Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari – Tribute to Hadhrat Mawlana Adam Sahib 1937-2024

Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari
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The transcript discusses the story of the late Iranian Iranian Iranian (Ramsna) who passed away two months ago. The speaker describes various graduates from the UK, including Muslinda, Am placement, and Al flight, and discusses the father of the national security program and his actions. The speaker also discusses the community's past experiences and the importance of establishing a new charter in the area. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being above board in learning to speak in English and the need for recording WhatsApp messages to share with family members. The speaker also discusses the father's actions and past experiences, including his shaming of the Sawwoof and his love for the Bayahiva.
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If anyone was following social media, you would

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have seen

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the pictures of 1 of their olamas that

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had passed away

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where many thousands of people had gathered for

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his janaza.

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And that was indicative

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of the great personality

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he was

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and the silent yet dedicated

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consistent

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worker

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for the sake of the deen of Allah

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And that individual was Hazrat Mufti Adam Saab,

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rahimahullah,

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of the United Kingdom.

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We profile him and we speak about him

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this evening. We have on the line with

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us Mufti Saab Moran Hassan, Mufti Mohammed.

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Of this help, we are appreciative of your

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time this evening to speak about your father.

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It's not a easy task, but yet,

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reading your post on your father, I'm sure

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there's so much for us to learn. But

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let let's go through our format first. Normally,

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when we do the program, we have a

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bit of a brief family background.

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Can Muftisa perhaps tell us in terms of

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the family background that you'll come from, a

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bit of history on death of Tisa?

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Gee, my respected father,

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Hazrat Moranah Adam Sahib

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Rahimahullah Ta'ala.

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It's very,

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you know, difficult to now say Rahimahullah after

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his name. You know, all our life we've

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been saying, may Allah give him a long

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life, but

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now,

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he passed away 2 months

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ago, over 2 months ago, just before Ramadan,

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3 days with Ramadan, on 26th Sha'aban.

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He was actually he was born on the

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26th of Sha'aban,

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and he passed away on the 26th of

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Sha'aban,

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exactly on the same date.

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And, Islamically, he was 89 years of age.

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So from a

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yeah. 89 years. And Gregorian, he was 86.

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So,

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26 of Sha'aban, he passed away.

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May Allah have mercy on his soul.

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He was,

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Subhanallah. Yes. We will talk about, the other

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aspects,

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between

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you've asked about the family background.

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He he has been in England for many,

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many years, nearly 5 decades, and the family

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that he came from, he's originally from India.

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He was born in India, in Manikpur,

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which is in Gujarat in India,

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and

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he

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he grew up in India.

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He studied there. So his his he didn't

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come from a very scholarly family or anything

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like that. My grandfather,

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his father wasn't an Alim or anything like

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that. He had 1 brother. He passed away

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a few years ago.

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He was a half of the Quran, but

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that's about it.

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There was nobody else in the family who

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was scholarly or anything like that. His mother

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his mother passed away when he was very

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young, about 11 years of age.

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So he lived most of his life from

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11 years of age without a mother.

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So,

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he he came, he was born in India.

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And,

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so the family wasn't very scholarly or anything

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like that. Even the, you know, the uncles

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and the aunts and the extended family, there

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were no scholars or anything like that. My

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father himself from a young age had this

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love for studying and memorizing the Quran and

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going to study, and on his own accord

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without his father saying anything,

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or pressurizing him into studying, he went to

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study.

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And then

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he he married my mother, and after that,

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you know, alhamdulillah, in the after his marriage,

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the rest of the family, he instilled

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Islamic scholarship and things like that within them.

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So all the,

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children, all my siblings, brothers, sisters, everybody studied,

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and everybody's a graduate scholar, and or a

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Hafid, and and the grandchildren and everybody.

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So, masha'Allah, he was like the father figure

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for our whole khanda and our whole family,

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as a pillar of the family. Not not

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just for the community

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of Lester here in the UK, but

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our family as well. Everybody just,

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referred to him, he was the pillar in

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the family.

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So, Muslinda, you make make Yeah.

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Carry on. Carry on, Muslinda.

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Oh, no. No. It's fine. You go ahead.

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So so you make mention of his scholarly

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pursuits,

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from a young age. Where would that start,

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and where would that,

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culminate

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in?

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Yeah. So he first,

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studied

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basic,

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Islamic knowledge in

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his hometown,

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his village,

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which is Manipur in Gujarat in India.

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Then he went to study,

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in,

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Rander,

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So,

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which is also Gujarat Amadrassa in Rander, which,

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Jamir al Shafi'a studied some Islamic studies there.

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And also he did some hibd of Quran

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in in the Jamia Islamia Talimuddin in Gabil,

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which is also in Gujarat.

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He did Hebbs there, and then he studied

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in he did Hebbs in Dabel first, the

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Madras in Dabel, then he went to Jannah

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Eshlofia and Randir, and he studied Aliyah

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Desnidami

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to to, you know, like the 5th, 6th

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year he studied there.

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And then after that,

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he went

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to study in the famous Darul Ullum Dubind,

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and to complete his Taras Nizami,

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in 13/78

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Hijri. So, you know, he he and he

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graduated from there in from Gregorian 1961.

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He graduated

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from Dar al Umdobind.

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So he studied in Dar al Dubind. The

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last 2, 3 years, of his alimiyyah, he

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studied in Dar al Dubind. And, you know,

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people like Mawlana Arshad Madani, may Allah protect

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him, the son of Shahid Islam, Mawlana Hossein

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al Haramun, he

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he he was also studying at the same

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time, I think my father said he was

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a year

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ahead of my father. My father just missed

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out on studying by Sheikh Hassan Wallanahu Hussain

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Ahmadine He

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saw him, but,

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he wasn't teaching, Sahil Bukhari that time. So,

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when when he went into Dua, because when

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my father, when Sheikh al Islam, was

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teaching Sahil Bukhari, the Sheikh al Hadid of

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Daulam Dovin,

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My father was on the second to last

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year, and when he reached the Bukhari,

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shakhul Islam, rahimuallahu

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alaihi wa sallam alhamdulillah had passed away. So

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he did see him, he met him, and

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would attend his some, you know, bayans, etcetera,

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but he didn't study Sahih al Bukhari by

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him.

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But he studied by some great, great olema,

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like people like Qari Muhammad Tayyib Sabrahinullah,

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who was the principal of Darul Umdeuband.

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He studied Muzdaima Malik by him, then he

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studied his Sahil Bukhari was by,

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Sheikh Fakhruddin

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Now,

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you know, his senate was so high, and

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this is why in the recent times, a

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lot of people, even some Arab scholars used

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to come just to take Ijaz of Halit

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from him because he his

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senate was so high that between him and

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Sheikh ul Hind Mullana Mahmoud al Hassan,

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Dubindirah Molla, there's only 1 person because Sheikh

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Uhruddin was a student of

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Sheikh Mahmoud al Hassan, Mullana Mahmoud al Hassan,

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Sheikh Hul Hint.

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So he studied by him, Sheikh Walad Ibrahim

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Bal Yawi

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He also saw and met people like Muti

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Shafir, rahimullah, who used to who came to

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Darla of Durban, Sheikh Zikr, rahimullah.

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So many, many great scholars who who are

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the, you know, the great Akabir of of

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Dylbent. He studied by them.

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In so he studied in Dyledom Dylbent, and

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he graduated, like I said, in 19,

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61 in Darumb, Delban.

