Muhammad West – Why Do We Solve for X

			I was relying on the rajim Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was
Salam ala Sayidina Muhammad in Marathi. He was a big Marine. My beloved brothers and sisters said
Mr. Lai Kamara De La Habra catch up.
		

			Al Hamdulillah mean always and it will begin with a prayer and thanks for Alana shadow Allah, Allah
Allah Allah will testify that isn't worthy of worship besides Allah subhanaw taala and we send our
loving greetings salutations so beloved Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, to his pious and his poor
family to his companions, and all those who follow his sunnah until the end of time. Mel was part of
the blessings to be amongst them. I mean, when hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah, as you know, today, the
material results were released, and we make dua for all those who are successful that they have a
prosperous future for those who didn't do too well. May Allah grant them a second opportunity. And
		

			this lecture is about knowledge and learning. And to remind ourselves, that we were in a time with
the leaders within the realms of science and technology that people look to us for advancements
curing diseases, new energy. And so I started today with a bit of a little story or a question that
I'm sure all of you have thought one of you have thought once upon a time. Why is x the letter X the
unknown? Why in mathematics? Are we always trying to determine x? Where did this come from? Why was
that liter chosen as the unknown? And even the X Factor? The X trials? Is this this notion of x
being the unknown? Where does it come from?
		

			If you look at the history, and you can, there's a good TED talks on this and you read up on it.
		

			The Muslims invented algebra, you should know this. In fact, the word algebra algebra is named after
a mathematician and an algebra we always solving for the unknown. One plus x is three. So x must be
two, right? That's how what algebra is all about. And the language of the world, the language of
learning, for 1000 years was Arabic, that if you wrote a PhD, if you wrote any scientific book, you
had to write it in, in in Arabic, like to the English because the language of the world, it was
Arabic, and the universities in the world were in the Arab lands, and the Muslim lands. And so we'll
talk about Spain, Muslim, Andalusia, Spain, was the bridge between Europe and Islam. And you had a
		

			time when people from all over Europe attended universities in Spain. Now in this now, if you opened
an Arabic textbook and mathematics textbook, for the unknown, they use the word shade. In Arabic,
the word shade is something unknown, we don't know, let us say chemically shy. Also, there is
nothing like him like Unto Allah. So the word shade was what they used as the unknown. And so to
make it easy to use the little sheen, seen sheen, Sheen was the x. So let's say one plus one is
three she needs to. But sure the sound of shock is not present in Spanish, Spanish doesn't have a
letter of shock. So when the Spanish students read the Muslim textbooks, they couldn't say, Sure,
		

			they use Cha, and in Latin, Cha is x. And so they returns later changed it, the shame, the she
moved, and it became an X and until today, the reason why we solve for x is because Muslims use the
word the latest sheen, and the Spanish couldn't say sharp, they change it to x.
		

			point of the story is there was a time when we were the ones in the forefront of learning, of
development of producing patents of winning Nobel Prizes. There was a time that's what Annaleigh as
they said, if they had the Nobel Prizes, like 1000 years ago, every single field in every year, it
would only be Muslim winners, poetry, literature, economics, mathematics, what a golden age we had,
and will see the loss of the intellectual Golden Age led to the loss that we have today in terms of
economics, the politics the weakness that we are so just to remind ourselves of some of the great
and we can spend weeks and weeks talking about some of the Greek names the big names you know,
		

			history even Haytham for example, another Spanish and the Lucien scholar, the father of optics, the
man who invented the camera, but not just the camera and optics was what He is credited to. He is
credited as being the father of the modern scientific method. The way he wrote his thesis in terms
of how the eye works, and how images are caught, when he was developing his theories. There were a
lot of you know, Miss beliefs about images and spirits and all of that he had to disprove all these
the idea of a hypothesis. He wrote it and every scientist after him until today followed his these
methods. So that's why He is credited as the mother or the father of the modern scientific method.
		

			Abbas even fitness is actually the father of flight. This is
		

			A bridge named after him in Spain. He died inventing like little airplanes, and one of them crashed.
That's how he died. Hundreds of years before the Wright Brothers, museums already attempting flight,
jabbing even a yawn, the father of chemistry in fact, the word chemistry is an Arabic word. Imagine
the entire field of chemistry,
		

			alkali, alkaline, all this algebra, alkaline, these are all Arabic terminologies. We invented the
field of chemistry. Before people used to think chemistry was magic. You put two things together and
*, it become its magic. It was called alchemy. Muslims took alchemy and invented a science of
chemistry.
		

