Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari – Tribute to Hadhrat Mawlana Adam Sahib 1937-2024
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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
have seen
the pictures of 1 of their olamas that
had passed away
where many thousands of people had gathered for
his janaza.
And that was indicative
of the great personality
he was
and the silent yet dedicated
consistent
worker
for the sake of the deen of Allah
And that individual was Hazrat Mufti Adam Saab,
rahimahullah,
of the United Kingdom.
We profile him and we speak about him
this evening. We have on the line with
us Mufti Saab Moran Hassan, Mufti Mohammed.
Of this help, we are appreciative of your
time this evening to speak about your father.
It's not a easy task, but yet,
reading your post on your father, I'm sure
there's so much for us to learn. But
let let's go through our format first. Normally,
when we do the program, we have a
bit of a brief family background.
Can Muftisa perhaps tell us in terms of
the family background that you'll come from, a
bit of history on death of Tisa?
Gee, my respected father,
Hazrat Moranah Adam Sahib
Rahimahullah Ta'ala.
It's very,
you know, difficult to now say Rahimahullah after
his name. You know, all our life we've
been saying, may Allah give him a long
life, but
now,
he passed away 2 months
ago, over 2 months ago, just before Ramadan,
3 days with Ramadan, on 26th Sha'aban.
He was actually he was born on the
26th of Sha'aban,
and he passed away on the 26th of
Sha'aban,
exactly on the same date.
And, Islamically, he was 89 years of age.
So from a
yeah. 89 years. And Gregorian, he was 86.
So,
26 of Sha'aban, he passed away.
May Allah have mercy on his soul.
He was,
Subhanallah. Yes. We will talk about, the other
aspects,
between
you've asked about the family background.
He he has been in England for many,
many years, nearly 5 decades, and the family
that he came from, he's originally from India.
He was born in India, in Manikpur,
which is in Gujarat in India,
and
he
he grew up in India.
He studied there. So his his he didn't
come from a very scholarly family or anything
like that. My grandfather,
his father wasn't an Alim or anything like
that. He had 1 brother. He passed away
a few years ago.
He was a half of the Quran, but
that's about it.
There was nobody else in the family who
was scholarly or anything like that. His mother
his mother passed away when he was very
young, about 11 years of age.
So he lived most of his life from
11 years of age without a mother.
So,
he he came, he was born in India.
And,
so the family wasn't very scholarly or anything
like that. Even the, you know, the uncles
and the aunts and the extended family, there
were no scholars or anything like that. My
father himself from a young age had this
love for studying and memorizing the Quran and
going to study, and on his own accord
without his father saying anything,
or pressurizing him into studying, he went to
study.
And then
he he married my mother, and after that,
you know, alhamdulillah, in the after his marriage,
the rest of the family, he instilled
Islamic scholarship and things like that within them.
So all the,
children, all my siblings, brothers, sisters, everybody studied,
and everybody's a graduate scholar, and or a
Hafid, and and the grandchildren and everybody.
So, masha'Allah, he was like the father figure
for our whole khanda and our whole family,
as a pillar of the family. Not not
just for the community
of Lester here in the UK, but
our family as well. Everybody just,
referred to him, he was the pillar in
the family.
So, Muslinda, you make make Yeah.
Carry on. Carry on, Muslinda.
Oh, no. No. It's fine. You go ahead.
So so you make mention of his scholarly
pursuits,
from a young age. Where would that start,
and where would that,
culminate
in?
Yeah. So he first,
studied
basic,
Islamic knowledge in
his hometown,
his village,
which is Manipur in Gujarat in India.
Then he went to study,
in,
Rander,
So,
which is also Gujarat Amadrassa in Rander, which,
Jamir al Shafi'a studied some Islamic studies there.
And also he did some hibd of Quran
in in the Jamia Islamia Talimuddin in Gabil,
which is also in Gujarat.
He did Hebbs there, and then he studied
in he did Hebbs in Dabel first, the
Madras in Dabel, then he went to Jannah
Eshlofia and Randir, and he studied Aliyah
Desnidami
to to, you know, like the 5th, 6th
year he studied there.
And then after that,
he went
to study in the famous Darul Ullum Dubind,
and to complete his Taras Nizami,
in 13/78
Hijri. So, you know, he he and he
graduated from there in from Gregorian 1961.
He graduated
from Dar al Umdobind.
So he studied in Dar al Dubind. The
last 2, 3 years, of his alimiyyah, he
studied in Dar al Dubind. And, you know,
people like Mawlana Arshad Madani, may Allah protect
him, the son of Shahid Islam, Mawlana Hossein
al Haramun, he
he he was also studying at the same
time, I think my father said he was
a year
ahead of my father. My father just missed
out on studying by Sheikh Hassan Wallanahu Hussain
Ahmadine He
saw him, but,
he wasn't teaching, Sahil Bukhari that time. So,
when when he went into Dua, because when
my father, when Sheikh al Islam, was
teaching Sahil Bukhari, the Sheikh al Hadid of
Daulam Dovin,
My father was on the second to last
year, and when he reached the Bukhari,
shakhul Islam, rahimuallahu
alaihi wa sallam alhamdulillah had passed away. So
he did see him, he met him, and
would attend his some, you know, bayans, etcetera,
but he didn't study Sahih al Bukhari by
him.
