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.