Ismail Kamdar – Imam Malik 1

Ismail Kamdar

This is a Jumah Khutbah dedicated to the life of Imam Malik (RA), extracting various lessons from his life.

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The importance of humility and humility in Islam is the third largest largest largest Muslim culture in the world. The success of Hadees in the Hades is also highlighted, as it is the third largest largest largest Muslim culture in the world. The importance of humility and humility in learning about Islam is emphasized, along with the importance of time management and humility in writing a motto. The speakers emphasize the need for personal commitment and productivity in Islam, while also acknowledging the cultural differences between countries' cultures.

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			Salam aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh
		
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			100 Lillahi Rabbil alameen
		
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			wa Salatu was Salam ala Karim, Allah Allah He was happy archmagi
		
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			we give up freedom Allah subhanho wa Taala and asking Allah to send his peace and blessings upon the
final prophet, Muhammad even Abdullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and all those who follow his way
with righteousness until the end of time.
		
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			Today inshallah we begin Part Two in our series on the lives of the great scholars of Islam.
		
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			Previously, two weeks ago, we spoke about Imam Abu hanifa Rahim Allah, the founder of the Hanafi
madhhab. Right who is allowed to be accepted his work so much that the majority of people in this
community follow his understanding of
		
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			today we move on to the next great scholar in the history of someone who who lived at the same time
as Mr. Abu hanifa, but in a different part of the world. Right. And that is Imam Malik Imam Malik
Rahim Allah.
		
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			So why do we cover among our NEPA before Mr. Malik, the reason being he was born first. Right? We're
doing it in chronological order. Imam Abu hanifa was from the tabea in the second generation of
Islam. Mr. Malik was from the third generation of Islam. Right. So Mr. Malik lived during the end of
the omiya era and the beginning of the Abbasid era, just like Imam Abu hanifa. And he was a scholar
from Medina. Right, and there's a few similarities between him and Abu hanifa. When there's a few
big differences as well. Some of the differences. Imam Abu hanifa traveled to many parts of the
world to study Islam.
		
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			Mr. Malik never left Medina unless he was going for Hajj or Umrah. Right, and he didn't need to need
Medina because all of the scholars of the world whenever they went for Hajj or Umrah, which are the
city do they visit as well, Medina, so when they used to come to Medina, he would go and spend time
with him and study under them. So he had no reason to leave Medina, because all the olema of the
world would come there eventually, even if it's just for a few days. So Mr. Malik was from a family
of Allah,
		
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			his grandfather, his uncle's, his mother, his older brother, all of them were the always scholars of
Islam. Right, even his daughter became a great scholar of Islam. So he comes from a family that is
accustomed to the study and teaching of Islam. Because he came from this kind of background,
studying Islam came naturally to him, it was something very easy for him. It's something he started
at a very young age. Some of the historian see as young as nine or 10 years old, he was sitting in
Hades circles. So he started his study of Islam at a very young age. What's interesting about him is
that
		
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			his scholarship as a teacher seems to begin in his late 30s or early 40s. So it seems that he spent
about 20 to 40 years just studying Islam, before he gave himself before he allowed himself to teach.
And I say allowed himself to teach because his teachers gave him permission to teach many years
before that, but he felt he wasn't ready yet. Now, I want you to think about this. Nowadays. We
study for seven years. And we want to teach everybody and we feel like we know we taught Mr. Malik
studied for over 20 years and still didn't feel he was ready to start teaching. It is one of the
lessons we're going to come to overlay today on humility, the importance of orlimar to have
		
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			humility. Mr. Malik is one of the best examples of that in our history.
		
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			So your mother began teaching. I love listening with a long life. He lived right into his 90s he
lived an extremely long life. And in this long life, he taught many many great scholars from amongst
his students. Mr. Mohammed, even Muhammad even has an ashtray Barney, the student of Mr. Abu hanifa,
one of the founders of the honeybee Mata, right.
		
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			One amongst the students, Mr. Mohammed Idris, a sharpie, the founder of the Sharpie method. So these
are some of the big names in the history of Islam. And they were students of Imam Malik. So he was
the dominant scholar of Medina for almost half a century. And he lived a long life he had died a
natural death in his 90s. And his scholarship reaches us today in many ways. One of the ways in
which it reaches us is that his Muslim is the third largest Muslim in the world today.
		
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			I now remember this at the time of Imam Malik, they were between 20 to 40 mile hubs in the world
		
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			like 20 to 40. Today, there's about we know four but it's actually about five or six. Right That's
still around for that.
		