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Muftisham after that, from 1961,

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some of the services and the Khidmat

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that is, like,

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would have offered to the Ummah in the

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different places where he had served.

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Yeah. So after

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graduating,

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from Darul Darband,

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he

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became a teacher

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at the Dabel Madrasa, Ustad,

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in the Jamia Islamiyah Talimuddin

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in the

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which is also considered like in in India,

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probably the 3rd

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most prestigious

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madrasah. After Darulun Dubin, you have Madahirul

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Sarampur.

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And then probably the third 1 is the

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Jamia Islamiyah in Dabel, which is in Gujarat.

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Al Aminza, it's a massive

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institute and great Ulema taught there as well.

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People like, you know,

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Some of these great, great people, they went

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and taught in in the Bel Mudrasah. So

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my father became Ustaz there.

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As far as I know, in 13/84

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Hijri, which I don't know exactly Gregorian what

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it is, but in in Hijri Hijri, I've

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written here 1384,

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he became a Ustadh,

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and,

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which was probably, you know, mid maybe around

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1965

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or something like that, 64, 65, around that

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time.

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And he taught there,

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for a few years. He was very close

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to,

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the principal

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who was known as Moran al Saeed Ahmad

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Buzuruk

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You know, he was a principal of the

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famous Buzruk family. Even now, I think his

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grandson is the principal.

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So my father was very close to him,

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and he said to to my father that

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you need to stay here, and you need

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to,

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teach here. So he he taught there. He

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taught, you know, in the beginning, he was

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a teacher of Farsi. My father was very

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proficient,

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expert of Persian, Farsi language. He taught books

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like Golestar, Bosta, etcetera,

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but also some other books like Nurul Anwar

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and Tarjuma of Quran, etcetera. There was there's

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1, you know, many, many great ulama studied

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by him at that time, in the bill

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to the point that,

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when he passed before he passed away, my

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father was an Indian. I'll talk about, you

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know, many before at the end, inshallah.

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But he he went to India, and, this

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was after a good 15, 20 years. And

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he wasn't in a good health state. He

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went there, and all the they they gave,

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you know, like, that that day off, you

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know, for a few hours to all the

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students and teachers. And all the students and

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teachers came out and to see my father.

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And because the senior teachers are his students,

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you know, people who teach and hadith books,

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are actually

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those who studied by my father when he

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was teaching there in those days.

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People like Mufti Ismail Kachol, we taught at

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the same time our father was teaching in

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in in Dabel.

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There's this 1 great Moranah Sahib here in

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the UK, Moranah Raouf Saab Rajpuri. He lives

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in, Batli.

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He he recently wrote a small article as

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well, and he said that,

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I I saw him first in 1969

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when

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I enrolled in the, Naber Madrasah,

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and I studied nur and war by Hazrat

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Mullah Adam Sabrahima.

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And he also says that he was very

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close to the principal, Mullah Sayin al Ghuzroog.

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And Mullah Sayin al Ghuzroog used to, you

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know, involve my father in all the, you

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know, preparation for

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for programs, for, you know, announcements, etcetera. And,

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and he used to always be involved with

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the principal. So he he taught there,

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for a few for approximately about 5 years,

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I think.

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And then what happened after that was that

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whilst he was there,

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he was,

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invited by,

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from your end, people in Malawi,

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which is next to South Africa, masha'Allah. Yes.

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Yes.

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The Muslims in Malawi invited him, so as

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an imam. Like, he was in 2 minds,

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because he had married and then he was

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teaching there. But this invite came so he

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spoke to his teachers and then the principal

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of Rasool, and they said, look, you know,

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it's probably good. Go there. There there's a

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need there because the Muslims said said there

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that there's no alim here.

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We really need somebody to come. So

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then he migrated,

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with my mother, and he had 2 my

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elder 2 brothers at that time, 2 of

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them, you know, so there's a family of

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4, and they he moved to Malawi.

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He was in Limbe for a while, and

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then he went in Mangochi. And and he's

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and people really, you know, remember him fondly

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there. For about 7 years, he stayed in

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Malawi.

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He was an imam. He established a madrasa,

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a Quran school.

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Many you know, there's there's ulama there who's

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who did habs by my father. There's Maulana

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Ahmed there who's 1 of the many imams

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in Malawi. He was a student of my

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father. He was a he established the first

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basic, you know, Maktab in madrasah,

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and as an imam in in in Malawi.

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So in Limbe and then in Mangoshi. I

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wasn't born because I I am the youngest

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in the family, family, so, I wasn't there

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at that time. But,

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he was there for about a good 7

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years.

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And then after that, whilst he was there,

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he was invited

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by the Muslims of UK because some of

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the Muslims were moving from Malawi to to

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England,

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in London and other places, but many of

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them had come to the city of Leicester.

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So when they came here, they because of

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the connection with my father in Malawi, they

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said to my father that, you know, we

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would like you to move here. So then

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after that, in 1975,

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the whole family and by this time, I

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had 2 other siblings, 2 sisters now, who

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are both born in Malawi. So the 2

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brothers, my eldest brother is Maulana Ahmedali.

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Second brother is Maulana Imran who is the

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imam here.

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And then the 2 sisters,

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they are both alimas as well, and they

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teach here and the madrasas, etcetera.

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And so they all moved in 19

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75,

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to Leicester.

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And then I was born actually in Leicester

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after after they came. So,

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he first became an imam in a masjid

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called Masjid Nur in Lestrade, for about

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maybe a year or so and teaching some

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haves, etcetera. But then in another area, the

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Muslims there were there from were there who

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were residing there were mainly from Malawi. So

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they called and they said, look, we need

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to establish

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another Masjid here. You know, this area needs

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a Masjid. So I think around in 1976,

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the Jami masjid

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was established.

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Since then, he became an imam in Jami

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masjid, and he connected himself to Jam Al

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Masjid from 1976

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till he passed away in 2024.

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48 years.

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Same Masjid,

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48 years connected,

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and this is why the whole, you know,

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the area, the whole city, people have grown

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up and only known as 1 person. You

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know, when he was in his in the

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late seventies, eighties, people used to know him

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know him as

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Mo Salbaden. They used to call him Mo

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Salbaden, Mo Salbaden. There was only 1 Mo

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Salbaden, you know. He, and he had a

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lot of awe and raug as well. Like,

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he, you know, a lot of respect and

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awe on the people and,

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because he he he used to keep himself

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to himself. He never used to get involved

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in politics or anything like that. Very less

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social interaction. As an imam, he did his

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social interaction in the community, of course. But

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on a personal level, he bought a house

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because when he moved to the Masjid across

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opposite the Masjid, literally, you walk from the

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house and you get to the Masjid door

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to the house door in 30 seconds.

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That was the house he bought in 1976,

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for a mere £4, 000 at that time.

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People who live there, they are My mother

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is

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still living there, just across the Masjid.

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And he's still living there. My mother is

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still living there, just across the Masjid.

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And he stayed and his life was basically

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from the house to the Masjid, Masjid to

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the house. 5 times salah, he used to

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be the imam, he used to go, leave

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the salah, give a dars. He started doing

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tafsir of the Quran. He in about 20

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years, he did 1 dars of the Quran.

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He used to have daras every single day,

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Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, all in Urdu, because my

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father never used to give any daras in

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English.

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He used to give daras a hadith, daras

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Quran, and then Tazkiya Islahi Majlis started Friday

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Thursday Friday night, you know, the night between

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Thursday Friday.

