Taha Karaan – Legacy of the Shafi Madhhab

Taha Karaan

Legacy of the Shafi Madhhab by Mufti Taha Karaan, South Africa

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The speakers emphasize the importance of preserving culture and community activities in the Muslim world, avoiding political setbacks and the rise of Islam in various regions. They stress the need for a culture of Islam to be protected and allow individuals to participate in community activities, while avoiding damaging opposition. The speakers emphasize the importance of creating a safe environment for all and avoiding war, while also acknowledging the negative effects of war and the need for a strong society.

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			Whilst Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam was alive, there was a group of Sahaba who used to act in the
capacity of Mufti or fatwa givers to others, in recognition of the fact that not everyone is equally
equipped to ascertain the laws of Allah Donna.
		
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			For those who know they can extract directly for those who do not a lot Allah says first Aloo Allah
Vickery in kuntum, la talamona if you do not know, then ask the men of remembrance, they would know
a lot of the speaks Furthermore, about this particular interaction, this dynamic within Muslim
communities, and he says fanola farming Khalifa kutiman home, Eva, Leah de COVID de niro como home
either Raja Oh, La, La La mia, from within every community they have to be some whole dedicate
themselves to the task of gaining understanding of Deen so that they can then be in a position to
convey to others to those who could not. We find the example of Satan a Harley Davidson worried the
		
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			soul of Allah. Someone comes to him and asks him for a fatwa. He says, I've spent my entire life in
jihad. I do not know I do not have sufficient knowledge about matters of faith and matters of
Sharia. Go to Abdullah ibn Masood, he is a 40 he will be able to answer you. So certain Sahaba
specialized as it were, in certain areas, those that had the capacity that had the adequate amount
of training beneath Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam within the special time of the of the hula to the
various centers to guide people in the case of Satan to lighten the load. For examples in the
aloneness nzme the city of Kufa he should act as the hottie and the Mufti of the people, their
		
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			various different Sahaba fulfill this role. So the unlocking the unlocking, of the Sharia, the
explication of the Sharia, as it were, is left to the
		
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			to the domain of the experts. And in this manner, Sharia unfolds as Islam spreads over a greater
portion of the earth. New exigencies arise new situations arise to which answers are required, those
equipped with the necessary amount of knowledge they perform what we call HDR, they extend the rest
of their intellectual efforts to arrive at what is the law of Allah tala. In this manner, what is
developing is developing it is developing is the human attempt to ascertain what the Sharia says on
a particular matter. So, in any particular is exigency arises. Humans are fallible humans, but
experts in their particular field, they do not have to be prophets in order to have to be
		
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			infallible, they have to be however equipped with the necessary expertise, they will apply the
intellectual faculties to the meta and arrive at a particular answer and thereby
		
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			is developing. Eventually, there came a time when the regional schools have developed initially
there was no school as such, it was just an individual as a hobby setting in the masjid people would
come and asking questions about what does a lot of us say on this point, what does Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam say should do here? What should I do there? And at that point, it was impossible
to have a particular school it only had started to develop, but with the passage of 100 years or so,
when certain regional tendencies came into existence, it could be noticed that the olema the fuqaha
of a particular region, they adopt certain general tendencies and in a different region. they adopt
		
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			certain general tendencies as well. And in this manner certain regional schools develop in Hijaz
makan Medina, you find for Casa teen gay and they have a certain set of principles, they have a
certain manner of going about extracting a lot more from the Quran, and the Sunnah of Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam. They have a certain concept of what the son of azula Salalah Salamis, in Iraq,
on the other hand, is a different group. And they have a slightly different approach. All of their
approaches date back to the time of the law on home, because it was amongst us a habit of the low on
whom already that these different tendencies started developing in embryonic form in a time of
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam himself. There was a day when he declared that everyone should go to
Nicaragua. Now your son Leonardo como la in La ceiba. Everyone must go and perform the hustle sala
de Nicaragua, on the way there the time fossilize. One group of Sahaba says, What Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam meant was literally we should arrive at the nucleus and then make our Salah the
another group says no, that's not what he meant. What he meant was, we should make haste so that by
the time our soul comes in, we should be there already. But we, we did not quite manage it in time.
The time foster is now let's make it now. Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam arrives afterwards, and
		
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			here's the situation. Some had interpreted his words in a particular way and acted. Others
interpreted his words in a different way and acted, and he did not condemn either of the two
opinions. Each party had acquitted himself as best as possible in understanding his words. Each
party had done the best to understand what does he actually mean thereby, what does masala mean? And
each
		
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			Party was honest and each party did his best. Therefore he did not reprimand either the one party or
the other party. So the potential for differences of opinion arising most certainly exists. In fact,
a lot Allah in the Quran uses certain words that have ambiguous meanings within themselves. A lot
Allah says, Walmart en la casa de trabajo de unforseen a thalassa taco woman who have been divorced
divorces should wait three periods, the word Kuru could either mean clean periods, or they could
mean periods of menses, it could mean this it could mean that some Sahaba interpreted the one way
some interpret it the other way. If a lot of had wanted, you would have used a word that is clear
		
