that dedicated his life to seeking knowledge to teaching and seeking, teaching and seeking.

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He spent the last years of his life publishing books that he had worked on whether it was books that he had published or books that he had commented on or annotated. This book that we are going to start, I mean, edible Islam. Islamic matters was a book that was first published from Lebanon in 1992. As a result of Shahada photographer daramola tadas. Hard work, which is just five years before he passed away, shows you all through his life right till the end, even though he's far along his commitment to alien

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Serving the dean and serving people was at its peak.

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Shahada Fatah. Buddhahood was a person

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who was very particular about the details.

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For him, the way a person dressed the way a person spoke, what kind of food they ate, how they sat in a gathering all spoke volumes about an individual.

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And this personality of his can also be seen in his theme. When it comes to when it came to his own practice of religion. He was a man who was Cathedral buka, he cried abundantly when he would raise his hands and make dua to Allah when he spoke.

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You know, if you even go on YouTube and look at some of his lectures, there are recordings available he passed away in 1997. So there are recordings of is available online.

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You can see the nude in this man's face. And you can see that this man wasn't was no ordinary human being. With every word of his there is a tremendous opportunity for inspiration.

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Because a port comes in a person's life where they stop speaking with their mouth and begin to speak with their heart.

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We are accustomed to slogans and speeches and rallies, hello, Tada. Due to his great exposure to the different scholars of the world, whether it was in Africa, whether it was in Asia, Asia, sorry, whether it was in Europe or whether it was his visits to Indonesia, or his trap his his travels to America and even Canada, his son lives in Canada, whether it was in Saudia that he traveled to, he made it a point to always interact with the automa of that community. He would go and sit with them, he would talk with them, he would take ijazah in Hadeeth. And then in return, students would gather around him and they would seek knowledge from him. And this is something that happened right till

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the end of his life.

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Shares of the Fatah of Buddhahood Tada.

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He made it a point to reach out to those scholars of the world that people generally wouldn't because of barriers that existed, whether it was ideological or whether it was racial, he crossed those boundaries, because you understood that we as an oma are bound together by La ilaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah,

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this is something that he lived by By the way, he always promoted this he always taught this, that the unity of the oma is far more important than anything else that we debate over. We're one oma we face one Qibla we, we eat one that we have, we believe in one kalama right, going off that hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu. The statement of mine is based off of the idea that there is a lot of certain masala sanathana right, whoever prays our Salah faces or articular acolhedor vihara that he eats, he eats the on the name of Allah subhanho wa Taala then that person has protection from Allah and His messenger.

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And he viewed this to be a very important umbrella that gathered everyone together. social health and photographer data. himolla data did not allow barriers to hold him back from engaging with other people regardless of what their persuasions were.

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He was very much connected to the scholars of the subcontinent.

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Specifically, mana use have been noted with Allahu Allah, Who is the teacher of Cheb, the Nasser's teacher, someone who was very dear to many of us. And he was also very much connected to shift the courier conduct.

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Similarly, he had a special connection with Mufti Muhammad Shafi Earth money, Rahim Allah Tada. If you do not recognize any of these names, let me just tell you, these were people each of these individuals have written volumes and volumes on commenting on the hadith of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and volumes on the seed of the Quran, not just one or two books. I mean, these people dedicated their lives to the teaching of the deen and inspired hundreds of 1000s if not millions of people across the globe. I for one, and I'm a beneficiary of the knowledge of these great luminaries.

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Chef Muhammad wants to talk to us money was very much connected to shake up the foot the hub of wood, even though he was much younger at the time, which has helped a photographer that would visit Pakistan. He was a young man

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but because his father spoke so highly of him, Mufti Mohammed Sephiroth Mani would always say that she held the Fatah but what that not only is it is a man of great knowledge, but he is also a person who practices has not

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allege that you can see it in him outwardly and also see it in him inwardly that this person, he really believes in what he's teaching, every aspect of the sunova sort of lesson along what he was saying was sin.