			The word gibberish is named after this man Jabil. His writings were so difficult to understand by
the European scholars that they would say it's Jabesh it's a language of Jabir. So that's like
gibberish, you can't understand it, and so on and so forth. Al Jazeera, the father of robotics, why
don't we think robots are a new invention. In fact, it was a Muslim scholar Al Jazeera, who invented
the concept of machines doing things on their own using motors and pumps, algebra we spoke about and
how I mean, the man who invented algebra and SubhanAllah. When we talk about today about learning
and studying and going to university, the top universities in the world, or in Europe, or in
		

			America, if you are lucky enough, you will get a scholarship to go to Oxford and Harvard. There was
a time when people came to Spain under Lucia, they came to Morocco, they came to Baghdad to learn
medicine, the kings of Europe would sin the the sons and the daughters to learn at the highest
institutions in the world were Muslims institutions, the concept of a university was started by not
only a Muslim, but a lady Muslim, a female scholar Fatima theory, look at the Guinness Book of World
Records, the oldest university in the world in Morocco, the first in the world fatty metal theory, a
lady who invented the concept of a university she thought she was from a family of scholars, she
		

			said we should have one place where we learn all kinds of knowledge. So there were people that used
to learn that the chemists who had their own Institute and the people doing mathematics, let's put
this all in one house, and she financed it, the first university in the world by a sister, Fatima.
Alfie hurry. You know, many of the rituals of universities still come from Islamic tradition. When
you graduate. They put this Juba on you. In fact, all of you know now the bishops. Missy has made
the beast famous. And where does this come from? It is when you graduated, you got your Senate, your
diploma, you were given a cloak coin and a turban. The idea of the chair of the institute to chair
		

			the courtesy, if you go to the Haram and you see how Islam is taught, you have the students sitting
on the ground, and only the Aileen machete, he gets a chair, that chair is his chair. Today, we
still have the chairman, where does it come from? It comes from this concept of how Islam are we
taught our knowledge. So Subhanallah
		

			we, as I said, lead the world in all fields of science, technology and intellect. Muslims
revolutionized the world, the link between the ancient sciences, Greek and Aristotle and Plato. And
in the modern world you talk about if you if you ever study history, history is a very pious
subject. They will talk to you about the ancient history. And then they'll talk about European
Renaissance, the Europeans how they, you know, discovered the world. There's like a gap of 1500
years where we are that gap. When they were in the dark ages. It was us the Muslim world that was
keeping the civilization moving forward. Now for the sad part, when we let go of Iqra, when we
		

			stopped learning, when we stopped asking questions. When we stopped solving for x, when we stopped
putting each TR even into the Sharia, we simply follow what my mother does, and not ask questions
like the Obama themselves did. When we lost our intellectual Spock within lost our political
strength, our military strength, our economic strength, to the point of today, where we can't even
feed our people, kill our diseases, power our homes, when we look at input everything back to Spain.
As I said Spain was the most advanced civilization on earth. At some point, the biggest library in
the world was in Cordoba, in Muslim Spain, the biggest Masjid in the world, and it's at the end of
		

			the Western world. It's famous for from McCann Molina. Yet they want to show that even though they
are the end of the world, they can compete with Persia and spirit and Damascus. So they both the
biggest till today. The in fact the biggest cathedral for many, many centuries was the Jami at the
masjid of Cordoba converted into a church was the biggest Cathedral in the world, Christians could
not build anything equivalent to it. So let us talk about how when we lost our position of knowledge
what followed afterwards.
		

			Interesting.
		