But he studied by some great, great olema,
like people like Qari Muhammad Tayyib Sabrahinullah,
who was the principal of Darul Umdeuband.
He studied Muzdaima Malik by him, then he
studied his Sahil Bukhari was by,
Sheikh Fakhruddin
Now,
you know, his senate was so high, and
this is why in the recent times, a
lot of people, even some Arab scholars used
to come just to take Ijaz of Halit
from him because he his
senate was so high that between him and
Sheikh ul Hind Mullana Mahmoud al Hassan,
Dubindirah Molla, there's only 1 person because Sheikh
Uhruddin was a student of
Sheikh Mahmoud al Hassan, Mullana Mahmoud al Hassan,
Sheikh Hul Hint.
So he studied by him, Sheikh Walad Ibrahim
Bal Yawi
He also saw and met people like Muti
Shafir, rahimullah, who used to who came to
Darla of Durban, Sheikh Zikr, rahimullah.
So many, many great scholars who who are
the, you know, the great Akabir of of
Dylbent. He studied by them.
In so he studied in Dyledom Dylbent, and
he graduated, like I said, in 19,
61 in Darumb, Delban.
Muftisham after that, from 1961,
some of the services and the Khidmat
that is, like,
would have offered to the Ummah in the
different places where he had served.
Yeah. So after
graduating,
from Darul Darband,
he
became a teacher
at the Dabel Madrasa, Ustad,
in the Jamia Islamiyah Talimuddin
in the
which is also considered like in in India,
probably the 3rd
most prestigious
madrasah. After Darulun Dubin, you have Madahirul
Sarampur.
And then probably the third 1 is the
Jamia Islamiyah in Dabel, which is in Gujarat.
Al Aminza, it's a massive
institute and great Ulema taught there as well.
People like, you know,
Some of these great, great people, they went
and taught in in the Bel Mudrasah. So
my father became Ustaz there.
As far as I know, in 13/84
Hijri, which I don't know exactly Gregorian what
it is, but in in Hijri Hijri, I've
written here 1384,
he became a Ustadh,
and,
which was probably, you know, mid maybe around
1965
or something like that, 64, 65, around that
time.
And he taught there,
for a few years. He was very close
to,
the principal
who was known as Moran al Saeed Ahmad
Buzuruk
You know, he was a principal of the
famous Buzruk family. Even now, I think his
grandson is the principal.
So my father was very close to him,
and he said to to my father that
you need to stay here, and you need
to,
teach here. So he he taught there. He
taught, you know, in the beginning, he was
a teacher of Farsi. My father was very
proficient,
expert of Persian, Farsi language. He taught books
like Golestar, Bosta, etcetera,
but also some other books like Nurul Anwar
and Tarjuma of Quran, etcetera. There was there's
1, you know, many, many great ulama studied
by him at that time, in the bill
to the point that,
when he passed before he passed away, my
father was an Indian. I'll talk about, you
know, many before at the end, inshallah.
But he he went to India, and, this
was after a good 15, 20 years. And
he wasn't in a good health state. He
went there, and all the they they gave,
you know, like, that that day off, you
know, for a few hours to all the
students and teachers. And all the students and
teachers came out and to see my father.
And because the senior teachers are his students,
you know, people who teach and hadith books,
are actually
those who studied by my father when he
was teaching there in those days.
People like Mufti Ismail Kachol, we taught at
the same time our father was teaching in
in in Dabel.
There's this 1 great Moranah Sahib here in
the UK, Moranah Raouf Saab Rajpuri. He lives
in, Batli.
He he recently wrote a small article as
well, and he said that,
I I saw him first in 1969
when
I enrolled in the, Naber Madrasah,
and I studied nur and war by Hazrat
Mullah Adam Sabrahima.
And he also says that he was very
close to the principal, Mullah Sayin al Ghuzroog.
And Mullah Sayin al Ghuzroog used to, you
know, involve my father in all the, you
know, preparation for
for programs, for, you know, announcements, etcetera. And,
and he used to always be involved with
the principal. So he he taught there,
for a few for approximately about 5 years,
I think.
And then what happened after that was that
whilst he was there,
he was,
invited by,
from your end, people in Malawi,
which is next to South Africa, masha'Allah. Yes.
Yes.
The Muslims in Malawi invited him, so as
an imam. Like, he was in 2 minds,
because he had married and then he was
teaching there. But this invite came so he
spoke to his teachers and then the principal
of Rasool, and they said, look, you know,
it's probably good. Go there. There there's a
need there because the Muslims said said there
that there's no alim here.
We really need somebody to come. So
then he migrated,
with my mother, and he had 2 my
elder 2 brothers at that time, 2 of
them, you know, so there's a family of
4, and they he moved to Malawi.
He was in Limbe for a while, and
then he went in Mangochi. And and he's
and people really, you know, remember him fondly
there. For about 7 years, he stayed in
Malawi.
He was an imam. He established a madrasa,
a Quran school.
Many you know, there's there's ulama there who's
who did habs by my father. There's Maulana
Ahmed there who's 1 of the many imams
in Malawi. He was a student of my
father. He was a he established the first
basic, you know, Maktab in madrasah,
and as an imam in in in Malawi.