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He says that when I heard this from my father, I was young at the time, but I was inspired to meet this person who was this guy. This is in a world where

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phones were still uncommon. TV was uncommon.

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So much money. He says that

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in 1962,

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we receive news that the respected Schiff was coming to Pakistan.

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And this next two three paragraphs I'm going to read for you verbatim, as penned by lifted off the earth money. He recalls an interaction that he had with Schiff of the foot taboada.

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There was no end to my joy on hearing this. The purpose of the revered shifts visit was to seek and research manuscripts in the libraries of Pakistan and India, as well as to forge a relationship with academic circles here.

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The shift that Allahu taala stayed here in Karachi for a few days. During this period, he visited dollar loom, where the management organized and assembly in his honor. I was a teacher of the primary books of Arabic at the time, my respective father whom Allah tala instructed this humble servant to deliver a speech in Arabic. In his welcome. I gave a speech as instructed, as well as welcoming the honored guest. I briefly recounted the history of mother's us in the indo Pak subcontinent, the inception of dollar loom deboned. And the religious services of the scholars of Dubai and the honorable chef gave me generous commendations upon this Taliban speech, you know,

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Taliban is not that thought about.

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It's a speech that involves a student presenting themselves as students It was a research based speech, so he appreciated it. At the conclusion of the gathering, he noted his impression in dollar looms visitors book and went as far to write. He wrote in the visitor book his, his his throughout how he felt about his visit, indeed, the eloquence of my beloved brother for the sake of Allah Muhammad, worth money. The cyan of Maulana Muhammad Shafi is such that it exposes the weakness of the Arabs in their own language.

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That when I heard this young man speak, it sharpened my excitement that this young man speaks out to be in a way that it exposes how even the items are not as eloquent in speech as as young Pakistani kids.

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It is obvious that these words were written only out of encouragement for this humble servant. However, they indicate his high level of compassion for a tendency to give encouragement to his juniors. Later when leaving bada boom, he expressed his compassion and love for this worthless one by saying, if you were an apple, I would have eaten you.

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Since then, he began referring to me with the title to Farhatullah Hindu well, Pakistan,

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the apple of India and

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Pakistan, and even made mention of me

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within some of his works,

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it was during this journey that this humble servant also obtained ijazah in Hadith from the revered ship, which he granted with great affection.

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You see right here, how

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many recalls this intimate moment that he had with this giant scholar who was a mountain of knowledge, but him being the great scholar he was did not prevent him from offering good character and kindness to those that were younger than him.

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lifted up, he says that the speech was good, but his words were way beyond anything that I deserved. I was only a kid at the time. I mean, how much could a child not a kid he was a young adult, but still, what was I in front of this great scholar,

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chef of the foot. By the way, this, this passage that I read, for those of you who wish to reference it and read even more, this was a part of some thoughts that moved into fear of money penned, when he heard of the news of the passing of Chicago.

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Donna, you can find it online. It's available. It's maybe 3040 pages in total, with introductions and footnotes at the end. But it shows that this man what kind of person he was moved to move the I'm sorry, shut up. The Fatah Buddha was an academic in his own right where he worked on manuscripts and he was working when it came to Advanced Studies of Hadeeth and fifth

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And so on. But that did not take away from him his compassion that didn't take away from him his ability to engage with the common person, the young man and inspire him should have the job of

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not only wrote in one particular subject matter, but his writings are spread throughout the different discourses of the deen. You see that? Yes, he wrote on Fifth yet he wrote on Hadeeth, and so on. But he also wrote on matters that relate to the everyday average Muslim. There are three books of his that I read as an early student when I was much younger, and all three of them inspired me greatly.

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One of them was his book, that I encourage all students of knowledge to read. Safa Hartman soveral, Ananda

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some stories of the patients of the automa of the past, what they had to endure in order to gather knowledge to gain knowledge. And he was a person who was willing to sacrifice himself. Not only did he write this book, but he lived by example. He stood for his principles. While he lived in Syria.

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He

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raised his voice against some of the corruption that existed in the political sphere.

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And he wasn't quiet about it.