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			and unambiguous. But the fact of the matter is that a lot of Allah use the word with ambiguous
meanings, I believe that is for a purpose. That purpose is the following. That is the law will most
certainly difference of opinion will most certainly arise in societies. It is one of the greatest
tests upon the soma to see how will they respond to differences of opinion? Well, differences of
opinion become the basis of slander, the basis of fighting the basis of internal fratricide, or the
difference of opinion become a cause to recognize one another, to respect one another. This one of
the greatest tests that this woman has been encumbered with a lot Allah made it such if the love
		
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			will arise. When OSHA rabuka the Jelena sama and wahida had Allah wanted, he would have made one
nation without any differences. When I can lie as Luna most everything, there will always be
differences allow us to see how we react in cases of those differences. These two regional schools
that developed each one with its own regional preferences, and then in the year 150, after the
hegira they was born Mohammed even Idris, a Shafi Imam Shafi Rama de la la hails from a family of
banal, Tawny
		
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			cousins to Banu Hashim, a tribe of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. And also de la Salatu. Salam used
to say about them that Banu Hashim Talib Shea on wide, these two, they were actually four different
		
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			four brothers one was called abductions one was called nofal. One was called Elmo, and one was
called Hashem. All these four two stuck together in Java EE as well as in Islam, and the other two,
when Islam came along they went the other direction. Therefore Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam said,
When Ohashi banal mockery, these are one thing that always stood together. That was a tribe of women
Shabbir Ali, he was born in the beleaguered city of Hosea. That same hustle which is today has
become the scene of the onslaught of the hood against the world of Islam, where he was born in the
year 150. After after the after two years, his mother took him back to the city of Makkah, which is
		
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			his ancestral home. In maka, maka belongs to the area of the ages, and he naturally will study
according to the the the method of the ages is first in MCI studied under people like Muslim even
Holly the zenji, they are often the Sofia live Marina. Then he goes to the other center of ridges,
that is Madina munawwara with a great Imam of the time azima Maliki bananas. From these teachers he
gathered the name of the agencies, there are some of the Sahaba features of the terbinafine jars,
and he became an independent scholar in his own right. However, unlike all the other Imams, the
other amounts of America lived in Medina barely ever lived the city of Medina only for Hajj, and he
		
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			would come back to Medina reason being that he wants to die in the city of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam
		
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			other inmates would remain within their particular cities rarely travel out for Hajj for over an
hour and then but they would remain restricted to their geographical areas. Even shaffir Yamamoto
lyerly was somewhat different. He, after studying in his local city, Makkah, he goes to Medina. And
his thirst for knowledge still hasn't been extinguished. He goes further, he goes to Baghdad, in
Baghdad, he meets the students of imaam, Abu hanifa, Natalya Lee, and now he learns the thick of the
other tradition, the field of the other tradition. And he, he initially arrives in his house, and at
that time, there was a, there was a lot of tension between the two schools, two rival schools, that
		
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			school has a particular approach. The other school has a particular approach. And this tension
between the two, he arrives on the scene as defender of his own tradition, which means he's going to
enter into polemics and debate with people of the other tradition, but being the same mind and
individual that he was, he saw that in my opponent, there's a lot of good as well, in the School of
the opposition of the of the Iraqis, Imam, Abu hanifah Rahmatullah Allah and his student. The coup
funds, the Iraqis, there is a lot of good and a lot of advantages. Things are seeking that school as
well. So he considers himself he considers his own particular position. He has found a lot of
		
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			things. A lot of things have good within the old school of images, but similarly there's a lot of
good here as well. He did not side with any of the two ancestrally comes from the edges, but now he
has discovered others have something good as well. So he goes on for the
		
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			For years of his life in the year 199, in the year 199, he leaves a lot and he goes to Egypt. He
spends the last four years of his life from the year 200. To the year 204. He spends those last four
years of his life
		
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			in Egypt, and they, he synthesizes the two existing schools, the school of ages and the School of
Law, whatever is good in either one, he takes what goes from there, he takes what's good from the
other, and he synthesizes and merges it into a new school, which becomes what we know today as the
chaverim hub. There are a number of characteristics within this Madhava Yamcha Viva La la, that it
would be good for us to take note of a number of things, the first of which is whatever he did, in
studying the field of view, one school studying the field of the other school thereafter
synthesizing them together. Whatever he did was done purely for the sake of a lot of another
		
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			purpose. It was asked afterwards of someone see there are two great older my existing at the same
time, there is Mohammed Ebenezer Sharpie. And there was another person called II II, II.
		
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			II and Sharpies name has spread far and wide cover the entire Muslim world. On the other hand, no
one even remembers was Yeah, even Oxfam, why is that so? Why is one men status raised so high, and
the other man, his name is lost to history? No one knows. So the answer was given that perhaps that
is an account of what even Shafi Rahmatullah used to say. In terms of his Nia, he used to say that
was it to anana Sahaja, Lyle Manny, from Milan, Cebu, nyla Johar for me. No, I wish that people
could learn this knowledge from me. But no one should describe a single letter of it to me, I don't
want the credit. It is said that there's no limit to what a man can achieve. If he doesn't care who
		