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Duro Sharif,

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then he started established a small Muqtab in

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the seventies.

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So thousands upon thousands of boys and girls,

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people who have become like grandparents now. They

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all came. That's why they all flocked to

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the janazah. There there was queues here because

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there are people in their fifties sixties who

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grew up studying at the Maktah in the

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seventies. There are people who've got, you know,

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small small grandchildren now. They were all crying.

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They said, we only know 1 mala Adam,

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mala sabadam, mala madam. And then afterwards, people

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started calling him Hazrat mala madam.

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Because they all grew up here. Men, women,

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there was a boys. My mother used to

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take care of the girls' sister section, Maktab,

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and the boys' section. My father used to

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take care Heavs classes, Maktab. And then around

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2, 000,

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we he established a Darulum, which is not

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a boarding 1. It's just a full time

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Darulum. That's nirami, which is until today, I

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teach the razua,

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and for 22 years, he's,

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he told Sahir Bukhari in in in the

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Darulum

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and the Masjid,

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and the Maktab, and then we've he you

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know, under him. Then afterwards, as he grow

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grow older now, we've got a boys' school,

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we've got a girls' school, and these these

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are all run by

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other people, like my, you know, girls that

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are alone, boys that are alone. My sisters

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run it, or my my brothers run it,

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or other people are all involved. But the

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whole community got attached to him because of

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48 years of service

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in 1 city.

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And he 1 of the yeah. We'll talk

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about his qualities anyway. But as an imam,

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he was very respected,

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and I think the main reason was that

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he kept himself to himself from the Masjid

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to the house. In those 48 years, I

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don't think he went to the city center,

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town center once in the city of Leicester.

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Should have a look.

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He's not been to the downtown or the

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city center.

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No. He never drew drove the car, nothing.

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Just he had a but we'll talk about

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his qualities, about his zuhl, etcetera, so let's

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leave it to that. But,

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this is a he did in the Masjid

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Maktab Madrasah.

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Thousands of students have graduated as the qafada

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of the Quran, and many 100

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graduated as alim. But other than that, you

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know, the grassroots

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teaching, studying, and then his his mawahid, his

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nasihah, his Jumu'a talks, his bayan, Islahur Mo'asharah,

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he used to do a lot of that.

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And then he was also invited.

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Like, every 2, 3 weeks, he would be

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invited to other cities to give in the

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19 in the eighties nineties. In the recent

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times, it became less because now a lot

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of people started speaking English.

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So, you know, it was a bit less.

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But in those days, in the seventies, eighties,

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it was only Urdu Bayan.

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So different cities was invited, and not just

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different cities, even different countries. And I don't

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know if you know, but he was actually

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invited once to South Africa,

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and he did a 1 month or a

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2 month tour of South Africa, good 20,

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25 years ago, and he gave some talks

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all over Johannesburg, and I don't know what

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else. I didn't go with him, but,

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whilst he was in Leicester, he was invited,

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and he gave many talks there.

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I I'm not aware of that, but I

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will try and see if there are people

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and if there are some recordings available of

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that. Truly respected listeners, we are speaking to

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Mufti Mohammed ibn Adam,

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who's speaking about his father, mother

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Adam Saab was the

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imam in Leicester. I mean, when we say

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imam,

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imam in in in a metaphorical sense because

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he was the imam, he was the Ustad

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of Hadid, he was the mufassir,

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He was the counselor,

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and he was somebody, Allahu Akbar, for 48

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years.

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Muftisah, before we go into the other questions

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that we would like to discuss, is there

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anything that you would like to share regarding

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his khitmat and his services?

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I think I've covered most of them, in

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terms of his tafsir of the Quran, his,

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his teaching, his imai. And, you know, he

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he did a lot of work on. So,

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yeah, just 1 point. He was in those

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days, he was very

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energetic, very fiery as a speaker.

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But 1 1 of the things was he

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was very, very straightforward.

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I think some of the,

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ways that he used that time, probably

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in this very sensitive time, people have become

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very sensitive. It's probably difficult.

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I was I was just talking to 1

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Mullah Nasr today, before I came here. We

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I was having tea with him, and we

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were talking about my father.

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And I said the same thing to him.

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I said, you know, some of the things

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that he used to say and the way

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he used to do Dawah,

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today people would not be able to cope

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with that. The people are are very sensitive.

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And, of course, we've tailored our Dawah slightly

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according to the times we have to change.

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But he was very open, very and he

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would always say,

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Say the truth even if it's sour. I

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I don't care. And and, you know, he

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was very because he

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he

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he, you know, he was able to say

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the Kalimutul Haqq, the truth, because he had

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no, you know,

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personal connection. And this is why as an

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Imam,

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he's this quality that

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these 2 qualities as an Imam,

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1 I mentioned that he used to be

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very, very,

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you know, to himself,

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no social life. He never used to go

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to people's house for dawas, for tea, for

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gum shop, you know, like, just gossip. None

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of that. So he he was very, very,

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like, to himself, and that's why he had

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a lot of respect.

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And also number 2,

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he was very punctual.

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At the beginning he was only iman, and

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then we had the second and the third

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iman. But for good 15, 20 years, all

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5 prayers himself leading.

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Hardly ever he would be delayed even a

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minute.

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And even after when other imams came, 1

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of his other qualities, which people say that

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until he became ill towards the end of

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his life, last 2, 3 years of his

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life, we don't remember ever, maybe once or

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twice, his mister Takbirat Tareema in the Masjid

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for the 45 year 45 years.

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Never. Maybe once or twice,

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you know, he must have missed it or

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something happened to the alarm clock for the

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Fajr, but he would sleep on the exact

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time, His alarm clock would be there 45

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minutes before Fajr. He is there every salah.

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There's no Takbirat Khlima in the Masjid that

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he's missed. Maybe 2 or 3 in 45

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years.

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People don't remember the blessing.

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And the way he was doing also

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I I've seen from your post, and I

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and III was, like, amazed

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was his Mahmulaha.

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Yeah.

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Allah so consistent.

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1 is the tabbirat the harimah you make

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mention of, but the other Ma'mulahat that he

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used to do so consistent.

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And not only that, keeping a note of

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ensuring

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that he's completed his mamurad by literally

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ticking it off in a book that he

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had.

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Yes. Yes. That's right. I I shared the

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picture as well on social media.

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SubhanAllah. I mean, I used to see we

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used to see him, our family. We used

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to see him, doing this, but I didn't

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know or we some of us didn't know

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exactly how much he was writing. That's 1

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book that I shared. That's just 1 of

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maybe 20, 30 books.

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There's not only 1 book. This was this

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book that I shared the picture of with

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all the tics, that was the last book,

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of his life. So he was 1 of

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his main qualities was Ibadah.

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He was absolutely,

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you know,

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like

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ultimate level of worship of Allah, like the

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next level.

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Some of the there was 1 Turkish Arab,

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Syrian scholar living in Turkey,

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He was mentioning to my brother who showed

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him this.

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He said this kind of book, this reminds

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of of the Salaf,

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because this was done in the Salaf's time.

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This is mind boggling, he was saying.

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So he or his mom I since I

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remember as a child,

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the only thing I can remember is him

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reading Quran after Quran after Quran at home,

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because he never used to work anything else.

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So he his life was basically Masjid madrasah.

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He had time in those days we never

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had a Darulun as well, because Darulun, the

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Bukhari, and all of that started around 2,

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002, 2001.