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For those of you that are familiar with

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Syrian history, you also know that

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in at least in the recent history, the leaders there don't take any sort of

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raw rise lightly. They take it very seriously. And we're living through some of it right now.

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But Shahada, Allah tala never shied away he spoke his truth. He spoke it from the, from the puppets loud and clear, he spoke against the oppressors. Unfortunately, as a result of this, he was imprisoned first. And later on, after 11 months when he was released from prison. He was then forced into exile.

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As a result of which, he then spent a great part of his life if not the remainder of it, in Saudi Arabia, where he served as a lecturer at the universities, their

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Shahada, Fatah, Allahu taala, when he passed away in 1997. Half if you guys know what I'm talking about

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half an acid. Yeah.

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You guys know this man that's in rule these days. So tell Bashar his dad.

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He was the ruler at the time. And he really insisted on having shift of the Fatah Baba, Rama Allahu Allah, his body relocated back to Hello. Because he was a giant in the world accepted across the world. This man was a luminary. He was a leader, respected by the autumn and the non auto. Everyone had respect for Chicago.

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So as a matter of honor for his own community for his own people, he wanted to fly him back in. However the family

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voted against it.

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And in return, she held a Fatah but without IMO, Matata, was buried in bikinis in Madina, munawwara what an honorable passing and what an honorable burial.

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You see the value of a person through their works, and if I may say also through their students,

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she held the foot the habit without data, yes, he studied with great scholars, like Allah masahito, Kofi. And yes, he had back and forth with the likes of shift Nelson albani, some of which were very heated. Shift and also Dr. Bonnie raha started a practice in which he would say, Allahu Hari, well, who was

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that the Hadith is narrated by behati and it is a saya narration, this triggered check out the Fatah Buddhahood Dada, he didn't like it at all. He said, why is this redundant statement being made? What's there need to see it's authentic? Once you've already said it's narrated by the party that somehow connotates that either your

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I won't say that either. I'll just say one, that it's somehow connotates that maybe you're claiming that there are some narrations in Bahati that are not authentic and if there are such narrations just bring those forward, and let's deal with the matter. And let's go back to how things were always through the last 1000 years, that when you narrate a hadith you just say

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it or you just say and Allahu Muslim

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Are you saying a thing, whatever it is. That's the that's the

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crochet Han that the two great scholars Wahhabi and Muslims were the ones who narrated this particular narration from the sort of law set alone he was in it.

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Because of this, he faced a lot of backlash. I have the opportunity of meeting some of his students. Among them was the great

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chef Muhammad Allah, who lived in Medina Manoa for many years and it was on one of my trips to Hutch that my teacher was able to facilitate a meeting with Jeff Mohamad, a woman.

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And I went to his apartment, it was in Medina, Manila, far away from the Navy. It was really hard to get an appointment with him, but we were able to get one we sat with him. And he first gave a small speech with a woman which he said some phenomenal things. And it just his knowledge was so deep and it was so pure.

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And then at the end of it, he said to us, that unfortunately, we the Syrian on ama, in Saudi face a lot of difficulty.

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And he said some of its inherited while other

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is political. And as a result of this, he said to us that if I want to go to the grave of Nabi sallallahu, Alayhi, wasallam and giftset um, I can't even go on my own. I can get arrested for that. So, every few weeks when I desire to give Salam ala rasulillah salam wa he said, um, I have to apply a disguise

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and uncover myself in a way that no one recognizes me. And then I stand outside measure the nibley without even stepping foot inside and give my Salaam to the sort of loss that a lot is set him in the head back home.

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Chef, Muhammad Allah By the way, these days he resides in Turkey, and is doing phenomenal Fatma of the deen in terms of research and hard work. So I was saying that the three books of chef chef of the Fatah haba, the one that I quoted was suffer Hartman sobre el amor, the second book of his that I found to be very beneficial as an elementary student of knowledge. Someone who was just starting off

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was his book, or a su l Marlin,

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in which he examines the abuse of the law while he was selling as a teacher.