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			gets a credit. That was the essence of em Chavez efforts, the work needs to be done the differences
of opinion that is they need to be synthesized into a new school in which that contains what is good
on either side. But the credit doesn't matter who gets the credit because it's something done purely
for the sake of Allah Allah for the perpetuation of the Sharia of Allah tala for the perpetuation of
the Quran for the perpetuation of the sunova sola, sola Molly's alum who gets the credit is
immaterial. So the first and most important point, that earmarked that characterize the FSM Shafi
Rahmatullah Ali was he sincerely worried to
		
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			people should learn, but I do not want the credit for Milan saguna la hora firmino. The second
point, the second point in his method was that of synthesis. And I've already explained what this
particular synthesis was taking was good on either side, not considering the fact that look, I come
from over there, therefore, I'm going to stick with what I have learned from my teachers alone and
no one else, recognition of the fact that there's a lot of good, there's a lot of hype, there's a
lot of goodness in the opponent as well recognize it and acknowledge it, and then synthesize it
together with what what you have to offer. You always have to rely on he was also responsible for
		
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			setting forth
		
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			a definition of the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and arguing vehemently in
support of what the supremacy of Hadith as the prime source of the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam. Now there were certain regional differences between people, some in Hijazi Malik and his
students and his school used to believe that the Sunnah is not restricted to Hadith alone. Let's
just explain something what is the sun, the sun is what Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam said, what he
did what was done in his presence, and he actually has three, that is this one, it doesn't have a
particular form, it doesn't have a particular body. It's just something that was done once upon a
		
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			time. But the record of that sooner, once that sooner is recorded into a tradition into a a saying
that someone transmits to another what is born in that way. Hadeeth is born Hadid is the vehicle
through which the sun is transmitted to later generations. That's the relationship between the two.
The Maliki's the Hejaz is had a wider concept of the sooner they had the concept of the sooner that
also includes the Hamill the general practice of a community, the practice of the community and
specifically the Maliki say, the people of Medina what they do is on par If not a time superior to a
to a individually transmitted report to a Hadith, Masha Allah, Allah looks at that idea, and he
		
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			notices this Melton this particular idea. There is merit in the idea but there are a number of
disadvantages within it as well. Because there are times when the Amal origin it's not what
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, but what governors or whoever who came afterwards, in which case it
does not carry the same weight. So on account of the fact that there are certain loose areas with
enamel he elevates the role of Hadith over that of ama, on account of his his efforts had eventually
came to be
		
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			documented in the six major books of Hadith which we have Buhari Muslim Abu Dhabi 10 million si and
nomada. That was a development initially that could happen
		
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			Usually be traced back to the efforts of young Shafi mountain lion he then put in this
		
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			very strict adherence to the Sunnah, a very strict adherence to the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam. After defining it, After defining it, he said certain parameters, not a hadith cannot just
be happy, it's because someone says Kala Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, they must be very clear, very
clear parameters and guidelines that sets out what when the Hadith is authentic, when it is not
authentic in his book, that is Allah, He argues very, very clearly in favor of a systematic approach
to Hades methodology in terms of each hidey hole now, it will now become possible to separate a an
authentic idea from an authentic one. What he does also a major contribution to the history of the
		
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			development of law in Islam, is that every fucking every mystery every Imam that had existed from
the time of this habit of the low on him up to his own time, each one had a method. Each one had a
methodology of how he goes about thinking a system in which he extracts from the Quran and extract
from the Sunnah. But all of them were systems were within their minds, that system had not been
documented, it had not been set out in clear detail, so as to ensure it's the possibility of it
being taught to others transmitted and in that manner, be kept alive image of those to that
particular task as well. That methodology called the soul or soul, or soul, it was for the first
		
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			time systematically and comprehensively set out by VM Shafi, rato, Larry. So there was sincerity in
his efforts, there was some emphasis within his efforts, taking what appears to be different than
synthesizing him, synthesizing them into a new hole. There was also system he brought about any
systematize what was up to that moment undocumented, and unsystematic and a great service to the
sooner in defining setting parameters to the heartbeat and thereafter, adherence to that particular
Hadith. A lot of that blesses efforts greatly blessed his efforts. within less than 100 years after
his death, his mother spread from east to west. After him several generations, several generations
		
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			of several generations of scholars the great achievement of these ima Imam Shafi Imam Malik Imam,
Abu hanifa, Imam, Ahmed Mohammed, Ali him, the great achievement was the manner in which they
succeeded in inspiring not just one generation, but continuously, on an incessant basis, inspiring
the next generation to take it further. And in the preservation of the of this deal of ours. This
has been one of the most potent factors inspiring a next generation to to commit themselves to this
task of reserving Dean as a previous generation z. There were several booster Hadean, they were many
moms of great stature, a lot Allah had ordained only for four of them to have perpetuity perpetuity
		
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			up to the present day, where they have preserved themselves and perpetuated themselves for over 1000
years and it is still continuing whenever any child learns the fit according to the main hub of who
hanifa Imam Malik or even shafia Yo mama even humble whenever an Imam or Medallia Saliba teaches the
field according to a particular man, that inspiration is continuing that inspiration that was
started with these imams which they in turn inspired. They were they drew the inspiration from who
for masala sallallahu wasallam himself that inspiration continues the mother hip in the manner that
the mother had self replicating in the mother in the manner that the mother self perpetuate what
		