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So from 1980 till about 20 years, he

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would

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lead the 5 time prayers, and then in

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the evening was Maktab. Maktab, he was the

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principal of the Maktab, behaves class, etcetera. He

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would manage everything. He would teach a bit,

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but manage.

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All day, what does he do? He's not

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taking another job or anything like that. And

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that's why we're gonna talk about his Zuhad,

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but he was a very Zahid. He he

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had no interest in the dunya. But so

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what would he do from morning till 5

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PM, Maktab time? All day, he's got his

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whole ma'mulat,

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5 Jews, azza of the Quran. Yeah. 2,

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000 salawat under the prophet

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a 100, 2, 000 times reading this, this

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Istighfar,

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this dua,

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Sayyidul Istighfar,

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this dua, that dua it's Munajat Makhboul.

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Everything he's got written in there,

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and everything, every day after his reading. Even

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at home, he wouldn't talk to us too

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much. He would talk with the family. I

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remember he used to be in his room

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upstairs. He had a small, like, a Ibadah

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place.

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He used to sit there. His books are

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there. He would do mutala there. All his

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personal books as well, which he do mutala.

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He's got all, you know, notes written on

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it, and he had this chair there, and

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he would have Musallah there. We used to

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go there, he used to say, salaam alaykum,

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I'll talk to you for 5 minutes, and

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then he would say, okay, I need I

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need to carry on doing your bad *,

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salaam alaykum.

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And that's it. We used to and he

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would come downstairs, sit a bit, eating time

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with the family, and then back upstairs in

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his room, back to Ibadah.

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And his dua as well. He would engage

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in like half an hour dua at nighttime,

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you know, Surat Al Waqiya, Surat Al Mulk,

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Surat Kabarak,

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Yasi, all the Ma'mulat

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continuously,

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and he would take everything and keep a

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record for

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years on end. And that last book we

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were seeing because he had a stroke,

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a year before he passed away.

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So just before this Ramadan, you know, he

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passed away on the 22th of Sharban. So

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the Ramadan before,

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a cup I think a month or before

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the previous Ramadan, that's when he had a

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stroke.

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Before that, he was ill a bit, but

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he was okay. He was struggling to walk.

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He had a problem in his knees. He

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would sit sometimes in the wheelchair, but slowly

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stall and walk with the stick, etcetera. He

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was he became quite weak, but he was

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okay. Then he had that stroke. So that

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book, we looked at it,

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all the tics were there until that 1

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year ago. The last day, the day he

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had stroke, the day before that, the ticks

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were there. Then we took him to the

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hospital. He stayed in the hospital for 2

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weeks and then another hospital for another 3,

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4 weeks. Then he came home, and then

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he was just bedridden.

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The hospital bed came. So and then after

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that, he didn't go upstairs for a year.

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He was downstairs. We had carols coming because

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he couldn't stand or anything for the whole

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year. So then those tics stopped because he

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couldn't do that type of Ibad after that.

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Subhanallah.

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It gives us the hadith of Rasulullah salallahu

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alaihi wa sallam wherein he mentions

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that when a person is ill, then Allah

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rewards them for the consistent

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they would make at the time when they

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had good health. And, inshallah, Allah

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would perpetuate

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the rewards of Hazrat Muhanna.

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Some of his other

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or some of his other,

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attributes or qualities that you would like to

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share with us, mister?

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Yeah. In terms of qualities,

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there's a lot to say and times that

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go short. And this is, I think, the

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main area, I mean, of his life. I

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mean, we've already talked about the Ibada, which

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is kind of, you know, the the sifat

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and the qualities. And,

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but I hopefully, inshallah, I'm thinking 1 day

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if I get a bit of time, I

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want to write a small book about him,

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inshallah. I mean, that's the least I can

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do.

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And in there, the main I don't want

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to write a book like I was telling

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the students today that not like a biography

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in terms of, you know, that this maybe

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at the beginning, it could be a short

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10 pages biography, you know, where he studied

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and who his teachers were and all. But

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the main focus is I want to divide

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it into chapters in terms of his qualities.

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Because each quality, subhanAllah, there's a lot of

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examples of them.

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So for example, I briefly hinted towards his

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Zuhad.

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His Zuhad Ali Duniya, like, you know, abstinence

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from Duniya, having no interest in the Ma'al

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and the wealth of the Duniya and the

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glitters of Duniya. This was ultimate level. Like

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I said, he never went to the city

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centre, he never bought

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the the small house, he just wanted to

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live there. Everyone moved to different places. He

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lived there. He wasn't interested in, you know,

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different different clothes and never had a TV

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at home. Never you he never used a

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smartphone in his life. Never.

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He didn't he never want we used to

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towards the end of his life, we used

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to go by him and show him some

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things on the Internet, maybe, you know, like

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what's happening in Gaza, for example. He was

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quite interested, know, towards the end of his

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life, every day asking what's the latest, what's

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the latest in Palestine, what's the latest, so

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we used to tell him. There was some

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Urdu news channel, so we used to put

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it on YouTube for him, but he never

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knew what a smartphone was. He didn't know

00:29:01 --> 00:29:03

what Internet was. He never used to be

00:29:03 --> 00:29:04

on the Internet.

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Just about had a small Nokia phone to

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phone some people.

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No TV, no technology.

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He was in a different

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dunya.

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He he he didn't he didn't know what

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this dunya

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the technological dunya is.

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So he was very Zahid and,

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even like money wise, just the basic, he

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never asked for a pay rise ever in

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his life

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as an imam or anything.

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Just

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he he was peaceful.

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You know, the the things that he had

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less money, income, but I've not seen anybody

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as peaceful.

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People are struggling out there, working, making money,

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tension, pressure. He

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leads Fajr Salah, Ishraq Kawabeen, comes home in

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a nice warm house, and the house is

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never cold.

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As much

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I've never seen any house as warm as

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his house. We are worried about our electricity,

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gas bills. His house is warm 247, and

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he has less income than everybody.

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You know? Afternoon time, my mother's making him

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nice lunch, you know, fresh

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chapatis, rotis. He's eating,

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you know, fresh food.

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He's like his food, whatever chapati or rice,

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tea time, there's tea, evening food. It's a

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very peaceful life, but very less money. Because

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I think the reason is because he never

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wasted his money

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in any extra things. Like, we have mobile

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phones, and he had a car,

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some car bills, and then, TV or this

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you know, all these things. So

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there was no need. He never used to

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go to the town center. He doesn't need

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to buy good, good shoes and things like

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that, just basic,

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you know,

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clothes. So very peaceful life. He was very

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even when he left this world, he didn't

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leave much behind. Not much he never had,

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I'm going to invest my money in here

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or invest my money in there and none

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no. No. Nothing

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like that. So very

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za'id. That was 1 of his qualities.

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The other is Istakamah.

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Like, I already hinted that as well, the

00:31:01 --> 00:31:02

Istaqamah, his steadfastness,

00:31:02 --> 00:31:04

like 48 years in 1 place. I don't

00:31:04 --> 00:31:05

think there's an example

00:31:06 --> 00:31:08

in the UK of an imam being connected

00:31:08 --> 00:31:11

to 1 masjid, which is not his own,

00:31:11 --> 00:31:12

you know, because there is like, he's being

00:31:12 --> 00:31:13

paid. There's there's a

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48 years,

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and nobody could ever lift a finger towards

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

anything ever in those 48 years. And this

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is something that people like, you know, we

00:31:23 --> 00:31:25

can learn, that

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there are certain things which are permissible, and

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then there are certain things which are, you

00:31:29 --> 00:31:30

know,

00:31:30 --> 00:31:32

higher level. He I I've said this as

00:31:32 --> 00:31:34

well many times that

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he always stayed 2, 3 degrees above what

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was permissible. So nobody could raise a finger.

