Mustafa Khattab – Etiquettes of Scholars 1 1
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The most truthful word is the book of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and the best guidance is the sunnah and
the way of life of the prophet
I said, woah. Woah. Woah. It's not the
subject.
What happened?
He said, I saw them guys
on YouTube. You remember Hassan and Sheikh, Hawaii
and all these big scholars, Salaz Mahesh, Yusuf
Bess, and I want to be a scholar
like them.
I said, you know, okay. That's it's not
bad.
But to tell you how to be a
scholar, first of all, I'm not one
to tell you how to be one. I'm
not a scholar to tell you how to
be a scholar. I'm a
student of knowledge.
But what I can tell you, there are
so so many
things that you need to do before you
can be a scholar.
If you don't have time, because I I
think at that time, I have to marry
someone or someone was fighting with his wife.
I have to divorce him or someone dies.
So I I had to bear them. So
I told them very quickly, 2 things.
If someone wants to be a scholar, they
have to be 2 things at the same
time.
They have to have knowledge.
And number 2, they have to have wisdom.
Knowledge by itself does not make you as
tough.
Right?
We know so many people that graduate from
at
or they graduate
with a degree in Islamic Studies from Harvard
or Yale or Alberta,
and
I call them idiots with a degree.
They are not scholars. If
So I was telling one of the brothers,
someone like a who
wrote hundreds of volumes. You cannot imagine how
many volumes this guy I would have called
him guy, but this person wrote.
First of all, they didn't have
to play games to waste their times or
play soccer like me to waste their times.
They dedicated their full time
to knowledge.
He was a student of knowledge,
he dedicated all his time to seeking knowledge,
sitting under the feet of the scholars to
learn from them. He said,
we didn't have time to cook.
So
for days that we're eating bread,
nothing for the bread.
And he said, one day, Allah
gave us some money, so we bought a
fish.
That was like a treasure.
For 3 days, we didn't have time to
cook it until it was about to to
get rotten.
And eventually, we had to eat
it raw without cooking it before it gets
to level. They didn't have time. They dedicated
their full time
The scholars
are the inheritors or the heirs of the
prophets.
The prophets, they never
left behind them dollars or stealing pounds.
The only thing the prophets left behind is
knowledge
is knowledge.
So this is what the scholars get from
the prophets.
The
scholars the first condition or the first
Adam or etiquette of scholars,
they have to be humble.
They have to be decent.
Okay?
If someone has knowledge and they are arrogant,
they are not they are ignorant in Islam.
So the person has to be humble with
other people.
So Mujahid is one of the scholars of
Islam and this saying is in Sahih al
Khufad.
So he said, 2 people will never be
in knowledge. They will never be scholars. They
will never be knowledgeable.
The first one is someone who is very
shy.
Okay. They come to Colossus. They come to
Halodas. If they don't understand something, they never
ask because they are too shy, so they
will never blurb.
The second one is someone who is arrogant.
Okay.
I'm gonna go to this guy
who is younger than me and learn from
him. Okay. I'm not going.
They are arrogant.
If they want to ask something, they don't
ask because, okay, people will make fun of
me. They will look at me with my
suit and tie, and they say, okay. Look
at this guy. He's asking this simple question,
and everyone in the Masjid knows this question.
He knows the answer except for this guy.
So these 2, they will never learn, someone
who is shy and someone who is Arabic.
Arab.
They don't boast
about their knowledge.
And we gave the example of the sahaba
of the prophet
who were the most knowledgeable people on earth,
but still they would run from fader. They
run away from fader. Okay?
So if someone comes to Abu
Lahloh Muhammad, for example, asking about anything, although
he might know the answer, he would tell
them, okay. Go to Abu Lahloh. He's afraid
that the
I would ask,
So
if you look at what the Sahaba used
to do, now look at our time.
Because people don't have the knowledge, they don't
have the wisdom,
they run after
Fadl. They don't run from it. They run
after
Fadl. By just reading a couple of pages
or an article about Saudi,
now they think they are the scholars. Habir
of Rashej and
you are only called
an electrician to take care of the problem.
If you don't call a plumber
to take care of that problem, you call
an electrician. If you have a problem with
the chair or with the door, you call
a carpenter.
But when it comes to fatwa,
every single Muslim in the Muslim world is
a Muslim, and I've seen this with my
own eyes.
She had a big fight with her husband.
They were fighting and killing each other off.
Okay?
So she came to me to make peace
between her and her husband. Okay? And she
she was crying and all that stuff. He
hit me. I hit me back. All that
stuff.
He hit me. I hit me back. All
that stuff.
While she was talking to me, another sister
came and she said, okay, Sheikh. I need
a a fatwa from you.
Is fasting Saturday by itself acceptable in Islam?
So I was about to open my mouth.
I was just getting ready to open my
mouth and give the fatwa.
So this sister who was having fights with
her with her husband, she volunteered
to issue fat was on my behalf.
She started to get the answer, the wrong
one.
She said, I think you should do the
the so I told her, sister, I think
you should be quiet. Okay?
Busy yourself with the fights with your husband.
Okay? And all that fighting and bleeding and
all that stuff.
Fasting on Saturday by itself is not it's
Makroob in Islam.
It's Makroob. Unless
it is the day of Aramaic right now.
You can't fast Saturday on its own.
Unless you fast another day within. Some scholars
say, except if it is, for example, the
day of Avraham, which will be on Saturday
this year, then you can't fast it on
it on its own. But it is better
if they say if you fast another day,
with it.
So Sahid al Bijal
says, I'm talking about the people
that if someone is a scholar, they have
to keep updating their knowledge all the time.
Okay?