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			lives on is allowed on us put on what lives on either side of us Rasul Allah is a lamb. It is
through these schools that Deen is preserved. After Imam Shafi Ramadan Lai Ali, he's, the Foucault
have his mother split over various portions of the earth. Two major schools were established one in
in the city of Baghdad in Iraq. Another in the city of Morocco and the city of Misha pour in Horus
on these two schools continued, transmitting the tradition and developing it further. Because what
was once upon a time in embryonic stage had to be developed had to be
		
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			detail had to be unpacked, in order to rise to the challenge of society, wherever they might be. So
the shamans have produced scholars of the like of who emammal haramain his student Imam Hassan
Rahmatullah Ali abou is hyper shirazian, the lockets addition, afterwards people of the caliber of
Yama, Rafi mm nawawi up to that point in time, the must have had spread far and wide, it had also
produces the kind of scholars who devoted their entire lives to it, and systematize it in line with
with the basic principles laid down by them shall be allowed to lie only according to the Quran,
according to
		
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			the method existed in Iraq, there must have existed in Harare, the two major areas, but then came a
major development in the world of Islam. That development was the question
		
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			First great setback, the first a political setback that Muslims suffered. Out of the heart of
Central Asia came the Mongols, and they destroyed everything in front of them. They destroyed
whatever they came across cities, entire cities were put to the sword. blood flowed in every city
that they came across. And that vibrant School of fitness it was found in those regions of Persia.
For our son specifically, those attrition came to an end, scholars had to flee from there people had
to flee from the and they fled westwards. Now the malherbe was concentrated in Syria, and in Egypt,
because it was from those two countries that Islam would be preserved. The Mongols had overrun just
		
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			about everything else. Everything was taken, Baghdad itself was sacked. The halifa himself was was
killed in Baghdad, the population was put to the sword, only one region so held out Syria also when
the only reason that held out was that of Egypt under the Mamelukes. And then the Titan, the Titan
when the Battle of angel loot was won by saifuddien photos and avahi beavers and the Mongols were
defeated for the first time and then set in a period of great flourishing for this particular month
of the Shafi mother. During the time of Salahuddin you will be using the time they're also the other
you'll be rulers, and they after the mum Luke rulers enjoy the period of great prosperity and great
		
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			development.
		
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			Eventually time will come when a new power would rise. And those are the Ottomans the Ottomans game,
and the man who was different, they must have them official map of the Ottoman Empire was the hanafy
mother. So the mother the Shafi mother became Eclipse To a certain extent, when it became Eclipse in
those particular regions, then a lot of that so are they in that from Yemen, from that area called
Hydra, most
		
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			people would emerge out of that particular area and spread all spread Islam specifically, and spread
the Sharpie Imam hub, by extension, all around the rim of the Indian Ocean. The rim of the Indian
Ocean is what the east coast of Africa, from Somalia, all the way down to Mozambique and Zanzibar,
that's the eastern the Western world of the Indian Ocean. And then the south coast of India,
Malabar, Kerala, Madras, those particular areas, Islam was led to there as well, at the hands of who
these traders, these llama, these are SRA from the family of Rasulullah sallallahu, Alayhi,
wasallam, who went far and wide for the purposes of what ostensibly for the purpose of of business,
		
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			ostensibly for for commercial purposes, but they carried with them a message they carried with them
a mission. What that what was that mission to spread the light of Islam, and the mother, which they
had what they must share the message, they were Sharpies they had been Sharpies for, for hundreds of
years before that, and from the family of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wasallam descendants has
settled in that particular area, kept the flag kept the the flame of Islam burning, kept the flag of
the Sharpie mother up high, and then took it to all of these regions. They took it to these regions
and eventually they reach also Southeast Asia, which was only beginning to be some eyes at the time.
		
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			And who was it they speak about the valley songo, the nine valleys that came to,
		
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			to what is today known as Indonesia, in southeast Southeast Asia, they penetrated the land, the
largest Muslim country in the world in terms of population up to the present day is Indonesia.
Indonesia was one to the cause of Islam. Without a single soul they were being raised. No, no armies
when they no swords were these and people forced to convert to Islam. All that happened was Ola
traders, Ashraf's seized from the family of Allah sallallahu Sallam when they settle they
established businesses and people could see what kind of people these are. And today we have what we
have hundreds of millions of Muslims a particular region without the raising of a finger without the
		
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			raising of us all. Those regions within converted to Islam, and they became the heartland of the
Shafi mother for a while as well. But this also occurred at a time
		
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			when the son of Islam was bound to take a bit of a dip on the horizon had appeared. The colonialists
for a long time, Islam was a dominant power in the earth. It was situated at the juncture between
East and West right in what we call the Middle East. Anyone who wants to trade with the Far East has
to go through the Middle East. But then something important happened. Something important that
happened was that Islam was driven out of Spain. But the knowledge that they are left behind was
then used by plans envy, the navigate and others to find the route an alternative route to the east.
They want to go to the east not simply to trade but to colonize as well. They cannot do it through
		
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			the Middle East. So they look for another route. And that other route came to be what they call the
Cape of Good Hope. They sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to them. It was good hope to Islam, it
was not good hope, because that signaled that signal, the fall of price of Islam from the place of
primacy. Very soon you found Vasco de Gama sales around the cape. Fine
		
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			The route to India.
		