So in Limbe and then in Mangoshi. I
wasn't born because I I am the youngest
in the family, family, so, I wasn't there
at that time. But,
he was there for about a good 7
years.
And then after that, whilst he was there,
he was invited
by the Muslims of UK because some of
the Muslims were moving from Malawi to to
England,
in London and other places, but many of
them had come to the city of Leicester.
So when they came here, they because of
the connection with my father in Malawi, they
said to my father that, you know, we
would like you to move here. So then
after that, in 1975,
the whole family and by this time, I
had 2 other siblings, 2 sisters now, who
are both born in Malawi. So the 2
brothers, my eldest brother is Maulana Ahmedali.
Second brother is Maulana Imran who is the
imam here.
And then the 2 sisters,
they are both alimas as well, and they
teach here and the madrasas, etcetera.
And so they all moved in 19
75,
to Leicester.
And then I was born actually in Leicester
after after they came. So,
he first became an imam in a masjid
called Masjid Nur in Lestrade, for about
maybe a year or so and teaching some
haves, etcetera. But then in another area, the
Muslims there were there from were there who
were residing there were mainly from Malawi. So
they called and they said, look, we need
to establish
another Masjid here. You know, this area needs
a Masjid. So I think around in 1976,
the Jami masjid
was established.
Since then, he became an imam in Jami
masjid, and he connected himself to Jam Al
Masjid from 1976
till he passed away in 2024.
48 years.
Same Masjid,
48 years connected,
and this is why the whole, you know,
the area, the whole city, people have grown
up and only known as 1 person. You
know, when he was in his in the
late seventies, eighties, people used to know him
know him as
Mo Salbaden. They used to call him Mo
Salbaden, Mo Salbaden. There was only 1 Mo
Salbaden, you know. He, and he had a
lot of awe and raug as well. Like,
he, you know, a lot of respect and
awe on the people and,
because he he he used to keep himself
to himself. He never used to get involved
in politics or anything like that. Very less
social interaction. As an imam, he did his
social interaction in the community, of course. But
on a personal level, he bought a house
because when he moved to the Masjid across
opposite the Masjid, literally, you walk from the
house and you get to the Masjid door
to the house door in 30 seconds.
That was the house he bought in 1976,
for a mere £4, 000 at that time.
People who live there, they are My mother
is
still living there, just across the Masjid.
And he's still living there. My mother is
still living there, just across the Masjid.
And he stayed and his life was basically
from the house to the Masjid, Masjid to
the house. 5 times salah, he used to
be the imam, he used to go, leave
the salah, give a dars. He started doing
tafsir of the Quran. He in about 20
years, he did 1 dars of the Quran.
He used to have daras every single day,
Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, all in Urdu, because my
father never used to give any daras in
English.
He used to give daras a hadith, daras
Quran, and then Tazkiya Islahi Majlis started Friday
Thursday Friday night, you know, the night between
Thursday Friday.
Duro Sharif,
then he started established a small Muqtab in
the seventies.
So thousands upon thousands of boys and girls,
people who have become like grandparents now. They
all came. That's why they all flocked to
the janazah. There there was queues here because
there are people in their fifties sixties who
grew up studying at the Maktah in the
seventies. There are people who've got, you know,
small small grandchildren now. They were all crying.
They said, we only know 1 mala Adam,
mala sabadam, mala madam. And then afterwards, people
started calling him Hazrat mala madam.
Because they all grew up here. Men, women,
there was a boys. My mother used to
take care of the girls' sister section, Maktab,
and the boys' section. My father used to
take care Heavs classes, Maktab. And then around
2, 000,
we he established a Darulum, which is not
a boarding 1. It's just a full time
Darulum. That's nirami, which is until today, I
teach the razua,
and for 22 years, he's,
he told Sahir Bukhari in in in the
Darulum
and the Masjid,
and the Maktab, and then we've he you
know, under him. Then afterwards, as he grow
grow older now, we've got a boys' school,
we've got a girls' school, and these these
are all run by
other people, like my, you know, girls that
are alone, boys that are alone. My sisters
run it, or my my brothers run it,
or other people are all involved. But the
whole community got attached to him because of
48 years of service
in 1 city.
And he 1 of the yeah. We'll talk
about his qualities anyway. But as an imam,
he was very respected,
and I think the main reason was that
he kept himself to himself from the Masjid
to the house. In those 48 years, I
don't think he went to the city center,
town center once in the city of Leicester.
Should have a look.
He's not been to the downtown or the
city center.
No. He never drew drove the car, nothing.
Just he had a but we'll talk about
his qualities, about his zuhl, etcetera, so let's
leave it to that. But,
this is a he did in the Masjid
Maktab Madrasah.
Thousands of students have graduated as the qafada
of the Quran, and many 100
graduated as alim. But other than that, you
know, the grassroots
teaching, studying, and then his his mawahid, his
nasihah, his Jumu'a talks, his bayan, Islahur Mo'asharah,
he used to do a lot of that.
And then he was also invited.