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There could be something which is allowed, but

00:31:43 --> 00:31:46

maybe slightly disliked, or there's Iftalaf, or there's,

00:31:46 --> 00:31:48

you know, difference of opinion, or maybe better

00:31:48 --> 00:31:50

to avoid. Of course, you know, we respect

00:31:50 --> 00:31:52

all these difference of opinions. But he stayed

00:31:53 --> 00:31:56

above that that even the most craziest and

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the most harsh

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critic and we have a lot of those,

00:32:00 --> 00:32:02

I know. I know there's a lot of

00:32:02 --> 00:32:03

those in these days, which is a side

00:32:03 --> 00:32:05

point in South Africa. It's not too early.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

South Africa is, mashaAllah, bless.

00:32:07 --> 00:32:08

But,

00:32:09 --> 00:32:10

even they they could not

00:32:11 --> 00:32:11

point

00:32:12 --> 00:32:13

a finger.

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

He but the point and the great thing

00:32:15 --> 00:32:16

was that he never

00:32:17 --> 00:32:18

forced it. You know, this is the other

00:32:18 --> 00:32:20

side. Like, for example I'll give you an

00:32:20 --> 00:32:20

example,

00:32:21 --> 00:32:22

photography pictures,

00:32:23 --> 00:32:24

digital pictures.

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Now digital pictures, I mean, many say they're

00:32:27 --> 00:32:30

not allowed, etcetera. But many the Arab scholars

00:32:30 --> 00:32:31

say it's allowed.

00:32:32 --> 00:32:34

Opinion is as well, in terms of digital

00:32:34 --> 00:32:36

photography as a picture, he says, permitted. But,

00:32:36 --> 00:32:38

yes, he also says that in the masajid

00:32:38 --> 00:32:40

and selfies and all of that shouldn't be

00:32:40 --> 00:32:42

done because it's disrespectful, and don't be too

00:32:43 --> 00:32:44

obsessed with the culture of it.

00:32:44 --> 00:32:48

So but he himself never ever allowed anyone

00:32:48 --> 00:32:49

to take his picture. That's why they couldn't

00:32:49 --> 00:32:51

find any pictures of him anywhere.

00:32:52 --> 00:32:52

But

00:32:53 --> 00:32:56

he never forced it despite being such, you

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

know, a connected person to Darul Durbin. You

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know, when he passed away, Muftidaq Uthmani,

00:33:01 --> 00:33:02

who's my teacher, he sent me a voice

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

note, then I spoke to him on the

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

phone as well. And the 2 minutes that

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

he said, he said that,

00:33:07 --> 00:33:08

Hazrat Mawlana

00:33:09 --> 00:33:09

Adam

00:33:09 --> 00:33:10

was actually

00:33:11 --> 00:33:13

in in this time, not just in the

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

West, but in the world, he was somebody

00:33:15 --> 00:33:18

who who, in his words in Urdu, somebody

00:33:18 --> 00:33:19

who was a representative

00:33:20 --> 00:33:21

of the Aqaba of Durban.

00:33:23 --> 00:33:26

So who sort of symbol he symbolized them.

00:33:26 --> 00:33:29

This is what Musa al Qutmani said. I've

00:33:29 --> 00:33:31

got the clip on on WhatsApp in Urdu.

00:33:31 --> 00:33:33

He said he symbolized he was in his

00:33:33 --> 00:33:34

words, he said,

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

and it's a it's a great loss.

00:33:41 --> 00:33:44

But the amazing point is that despite him,

00:33:44 --> 00:33:47

he had that balance as well. He would

00:33:47 --> 00:33:47

never

00:33:48 --> 00:33:51

criticize or attack anyone for taking another opinion.

00:33:51 --> 00:33:53

Okay? To the point that I myself I

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

have my pictures online. He never once

00:33:56 --> 00:33:57

ever told me

00:33:57 --> 00:33:59

as a father, as a teacher, that look,

00:33:59 --> 00:34:02

this is haram. No. For me, for himself,

00:34:02 --> 00:34:03

not allowed.

00:34:03 --> 00:34:05

But he knew I was on YouTube.

00:34:05 --> 00:34:07

You know, sometimes I'm lazy to show him

00:34:07 --> 00:34:09

as well that look, you're his son's he's

00:34:09 --> 00:34:11

got some lectures on YouTube. He would smile.

00:34:12 --> 00:34:12

Okay.

00:34:12 --> 00:34:14

You're a scholar. You know. I'm not going

00:34:14 --> 00:34:16

to force my opinion on you. This was

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

an amazing balance despite being

00:34:18 --> 00:34:20

very precautious and and, you know,

00:34:21 --> 00:34:21

taqwa.

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You know, also, like, for example, in our

00:34:25 --> 00:34:28

Darulun, we when we started teaching, he was

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

very, very particular about Urdu, and he was

00:34:30 --> 00:34:32

really emphasizing Urdu. I remember when he went

00:34:32 --> 00:34:33

to South Africa, he came back and he

00:34:33 --> 00:34:35

used to say that and that's 1 of

00:34:35 --> 00:34:37

the things he said in South Africa back

00:34:37 --> 00:34:39

in the eighties, that you guys are going

00:34:39 --> 00:34:41

to get too distant away from the Akabir

00:34:41 --> 00:34:42

because your

00:34:42 --> 00:34:45

your your Urdu, your is disappearing. He said

00:34:45 --> 00:34:46

that to the ulema in the ulema bayazi.

00:34:46 --> 00:34:47

He used to get he used to get

00:34:47 --> 00:34:51

very, very passionate that don't disconnect yourself from

00:34:51 --> 00:34:54

the arkagir. Bring Urdu back into your, Madaris,

00:34:54 --> 00:34:56

etcetera. I think he spoke about that a

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

lot in South Africa. So he used to

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

say the same things here. When we started

00:34:59 --> 00:35:02

Dal Rum, everything that's in the army is

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

in Urdu because in England, you know, it's

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

connected to the Madaris of India, Pakistan.

00:35:07 --> 00:35:09

When I started teaching, I started teaching English,

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

not just the basic books, but even like

00:35:11 --> 00:35:14

Hidayah and and even the high level books

00:35:14 --> 00:35:15

of Urdu. It came as a shock to

00:35:15 --> 00:35:16

him,

00:35:17 --> 00:35:19

but not never in 1 day. He just

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

he found out that I'm teaching in English.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:24

He he gave me some hints that, you

00:35:24 --> 00:35:27

know, Urdu should be there and his son,

00:35:27 --> 00:35:29

but never ever once he told me that

00:35:29 --> 00:35:31

don't teach in English in the same. He

00:35:31 --> 00:35:33

he let me he let me do it.

00:35:33 --> 00:35:34

And now, alhumdulillah, now we've got a lot

00:35:34 --> 00:35:37

of the graduates, or or majority is now

00:35:37 --> 00:35:37

taught in English.

00:35:38 --> 00:35:40

But this is the balance that despite him

00:35:40 --> 00:35:41

holding

00:35:41 --> 00:35:44

superior or precautious or or kind of opinions,

00:35:45 --> 00:35:47

he was very respectful as well of the

00:35:47 --> 00:35:48

other side of Iftilaaf.