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			What many do not know is that Vasco de Gama was a brutal murderer. he sails as he sailed from the
east coast of Africa for millennia. As he sails towards India. he encounters a ship of a judge
returning from Makkah. And what does he do? He sets the ship on fire, and moves away to a distance
and watch all of those for judge burning today. Watches they burn to death. These were the
colonialists. His son came after him. He was his son was called Christopher, his son comes after
him, and he travels along the same route. He eventually lands in the area that we call today,
Somalia, in Somalia. At that time, there was a great Jihad going on between the Somalis and
		
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			Ethiopians. And there was a great leader in Somalia at the time called Eva mama gang. gang was
leading the jihad against the Europeans, Ethiopians were Christians of the Coptic branch of
Christianity, Ethiopian coptics. And Christopher de Gama, decides to join forces with them. He
decides to join forces with him against him. Armageddon captures him and beheads him for getting
involved in a conflict. That was not his. But anyway, these Spanish and Portuguese explorers, they
were still fired with the same zeal with which that driven Islam out of Spain with which hundreds of
1000s of Muslims were either committed to the fires of the Inquisition, or were forced into covering
		
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			up that these were the people who had found the route around the cape, and then they colonized our
lands, and the first group to stand up against them with the old Lama. The Dalai Lama was the first
to stand up and give resistance. There was a young man born in Sumatra.
		
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			He went off from his own land, and he went to Makkah and Medina de he went to go and study. He
studied for many years, and he came back with an even given to him by his teacher. He came back to a
land however, that was starting to be colonized. He said, what has to happen in a case such as this,
Jihad has to be performed against these people. He came back together with him there was another
one, two of these students, they will starve they shaved in Madina munawwara was a person called
Ibrahim, even Hassan and karate, they come back from the mother Asahi Brian Kirby to their own land
and they find the land is being colonized by these people who are playing Muslims up one against the
		
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			other, support one king against the other, divide them and then rule them. This young man stands up
and picks up the the standard of jihad and starts his jihad against the Dutch who have colonized his
land. He is captured after a long battle, after which he had to flee from place to place. He's
eventually given assurance that no surrender, nothing will be done to you. He did surrender.
Something was done to him. He was exiled from his land. He's a misuse of a third party, Alma kasuri.
She also is an exile for almost 10 years to the island of Sri Lanka, Ceylon in those days, where he
wrote many of his books while imprisoned in Ceylon, he wrote many of his books, but it was still too
		
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			close to home, it was still too close to home. So the Dutch after you become aware of efforts to
release your use of from Sri Lanka, they decide that this man must be sent to a place that's a bit
further than this to the end of the veritable end of the earth, where no one will ever be able to
get him again. And where did they send him to? They send into the place that was considered back
then, in the 17th century, the Guantanamo Bay back then, that was the Cape of Good Hope no one will
ever be able to get to him there. And in 1699, he arrives with a group of his followers in a ship
called the football at the Cape. Not only is he brought the he is not kept at the Cape itself
		
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			because of the fear that he might influence other political exiles. So he sent 45 kilometers outside
of Cape Town to the farm of Dominic Pietro skeldon. called sunflower back then, to keep him as far
as possible away from the community as far as possible, that he could not have any kind of influence
over them. He arrives in the 1694 he only stays on these shores for five years. In 1699 he passes
away he was a great shape of alien he was a great shape of the soul of Mr. Abdullah live near
Halloween had the the author of the people have died that's well known to all of us. He makes use of
in a ton of ties. He mentions in his nefarious Alia, film Messiah Sophia. He mentions a certain book
		
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			being read to me. Mm hmm. That was blind. He could not read books on his own. So he had someone he
claimed she was the one who read a certain book of even Arabi to him. He mentioned him in it says
Raja Lin minjerribah is no use of wahoo amin as hobby now that was in use of himself. He had made
all of these great olema has reached the highest levels of Kosovo and valaria. This man was
imprisoned into a land such as this. When we look at it back then, imagine what would what would the
people have thought our leaders are being taken in chains, our olema our Salah hain, our Olia they
are being taken in chains and transformed into a land where no one would ever be able to have any
		
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			access to the monster ever to die in a strange land without friends without his family around him.
But a lot of had something else in mind. Whatever they blend my Corolla, Corolla, a lot.
		
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			I'd also plan from the seeds planted by sheer use of and within that seed among the seed was the
fact that he brought this particular method to these lands here, from the seeds planted by the use
of these today a community in this country that has given the services to the country that it has
given will continue giving it and will continue holding aloft the standard of Islam, the standard of
the Dharma, Mohammed Salah Allah is the standard that says La ilaha illAllah Muhammad Rasul Allah,
from who from an exile from a person who was brought in chains, a person who had to die in a strange
land he brought with him his mother he brought with him his Deen is brought to the Mr. Saba, he
		
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			brought with him his fate, which does not happen to Michele Ali, and those particular practices
which He instituted amongst his followers, these were the practices that kept the flame of Islam
alive through its darkest days. It was the fall of Allah tala. It was a grace and mercy of Allah
tala that in our community here, in the southern tip of Africa, Islam did not die out. It was a time
when we had no means we were slaves. We were exiled. We were prisoners kept far away from the
cities. But Allah Allah had ordained that within every generation, they shall be men, who will keep
the flame of Islam alive. In every generation, they will be men, sometimes very learned lecture use
		