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			Major the others have maybe less than 1% of the oma following them, right? But they're still around.
But at the time of remember, they were like 40 Muslims. Allah bless these work so much that today he
must have is the third largest in the world. If you go to North Africa, if you go to East Africa,
West Africa, many of the countries they follow the Maliki Mata, as well as certain parts of Arabia.
And when when Spain was an Islamic country in the height of the Golden Age of Andalusia, of Islamic
Spain, it also was a Maliki country. So the Maliki Muslim Allah put a lot of Baraka into it. The
other way in which his legacy reaches us today is in his book, the mortar. The mortar is the oldest
		
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			surviving Hadees compilation in the world.
		
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			Right, the oldest surviving Hadees compilation in the world is not the oldest Hadees compilation the
world, some of your mileage, teachers compiled Hadees. But those crutches did not reach us. Do we
lost over time. The first one to actually survive from that time until now is the motor of America.
So his legacy has reached us in two ways. One, the amount of people that follow him in fake number
two, the contributions he made to Hades. So when we look at Mr. Malik, we look at him as a scholar
of two major fields, fake and Hades.
		
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			So today, I want us to focus on a few lessons from his life. I'll try to go to all of them. I have
about six lessons I want us to extract from the life of Mr. Malik. And these six lessons are number
one, the importance of effortless sincerity. Number two, the importance of humility, right. Number
three, the importance of courage. And we spoke about this with hanifa as well. Number four, the deep
knowledge Alana should have. And on the topic we have time we'll go into as well, why there are
differences of opinion, right? This is a very important topic. We did an entire Juma clip about it
last year was it the year before, I can't remember, but just for five minutes, we'll recap that
		
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			because it's important to understand his story. Then we look at his other his manners, very, very
important the manners that a Muslim is supposed to have. And finally, I wanted to cover this last
time, we didn't get time to do it. So hopefully, I covered in the demonic
		
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			part today, and that is time management. Something that Mama, Deepa Malik they had different systems
of time management, but they both were extremely efficient in how they manage their time. So we'll
take a look at that as well inshallah. So let's look at the first lesson, his sincerity. We said
that the Hadees book, compiled by Mr. Malik is the oldest surviving Hadith scripture, the motto,
what you might not be aware of? Is at that point in time when Mr. Malik was alive, they will
literally dozens of people compiling waters. It was like the thing to do at that time. Think of it
nowadays, how many people are making our YouTube videos? Right? Everybody's making the our YouTube
		
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			videos, right? But which ones are having the biggest impact on the oma? The ones done with your
class, not the ones done for fame, not the ones done for subscribers, the ones done with the class.
So in those days, the thing to do was to write a motto. A motto was a compilation of hobbies,
according to fake topics, right? So the combination of IDs into book form started around the year
100 H 100 years after the heater during the reign of Omar even Abdul Aziz inshallah we do a full
lecture on his life later. We actually did one a few years ago, but nonetheless, we'll do it again.
So Omar, even Abdul Aziz, when he was the halifa. He wanted to emulate the legacy of his great
		
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			grandfather, Omar,
		
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			Omar, Al Fatah, what is his legacy? He was the one who came up with the idea of compiling the Quran
into one book, so it will be preserved until the end of time. So Emma, also his great grandson, Omar
Abdulaziz did the same thing for hobbies. He came up with the idea of compiling his thesis into
books, so they can be preserved until the end of time. And he gave this project to the alama of his
time.
		
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			Those will Amar began the project, and Mr. Malik was their student. So it was in the students
generation that we get the first major work of Hades, the mortar. So at that point in time, this is
a project going on across the Muslim world, the compiled nation of mortars right. And so someone
asked him on Molokai and he said in so many people are writing waters, you know what's going to make
your stand out? Well, why would people choose your job anybody else's? Mr. Molly gave a very
profound statement. He said, Whatever is for Allah will remain, whatever it is, for sure will
disappear. Today, there's only one more time in the world and that's the motto Maalik. All the other
		
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			ones, we don't know what happened to them. They may have disappeared during that time. They may have
been destroyed in the Mongol invasion. They may have been destroyed in the sacking of Andalusia. We
don't know, but they don't they haven't reached us.
		