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Or if I may say, he examines how to sue the lesson a long while he was sending was a phenomenal teacher. She helped a lot with data. If you read his works, one thing that really stands out to me in his books, is he follows a very clear and distinct methodology.

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You can tell that there is an inspiration in this man,

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somewhere from understanding and studying theory of education, where he's not just writing because he likes writing, but he is reading certain theory into practice when he's writing his books. They're very clear, they're very clean, very systematic, well formulated. And you can see so much of this in his book Rasul Allah, and the

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English version of this book is also available. It's a mystery, because it teaches you how to sue the law. So the law while he was sitting was as a mentor, and how he was as a teacher. Similarly, one of his books that I've benefited a lot from was his book,

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mill addable Islam

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mean other than Islam, Islamic manners. This book, when you read it, you can tell right off the bat, and he clarifies it as well, was a result of him observing society and seeing that people were no longer acting like good human beings. They have lost their decency. And I'm not just talking about cheating, misbehaving. He's talking about just properness. He talks in the opening chapter about how Muslims should dress appropriately. wear good clothes, corner clothes, Go wash your clothes, some of the sounds petty at some point, but in reality, he's hearing what he's seeing in the world. That why are we seeing Muslims that aren't acting properly, like Muslims? Right? And in the Muslim community

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in these days, there is this image that we have stuck in our mind that the more scruffy you are, the more unkept you are. That's a sign of your piety and religiosity. That shouldn't be the case. My own children, I have this conversation with them regularly because I have seen way too long that children go to karate memorization programs or they go to a mother's side to learn how to learn Islam, and when they come out of there, their English turns into garbage.

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I don't know if you guys have noticed this. I noticed this firsthand. And they're using words that I've never heard of

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Before and they're, you know, their pronounciation is gone off in their vocabulary is whack against the wall. And I looked at my kids, I do this quite regularly, I look at them and I say, we will not speak trash English in our home,

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we will try our best to speak appropriately, properly. Because, and I say this to them. The speech of a human being is what people see the inside of you from, they're able to understand your intellect, your heart, through the way you communicate. It's so important that you have the ability to communicate your feelings, your emotions properly. If every time you communicate is through a tantrum, human beings will never understand what kind of person you are. In order for you to be able to communicate and make a contribution to the world, you will need to learn to control your emotions. And on the other hand, effectively,

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right, purposefully

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convey your message.

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And I see this in the scholars of the past all of them, that when it came to their writings go and open up the works of Imam Hassan de la era.

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You know, he the Medina, specifically is a combination of 40 books. It's a combination of how many books 40,

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open it up. And you'll see in the introduction of each book, he has a mock up the mother prays of Allah Salallahu, alayhi salatu salam, and each chapter, each book, the way he praises law, to introduce that chapter, just to get started, is unique to that chapter.

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He covers issues that he's going to be talking about, whether it's diseases of the heart, or whatever it is. And it's so unique and eloquent. And you can tell just by his speech, that this was a person who wasn't lazy when it came to his education, he was well thought out.

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Similarly, I mean, I don't even want to bother naming more scholars because this list is never ending of these scholars who were profound in their speech should have been Fatah woulda came along with the other had developed such a love for language himself.

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His Arabic was beautiful.

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It was clean, it was nice. Just the way he spoke and the way he wrote as someone who is not a native out of when I listen to Adobe, I can purely understand that which is eloquent that which is classical. If someone starts speaking in a tone in a language with grammar that's considered more local Adobe, I start losing it, you know, like I'm, I'm trying to focus on where's the word? What's going on here? You know, what's the word that I understand and I click back onto that to get into the conversation again, when I listen to the speeches and read the works of shehab the Fatah but without him Allah tala. It's almost as if I'm captured by his speech with every word that he uses

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every word that he uses, and has you right there, because he speaks with eloquence.

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So out of these books, the one book that we're going to be focusing on today

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is

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mean edible Islam, his book on Islamic manners, I was just going through some material on Shahada as I was preparing for today's class. And I was reading a poem written by a particular poet, Muhammad Al Deen savuti that he wrote regarding chef help the photographer daramola Allah when he passed away, and it's very beautiful. I won't read it for you guys because it's long and you know, I don't want to stretch out this conversation. But for those of you who wish to search it, you can do that.