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			of himself, sometimes very brave like one guru. Sometimes he learned like Abu Bakr Effendi,
sometimes not as learned as they were, but have inherited the tradition and we're committed to the
task of preserving it. We couldn't back then our this particular diaspora community, this exile
community couldn't afford to send the children overseas to go and learn. What could they do in the
slave lodges at night? One goes around teaches other one what some pita kalimera my name euro
Muslim, remember, you're a Muslim? This is your Karima This is what the yen is all about. It started
as a teaching as imparting of the Colombian slave lodges. Today we have modalities in we Sahil
		
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			Buhari and associate of the Quran is being taught the sacrifices of those elders, the sacrifices of
those men who must have shed tears of blood for having been exiled from the countries those
sacrifices are having their fruits 300 years later, a lot of us plan most certainly comes to
fruition.
		
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			There came a time when the community had to be molded into a single unit. We know very little about
those early days because they weren't there wasn't even the means to record it. The only thing that
we have on record is what the East India Company has on its own records.
		
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			the graves of us so he was interred there because of a diet there is a dispute over whether his body
was taken back to Java, whether it was left here whether his body is here with us or not this spirit
that he imparted was has learned and will continue to live inshallah, for as long as there's a
community on this these shows which will say la ilaha illAllah. Muhammad Rasul Allah, the legacy of
which we speak, it's not just a legacy of a malherbe. It's not just a legacy of making souligner
particularly, it's not just the legacy of having any car in particular, or having our popular
practices in a particular way. It's the legacies that says we will commit ourselves to the task of
		
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			preserving this Deen against all odds. If it so happens that the mum hub which was the cohesive
factor for him was a sharpie, madhhab Alhamdulillah. For that it's part of that particular legacy.
More importantly, we will preserve this Deen if this mother hub is part of it, then this method will
be preserved along with one guru came along another Mujahid another person who had been a prince in
his own land. He comes from Fedora and where he has engaged in jihad. The wonderful thing about
those particular areas is sheer views of south of the jihad. Jihad did not succeed he was eventually
captured. The point was not to succeed. The point was to continue. The Jihad never came to an end.
		
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			Syriza might have been exiled he when Sultan bonzo continued with a Jihad thereafter, the Rajasthan
Bora continued with jihadi after he was twice exiled to the cape. If he didn't do it, then the
prince called people Nicola continued with a Jihad thereafter, if not him, then some other alum or
the other. It continued further away for a very, very long time, until the Dutch eventually arrived
at a certain strategy. They took a certain orientalist call Christiane snook aurania Colossians, two
California to study Islam. He had to study Islam and in order to study Islam, he did something. He
pretended to have become a Muslim. He came to Egypt, I lived there for a while, and then some of the
		
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			other you found his way to MCI itself. In my case law for a while until he was found out then he had
to flee. But anyway, he was living in Makkah, he saw something he saw the soldiers coming from all
over the Muslim world. The soldiers come to Makkah, when they go back, they are fired with a zeal of
jihad and resistance. And before you know, it's a new Holocaust. Yeah, they started again. So he
advised the Dutch government at the time, if you want to stop these fires of opposition, these
outbreaks of resistance and resilience of the Muslim community, there's only one way in which you're
going to do you are going to have to cast fear into the into the hearts of not the general public of
		
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			the troublemakers and who are those troublemakers, llama. These are the ones who are studying the
public up against you. And they started on a campaign of wiping out as many of the allameh that are
		
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			As many of them they stood up against them, to the extent that eventually all the others were cowed
into silence. Only then and this is 200 years to 250 years after the first colonized this particular
country of Malaysia Indonesia, only then did they find that peace and stability that they were
looking for. And by that time, by that time, colonialism was on his last legs, what would he take
them to take the First World War and the second world war for European nations to expand their own
abilities, and then to realize that we cannot continue with this particular project colonization any
longer, what has to happen, Liberty needs to be given to those countries from the 1940s 1950s 1960s
		
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			all these various countries received their independence. In any event, there was at one guru, Imam
Abdullah is on call they have the Salaam, he is also captured in Jihad and he is also brought, he's
brought to Robben Island, setting on Robben Island exile that he was calling himself an Imam
Abdullah Al Muslim for the injustice that had been done to him. But look at the first thing which he
does the first thing which he does when he sits down there, he recognizes something, what is there
that other people don't have? Yet, there's something important, they don't have a single copy of the
most half of the Quran amongst them. And what does he do, he sits down to write a copy of the most
		
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			half from memory. Now I had the opportunity to page my way through that was soft on guru which was
written in his own hand. And I was astonished at the manner in which the miracle of a loader
manifests itself in the preservation of the Quran. A man sitting way on Robben Island, without any
help was nothing with him except what he had. He was he had been taught from his teachers what had
been stored in his chest, and he writes the entire muscle for memory. You know what, he made a few
mistakes here and there, there are a few mistakes anyhow, if he does, indeed, we'll make a few
mistakes. The fact is not that he made five or six mistakes, the fact is that everything else he was
		