			So there are two dates you must remember 711 Very easy date. 711 like the shop is the date when
Muslims
		

			Arrived at Spain and the perhaps I'm putting myself in trouble yet, but perhaps next week we should
start a series on Andalusi and Spain. I do a lot of a lot of research now. But 711 is when Muslims
arrived in Spain 1492. Like, almost 800 years later, is when Muslim Spain fell for 800 years.
Muslims were in Spain 1492. If you look at our books, what happened in 1492? A great disaster, the
last Muslim kingdom was was overthrown by the Reconquista of the of the Spanish Christians. If you
go to America, and you ask the Americans what happened in 1492, they'll tell you, that's when
Christopher Columbus discovered America. Not that they will people leave. But anyway, that's when
		

			Christopher Columbus discovered America. How did Christopher Columbus he's an Italian guy, how did
he get to America said no, he got ships from the King and Queen of Spain. The king and queen of
Spain gave him the ships to go and discover America. Okay. So how did this happen? The king and
queen of Spain conquered the Muslim city of Granada, which was exceptionally rich and full of
knowledge. And when they conquered the city, Christopher Columbus was with them. And they emptied
the treasury of the Muslim city of Granada. They took the knowledge of building ships, they took the
knowledge of the Muslim scientists, and Christopher Columbus took it, and he took his voyage to
		

			America. And that is the beginning of the colonial period Vasco de Gama all these Portuguese
sailors, why did they invent ship traveling? It is they took the knowledge of Underoos the most
advanced civilization at the time. They basically inherited it and used it, of course, when we are
Hamdulillah. And we can say this quite proudly, when Islam was in the forefront of learning and
technology, it was genuinely used for the betterment of civilization. When the Europeans had the
upper hand, what did they do? What did the colonial powers do? They ravaged and raped the world,
from South America, to Australia to Africa to India, it is upon the use that technology that we are
		

			given to conquer and rob the world. And that is why today, the status quo is as these when we gave
over the keys of knowledge to them. They then use it for the last 500 years to put themselves in a
position of power and authority. And we Subhanallah are now far and far we are Millennium behind. So
I said do you think that there was a time when Kuru tuba was the first city in the world that had
lighting and today here in Cape Town, in South Africa, we struggle with low cheating. It's sad to
think how things have progressed. But let's not dwell on the past as Allah says that they weren't
people that did they had the time the ups and downs, and you have your time. And our time starts now
		

			remembers Han ALLAH. Whenever you saw Salam, it all started with an abyssal Salam. And he lived in a
time when we call the time before the Quran what do we call it the time of Jai Helia? We don't say
please Islam, we say the time of ignorance. The opposite of our deen is ignorance and our deen Islam
is synonymous with learning and knowledge and education.
		

			In other words, be something wrong with your Islam, if you're not learning, you're you as a Muslim
are not really given to the spirit of Islam is of course you're a Muslim. But if you've never opened
the book and learned and question and developed, then this goes against one of the fundamental in
fact, the first lesson of the Quran is ikura Bismillah Bismillah, the Hara. The first command, Allah
is saying to you and me, learn in the Name of your Lord. And as you learn Allah say, What have
become or Bukal from Allah says, As you learn and read your Lord is Most Generous. The more you
learn, the more you study, Allah is going to give you Allah is going to give you so let us not talk
		

			about when we romanticize Spain and loose, nothing stops us at hamdulillah from moving forward once
again. And it should be in our hearts, at least in our hearts, and a Nia and a belief that maybe my
time or my kids time or my grandkids time, we can once again lead the world not to rule the world,
not like the European imperialism, but to lead the world in civilization and technology. Nothing
should stop us from that. But it has to begin somewhere. It has to begin somewhere. Those people did
great things could not have imagined that the first few steps would revolutionize the world. But it
begins with each and every one of us. Those scientists we talk about they also started with Alice
		

			Bata, they also started from the very very big basics and continue to learn and explore and the more
you question and learn, the more Allah is going to open the doors of prosperity. So let us start now
and Allah says in the Quran, and we know and I don't have to repeat this every I repeat this. When
we talk about our matriculants many of Alhamdulillah some of you your kids are going on to start
university some of these for Han Allah, I drop my kids at school as well. The beginning of the new
term, the beginning of the new year, some people starting grade one, pre primary or whatever it is a
lot of tears kicking and screaming. That's just the teachers being you know, being dragged to
		

			school, let alone the children.
		