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			The only one to have survived is the motto economic. Why? Because of his class, he said whatever is
for Allah will remain, what remained his book, his book remain. And so this is a reminder to every
single one of us. We live in a time where so many people are involved in Islamic work for the wrong
reasons. You know, when I first started studying Islam, you know, people say you study Islam, you're
gonna be poor, you live a miserable life, you know, things like that. Now, when people go to study
Islam, you ask them, why are you studying Islam? You know, back then, because that was what people
were saying. If somebody went to study Islam, you're doing it sincerely, right? Nowadays, you ask
		
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			young people why would you study Islam want to be famous like Mufti menk.
		
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			bad intention, Muslim and then become famous, because he wants to be famous, became famous, well
accepted his work, right? If your intention to study Islam, if you want to be famous, then you are
starting it on the wrong foot, you're, you're heading down the path of jahannam. That's what you're
doing. Because you're amongst the first people to be thrown into jahannam, on the day of judgment of
the people who taught Islam for the first people,
		
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			the Mujahideen, the people who gave charity, and Allah who did it for fame,
		
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			very important that we do things for Allah, and we don't do things for our ego. Nowadays, it's so
easy to boost our ego with Facebook, with YouTube. With Instagram, it's so easy to go online and
start a Facebook page and get 100,000 likes to have a YouTube channel with 100,000 subscribers and
to make yourself feel like unimportant. But all of that doesn't matter if you're doing it for ego.
On the day of judgment, all of that dow would become considered a sin when it's done for ego. So
whatever we doing, whatever it is, make sure we do it for Allah. That is most important.
		
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			Lesson number two, the importance of humility
		
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			for everybody, particularly for the students of knowledge, but for everybody. humility, how humble
was Mr. Malik? I'll give you two examples. Right? Mr. Malik once was sitting with a teacher of his
and another chef came and asked the teacher a question. So the teacher answer the question, Mr.
Malik sat quietly. So the person who asked the question other share, he asked mmamoloko his opinion,
and what Malik said, it's not befitting that I speak in front of my teacher in front of my elder. So
his teacher said, I want to hear your opinion as well. So he gave the opposite opinion of his
teacher.
		
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			And the other scholar agreed with him.
		
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			Right? Now notice, right? Imagine nowadays, you're sitting with your teacher. And your teacher says
an opinion that you don't agree with, how many of us will sit quietly out of respect for the
teacher.
		
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			You know, many of us do, as soon as we have one opinion from our teacher that we don't agree with.
We go on Facebook, we make a clip of it. We put it up all over the internet, so and so TJ is a
coffee, he's a deviant. He's a monarchy. He's making opinions I don't agree with don't take
knowledge from him, boycott him.
		
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			Over one thing.
		
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			The other of the early Muslims, they understood differences of opinion are naturally going to exist.
It's not the end of the world. So they dealt with it with others, especially when it comes from
their own teachers.
		
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			My teachers and I have a lot of differences of opinion, but never lose respect for them. Never lose
respect for your teachers.
		
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			And other people example of his humility, not as the student that was his humility as a student. Now
let's look at the humility as a teacher many years later, Mr. Malik becomes the most famous scholar
in Medina. Right now he's in he's probably in his 50s or 60s. He's now the senior scholar of Medina.
The main person teaching in the masjid, by the way, normally used to sit in the master of Nabi
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the same spot that Omar Emil photogra Angela, who used to sit and
used to teach Hadees and flip over there. So imagine this is his status teaching in the masjid of
Nabi sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, Muslims all over the world know him as the leading scholar.
		
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			Someone comes from Morocco. They come from Morocco, and there's different versions of the Indonesian
but the one nation, he comes, this is gamma Moloch. I traveled all the way from Morocco. With 40
questions from my people fit questions. Can you answer them for us? Malik looks at the coolest. He
answered about three or four questions. And for all the others about 36 or 37 questions. He says, I
don't know.
		
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			This guy, he looks at your mileage all confused? What do I tell my people?
		
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			I traveled all the way from Morocco to ask you some questions. What do I tell my people? My Malik
said, Tell them Molly doesn't know.
		
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			This is humility. Tell them Moloch doesn't know. Again, this is missing nowadays in all of us. I
noticed some
		
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			You know, someone will go on Facebook and they'll post a fifth question. Leave alone alama answering
they don't know what they're talking about people who are not answering them don't know what they're
talking about. And they're giving 25 different opinions and they're confusing the guy. How about we
stay quiet until you actually understand the topic? How about we stay quiet unless we're experts in
that topic? Because we are responsible and answerable to Allah when we talk about his Deen. So why
are we so quick to defer to us? Why are we so quick to give our opinion on things which we don't
understand.
		