Like, every 2, 3 weeks, he would be
invited to other cities to give in the
19 in the eighties nineties. In the recent
times, it became less because now a lot
of people started speaking English.
So, you know, it was a bit less.
But in those days, in the seventies, eighties,
it was only Urdu Bayan.
So different cities was invited, and not just
different cities, even different countries. And I don't
know if you know, but he was actually
invited once to South Africa,
and he did a 1 month or a
2 month tour of South Africa, good 20,
25 years ago, and he gave some talks
all over Johannesburg, and I don't know what
else. I didn't go with him, but,
whilst he was in Leicester, he was invited,
and he gave many talks there.
I I'm not aware of that, but I
will try and see if there are people
and if there are some recordings available of
that. Truly respected listeners, we are speaking to
Mufti Mohammed ibn Adam,
who's speaking about his father, mother
Adam Saab was the
imam in Leicester. I mean, when we say
imam,
imam in in in a metaphorical sense because
he was the imam, he was the Ustad
of Hadid, he was the mufassir,
He was the counselor,
and he was somebody, Allahu Akbar, for 48
years.
Muftisah, before we go into the other questions
that we would like to discuss, is there
anything that you would like to share regarding
his khitmat and his services?
I think I've covered most of them, in
terms of his tafsir of the Quran, his,
his teaching, his imai. And, you know, he
he did a lot of work on. So,
yeah, just 1 point. He was in those
days, he was very
energetic, very fiery as a speaker.
But 1 1 of the things was he
was very, very straightforward.
I think some of the,
ways that he used that time, probably
in this very sensitive time, people have become
very sensitive. It's probably difficult.
I was I was just talking to 1
Mullah Nasr today, before I came here. We
I was having tea with him, and we
were talking about my father.
And I said the same thing to him.
I said, you know, some of the things
that he used to say and the way
he used to do Dawah,
today people would not be able to cope
with that. The people are are very sensitive.
And, of course, we've tailored our Dawah slightly
according to the times we have to change.
But he was very open, very and he
would always say,
Say the truth even if it's sour. I
I don't care. And and, you know, he
was very because he
he
he, you know, he was able to say
the Kalimutul Haqq, the truth, because he had
no, you know,
personal connection. And this is why as an
Imam,
he's this quality that
these 2 qualities as an Imam,
1 I mentioned that he used to be
very, very,
you know, to himself,
no social life. He never used to go
to people's house for dawas, for tea, for
gum shop, you know, like, just gossip. None
of that. So he he was very, very,
like, to himself, and that's why he had
a lot of respect.
And also number 2,
he was very punctual.
At the beginning he was only iman, and
then we had the second and the third
iman. But for good 15, 20 years, all
5 prayers himself leading.
Hardly ever he would be delayed even a
minute.
And even after when other imams came, 1
of his other qualities, which people say that
until he became ill towards the end of
his life, last 2, 3 years of his
life, we don't remember ever, maybe once or
twice, his mister Takbirat Tareema in the Masjid
for the 45 year 45 years.
Never. Maybe once or twice,
you know, he must have missed it or
something happened to the alarm clock for the
Fajr, but he would sleep on the exact
time, His alarm clock would be there 45
minutes before Fajr. He is there every salah.
There's no Takbirat Khlima in the Masjid that
he's missed. Maybe 2 or 3 in 45
years.
People don't remember the blessing.
And the way he was doing also
I I've seen from your post, and I
and III was, like, amazed
was his Mahmulaha.
Yeah.
Allah so consistent.
1 is the tabbirat the harimah you make
mention of, but the other Ma'mulahat that he
used to do so consistent.
And not only that, keeping a note of
ensuring
that he's completed his mamurad by literally
ticking it off in a book that he
had.
Yes. Yes. That's right. I I shared the
picture as well on social media.
SubhanAllah. I mean, I used to see we
used to see him, our family. We used
to see him, doing this, but I didn't
know or we some of us didn't know
exactly how much he was writing. That's 1
book that I shared. That's just 1 of
maybe 20, 30 books.
There's not only 1 book. This was this
book that I shared the picture of with
all the tics, that was the last book,
of his life. So he was 1 of
his main qualities was Ibadah.
He was absolutely,
you know,
like
ultimate level of worship of Allah, like the
next level.
Some of the there was 1 Turkish Arab,
Syrian scholar living in Turkey,
He was mentioning to my brother who showed
him this.
He said this kind of book, this reminds
of of the Salaf,
because this was done in the Salaf's time.
This is mind boggling, he was saying.
So he or his mom I since I
remember as a child,
the only thing I can remember is him
reading Quran after Quran after Quran at home,
because he never used to work anything else.
So he his life was basically Masjid madrasah.
He had time in those days we never
had a Darulun as well, because Darulun, the
Bukhari, and all of that started around 2,
002, 2001.
So from 1980 till about 20 years, he
would
lead the 5 time prayers, and then in
the evening was Maktab. Maktab, he was the
principal of the Maktab, behaves class, etcetera. He
would manage everything. He would teach a bit,
but manage.