00:35:49 --> 00:35:51

And this is the balance of tafakkur that

00:35:51 --> 00:35:52

he had as well. This comes from the

00:35:52 --> 00:35:54

great Masha'i Haqawi.

00:35:54 --> 00:35:55

So,

00:35:55 --> 00:35:57

yeah. So the the point the istakarma in

00:35:57 --> 00:35:59

terms of being above board,

00:36:00 --> 00:36:01

what was allowed.

00:36:02 --> 00:36:04

This is why nobody could ever, in 48

00:36:04 --> 00:36:06

years of his khidma,

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

ever lay a finger because he did not

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

even do something which was

00:36:10 --> 00:36:11

in the community.

00:36:12 --> 00:36:14

Something which he just stayed above. And his

00:36:15 --> 00:36:17

was a great, great, you know,

00:36:18 --> 00:36:19

1 of his karama, I would say.

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

You know, there was 1 man in Sakhoz,

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

an imam here in Leicester.

00:36:24 --> 00:36:26

He said after the day he passed away,

00:36:27 --> 00:36:27

the next day,

00:36:28 --> 00:36:29

he said, when I first came as an

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

imam, I went to him, said, Hazrat, give

00:36:31 --> 00:36:32

me some lasiha.

00:36:33 --> 00:36:33

He said, look,

00:36:34 --> 00:36:35

stay,

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stay very, very punctual.

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

Stay very, very punctual,

00:36:51 --> 00:36:54

very disciplined. You yourself, you'll feel internally.

00:36:55 --> 00:36:57

Nobody can tell you anything why this is

00:36:57 --> 00:36:59

not happening and that's not happening, hasn't imam.

00:37:00 --> 00:37:03

So his istakamah is a massive part of

00:37:03 --> 00:37:05

his life. That's a chapter. Then there's other

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

chapters. I wrote a small piece on Facebook

00:37:07 --> 00:37:09

recently, last week, I think. Gave a few

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

example of his adab,

00:37:12 --> 00:37:14

his extreme level of adab

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

towards sha'ir uddeen,

00:37:17 --> 00:37:20

whether it's the Quran, whether hadith books. I

00:37:20 --> 00:37:22

remember he he he got, you know, he

00:37:22 --> 00:37:24

cautioned me a few times because I had

00:37:24 --> 00:37:26

placed a hadith kitab or an Islamic kitab,

00:37:27 --> 00:37:30

you know, on the sofa, you know, arm.

00:37:30 --> 00:37:31

He he he would not even allow that,

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

let alone on the sofa cushion, even the

00:37:33 --> 00:37:35

arm of the sofa, the couch.

00:37:36 --> 00:37:39

He his legs, I can never remember him

00:37:39 --> 00:37:41

stretching towards the Qibla. It was very, you

00:37:41 --> 00:37:43

see that even the Makuhad and the Sunan,

00:37:43 --> 00:37:45

he was very punctual on that. Like, you

00:37:45 --> 00:37:47

know, towards the end of his life, when

00:37:47 --> 00:37:49

when when he was eating on his hospital

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

bed, he could because his he had a

00:37:51 --> 00:37:53

stroke in his left arm, so that couldn't

00:37:53 --> 00:37:53

be used.

00:37:54 --> 00:37:55

So only the right hand. He would still

00:37:55 --> 00:37:57

eat with his 1 hand, right hand. So

00:37:57 --> 00:37:58

we used to bring the water to wash

00:37:58 --> 00:38:01

his hand. So he's washing his right hand,

00:38:01 --> 00:38:02

and then he wants to wash the left

00:38:02 --> 00:38:03

hand. I would tell him, I said, look,

00:38:03 --> 00:38:05

you don't need to wash your left hand

00:38:05 --> 00:38:07

because you're not eating with that. He said,

00:38:07 --> 00:38:08

no. No. No. He I I would, you

00:38:08 --> 00:38:10

know, have sometimes this sort

00:38:11 --> 00:38:11

of argumentative

00:38:12 --> 00:38:13

discussion with him trying to explain to him.

00:38:13 --> 00:38:15

But he said, don't talk too much about.

00:38:15 --> 00:38:16

Okay? You're a

00:38:17 --> 00:38:18

so, you know,

00:38:18 --> 00:38:20

there's too much of that. No. No. I

00:38:20 --> 00:38:21

need to wash both hands.

00:38:22 --> 00:38:24

And, like, Tayam Moonson, I would tell him,

00:38:24 --> 00:38:27

look, just don't tell him about ease. Even

00:38:27 --> 00:38:28

his salah

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

I tell you this this small incident. This

00:38:30 --> 00:38:32

is before he had a stroke.

00:38:32 --> 00:38:34

The 1 year he had strokes, he was

00:38:34 --> 00:38:35

bedridden. Of course, he was

00:38:36 --> 00:38:38

performing salah on his on his bed. But

00:38:38 --> 00:38:40

before that, for about 4 or 5 years,

00:38:40 --> 00:38:41

he had this really

00:38:42 --> 00:38:42

extreme arthritis

00:38:43 --> 00:38:46

issue. His leg won he had an operation.

00:38:46 --> 00:38:48

His he couldn't walk properly, etcetera. But, honestly,

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

I've got a video of him.

00:38:51 --> 00:38:53

Him performing salah about 3, 4 years ago,

00:38:54 --> 00:38:57

so much pain and struggle, he would still

00:38:58 --> 00:39:01

not listen to anybody that I'm going to

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

sit on a chair and pray salah.

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

He would not listen. He would go into

00:39:05 --> 00:39:07

sujud, even in the masjid, and then struggle

00:39:07 --> 00:39:09

slowly, slowly, put his hand on the ground

00:39:09 --> 00:39:11

and then quickly put his hand on the

00:39:11 --> 00:39:13

chair and then then sit down. It's paining

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

him, but he would still pray like that,

00:39:15 --> 00:39:16

put himself in so much hardship.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:19

I would tell him, Fatwa, look, dad, you

00:39:19 --> 00:39:20

know,

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

just sit on the chair and pray now.

00:39:22 --> 00:39:24

Like, you know, he wouldn't. So then I

00:39:24 --> 00:39:26

was in Pakistan about 2 years ago, and

00:39:26 --> 00:39:27

I spoke to

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

I said, look. You know? If you say

00:39:30 --> 00:39:32

to him, then only then he will listen.

00:39:32 --> 00:39:33

He just doesn't listen. I'll explain the whole

00:39:33 --> 00:39:35

issue to him. So can you please, you

00:39:35 --> 00:39:35

know,

00:39:37 --> 00:39:38

just record a small WhatsApp message so I

00:39:38 --> 00:39:40

can send it? So he goes, yeah. Yeah.

00:39:40 --> 00:39:41

No problem. So then I gave him my

00:39:41 --> 00:39:42

phone, and then he

00:39:43 --> 00:39:44

spoke

00:39:44 --> 00:39:46

2, 3 minutes, he said Hazamal Adhan Salahi

00:39:46 --> 00:39:46

Masha'Allah,

00:39:47 --> 00:39:47

you

00:39:48 --> 00:39:49

know, your son is here, etcetera. And then

00:39:49 --> 00:39:51

he said, look, from what he's explained to

00:39:51 --> 00:39:52

me, you can't do this, you can't do

00:39:52 --> 00:39:54

that. So Insha'Allah, you know, Allah

00:39:54 --> 00:39:55

Allah will,

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

loves he read the hadith in Allah.