			We talk about everyone starting and
		

			We How many of you gave the lecture to kids you know, do well and study and work hard and focus, but
we don't do the same weight loss if we open the book, weight loss if we sat in a class, weight loss
if we listen to anything of benefit, besides maybe the gym or that you forced to come, and you'll
see me sleeping. We tell our kids to study hard and to focus and do the homework but we forget about
ourselves. learning doesn't stop when you're 18. Or if you go to university 21 or 22 constantly, it
must continue. And Allah as I said, the so many times Allah has given a promise to me to you when he
says he edify Hola Hola, Dena, I'm assuming come. Well, Lavina, Otter, Inma, the Rajat Allah
		

			promises each and every guarantee from your Lord, He will elevate, raise you up, grant you
prosperity grant you success for two people, the one who has Iman, you will always be successful,
and the one who has knowledge or doesn't say the one who has money, power, success, that is nothing
in the sight of Allah. But the person of learning. Allah says if you study you learn, he's going to
raise you up Daraja at many, many levels, many damages in the dunya and the Acura you cannot go
wrong by taking a path of learning. And Allah subhanaw taala says,
		

			As the time not come, how much more in darkness and at winning in Cape Town we took darkness
direction the literal darkness, of disease of problems we look at how bad the world is, Allah says
has the time not come and Tasha Kulu will lead lyrically la as the time had come for the Muslims to
wake up and to have a consciousness of Allah and to turn to Allah that begins with learning. The
heart is only awoken through learning and through a crop. And so every one of us Subhanallah we have
a role to play in ourselves and our family but no greater community. As the time had come Gemma to
Muslim in some of you Masha Allah, you are doctors, lawyers, you've studied many, many years
		

			University. You are highly qualified and successful in your businesses and whatever it is, I'm not
sure my will increase you more and more and more. Allah grant you all the height and Baraka. But do
you want to stand before Allah? And to say Allah for 70 years? I did not even know what Surah Fatiha
mint. I did it five times a day. But I don't know what it means. I read the Quran ha ha. I don't
know what one word in the Quran means. My deen is dependent on some guy on Friday telling you what
is halal haram. You don't know what I'm saying is true or false make up fairytales. I'm like this is
the meat in the hand of the hustle. I'm like the dead person. In the end of the tour money. I just
		

			go left and right. Is that the deen that you want? We don't have to be an alum. You don't have to be
a Molana. Shifty. No, but you should not be a giant when it comes to the dean. Be an informed
layperson.
		

			If a person comes to your office, and he says, I never finished primary school, whatever
matriculated will say this person's illiterate. If you don't have matric, you can't even pack a bag
at the shop, you know, cashier, whatever. How many of us have that basic level of Islamic education,
that basic level that is required of every Muslim, you don't have that, that Subhanallah is not
acceptable. And as we said, when the Muslims started learning, the first areas of learning was the
Diem. And Allah opened the dunya for them. The scientists of the old, many of them, these great
names, they first started in the madrasa learning to recite the Quran, some memorizing the Quran,
		

			and then they went into the dunya sciences. And Allah then opened the door. Many of the great
astronomers or the people that dealt with water, where did it start from, I needed to have to take
up this I need to know where the Qibla is. And because of that, Allah opened all the doors, you will
see when you prioritize your Islamic learning, Allah will open the doors in your dunya learning as
well. And so that is why the prophets Islam says it is false. It is false. It is compulsory on every
Muslim to seek knowledge. Compulsory just like you make Salah you eat halal, you have to
continuously be learning a little wallet or whatever formal or informal but continue to learn. More
		

			importantly, subhanAllah we live we talk about the past it's talking about the future. We know the
future there are difficult days that lay ahead. The days leading up to Kiama is going to be very
difficult the prophecies in the last few hours of this world as time goes gets there'll be turmoil
fighting disease has Herat Shabazz was killing you find people just killing each other in the
streets like we live in now. You know, people killing for no reason. But it begins to out as you
begin the Hadith, when knowledge will be taken away. All the bad things of Kiama all the evils of
the day or of the fitna of Kiama it begins when knowledge is lost when people stop learning, when
		

			anatomy is trying to look at the nervous system. How amazing and Allah is Rasool he says, A time
will come my Sahaba
		

			When everybody in the Jamara can read and write, but they will be ignorant, they will be illiterate,
how they couldn't understand how it's possible. So how God couldn't read or write, but they will
only they will read on a year. We have a whole gender all of us can read and write, but how much of
us really have knowledge that benefits us, and so Subhanallah to protect yourself from the fitna and
the difficulties of this of this dunya and the Astra knowledge is your weapon. Knowledge is the
thing that's going to hold the keeps you safe in the tide and the storm of this dunya SubhanAllah.
You log on to facebook, whatsapp, you don't know what is true or false, right? Wrong. Only knowledge
		

