Shadee Elmasry – Who is Habib Umar bin Hafiz

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really was considered one of the most influential according to one

of the recent journals that produced the most influential and

look at the most influential scholars is at Habib Ahmed bin

Mohammed bin Hatfield bin Saddam. And the author says I first saw

Habib Ahmed with heavy body and some of their students leaving the

Prophet's mosque in Medina by the door close to the Buffy graveyard,

who are many of the prophets relatives and companions are

buried out of the Allah Tala and homogeneous that Allah Allah have

even a Muhammad slaves. They move with a sense of purpose and unity

like a single body which distinguished them from the rest

of the visitors there. This was the new generation of the Habib or

the beloved ones and I had met heavy mama shooted her dad and

have evolved to cover a scarf to great mountains in the autumn of

their lives, I've met the meaning at the end of their lives. Now the

energy of this young group was something different. They were

like a gentle cyclone. Five years later in 1998, visiting South

Yemen to attend the commemoration of the prophet hood. At a cinema,

I took permission to photograph heavy vomit into him and I was a

little nervous as I set up the camera and tripod for the photo. I

didn't know him very well, but had heard that he had been singled out

for particular attention by various spiritual guides and

scholars from childhood, as if being groomed for a weighty

destiny.

And I'm gonna ask you to tell the story about his childhood, which

is

almost like Hollywood. really should think about it like when

they like mythical, to be honest, it's like mythical. As I watched

him through the lens, I could see how vital his spiritual energy was

as he sat quietly invoking the name of Allah,

who was extremely courteous and composed, but there was an error

of wildness about him and intoxicating light that drew

people to him like moths to a flame, and burned away the

darkness in one soul.

Now, years later, his followers are in the 10s of 1000s. His

college and Tim daughter Mustafa is attended by students from

around the world when he visits the Far East, he attracts vast

audiences. In 10 years he had changed greatly transforming from

an impassioned saint to a seasoned sage. He travels extensively

taking little food and sleep whenever he speaks about the

prophets of Allah when he was setting him and his family. It is

as if he knows them personally. And you always hear a new intimate

story about them. This face is often slightly upturned as if

drawing energy from a vast unseen and that's where we'll stop the

Far East when he goes to Indonesia they have it seems to be like

soccer stadiums and some some of these events. When you look at

them, you don't see the end.

I don't know if they're spilling into the streets, you just you

just see people have on people on pump people like must be easily

easily over 50,000 Madison Square Garden as a visual, it's 17,000

people, right? So if I'm looking at it, and it's like, double that,

easily double that could even get up to be more it could get up to a

certain Majelis especially if you can look back at the previous

visit that he just did to I think it was Indonesia or Malaysia. The

last visit he did Malaysia I never seen anything wrong. Stadiums I'm

telling you, football stadiums 80 to 90,000 people. Okay, the story

about heavy vamos youth, his childhood this like a mythical

moment

that they say by retrospect they say about Habib that like his

father used to see him gather up pillows after his Deluce or go to

the animals that they had, and how he would practice delivering the

data while he was still a child.

And his dad like when he saw that, on the low hand when he saw that

that was like he saw that there was something in his son, Leia

father, and specifically the famous story that they that they

tell about the Father Shaheed Mohammed bin Salman bin Hatfield,

who was kind of like the Imam of Teddy and his time, right.

And it was during the time when the communists had control over

Yemen. And you hear some of the the kind of like raw displays of

Eman in the face of Cofer in kind of when they relate the stories of

how the hubbub kind of stood up to these communists but basically any

type of display of religion you will wiped

and they were constantly they were constantly attacking the

communists because they were saying like have you can't just

take people's wealth and reapportion it this is Luna Yeah.

So they were really they were really up in arms against the

communists when they came in took over

Yemen and of course, they were like atheists, and they used to

have like, heavy, heavy ball was he talks about this, he mentioned

this, Allah, although he talks about how they used to have a sign

that would say last Oltean Allah, Allah SOTL his, and they had this

big sign and said no voice will be louder than the voice of the

Communist Party, basically, right? And then And then years later,

years later, after the communists had been kicked out of Yemen and

everything was all said and done. Habib hosted his jesselton with

named the DOS where he talks to see it where he gives exegesis of

the Quran. He hosted that class in that saw how where that same sign

was in that same square, and then he said they used to say that

there would be no voice louder than the voice of the Communist

Party. And now you hear the voice of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi

wasallam and his his his Lord Jalla Jalla Allah blasting through

these these these alleyways right so the what happened was

heavy Mohammed bin Salman and

Rahim Allah basically what happens is they used to have them come and

check in with the communists in a place like they had this little

like building next to Gemma to him. Right and jam and it was the

place where most people pray Joomla intending right and it was

the oldest, the oldest Joomla and had him for a while before they

ended up establishing another one there's fifth behind that right

and the chef a school you can't have more than one Joomla

simultaneously same with us now so

so what happens is that was under construction so they were praying

in mustard Mendota which is far away from where where the chicken

was happening, right? So happy Muhammad on Juma, every single

drummer they had to go and check in so he leaves have you Brahma

with his shawl and mustard Medard and have you Brahma at this point

is nine years old. He's nine years old, he's young boy, he leaves him

with his shawl and he goes to check in and he he's never seen

again after that moment, right. He's never seen again after that

moment. And and as Habib would grow, as he would grow older, his

his brother happy mature. Allah, Allah Hummel, who passed away

recently Happy Valley mature he saw that like Habib was kind of

Yeah, Nina Chateau was like promising there was a lot of

promise in the way that Habib was growing up and so he had him move

from from how the remote in order to continue his education where he

went and he studied with happy Muhammad had dad who was would

become his

his father in law later in life in the city of Babel, which is in the

north of Yemen right. But the showerhead here is that heavy

Mohammed like when he when he was when he was kidnapped, you know,

they they saw this as a huge blow right? Because heavy Mohammed was

Yanni the Imam of Habermas at that time, right and the amount of time

but he you know, even even like, like some of the poets when they

they write some of the poetry about this moment,

they mentioned that there was a secret in the fact that he left

his shot with heavy bronzer. Right there was kind of a handoff that

was happening there and the people of Allah subhanaw taala they have

insight into these things and lo and behold, Allah right, so he

left it and he went is to shed and Allah Allah humble. And there's

many stories about the Habib standing in the face of this,

Cofer like they mentioned a story of one of the habits that he

despite them, you know, threatening them and telling them

don't you can't come out dressed up like in the in the typical gear

that they'll wear, right. He was walking through the streets and

wearing the Juba and the Imam and the radar and all of these

different articles of clothing that are linked with the prophesy

sentiments by the Sunnah, right? And when they saw him, they said,

Yeah, heavy, why are you doing this? You're gonna get yourself in

trouble. And he said, so that people don't forget this

prophetic. This prophetic guys, right? So what did they do? They

took him they tied him up to the back of a car and they started

dragging him through the streets. And the whole time he's yelling,

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, until he passes out. So you

have these motives that these alumni, they really they stood in

the face of this call for? May Allah subhanho wa Taala reward

them on behalf right. It used to be in the city of Teddy him, the

revolt of Teddy him which was one of the oldest schools in tedium,

and Dr. Mustafa, which didn't exist, yet, all of these different

institutions of learning were closed because of the communists,

you know, as Shikamaru Has anyone heard him he says that we used to

hide our books of now Spatola. They used to hide their books of

grammar. And they used to go by night and sneak into the homes of

the Shijo in order to read books of grammar with them.

And then Allah subhana wa taala, when he saw this kind of this

desire to enliven the religion, Allah subhanaw taala put Baraka in

their knowledge. And now look at it spreading all over the world. I

mean, we think that we have issues here. They had massive, massive

calamities where they felt to these communists, they're not just

they have policies that are unlawful. They're atheist, to

direct and open atheists, right?

Explicit atheism, that's what communism brings with, the more

you go up in the ranks. It's not like here you become a Western

liberal and you say the name Islam. I'm a Muslim, I believe in

a higher power, blah, blah, blah. You have that here in the West.

where you can have that as long as you have the all the other

poisons. You could say that, right? But there it's an explicit

atheism that you have to embrace. And Marx was a materialist. Before

he was an economist. He was a materialist. Right. He was a

philosopher, I mean, and materialism was his philosophy. So

they're not only facing this, in Dar Al Islam, they were also

attacked severely, because of their machete Arpita. And their

Kozani. And to solve, there were attacks severely to the point that

was like, almost in hiding in both ways, right? amounts of fitten and

the destruction of a legacy, or at least a perceived attack on their

legacy. And an attack on this that really, I don't think we can

really imagine and appreciate, you know, the, the fight that they had

to fight through us through and the fact that now it's a place

where where people go for it would have probably been an unheard of

concept in 30 years ago. No, right. There's about we've been

unheard of. And the school opens up what 1995 That must have opened

up 1995. And Habib Ahmed was one of the he was the spearhead of all

this data, and that's why a lot of people go there. So

Oh, that's so that's the anniversary of the school's

anniversary that his father was, was his body recovered, or they

never recovered. So there was no like, there was Janessa was it

even? Because the there's a waiting period, there is a waiting

period. I'm not sure what they what they did. Exactly. But But

yeah, I mean, they never they never recovered his body.