00:40:00 --> 00:40:02

So Allah loves that you take his ruksa

00:40:02 --> 00:40:04

as well. So even that is part of

00:40:04 --> 00:40:06

Abdiya that you you say to Allah that

00:40:06 --> 00:40:07

I am, you know,

00:40:07 --> 00:40:10

I'm a weak slave. I'm taking your rugsa,

00:40:10 --> 00:40:12

and inshallah that will also be Allah accepted.

00:40:12 --> 00:40:14

And I sent that WhatsApp to my brother

00:40:14 --> 00:40:16

and he made him listen to him, and

00:40:16 --> 00:40:18

that day in his diary he wrote, today,

00:40:18 --> 00:40:20

Allah Ma sheikh Musheikh al Islam Takht Usmani's

00:40:20 --> 00:40:23

message came from today. Alhamdulillah, I can now

00:40:23 --> 00:40:24

sit on the chair and pray.

00:40:25 --> 00:40:27

So until then, he wouldn't.

00:40:28 --> 00:40:31

So he's he's, yeah, his istakarma and things

00:40:31 --> 00:40:33

like that, were very, very he's so, yeah,

00:40:33 --> 00:40:35

I was talking about his adab. You know,

00:40:35 --> 00:40:36

his even in his

00:40:37 --> 00:40:39

hospital bed at night, make sure it's not

00:40:39 --> 00:40:40

towards a cribla. My feet is not towards

00:40:40 --> 00:40:41

a cribla.

00:40:42 --> 00:40:42

Adan time

00:40:43 --> 00:40:45

as soon as Adan starts in the masjid,

00:40:45 --> 00:40:47

we could hear it on the receiver at

00:40:47 --> 00:40:48

home. There was no

00:40:49 --> 00:40:51

question of him talking to anybody, not even

00:40:51 --> 00:40:53

walking or doing anything. Sit down on the

00:40:53 --> 00:40:53

sofa

00:40:53 --> 00:40:54

attentively,

00:40:54 --> 00:40:56

listen to the azaan, respond to it, pray

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

the dua, and then do whatever he needs

00:40:58 --> 00:41:01

to do. So he's adab towards all these

00:41:01 --> 00:41:02

towards Qulamah as well.

00:41:03 --> 00:41:05

He used to always say that, look,

00:41:06 --> 00:41:08

respect of Awliya, Allah, if you disrespect Qalamah

00:41:08 --> 00:41:09

and Awliya,

00:41:10 --> 00:41:11

there's a fear of.

00:41:11 --> 00:41:13

He he used to talk about that. Whenever

00:41:13 --> 00:41:15

the masha'aq used to come because we used

00:41:15 --> 00:41:16

to have a lot of ulema. I mean,

00:41:16 --> 00:41:18

I have grew up in my

00:41:18 --> 00:41:19

father's house

00:41:19 --> 00:41:21

from a young age,

00:41:21 --> 00:41:24

only seeing great, great Akagir and Olomar coming

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

to my father's house.

00:41:26 --> 00:41:27

From a young age, the imam of haram

00:41:27 --> 00:41:29

has come. And, you know, many of them

00:41:29 --> 00:41:31

have passed away, Mawlana used to be Diani,

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

Mawlana Abdul Hafiz Marki. All these people used

00:41:33 --> 00:41:34

to come, mafirafi'authmani,

00:41:34 --> 00:41:35

tafirafi'authmani.

00:41:35 --> 00:41:37

They used to come, they used to stay

00:41:37 --> 00:41:39

at my father's house in the eighties nineties.

00:41:39 --> 00:41:40

Mullana Asad Madini,

00:41:42 --> 00:41:43

every year he used to come to our

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

house, at least to see my father for

00:41:44 --> 00:41:45

10 minutes,

00:41:45 --> 00:41:47

and have a cup of tea.

00:41:48 --> 00:41:50

My father when he was in Malawi Hazarjee

00:41:50 --> 00:41:50

Munanainamal

00:41:50 --> 00:41:51

Hassan

00:41:52 --> 00:41:53

he came and stayed at my father's house.

00:41:53 --> 00:41:55

He he actually gave birth to Munanainamal Hassan

00:41:55 --> 00:41:55

as

00:41:56 --> 00:41:58

well. And his shaykh of the Sawwoof before

00:41:58 --> 00:42:01

him was Mawlana Wasiullah, not Masihullah. Wasiullah

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

Ilahabadi,

00:42:02 --> 00:42:04

who is the yeah, who is the father-in-law

00:42:04 --> 00:42:06

and the shaykh of Mawlana Khobar Zaman. He

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

stayed in his khanpath for a while, Khalifa

00:42:08 --> 00:42:10

of Muraasaheb Khanhir Rahimullah.

00:42:11 --> 00:42:13

And the Mufti Mahmood Al Hassan Gangui Rahimullah

00:42:13 --> 00:42:15

who passed away in your in your lands,

00:42:15 --> 00:42:15

mashallah.

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

Mufti Mahmoud Al Hassan stayed at my father's

00:42:18 --> 00:42:20

house here for 3 days.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:22

He stayed there. My father gave last bayah

00:42:22 --> 00:42:23

to him,

00:42:23 --> 00:42:24

the 3rd bayah,

00:42:25 --> 00:42:27

And he stayed at my house, my father's

00:42:27 --> 00:42:28

house. I was I was I remember

00:42:29 --> 00:42:31

17, 15, 16 years of age or something

00:42:31 --> 00:42:31

like that.

00:42:32 --> 00:42:33

He stayed in the French room, and he

00:42:33 --> 00:42:36

used to stay sleep there 3 full days.

00:42:36 --> 00:42:37

So

00:42:37 --> 00:42:39

his respect towards this ulama and a kabir

00:42:39 --> 00:42:41

was was quite immense

00:42:42 --> 00:42:42

as

00:42:43 --> 00:42:44

well.

00:42:44 --> 00:42:47

We've covered a lot of things. We've we've

00:42:47 --> 00:42:48

spoke about,

00:42:48 --> 00:42:51

his his karma. We spoke about his service.

00:42:51 --> 00:42:52

We spoke about his study.

00:42:53 --> 00:42:56

Molana Adamsap is a father. You you've hinted

00:42:56 --> 00:42:58

and you've made mention of quite a bit

00:42:58 --> 00:43:01

already. But just with you and your siblings,

00:43:01 --> 00:43:04

how was Molana Adamsap at home?

00:43:06 --> 00:43:07

I would say

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

he was very

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

disciplined, but

00:43:13 --> 00:43:13

extremely loving,

00:43:14 --> 00:43:15

extremely loving,

00:43:15 --> 00:43:17

like next level

00:43:17 --> 00:43:19

loving to the point I will say that

00:43:19 --> 00:43:20

more because I was the youngest,

00:43:21 --> 00:43:22

and I think I was spoiled.

00:43:22 --> 00:43:25

And maybe because of that, I've probably not

00:43:25 --> 00:43:27

had I don't have those qualities or those

00:43:27 --> 00:43:28

kind of istakarma

00:43:28 --> 00:43:30

and zohod and seriousness because I think he

00:43:30 --> 00:43:31

spoiled me.

00:43:31 --> 00:43:32

So

00:43:32 --> 00:43:34

for for me, he was like

00:43:35 --> 00:43:37

until, you know, like I said, in that

00:43:37 --> 00:43:38

piece that I for me, he was just

00:43:38 --> 00:43:41

a loving father. Even to the last moment,

00:43:42 --> 00:43:43

every day, have you eaten?