			and the guidance of Allah keeps you steadfast in that. Then a resume says 131 Person of knowledge is
more formidable and more scary to shaytaan than 1000 Olia that are worshipping night and day. One
person of knowledge. Who knows he's on the understands his deen is greater in the sight of Allah.
Then 1000 Olia that worship with this heightened baraka and the only no problem, the bad those who
worship Allah without understanding. And so brothers. If you're going to do anything this year from
the Rila it is as the enemy some says whoever embarks whoever journeys on a path of learning,
whoever makes it part of his daily routine, I want to be a student of learning. Can you really call
		

			yourself a student, your kids are students at Hamdulillah you get to go to school, their students
might have to love the Taalib the woodpile is the one who yearns he looks he's searching, they have
to love they're searching for knowledge, or you call him and so then he says, whatever is on the
path of learning, he is guaranteed the path of Jannah is made easy. You are on the path of Janas
Hadith promise of Nabil, Allah promises you you learn, you will raise you up elevate you in the
dunya and akhira. That basically says if you take a path of learning, you are on the path, the road
to Jannah. Now I've given this, you know, and I say again, this hadith, the navesink doesn't say
		

			whoever accomplishes the path of learning, whoever gets the PhD he's gonna go to Jana, no waves on
the path, even if the path is alphabeta. So long as you are on the journey of learning, so long as
you part of the process of learning, so long as you are a student or a teacher, one of the two you
either teaching or you read a student or a teacher, so long as you're part of that you're on the
road of Jana, and we know all the Hadith and the resources, the angels, they lower the wings for you
think about your kids, when they go to school, we sit in traffic, the angels are saluting them, the
angels are lowering the wings, making it safer because they're doing something which the angels are
		

			awestruck. Don't be one that for ourselves. Don't we want to also be of those people? As you're
learning as you go to the class, sit in the class, leave the class, you're being forgiven. Angels
are making dua for you. They listen. Let us also be part of that. And so where do you begin many
people ask I want to learn I want but we do I begin so many alternatives that hamdulillah a click of
a button, not like Imam Buhari, you have to go travel hundreds of kilometres for one Hadith, no
click of a button in your bed in your pajamas, you can be sitting in the classes of the most
advanced
		

			institutes in the world, some of them and I only mentioned them because Alhamdulillah I'm personally
involved so I can mention them and there are many many excellent classes many Institute every month
it has a clause join that clause. If you want to study formally. You want to degree PhD masters
Islamic studies or Islam eyes, like you know Islamic psychology is something business. Perhaps the
cheapest degree or not cheap is a bad word most affordable international degree Islamic online
university and hamdullah I'm part of the committee there as well that it is it is one of the easiest
ways of learning you can instead of going to Medina Alhamdulillah they took the books textbooks of
		

			the medina university that moved me and myself we studied translated into English online in your
bedroom you can study exactly what we studied you have to go all the way to Alhamdulillah go to
Medina for the Masjid. You don't have to go all the way to the summit, University of Medina for up
until PhD level Alhamdulillah. And you know what? It's cheaper than your kids school fees cheaper
than what you're paying for your kid school fees. You can get that at your own pace. If you said no.
My university days are finished in something less part time after work. At the artery masjid,
Mondays and Wednesdays you can learn to exceed Hadith sera Arabic. Many of the instructors were here
		

			during the holidays use of Chef Ibrahim Charles Wassim these are your instructors hamdulillah and if
you can't attend the class online if you can't attend the class online, the recording easy simple
and if you say look that is also too difficult, at least inshallah when we start to gain our Islam
from scratch class, free of charge anytime anyway. Simple but learn to open a book. Be part of the
journey. Be part of those that Allah promises will be on the path of success. And Allah bless us.
May Allah bless all our kids in this new academic year my Allah keep them safe from the fitna and
the difficulties of the dunya Allah grant them success in Tofik in the studies where they make us
		

			proud and hamdulillah me the next generation always revert to the previous one. I'm gonna Allah keep
us safe and grant us to be an example for our kids. I mean, once again, for those who have succeeded
in the music exam, I'll guarantee all the success and for those who didn't do too well, not the end
of the world.
		

			18 is a very very young repeat to again, as I always mentioned remember Nabi Musa on Friday, he was
expelled from NaVi the diskless he was kicked out so if Nabi Musa you know wasn't good enough so
inshallah you'll get your chance as well so don't give up don't give up just a few announcements one
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