All day, what does he do? He's not
taking another job or anything like that. And
that's why we're gonna talk about his Zuhad,
but he was a very Zahid. He he
had no interest in the dunya. But so
what would he do from morning till 5
PM, Maktab time? All day, he's got his
whole ma'mulat,
5 Jews, azza of the Quran. Yeah. 2,
000 salawat under the prophet
a 100, 2, 000 times reading this, this
Istighfar,
this dua,
Sayyidul Istighfar,
this dua, that dua it's Munajat Makhboul.
Everything he's got written in there,
and everything, every day after his reading. Even
at home, he wouldn't talk to us too
much. He would talk with the family. I
remember he used to be in his room
upstairs. He had a small, like, a Ibadah
place.
He used to sit there. His books are
there. He would do mutala there. All his
personal books as well, which he do mutala.
He's got all, you know, notes written on
it, and he had this chair there, and
he would have Musallah there. We used to
go there, he used to say, salaam alaykum,
I'll talk to you for 5 minutes, and
then he would say, okay, I need I
need to carry on doing your bad *,
salaam alaykum.
And that's it. We used to and he
would come downstairs, sit a bit, eating time
with the family, and then back upstairs in
his room, back to Ibadah.
And his dua as well. He would engage
in like half an hour dua at nighttime,
you know, Surat Al Waqiya, Surat Al Mulk,
Surat Kabarak,
Yasi, all the Ma'mulat
continuously,
and he would take everything and keep a
record for
years on end. And that last book we
were seeing because he had a stroke,
a year before he passed away.
So just before this Ramadan, you know, he
passed away on the 22th of Sharban. So
the Ramadan before,
a cup I think a month or before
the previous Ramadan, that's when he had a
stroke.
Before that, he was ill a bit, but
he was okay. He was struggling to walk.
He had a problem in his knees. He
would sit sometimes in the wheelchair, but slowly
stall and walk with the stick, etcetera. He
was he became quite weak, but he was
okay. Then he had that stroke. So that
book, we looked at it,
all the tics were there until that 1
year ago. The last day, the day he
had stroke, the day before that, the ticks
were there. Then we took him to the
hospital. He stayed in the hospital for 2
weeks and then another hospital for another 3,
4 weeks. Then he came home, and then
he was just bedridden.
The hospital bed came. So and then after
that, he didn't go upstairs for a year.
He was downstairs. We had carols coming because
he couldn't stand or anything for the whole
year. So then those tics stopped because he
couldn't do that type of Ibad after that.
Subhanallah.
It gives us the hadith of Rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam wherein he mentions
that when a person is ill, then Allah
rewards them for the consistent
they would make at the time when they
had good health. And, inshallah, Allah
would perpetuate
the rewards of Hazrat Muhanna.
Some of his other
or some of his other,
attributes or qualities that you would like to
share with us, mister?
Yeah. In terms of qualities,
there's a lot to say and times that
go short. And this is, I think, the
main area, I mean, of his life. I
mean, we've already talked about the Ibada, which
is kind of, you know, the the sifat
and the qualities. And,
but I hopefully, inshallah, I'm thinking 1 day
if I get a bit of time, I
want to write a small book about him,
inshallah. I mean, that's the least I can
do.
And in there, the main I don't want
to write a book like I was telling
the students today that not like a biography
in terms of, you know, that this maybe
at the beginning, it could be a short
10 pages biography, you know, where he studied
and who his teachers were and all. But
the main focus is I want to divide
it into chapters in terms of his qualities.
Because each quality, subhanAllah, there's a lot of
examples of them.
So for example, I briefly hinted towards his
Zuhad.
His Zuhad Ali Duniya, like, you know, abstinence
from Duniya, having no interest in the Ma'al
and the wealth of the Duniya and the
glitters of Duniya. This was ultimate level. Like
I said, he never went to the city
centre, he never bought
the the small house, he just wanted to
live there. Everyone moved to different places. He
lived there. He wasn't interested in, you know,
different different clothes and never had a TV
at home. Never you he never used a
smartphone in his life. Never.
He didn't he never want we used to
towards the end of his life, we used
to go by him and show him some
things on the Internet, maybe, you know, like
what's happening in Gaza, for example. He was
quite interested, know, towards the end of his
life, every day asking what's the latest, what's
the latest in Palestine, what's the latest, so
we used to tell him. There was some
Urdu news channel, so we used to put
it on YouTube for him, but he never
knew what a smartphone was. He didn't know
what Internet was. He never used to be
on the Internet.
Just about had a small Nokia phone to
phone some people.
No TV, no technology.
He was in a different
dunya.
He he he didn't he didn't know what
this dunya
the technological dunya is.
So he was very Zahid and,
even like money wise, just the basic, he
never asked for a pay rise ever in
his life
as an imam or anything.
Just
he he was peaceful.
You know, the the things that he had
less money, income, but I've not seen anybody
as peaceful.
People are struggling out there, working, making money,
tension, pressure. He
leads Fajr Salah, Ishraq Kawabeen, comes home in
a nice warm house, and the house is
never cold.
As much
I've never seen any house as warm as
his house. We are worried about our electricity,
gas bills. His house is warm 247, and
he has less income than everybody.
You know? Afternoon time, my mother's making him
nice lunch, you know, fresh
chapatis, rotis. He's eating,
you know, fresh food.