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			right. Everything else was perfectly transmitted here in a few mistakes, because he's a human after
all. But in this manner, the recognition comes from this great Imam, that what needs to be done, D
needs to be preserved for the need to be preserved. He needs to be preserved. For him to be
preserved. We need the Muslims. We don't have printing presses, so let's get pen and paper. And yet
it is written, I think all in all three massages. One of those massages, unfortunately was lost a
few years ago when a descendant of his went over to Indonesia to contribute to people there. On the
way to the airport. He was in such a rush that he ran for the plane and sitting on the plane he
		
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			remembered he forgot it in the golf. One was half was lost. The other half was found in in the roof
of the old machine in the roof of the old machine when they're doing the innovation there they found
the Mossad inshallah soon that one will be printed and everyone can see the efforts of that great
man called Imam Abdullah mm copy of the solemn not only that recognition along with it, of the fact
that Mustafa alone is not what is required. Thereafter. There are two other things that are going to
be required as well. We need a Masjid and madrasa for our children to be taught no longer in the
slave lodges where we need to whisper. We need to be open and public about this. We need to be open
		
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			that we are Muslim, and the government is going to take cognizance of the fact that we are Muslim.
They're going to take cognizance of the effect. So we need that Masjid. And we need something else
we need another rasa for the children to come. It is one of the strange coincidences in this history
of ours of Islam, that whenever the need came to erect structures for the preservation of the there
was a certain sector of this community that stood up and answered that call and who was that the
females of our community? When Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam acquired there was Khadija de la
and Houthi with him. When he required someone to transmit his knowledge he was I shall be allowing
		
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			her with him when an institution was required for the transmission of knowledge. In first in
Morocco, there was a woman called Fatima Alfa Maria, who spent her money to set up the first that is
the oldest university in the world, not Al Azhar. Azhar was founded somewhat late and it was founded
by the fourth dementia, but careening fast which stands up to the present day, that was a lady that
rose to that particular challenge. When in Makkah about something like 150 years ago, there was a
need for a mother vessel to be established, a woman came forward Begum sola, she was the one who
gave the money the mother masala tea continues in macabre the very present day. Often it was the
		
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			females in our community. And when one guru required someone to donate land, then sarki from the car
came forward, and it was her and that will avert exists up to the present day, the will of that
great woman who's like almost the founding Mother of Islam in this country, from the woman folk it
came here is the land. Imam Abdullah Tanga you take it in you erect the machine and take it from
here onwards, before they had the masjid. This era of Islam had to be established which era was
that? The most important manner in which we make our presence known joumana needs to be done. There
was no permission to worship publicly. Under the old blackouts of the Dutch East India Company no
		
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			permission to worship publicly. Tongue guru says we will defy that and they went to the old area
with Aquarius to be Scottish globe these days. They went into that old area and publicly they are
the first Joomla forcing everyone to recognize the existence of Islam. Now, Muslims if at that
moment in time, they were not all from the same area. They had been brought from a number of
		
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			Different areas. Some of them have come from Indonesia. Some of them have come from the coastal
areas of India, such as Bengal. Some of them have come from the east coast of Africa. Some of them
have come even from the west coast of Africa, from Angola, etc. But the leaders of the community
were from there. And the main hub of the leaders of that community was the Sharpie method, others
who join that particular community, we know that
		
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			India or Bangladesh, for example, chose Bengal back then the method there is HaNavi. But the members
of that particular community that were transplanted to the cape, they joined the larger community.
The day one guru close his eyes. Leadership document was assumed the mantle of leadership devolve
not upon his sons immediately, but upon his closest student, he was called Ahmed fandangle. The
Shafi mother became a force that welded the community together, they could have had, for example,
you know, okay, fine, someone else or a different mother?
		
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			Let's have two different things. At that point, unity was required. That was a founding moment, that
was a critical moment. So if if the last differences of opinion that set in that moment, we might
well have had a catastrophe that might have led to the extinction of Islam from this particular
lens. But the mazahub this one particular method serve as the basis for the unity on on grounds of
each on the strength of which the community could march forward. If the love did come in afterwards,
if the law did come in cannot be avoided,
		
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			cannot be avoided. As I said, it's one of those tests with which a lot of the will afflict this
community from time to time. And it needs to be seen how well will they respond to it? Well, when
the disc game, I don't think that they acquitted themselves too well. What did happen was something
that we feel sometimes we need to lower hitting shame for. Eventually, the time would come when
there was large scale immigration from the Indian subcontinent as well. There came a time when the
Ottoman Empire started taking an interest in Muslims. At that time, Sultan, Abdul Hameed, of the
Ottoman Empire, was desirous of forging unity across the Muslim world, the pan Islamism Abdul Hamid
		
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			and he sent an alum from Turkey. And this alum By the way, his name is Abu Bakr Effendi was not 100
he was a shot he is a chord is a chord is a sharpie, but because he was sent by the Ottoman Empire,
and because the malherbe of the Ottoman Empire was the Hanafi madhhab, he was sent to teach the
Hanafi madhhab here, and then tension came about in this community. Now this is where we need to
learn how not to deal with these differences.
		
