Mohammad Elshinawy – Legacy of Sh Abdullah Kamil #01 Laced with the Love of Quran

			Bismillah Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah in sha Allah this will be the first of a few
reflections on the
		

			the life and the death of the late Sheikh Karbala Kammen, Rahim Allah, Allah, may Allah bestow mercy
on him and be with his family, and accept their good deeds, and grant them all patience and him the
highest ranks. Allah knows just how much hesitation I've been having about recording these clips.
And only Allah knows not even myself.
		

			Why exactly all that hesitation was what some of my mentors
		

			advised me today that the English speaking world
		

			deserves to be as inspired as others most of his virtues and merits and accounts are known in the
non English speaking world. And so those who are the English audience deserve
		

			to be inspired and celebrate his life and reflect and benefit from his death just as much as anyone
else. And I don't claim to be any closer to Sheikh Abdullah than anyone else. I think perhaps that's
the perfect place to start that I only met him three times, twice of them simply praying behind him
in Ramadan nights throughout the years. And it was only this Ramadan that I was able to spend a
little bit more time with him
		

			for one day, and that brief interaction still resulted in such a deep impact in me, like so many
others, when he suddenly passed away, and those are the people of the Quran, you know, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said to us that belonging to Allah is a unique, elite class of
people that are truly different, truly special, truly cherished by Allah in ways that others aren't.
And he said, those are the people of the Quran, and the world that knows him. And even those like
myself, who have briefly brushed shoulders with him, sat with him for a single meal can attest to
that. I mean, he was in my house, sitting on my couch, this Ramadan. And in the middle of an active
		

			conversation between me and him, his lips are going every time he's not speaking to me. And it's my
turn to contribute to the conversation briefly. as shy as I was to speak in His presence. His lips
are just going to the point that I, I leaned over I said, shit, what are you doing? And he said to
me, I'm reading.
		

			He's really important. And while he's listening to me, and after his passing,
		

			one of those that was extra close to him, in his final days shipping stuff I was safe, mentioned
that he was complaining to him that he only got to read through the Quran, this Ramadan, which is
below average for him 24 Full times, because he was praying in a different message every night. And
so you know, he's at the mercy of his hosts. And also because he had a newborn in Egypt that he
passed, Rahim Allah, Allah, may Allah have mercy on him before even holding that baby in his arms.
It was his fifth child, Sophia. And so he was, of course, emotionally immersed and preoccupied in
that amazing use of the newborn. And so he only read the Quran this year 24 times.
		

			And he used to do much more than that, or significantly more than that in the previous Ramadan's.
		

			And I recollected you know, the, the Hadith that is attributed to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he reminded me of him
		

			where there's a hadith by Abu Salah either of the Lavon
		

			where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is at least reported to have said at Pharaoh, vicar,
Allah, he had a Apolo Majnoon
		

			like be plentiful and abundant and profuse in your remembering of God until people start saying this
person is crazy. And those are the people of the Quran.
		

			Those on the outside look at them like they're crazy and they're so in love with the Quran. They
look at everyone else perhaps like men, you're crazy for missing out right? And so he was constantly
in the vicar of Allah Azza Qian and perhaps that's why Allah has spread his victory in this way in
these days. Allah has spread his mentioned his remembrance.
		

			And far and wide the world is talking about him right now.
		

			And so I will just start there and may we be of the people who remember our lunch by night and by
day and have a unique share of being that class of people that are uniquely attached to the Haoran
era.