He's like his food, whatever chapati or rice,
tea time, there's tea, evening food. It's a
very peaceful life, but very less money. Because
I think the reason is because he never
wasted his money
in any extra things. Like, we have mobile
phones, and he had a car,
some car bills, and then, TV or this
you know, all these things. So
there was no need. He never used to
go to the town center. He doesn't need
to buy good, good shoes and things like
that, just basic,
you know,
clothes. So very peaceful life. He was very
even when he left this world, he didn't
leave much behind. Not much he never had,
I'm going to invest my money in here
or invest my money in there and none
no. No. Nothing
like that. So very
za'id. That was 1 of his qualities.
The other is Istakamah.
Like, I already hinted that as well, the
Istaqamah, his steadfastness,
like 48 years in 1 place. I don't
think there's an example
in the UK of an imam being connected
to 1 masjid, which is not his own,
you know, because there is like, he's being
paid. There's there's a
48 years,
and nobody could ever lift a finger towards
anything ever in those 48 years. And this
is something that people like, you know, we
can learn, that
there are certain things which are permissible, and
then there are certain things which are, you
know,
higher level. He I I've said this as
well many times that
he always stayed 2, 3 degrees above what
was permissible. So nobody could raise a finger.
There could be something which is allowed, but
maybe slightly disliked, or there's Iftalaf, or there's,
you know, difference of opinion, or maybe better
to avoid. Of course, you know, we respect
all these difference of opinions. But he stayed
above that that even the most craziest and
the most harsh
critic and we have a lot of those,
I know. I know there's a lot of
those in these days, which is a side
point in South Africa. It's not too early.
South Africa is, mashaAllah, bless.
But,
even they they could not
point
a finger.
He but the point and the great thing
was that he never
forced it. You know, this is the other
side. Like, for example I'll give you an
example,
photography pictures,
digital pictures.
Now digital pictures, I mean, many say they're
not allowed, etcetera. But many the Arab scholars
say it's allowed.
Opinion is as well, in terms of digital
photography as a picture, he says, permitted. But,
yes, he also says that in the masajid
and selfies and all of that shouldn't be
done because it's disrespectful, and don't be too
obsessed with the culture of it.
So but he himself never ever allowed anyone
to take his picture. That's why they couldn't
find any pictures of him anywhere.
But
he never forced it despite being such, you
know, a connected person to Darul Durbin. You
know, when he passed away, Muftidaq Uthmani,
who's my teacher, he sent me a voice
note, then I spoke to him on the
phone as well. And the 2 minutes that
he said, he said that,
Hazrat Mawlana
Adam
was actually
in in this time, not just in the
West, but in the world, he was somebody
who who, in his words in Urdu, somebody
who was a representative
of the Aqaba of Durban.
So who sort of symbol he symbolized them.
This is what Musa al Qutmani said. I've
got the clip on on WhatsApp in Urdu.
He said he symbolized he was in his
words, he said,
and it's a it's a great loss.
But the amazing point is that despite him,
he had that balance as well. He would
never
criticize or attack anyone for taking another opinion.
Okay? To the point that I myself I
have my pictures online. He never once
ever told me
as a father, as a teacher, that look,
this is haram. No. For me, for himself,
not allowed.
But he knew I was on YouTube.
You know, sometimes I'm lazy to show him
as well that look, you're his son's he's
got some lectures on YouTube. He would smile.
Okay.
You're a scholar. You know. I'm not going
to force my opinion on you. This was
an amazing balance despite being
very precautious and and, you know,
taqwa.
You know, also, like, for example, in our
Darulun, we when we started teaching, he was
very, very particular about Urdu, and he was
really emphasizing Urdu. I remember when he went
to South Africa, he came back and he
used to say that and that's 1 of
the things he said in South Africa back
in the eighties, that you guys are going
to get too distant away from the Akabir
because your
your your Urdu, your is disappearing. He said
that to the ulema in the ulema bayazi.
He used to get he used to get
very, very passionate that don't disconnect yourself from
the arkagir. Bring Urdu back into your, Madaris,
etcetera. I think he spoke about that a
lot in South Africa. So he used to
say the same things here. When we started
Dal Rum, everything that's in the army is
in Urdu because in England, you know, it's
connected to the Madaris of India, Pakistan.
When I started teaching, I started teaching English,
not just the basic books, but even like
Hidayah and and even the high level books
of Urdu. It came as a shock to
him,
but not never in 1 day. He just
he found out that I'm teaching in English.
He he gave me some hints that, you
know, Urdu should be there and his son,
but never ever once he told me that
don't teach in English in the same. He
he let me he let me do it.
And now, alhumdulillah, now we've got a lot
of the graduates, or or majority is now
taught in English.
But this is the balance that despite him
holding
superior or precautious or or kind of opinions,
he was very respectful as well of the
other side of Iftilaaf.
And this is the balance of tafakkur that
he had as well. This comes from the
great Masha'i Haqawi.
So,
yeah. So the the point the istakarma in
terms of being above board,
what was allowed.
This is why nobody could ever, in 48
years of his khidma,
ever lay a finger because he did not
even do something which was
in the community.
Something which he just stayed above. And his
was a great, great, you know,
1 of his karama, I would say.
You know, there was 1 man in Sakhoz,
an imam here in Leicester.