00:43:44 --> 00:43:46

He is on his you know, these last

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

2, 3 days to the point that the

00:43:47 --> 00:43:50

last conversation I had with him was, have

00:43:50 --> 00:43:52

you eaten? He was this was a Friday.

00:43:52 --> 00:43:54

Saturday, he had that stroke, and then he

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

was in that unconscious state for a good

00:43:55 --> 00:43:57

10 days. On the Friday, I was going

00:43:57 --> 00:43:59

to London. I had some programs, some teaching

00:43:59 --> 00:44:01

and lecturing in London. So but I didn't

00:44:01 --> 00:44:03

want to tell him I'm going to London,

00:44:03 --> 00:44:05

but I I met him and at 4

00:44:05 --> 00:44:06

o'clock, and I said I'm gonna go now.

00:44:06 --> 00:44:07

I'll come back. He said, I'll come back,

00:44:07 --> 00:44:08

inshallah.

00:44:09 --> 00:44:10

Have you eaten today?

00:44:10 --> 00:44:11

There's some soup in the kitchen. Tell your

00:44:11 --> 00:44:13

mom that my mother came downstairs, and he

00:44:13 --> 00:44:15

said, give him soup. Give him soup. I

00:44:15 --> 00:44:17

said, no. No. I'm fine. I said, no.

00:44:17 --> 00:44:17

Give him soup.

00:44:18 --> 00:44:20

Sometimes he would tell me about 10 times.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:22

Eat. Eat. Eat. Eat. My mother used to

00:44:22 --> 00:44:24

say, just keep on talking about it. Give

00:44:24 --> 00:44:25

him food. Give him food. And this was

00:44:25 --> 00:44:26

how he was with others as well. My

00:44:26 --> 00:44:27

other brothers and

00:44:28 --> 00:44:30

sisters would come. Grandchildren would say the same

00:44:30 --> 00:44:33

thing as well. Every single 1, he would

00:44:33 --> 00:44:35

call them, are you ill? Are you sick?

00:44:35 --> 00:44:37

If he finds out, oh, my, you know,

00:44:37 --> 00:44:40

his grandson or granddaughter, his sisters my my

00:44:40 --> 00:44:43

sisters, meaning his daughter's son or his daughter's

00:44:43 --> 00:44:45

daughters, etcetera, someone's not well, he picks the

00:44:45 --> 00:44:46

phone, call

00:44:46 --> 00:44:48

them, how are you? Is your flu okay?

00:44:48 --> 00:44:50

Have you taken medicine? Despite all of that,

00:44:50 --> 00:44:52

everyone in the family is asking about that.

00:44:52 --> 00:44:55

So he was very, very, very caring. He

00:44:55 --> 00:44:57

would give money, he would give hidayah. Like,

00:44:57 --> 00:44:59

to me, every you know, subhanAllah,

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

I was just telling the students as well

00:45:02 --> 00:45:04

that every few weeks he would just take

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

20 pound out here.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

I said, why? He said, just don't ask

00:45:07 --> 00:45:09

why, don't ask why. Leja. Leja. In Gujarat,

00:45:09 --> 00:45:11

he would say, just take it. Don't ask.

00:45:12 --> 00:45:13

He he he said he said, you should

00:45:14 --> 00:45:15

sometime, a few few months ago, he gave

00:45:15 --> 00:45:16

me £100.

00:45:17 --> 00:45:18

And I said, why? He said, you don't

00:45:18 --> 00:45:19

need to ask these too many questions. Don't

00:45:19 --> 00:45:21

ask too many questions. It's just

00:45:21 --> 00:45:23

just put it in your pocket and go.

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

And and he would give that to others

00:45:25 --> 00:45:26

as well.

00:45:26 --> 00:45:28

You know, I this is the 1st year

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

which, you know, III kind of feel it's

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

udhiya is coming

00:45:32 --> 00:45:34

every year until I am a grown up,

00:45:34 --> 00:45:36

you know, in my forties, and I've got

00:45:36 --> 00:45:36

children.

00:45:37 --> 00:45:39

Until last year, I never had to worry

00:45:39 --> 00:45:40

when I was doing my udhiyah, qurbani.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:42

SubhanAllah.

00:45:43 --> 00:45:45

2, 3 weeks before my father would call

00:45:45 --> 00:45:47

me, he'd call me if I'm not there.

00:45:48 --> 00:45:50

I'm calling you. Why? Because he's written writing

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

everything down. He's very punctual with everything. He's

00:45:52 --> 00:45:55

very particular. He calls me, come home quickly,

00:45:55 --> 00:45:58

okay, doing qurbani, 1 in Malawi, 1 in

00:45:58 --> 00:46:00

India, so I'm doing your share, shall I

00:46:00 --> 00:46:01

do your share? Make sure you do your

00:46:01 --> 00:46:02

intention.

00:46:02 --> 00:46:04

So 1 share is going to be £15.

00:46:04 --> 00:46:06

He said, don't worry about money, money, whenever

00:46:06 --> 00:46:07

and he never used to take money as

00:46:07 --> 00:46:09

well. He said, just make the intention so

00:46:09 --> 00:46:10

the qurbani is done.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:12

Now this is the 1st year I have

00:46:12 --> 00:46:13

to actually think about, you know, I need

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

to do qurmani,

00:46:14 --> 00:46:15

subhanAllah.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:17

It's things like that, you know, with with

00:46:17 --> 00:46:21

the children, about their well-being, their money.

00:46:21 --> 00:46:23

Until he was 88 years of age,

00:46:24 --> 00:46:26

he was treating them as his children,

00:46:26 --> 00:46:28

young children who are in their forties

00:46:29 --> 00:46:30

and fifties and sixties.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

Perhaps the regret I have that you are

00:46:35 --> 00:46:38

not able to meet such a great person,

00:46:38 --> 00:46:40

but it is hoped that discussing their life

00:46:40 --> 00:46:43

would bring some of these qualities in us.

00:46:43 --> 00:46:45

Truly, you are fortunate to have such an

00:46:45 --> 00:46:46

amazing father.

00:46:48 --> 00:46:48

Allah

00:46:49 --> 00:46:51

We do request your special dua, and we

00:46:51 --> 00:46:54

are grateful for taking out your time and

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

speaking about your home father, Rahimahullah.

00:46:59 --> 00:47:01

For giving us opportunity, and may Allah

00:47:01 --> 00:47:03

accept your khidmat and the efforts and.

00:47:04 --> 00:47:05

I've been hearing about it for many, many

00:47:05 --> 00:47:07

years and then you guys are doing, mashaAllah,

00:47:07 --> 00:47:09

wonderful work. May Allah accept all of your

00:47:09 --> 00:47:10

work.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:17

Adam,

00:47:17 --> 00:47:19

of the Sahib was speaking about his father,

00:47:20 --> 00:47:22

Mawlana Adam Saab, and and I suppose

00:47:22 --> 00:47:25

there's so much to discuss. May Allah

00:47:25 --> 00:47:27

bless us with the qualities

00:47:27 --> 00:47:29

of those pious people,

00:47:29 --> 00:47:31

in the words of Mufti Takke.

00:47:33 --> 00:47:34

He was

00:47:35 --> 00:47:35

a symbolic

00:47:36 --> 00:47:36

individual

00:47:37 --> 00:47:39

of the legacy of the Darul Islam Diovan.

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