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			Understand this? Well, you know, Malik, he was a master and absolute master of Hades effect of
fasudil. he mastered all of these things. But still for more than 30 questions in one sitting? He
said, I don't know.
		
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			Many of us, we just can't bring ourselves to say I don't know for even a single question.
		
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			This is this is a very important part of humility. It will save us from saying things that we will
be responsible for the Day of Judgment. Now, that brings me to the topic of is deep knowledge and
why we have differences of opinion. Why do you think Mr. Malik said he doesn't know the answer those
questions, is one of the reasons mentioned by some of the biographers is that Morocco at that time,
had a completely different culture from Medina. And those issues were culturally sensitive. Right.
So the first one needed for Morocco had to come from Allah who were familiar with their culture. So
Mr. Malik felt it was not appropriate for him to give a fatwa to someone from Morocco based on the
		
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			culture of Medina. I'm not sure if you're following this, this this principle, in fact, particularly
in the Maliki and Hanafi madhhab. Right, it's only an older man house, but these two Muslims they
hold the like on a high level. And that principle of Vic is either hakama local culture is the
deciding factor, right, so in the Maliki and Hanafi madhhab. When you have diverse cultures, the
olema within those cultures must make the fatwas according to their culture. Meaning, nowadays we
have this problem. Someone in South Africa seeks a fatwa from someone in Saudi Arabia or India, and
the fatwa they give is completely impractical in South Africa. The problem here is that there is a
		
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			huge gap between their culture and our culture. To get a fatwa that suitable to our environment, we
have to ask Allah who are part of this culture, who understand this culture. And this brings us to
our Malik's deep knowledge. Why did the old ama have differences of opinion? A lot of people ask me,
especially young people, why are they different jobs? Why are they all these different opinions? Why
which one Quran? What Hadees? Why is it different opinions? There's different opinions, for many
reasons, but the main reason being, that human beings will understand the same thing in different
ways. Human beings will understand the same thing in different ways. And people have different
		
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			approaches to these things. So for example, in the case of fake Mr. Molly's approach to fake was
very, very different from Abu hanifa or Mr. shopping, right Mr. Abu hanifa, he would only follow a
Hadees if it reached a certain level of authenticity, while Imam Shafi would follow any authentic
Hadees while Mr. Malik he had a unique principle, if an authentic Hadees went against the practice
of the people of Medina, he would follow the practice of the people of Medina. Why? Because the
people of Medina at the time of mmamoloko who sahabas children,
		
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			so he considered their practice to be distant, meaning those people who learned from who the parents
the Sahaba who did they learned from the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. So he says this Hadees one
person saying it, this Shana, everybody, Medina is practicing it, which one's more authentic? So to
see how we got differences of opinion, different approaches to how these different approaches to
issues which require deep thought. So Imam Abu hanifa had the principle of, you know, there we go
with the local culture. You know, Malik had a similar principle, but he had two more additions to
it. One of those additions to it was that we look at the concept of muscle when we look at the
		
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			harms, and the benefits, if the benefits outweigh the harms we go with if the harms outweigh the
benefits, we don't go with it. So very important principle in the Maliki method. Right? He has
another principle, closing the doors to fit now, closing the doors to fit now, if something was
going to lead to sin, even if it wasn't a sin in of itself, he would declare it not to be good.
Right? So because of these different intellectual approaches, we end up with different
understandings of Islam. Does that make any of these understandings of Islam good or bad? They're
all good. They're all good because the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said when the
		
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			Allah make the Etihad, when they
		
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			Try to find the right opinion, sincerely, if they are wrong, Allah will reward them. If they are
right Allah will give them double the meaning when it comes to issues of fic. Allah is going to
accept it from all of us, whether you following Hanafi, Maliki sharpy, humbly, or even some alum
that you are following who doesn't follow a specific method, whether you're following even taymiyah
you're following shower, Lila, you're following a Shogun? You're whoever it is. You're following
Ali. And Ali made HD heart. Allah will accept it from him, he'll accept it from you. So let's not
fight over these differences. one's gonna accept you from everybody. Right? The only time it becomes
		
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			a problem is when the following what suits our knifes. That's when it becomes a problem. If you ask
10 different Olimar and we follow the one who agrees with our knifes. That's when it becomes a
problem because now we're not following sincerely. We're looking for shortcuts.
		
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			So the humility and the deep knowledge of embolic is something we can all take lessons from. What
about the courage of Imam Malik? What's amazing about the 40 moms is that all of them spend time in
prison.
		