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While I was reading up on Shackleton, Fatah, Baba Muladhara, I came across this line of poetry, written by the hand of Shahada photographer in his own writing, I thought it was beautiful. And what I found even more beautiful, not only was his hut, his writing on point, but it was the message within the poem that he wrote.

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He said oxy, mobila he Allah coolamon

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oxy mobila Allah coolamon Abba Sora hottie hyphema Abba Sora

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I take an oath to the one who reads my writing, wherever they read it. Whoever sees my writing, whoever can hear my words, whoever benefits from my speech, I take an oath on to you. oxy. mobila he Allah, Allah coolamon Apsara hottie hyphema vasara and who are the rough man le Mosley son bill, if we were told that he was not fit.

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My request to you is that you make due to the Merciful One

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Rockman Allah subhanho wa tada sincerely

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asking Allah to pardon me for repentance and for my forgiveness. That's my request to you. Shut up and Fatah Buddha, Allah tada spent the last part of his life

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just focused on publishing the works that he had produced over the years. And in total, the number close to 71 of them published. And the reason for this was, he had spent his life preserving this knowledge. Now his desire was that this knowledge continue on.

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One thing one of my teachers said to me,

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he said that many great scholars have come in the past,

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many of them

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and there are so many of them whose names we will never know.

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circumstances.

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They didn't have students or maybe they lived in an obscure place of the world somewhere.

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Maybe it was just there the last that they never wanted anyone to discover them. By the way, Shackleton, photog Allah tala while he was alive, he forbade his students from writing his biography.

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He said, there should be no such act. I'm not worthy of that.

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But obviously, when you love someone so much, and when you have such a great footprint, you can't expel you can't expect the world to just forget you.

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Nonetheless,

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there are so many scholars in the world that we will never know of. However, sometimes, Allah subhanho wa Taala wishes to

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keep the name of a scholar alive in this world. He blesses them with one of two things.

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Number one,

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good students, students who are sincere and are able to retain the knowledge of their teachers.

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And the second thing he facilitates for them means through which knowledge can be preserved outside of the students that comes, particularly in our day and age in the form of printing books, or you know, we have 100 law, I think in our world, there are a million ways that you can preserve knowledge. But that comes with a problem to write. When knowledge becomes so easily accessible, the value of it is also loss.

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So with that, my friends will close off today's gathering, I just wanted to spend today talking about shareholder level data himolla data,

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I feel we don't have enough of these gatherings in which we just sit and talk about scholars who we shared a period of our life with, many of you were alive in 1997. And we're have opportunity to live during that era.

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But we're also caught into our world that we don't even notice these great people while they live. And sometimes we miss the opportunity to benefit from them.

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Shahada, Fatah actually visited America. He visited his country he spoke here. But again, to the American Muslim community,

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a lot of how many people actually even knew what kind of a giant was visiting. And I think that's a beauty of its own because Allah subhanahu wa tada allows certain hearts to connect with certain hearts.

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And that works in all ways that for some people, they stay connected to a particular type of gathering a particular type of people, no matter how far they drift away, they just find themselves in those gatherings again. So we make dua that Allah subhanho wa Taala makes our hearts from those who are beloved to Allah subhanho wa Taala that are connected to this Dean.

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One thing that I learned from the students of Chicago and

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one last thing I'll say,

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is how humble they were.

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humble, this is a trait that is being erased from the world that we live in.

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individualism has reached its prime. And every Muslim has now turned into a consumer who was walking into an apple retail store. And the customer's always right.

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And the world will always serve you and people will always be there to provide for you while you enjoy the attention and being the center of it all.

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It's unfortunate that this spiritual state is what keeps many of us deprived of knowledge.

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True or ill comes through humbling yourself.

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And I saw this in the students of Shahada, fatawa dymo, humble human beings, down to earth people, no arrogance. And that's it.