He said after the day he passed away,
the next day,
he said, when I first came as an
imam, I went to him, said, Hazrat, give
me some lasiha.
He said, look,
stay,
stay very, very punctual.
Stay very, very punctual,
very disciplined. You yourself, you'll feel internally.
Nobody can tell you anything why this is
not happening and that's not happening, hasn't imam.
So his istakamah is a massive part of
his life. That's a chapter. Then there's other
chapters. I wrote a small piece on Facebook
recently, last week, I think. Gave a few
example of his adab,
his extreme level of adab
towards sha'ir uddeen,
whether it's the Quran, whether hadith books. I
remember he he he got, you know, he
cautioned me a few times because I had
placed a hadith kitab or an Islamic kitab,
you know, on the sofa, you know, arm.
He he he would not even allow that,
let alone on the sofa cushion, even the
arm of the sofa, the couch.
He his legs, I can never remember him
stretching towards the Qibla. It was very, you
see that even the Makuhad and the Sunan,
he was very punctual on that. Like, you
know, towards the end of his life, when
when when he was eating on his hospital
bed, he could because his he had a
stroke in his left arm, so that couldn't
be used.
So only the right hand. He would still
eat with his 1 hand, right hand. So
we used to bring the water to wash
his hand. So he's washing his right hand,
and then he wants to wash the left
hand. I would tell him, I said, look,
you don't need to wash your left hand
because you're not eating with that. He said,
no. No. No. He I I would, you
know, have sometimes this sort
of argumentative
discussion with him trying to explain to him.
But he said, don't talk too much about.
Okay? You're a
so, you know,
there's too much of that. No. No. I
need to wash both hands.
And, like, Tayam Moonson, I would tell him,
look, just don't tell him about ease. Even
his salah
I tell you this this small incident. This
is before he had a stroke.
The 1 year he had strokes, he was
bedridden. Of course, he was
performing salah on his on his bed. But
before that, for about 4 or 5 years,
he had this really
extreme arthritis
issue. His leg won he had an operation.
His he couldn't walk properly, etcetera. But, honestly,
I've got a video of him.
Him performing salah about 3, 4 years ago,
so much pain and struggle, he would still
not listen to anybody that I'm going to
sit on a chair and pray salah.
He would not listen. He would go into
sujud, even in the masjid, and then struggle
slowly, slowly, put his hand on the ground
and then quickly put his hand on the
chair and then then sit down. It's paining
him, but he would still pray like that,
put himself in so much hardship.
I would tell him, Fatwa, look, dad, you
know,
just sit on the chair and pray now.
Like, you know, he wouldn't. So then I
was in Pakistan about 2 years ago, and
I spoke to
I said, look. You know? If you say
to him, then only then he will listen.
He just doesn't listen. I'll explain the whole
issue to him. So can you please, you
know,
just record a small WhatsApp message so I
can send it? So he goes, yeah. Yeah.
No problem. So then I gave him my
phone, and then he
spoke
2, 3 minutes, he said Hazamal Adhan Salahi
Masha'Allah,
you
know, your son is here, etcetera. And then
he said, look, from what he's explained to
me, you can't do this, you can't do
that. So Insha'Allah, you know, Allah
Allah will,
loves he read the hadith in Allah.
So Allah loves that you take his ruksa
as well. So even that is part of
Abdiya that you you say to Allah that
I am, you know,
I'm a weak slave. I'm taking your rugsa,
and inshallah that will also be Allah accepted.
And I sent that WhatsApp to my brother
and he made him listen to him, and
that day in his diary he wrote, today,
Allah Ma sheikh Musheikh al Islam Takht Usmani's
message came from today. Alhamdulillah, I can now
sit on the chair and pray.
So until then, he wouldn't.
So he's he's, yeah, his istakarma and things
like that, were very, very he's so, yeah,
I was talking about his adab. You know,
his even in his
hospital bed at night, make sure it's not
towards a cribla. My feet is not towards
a cribla.
Adan time
as soon as Adan starts in the masjid,
we could hear it on the receiver at
home. There was no
question of him talking to anybody, not even
walking or doing anything. Sit down on the
sofa
attentively,
listen to the azaan, respond to it, pray
the dua, and then do whatever he needs
to do. So he's adab towards all these
towards Qulamah as well.
He used to always say that, look,
respect of Awliya, Allah, if you disrespect Qalamah
and Awliya,
there's a fear of.
He he used to talk about that. Whenever
the masha'aq used to come because we used
to have a lot of ulema. I mean,
I have grew up in my
father's house
from a young age,
only seeing great, great Akagir and Olomar coming
to my father's house.
From a young age, the imam of haram
has come. And, you know, many of them
have passed away, Mawlana used to be Diani,
Mawlana Abdul Hafiz Marki. All these people used
to come, mafirafi'authmani,
tafirafi'authmani.
They used to come, they used to stay
at my father's house in the eighties nineties.
Mullana Asad Madini,
every year he used to come to our
house, at least to see my father for
10 minutes,
and have a cup of tea.
My father when he was in Malawi Hazarjee
Munanainamal
Hassan
he came and stayed at my father's house.