If you got a PhD from a Muslim
or from any institution,
it doesn't necessarily mean that if if you
have a PhD degree, then there is nothing
else to learn.
Sahid,
Some people do this. Once they become scholars
or they give the degree, they don't read
anything about anything. They think, okay. We have
enough. There's nothing else to learn. So Sahid
says,
saying. So you have to, you know, learn.
So Saeed says, as long as someone is
seeking knowledge, he is a scholar. Once they
stop learning and they think they already have
enough, they have reached the point of ignorance.
It's a very wise saying, SubhanAllah. So you
have to seek knowledge.
Would give
a and we know that he used to
spend 2, 3 days in the week with
the prophet
burning from him, but the rest of the
week he was busy with his business and
with his land. Okay? So he missed some
knowledge.
But some people like anti Semitic, Abu Bakr,
Abdullah, and Mas'ud, Abdul Abdulla, the Umar, they
stayed with the prophet
like his shadow.
So they heard everything from the prophet
So in his kirafa,
when would issue a
then some of the would correct him and
say, but, hey, listen. The prophet
said something else.
So
would say, all the people have more knowledge
than me.
So he was humble
to admit his mistake
and to agree with the people.
The scholar,
one of the of the scholars in Islam,
they have to be humble.
So the scholars of Islam,
one thing at that or predicates of these,
scholars is to to be courteous, to have
courtesy when they deal with the people.
And so Pamela, if you look at
the 4 big scholars
of Islam,
Imam Shafi'i, Imam Malik, and Imam Khadhan Abula,
and Imam Khalifa, they got many differences in
their.
Right?
They have several or many differences in rulings.
This is why we
have, and so on and so forth.
They always have the biggest respect for one
another.
You would never find imam, shafi, calling imam
or khalifa an idiot, or he didn't know
anything, or he was an ignorant.
You will never find this in any of
the groups. They always
praise one another and say good things with
one another. It is true that they disagreed
with one another sometimes,
but they always talk highly
of each other.
You know, they're having big issues. They're calling
each other names. He's an idiot.
He's a stupid guy. Why is this? If
people see you as a scholar with all
the PhDs in the world calling people names,
they will have no respect for you.
Okay? You have to show respect to other
scholars
so people will respect you.
So in this story,
we see how
these scholars, they learn from the prophet himself.
Abu Walid,
Ibn Nwiyya came to the prophet
to bribe him at the beginning of his
mission.
So he said, you are calling our god's
names. You are dividing
us. You are taking the son against his
father and the daughter against her mother. Okay.
Listen, I will make a deal with you.
If you leave the god you are calling
a lot
and you leave this message, we'll give you
money. We'll make you the richest among us.
We'll make you our king, and we'll marry
you the most beautiful woman.
So he came to bribe the prophet,
and the prophet, and the prophet,
was quiet. He didn't argue with him. He
didn't interrupt him. So when he was done,
the prophet, said,
are you done? He said, yes. He said,
would you like to listen to my
rebuttal of argument of what you said? He
said, yes.
Then the man, although he was a camera,
he put both of his hands behind him
on the ground, and he started listening to
the prophet.
So
the scholars, they have to have courtesy when
they talk to people.
So
a scholar has to be wise.
As I said, it is not enough
to memorize a couple of pages and to
become a scholar.
If you don't have
wisdom, you are not a scholar.
They say that the definition of wisdom in
Islam, the wisdom is to say the right
thing,
the right words
to the right person at the right time
with the right attitude.
We know that salah is an obligation in
Islam. Everyone has to pray. Okay?
Or cigarettes,
they are dislied in Islam. Some scholars, they
say they are halal. Okay? They shouldn't smoke.
If you woke someone up in the middle
of the night to give them advice to
get to quit smoking, politely will never listen
to you.
You have to choose the right time.
If you talk to someone
without having the right attitude or using the
right words, they will never listen to you.
For example,
people come every day to the halal, tashweed
of the flesh. Throw out kumana. Okay?
Some people, they come, they don't know the
rulings of tashweed.
They make horrible mistakes when they recite it.
Okay? Especially
the Arab brothers. The Somali brothers,
They are excellent.
So
if you tell the brother,
hey,
you are 50 years old. You don't know
how to resolve a lot. And you you
are from Egypt. You idiot. They will never
come back. But if you tell them, oh,
brother,
you have a very beautiful voice,
if you only just fix those couple of
the weak mistakes here and there, you will
be excellent for Saipem. Like, you'll be like
Sheikh Abdul Barheb.
Okay?
Will
listen to you.
So I would say
that part of the wisdom of the scholars
is if they want to, correct someone,
they have to say something good about them
before they correct them or criticize them.
Okay?
We gave the example
of Abu Lahno, and this is an authentic
Hadith. When he was a young man, he
didn't pray PM late at night.
So in the authentic hadith that the prophet
saw Saddam said,
Abdullah Abu Muhammad is a great man.
If only he prays at night, he would
be the greatest person there is.
So the narrator of the hadith says,
Abu
Lahi Muhammad never slept at night except a
very short period of time. Then you would
spend the whole night
praying.
And I imagine that the prophet saw a
sudden called Abu Lahama names. He called him
a lazy,
god.
All people are praying at night, and he
is snoring
and all that stuff. He would have he
would be offended.
And the prophet
as it says in the authentic hadith, he
didn't offend people.
To man, he didn't offend people. If he
was to correct someone, he will correct him
privately.
He wouldn't talk to him in front of
people, or the prophet prophet will talk in
general terms
using the words why some people do this
or do this. He wouldn't mention the name
of the person.
Right? Because it will be a disgrace for
them.