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Exactly how they described their mentor and their teacher, a man who was one of the founding members of the Muslim World League, out of Saudia, he was one of the founding kind of this, you know, he received multiple awards from, you know, from universities across the world, be it, you know, the Islamic Studies Department in England, Oxford, or whether it was through other, you know, institutions across the world, only Allah knows how many awards he received, but he was a humble man, very humble, he kept himself down to earth.

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I feel that for our student base that we have today, for students who attend gatherings in our world, this is a path that they will need to stick to a path of humbleness, commitment and sacrifice, your sacrifice won't be that you have to walk to the gatherings of knowledge, your sacrifice won't be that you will come here on an empty stomach, barely able to keep your spine straight. Your sacrifice won't be that you're traveling across the world, far away from your parents and you know, shivering in pain, due to your weakness covered in a shawl. While you're sitting in a gathering of aliens, still taking notes that may not be your challenge. But what your challenge will

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be is to fight off all the distractions of the world, and find your way back to gatherings of knowledge. That'll be your job. That'll be your sacrifice.

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Someone may say it small, but I would say it's great. In a world full of so many distractions, so many reasons. Everyone has a cause and reason for everything.

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If you didn't want to be here, I bet you would have had 100 reasons for not being here. No one would blame you. It's not a fault of the gathering. But you chose to be here because first and foremost, Allah wanted you to be here. And secondly, there must have been some desire, either from you or someone who helped you get here. Right?

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That sacrifice needs to be there. And you will need to continue to sacrifice every time. Yeah, Allah, I'm going to be here I'm going to continue. You can you know, that's how that's how the neffs works, right that you can just listen to it online or you could, you know, listen to a recording later on. But when you come to these gatherings of knowledge, not only do you walk away with information, but there is the mercy of Allah that is descending upon every heart

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and shut up and Fatah Baba his book, suffer Hartman Subhan Allah man which he talks about the patience of the scholars of the past. It's truly inspirational. You know, the sacrifice of not staying at home and getting in the car and driving here. It's that repeated action that sacrifice week in and week out, which changes you fundamentally as a human being.

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I'm almost convinced that knowledge in itself doesn't change people.

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It's the sacrifice that causes the change.

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That's where the change actually comes. Otherwise, we would have many more Olia of Allah among us that sacrifice. So I encourage everyone in this gathering, to make a Nia, that as long as you live,

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you will try your best to be a part of these gatherings.

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There are a few of these gatherings that remain.

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I'm not saying that they're not available, but they're few in comparison to all of the fascia all of the inappropriateness that is being injected into our society. gatherings of the dean will always be few.

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These gatherings are where you need to be wherever they are, whether it's in your local Masjid or it's with us in Carrollton and our mission. You need to be in these gatherings. And you'll notice that by coming to these gatherings, your heart feels Allah's mercy.

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You feel it, it's there. It's a fear. It's a feeling. It's an experience that I can guarantee you last week, this time you didn't have one we could go today 24 hours ago today, 48 hours ago today, you probably don't feel the way you are right now. And it's because these gatherings are surrounded by melodica.

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These gatherings are special, they give you an opportunity for growth. So with that, my friends we conclude there is one small little passage left in which the author share some qualities of shuffled the photographer

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will read that passage and then we will close off for today. Go ahead.

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Some of his qualities his son shifts and man writes he was meticulous in his appearance and all other affairs. He wouldn't abuse anyone verbally nor physically. He was extremely particular above a sweater. in all conditions. He would recite a portion of the Quran daily and will often shed to tears while reciting or listening to the whole

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For a man, his heart was extremely soft and us. He used to get affected greatly when he heard of any plight of Muslims in any part of the globe. He was extremely patient during times of difficulty and illness. I never heard him ever complaining about anything. Shift little home of Allah Buddha Allah with a heart hardly sleep, valuing his time and spending it in the acquisition, compile elation and propagation of knowledge. Some of his some of his books were written or completed while on journey. May Allah subhana wa tada allow us to benefit from the students and works that the shift from a low to either left behind

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or something along with signum Hamad salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.