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			All four of them Abu hanifa Malik, Shafi, Ahmed, even humble, all of them spend time in prison. Now
you say well, my BA hanifa, he passed away in prison. Well, Malik his case or Hamdulillah, he wasn't
imprisoned for that long. So what happened was, there was a rebellion taking place against the
Abbas's, right. And the Abbas it's the governor of Medina at a time he tried to censor certain
hobbies. He told him a Maalik stop narrating that Hades, because our enemies are using that Hadees
to justify the rebellion.
		
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			So I'm Alex, I can't hide the Hadees It is my duty to Allah that people ask me for Hadees I have to
see it exactly as it is. If they interpret it differently, that's their business. But I have to
integrate the Hadees. So because he refused to hide that one Hadees he was put in prison, and he was
tortured, and some olema even say his his shoulder was dislocated during the torture.
		
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			Eventually, the Khalifa learned about this, he forced the governor to free Mr. Malik, he personally
apologized to Mr. Malik, he increased Mr. Malik salary, and he left him to teach whatever you want
for the rest of his life. complete freedom.
		
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			So look at the carnage of Mr. Malik, the people paying his salary. The governor is telling him don't
teach this. And he knows if he teaches it, he can be imprisoned, he can be tortured. But out of his
love of Allah and he sincerely towards the truth and his courage for the sake of Allah, he still
went ahead and he taught it. Now you are Maliki homeboy, honey. But this is another big difference
between the two of them in the approaches. And as I said, these differences of opinion are like
acceptable site. We said Imam Abu hanifa, refused to take a salary from the government. Instead, he
opened up a business, right because he didn't want to be in anybody's pocket.
		
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			Even Malik took a salary from the government and taught in the masjid of the other prophets, lawyers
don't because he said the olema are deserving of their salary. Allah deserved that money more than
caminito giving it to us to the almighty gonna give it to the soldiers and to the governor's into
somebody else. They had to give it to the Lama. So he would take the salary, and he would live off
their salary. But he didn't allow it to compromise his integrity. When the time came in a trolling,
say this and don't say that. He said, No, I want to see the truth. So both of them had different
approaches, both of them had the integrity that they're not going to compromise the church. But the
		
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			two different approaches towards realizing it. In mamajuana first approach, don't take a salary from
the government. You're Malik's approach. I'll take a salary from the government but I still only
tiempo de,
		
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			I'll still see what I want to say. So this was the courage of Mr. Malik to stand up to the people
paying your salary.
		
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			How many people can do that today?
		
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			The next beautiful thing about Mr. Malik is his other his manners. And we saw we saw an example of
this earlier in front of his teacher, how he did not speak up when he disagreed with his teacher,
		
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			Mr. Malik, when he was young, his mother dressed him up very well and sent him to the masjid to
attend the Hadith circles of the Illuminati because in those days, if you wanted to seek knowledge
you go to the masjid is this is the practice of some Muslim countries. You go to the masjid. And in
each corner, there's a different alum teaching, and you just sit there and you learn to join
whichever teacher you want. And you learn from there, right today, many Muslim countries, they still
practices. So even Maliki was around nine or 10 years old when this happened. His mother dressed him
up, sent him to the masjid and she gave him some advice before sending him right. Her advice was
		
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			learn from the manners before you learn from the knowledge. Learn from the manners before you learn
from the knowledge Why?
		
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			Because without manners, a teacher is going to be ineffective. I've seen this so many times in my
life. I have met teachers of Islam who have in depth knowledge of the religion extreme
		
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			In the knowledge of the religion, but nobody wants to attend the classes because of their bad
manners.
		
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			Right people get put off when the Islamic teacher is rude when he's vulgar when he's arrogant when
he makes inappropriate jokes. And when he bullies people, when he shouts people when he loses his
temper, these things chase people awaken the teacher. So this is why the early Muslims, they will
first train the students in manners. Once they had the right o'clock and adopt the right character
and manners, then only they teach them fitted hotties. And once they mastered all of these things,
then they would make them teachers, they give them permission to teach. But the manners came first,
we see the manager, the other of mmamoloko, not just towards people, but towards his books.
		
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			Whenever Mr. Malik would teach Hadees he will put on his best clothes, his most expensive clothes,
and wear his most expensive perfume. And then he would go and teach. And people will ask him, why
are you dressing up to teach Hadees he would reply that this is the words of Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam, out of respect for the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. I'm going to dress like this when
teaching his words that other for your books. Again, something which many of us haven't even thought
about, that even a book of knowledge should be treated with respect leave alone a person of
knowledge that was the other and the mandates of family.
		