He he actually gave birth to Munanainamal Hassan
as
well. And his shaykh of the Sawwoof before
him was Mawlana Wasiullah, not Masihullah. Wasiullah
Ilahabadi,
who is the yeah, who is the father-in-law
and the shaykh of Mawlana Khobar Zaman. He
stayed in his khanpath for a while, Khalifa
of Muraasaheb Khanhir Rahimullah.
And the Mufti Mahmood Al Hassan Gangui Rahimullah
who passed away in your in your lands,
mashallah.
Mufti Mahmoud Al Hassan stayed at my father's
house here for 3 days.
He stayed there. My father gave last bayah
to him,
the 3rd bayah,
And he stayed at my house, my father's
house. I was I was I remember
17, 15, 16 years of age or something
like that.
He stayed in the French room, and he
used to stay sleep there 3 full days.
So
his respect towards this ulama and a kabir
was was quite immense
as
well.
We've covered a lot of things. We've we've
spoke about,
his his karma. We spoke about his service.
We spoke about his study.
Molana Adamsap is a father. You you've hinted
and you've made mention of quite a bit
already. But just with you and your siblings,
how was Molana Adamsap at home?
I would say
he was very
disciplined, but
extremely loving,
extremely loving,
like next level
loving to the point I will say that
more because I was the youngest,
and I think I was spoiled.
And maybe because of that, I've probably not
had I don't have those qualities or those
kind of istakarma
and zohod and seriousness because I think he
spoiled me.
So
for for me, he was like
until, you know, like I said, in that
piece that I for me, he was just
a loving father. Even to the last moment,
every day, have you eaten?
He is on his you know, these last
2, 3 days to the point that the
last conversation I had with him was, have
you eaten? He was this was a Friday.
Saturday, he had that stroke, and then he
was in that unconscious state for a good
10 days. On the Friday, I was going
to London. I had some programs, some teaching
and lecturing in London. So but I didn't
want to tell him I'm going to London,
but I I met him and at 4
o'clock, and I said I'm gonna go now.
I'll come back. He said, I'll come back,
inshallah.
Have you eaten today?
There's some soup in the kitchen. Tell your
mom that my mother came downstairs, and he
said, give him soup. Give him soup. I
said, no. No. I'm fine. I said, no.
Give him soup.
Sometimes he would tell me about 10 times.
Eat. Eat. Eat. Eat. My mother used to
say, just keep on talking about it. Give
him food. Give him food. And this was
how he was with others as well. My
other brothers and
sisters would come. Grandchildren would say the same
thing as well. Every single 1, he would
call them, are you ill? Are you sick?
If he finds out, oh, my, you know,
his grandson or granddaughter, his sisters my my
sisters, meaning his daughter's son or his daughter's
daughters, etcetera, someone's not well, he picks the
phone, call
them, how are you? Is your flu okay?
Have you taken medicine? Despite all of that,
everyone in the family is asking about that.
So he was very, very, very caring. He
would give money, he would give hidayah. Like,
to me, every you know, subhanAllah,
I was just telling the students as well
that every few weeks he would just take
20 pound out here.
I said, why? He said, just don't ask
why, don't ask why. Leja. Leja. In Gujarat,
he would say, just take it. Don't ask.
He he he said he said, you should
sometime, a few few months ago, he gave
me £100.
And I said, why? He said, you don't
need to ask these too many questions. Don't
ask too many questions. It's just
just put it in your pocket and go.
And and he would give that to others
as well.
You know, I this is the 1st year
which, you know, III kind of feel it's
udhiya is coming
every year until I am a grown up,
you know, in my forties, and I've got
children.
Until last year, I never had to worry
when I was doing my udhiyah, qurbani.
SubhanAllah.
2, 3 weeks before my father would call
me, he'd call me if I'm not there.
I'm calling you. Why? Because he's written writing
everything down. He's very punctual with everything. He's
very particular. He calls me, come home quickly,
okay, doing qurbani, 1 in Malawi, 1 in
India, so I'm doing your share, shall I
do your share? Make sure you do your
intention.
So 1 share is going to be £15.
He said, don't worry about money, money, whenever
and he never used to take money as
well. He said, just make the intention so
the qurbani is done.
Now this is the 1st year I have
to actually think about, you know, I need
to do qurmani,
subhanAllah.
It's things like that, you know, with with
the children, about their well-being, their money.
Until he was 88 years of age,
he was treating them as his children,
young children who are in their forties
and fifties and sixties.
Perhaps the regret I have that you are
not able to meet such a great person,
but it is hoped that discussing their life
would bring some of these qualities in us.
Truly, you are fortunate to have such an
amazing father.
Allah
We do request your special dua, and we
are grateful for taking out your time and
speaking about your home father, Rahimahullah.
For giving us opportunity, and may Allah
accept your khidmat and the efforts and.
I've been hearing about it for many, many
years and then you guys are doing, mashaAllah,
wonderful work. May Allah accept all of your
work.
Adam,
of the Sahib was speaking about his father,
Mawlana Adam Saab, and and I suppose
there's so much to discuss. May Allah
bless us with the qualities
of those pious people,
in the words of Mufti Takke.
He was
a symbolic
individual
of the legacy of the Darul Islam Diovan.