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			Since we have time we'll add in the sixth point which I wanted to mention last time, which is time
management. Right? So I myself I wrote a book on time management a lot of people see this got
nothing to do with Islam. No, it's got everything to do with Islam. Many of the great Allah minor
history master time management. what's beautiful about Mr. Baba hanifa Malik is they had completely
different systems of time management. Your magic system was dividing his day into hours. Mr. Malik
hanifa would divide his week into different days for different things. Right. So Mr. Abu hanifa,
would have one day for one day for Hadees one day for studying one day for family. And he would have
		
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			a full day like this is my family day. You see how DC This is AAA. So you have a very powerful
system of time management, where each day is dedicated to a specific task. Mr. Malik, within one
day, he will divide his hours. So certain time of the day, he teaches how these different times of
the day he teaches different time of the day, he revises his work different time of the day, he
attends the study circles of other scholars. So he would have set times during the day to do these
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			We often wonder how the great scholars of the past were able to accomplish so much with their lives.
One of the reasons was they had the self discipline, they had this, you know this concern about
their time, that this is one of the things I was going to ask us about in the detachment. He's going
to ask us about what we do have free time. So we asked what we do with our lives. How are we going
to answer that, when the day comes? Allah subhanaw taala asked us that you have so much free time
What did you do with it? And you see I just binge watch Netflix all day. Not there's not gonna look
good on your on your scale the last day, there has to be some good deeds in there. I'm not saying
		
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			don't have any fun. I'm saying is you need to prioritize equities. You need to make time to worship
Allah. You need to make time for things that you can be happy to show along the DOJ last year, what
did you do in your free time all I spend my time volunteering, I spend my time in charity work, I
spend my time in humanitarian work, I spend my time helping my neighbor I spend my time taking care
of my family good deeds that you can show on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			He's grateful scholars like Mr. Malik, a member of hanifa they did not waste time. They did not
waste time, right until the very end. There's something amazing about all of these great scholars in
our history. They never retired.
		
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			They never retired. They never had this concept of retiring from serving allegedly right into his
90s right until the very end. Mr. Malik never stopped teaching Islam. He never stopped. There is no
retiring from serving Allah can retire from work, we got enough money saved up. But then what you do
with the rest of your life divided. Dawa teaching Islam humanitarian work, you don't retire from
serving Allah and
		
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			so this is time management. And this is something that you know, Malik is that you want to hanifa
Headmaster. So to end up and to recap, today we look briefly at the life of Mr. Malik, the founder
of the Maliki mud hub and the author of the Mata and we learnt six important lessons from his life.
We learned the importance of being sincere in everything that we do. If lasagna, without sincerity,
a good deed becomes a sin by standing in front of you and I talk like this and my intentions are not
sincere and this is a
		
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			it's actually a sin. right because it's it's boosting one's ego, which is a sin. The second is
humility. That no matter how much you know
		
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			knowledge you have no matter how much experience you have, no matter who you think you are,
		
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			we must be humble. A Muslim must be humble because the prophets lie. Some stated a person with an
atom's worth of arrogance in his heart will not enter Paradise. So we must stay humble. Number three
courage. The Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the greatest form of jihad is to
speak the truth in front of a tyrant ruler. The greatest form of jihad is to speak a truth in front
of a tyrant
		
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			to be able to stand up for yourself to stand up for what's right and to speak the truth. This is one
of the great qualities of Mr. Malik.
		
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			Now, number four, the importance of being as deep in your knowledge as possible. Not everyone can be
a scholar. But those of us who are not scholars, we should have humility. And we should spend time
with the scholars and we should learn from them. And we should appreciate their knowledge. We
shouldn't speak about things that we don't have knowledge of, and we shouldn't censor someone
because they have a difference of opinion from us. Number five, our manners. Our manners are the
best form of power, and the worst form of power. When we have bad manners and bad character, people
run away from Islam. Youngsters leave Islam. People who are considering converting to Islam aren't
		
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			far far away from our community. When we are people of adapt, and when we are people who represent
the beautiful models and manage about religion, without saying a single word, we will attract people
to Alaska, because the beauty is there for people to see. And finally, your time, we will be asked
on the Day of Judgment. What do we do with our spare time? So make sure that you manage your time
Well, we ended that may Allah accept this from us. She's asked for a favor and rafidah Juana and
your hamdulillah