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			You know, in the cape, we have a certain word that we use for Indian shopkeeper. They call them what
they call them Barbies.
		
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			Now, not today, you speak about the Barbies, Indian shopkeeper. Actually, how did what's the origin
of this word? Those who know Bahasa those know Java will know what w means. W means now we'll be
learning z.
		
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			And the Sharpies at that time, we're calling these Hana views on the subcontinent Barbies, without
them knowing tongue in cheek. That was the kind of tension that existed. Today, the bobby calls
himself a Barbie, because the word has lost that particular connotation A long time ago, but this
was a type of tension which existed within this community. Then Abu Bakr Effendi did something.
		
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			He did something he took a very unwise step, he took a step of saying that you cannot eat crayfish
and you cannot eat snook. Now you can mess with everything melosa Casali in Canada. And, and that
goes the tension. And on account of that the committee didn't quite know how to respond. And they
dealt with in the worst possible way, by calling each other names by, you know, attacking one
another by going to court often had to go to court testify in court and certain issues, and they
were a lot of differences.
		
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			The foundation was solid, don't guru at low laid a solid foundation. But at that time, the potential
for differences had not yet played itself out except they have not yet quite emerged. When he did
eventually come, then the wrong steps were taken. But Alhamdulillah whatever it happened,
eventually, Harmony reasserted itself and the community could go forward. Then came a time when the
Muslim community found that you know, they started spreading inland, they started spreading to the
Eastern Cape. It is often said that the first machine is not the old machine of often guru in the
book of indoorsy. But the first must be the machine right and, and there's a very strong historical
		
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			case to be made for that. When there was expansion of Islam to the eastern frontier. And a group of
Muslims settled there and they ultimately they were never they mean the first thing that Muslims
will do, first establish a Masjid then a community will grow around that particular machine, and
it's spread inland. Kimberley diamonds were found everyone moves to Kimberley, Johannesburg, gold is
found everyone moves to Johannesburg along them would be who the Muslim community as well. The
Muslim communities would be there as well. And the malherbe that they brought with them from the
cape would be the mother of that they carried along with them. However, immigration from elsewhere
		
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			from the subcontinent came into Natal came into Transvaal. And in this manner, we find two mothers
coexisting side by side with one another at times of tension, but if treated in the in the proper
way, then that tension doesn't necessarily have to exist.
		
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			Now came a time when
		
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			Muslims started finding the opportunity not just to preserve the deen locally. By the way, Muslims
were the ones who contributed in a major way to the in the preservation of their Deen. They
contributed to the cultural cultural heritage of South Africa. And I'm not speaking of the clubs and
speaking of the first printed books in Afrikaans language weren't involved in Afrikaans. Imagine a
man. He some ways from Scheherazade in Kurdistan, he sent by the Sultan of Turkey, to a land ruled
by the British, populated by a great mango most of people who speak every possible language, and
they develop their own little path. Oh, is it they call it Africans, this curd who works for the
		
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			Turks under the British writes a book in Afrikaans language and Arabic script. This gives you an
idea of how vibrant and how rich the tapestry of Islam is all done with that in mind, not to show
our literary acumen not to show how wonderful we are, but to show the efforts that we will undertake
for the preservation of this Deen the efforts the very first book ever printed before before. Oba
Griffin is by no Dean, before that there was another book called Al COVID-19, written in Arabic
script, but he's Afrikaans language, and they are Abu Bakr, if any and they have to come the
Booker's that he had his mind Hanif and many others like him, who wrote the deen in their own
		
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			script, but in the language of the Afrikaans language, it was exactly the same that Muslims for the
200 250 years that they still existed in Spain after the fall of Islam. When Islam fell, when
Granada eventually fell to Ferdinand Isabella, Muslims were not immediately exterminated. They
thought they will give them 200 years and in that time, they'll all be converted. And by the time
they did not, when two 300 years apart, 150 to 200 years have passed and they still had not
converted. Then they started exterminating them, but for that particular period while they were
trying to preserve their Deen they used to write Spanish in the Arabic script as well as as an
		
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			attempt to do what to preserve the deen in the only language that was a new because the Arabic the
links with the Arab world is just across the Mediterranean, but the links for the Arab world had
become cut off. They had lost command of Arabic language. They were speaking Spanish but they were
writing emails could be called El Jamia, though, in the same way Muslims here did the same Muslims
they can do North North America, South America to the little extent that they could they try to
preserve but here in this part of the world here a lot and I preserved it in Spain, it died out in
North America died out in South America died out for which reasons because yeah, a lot of that are
		
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			dangerous. They will always be men who will keep the flame of Islam alive. They will always be men.
Not the most learned of Allah. But the most educators are servants of the dino Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. And all the little they knew was that particular motherboard that they inherited
from their ancestors, they kept it alive. Well, those are some of the practices that remained
amongst them. The width of the mom had dad would be the clarion call by which Muslims will be told
you are a Muslim, read these cards, this will keep you This will keep your Eman fresh, this will
keep you alive. And it actually succeeded in doing that we have that article huddled amongst us up
		
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			to the very present day. It says something. In fact, you know, back in the 70s, when we did not know
too much about the origins of the word. The Hadar was quite funny how that was written on this
company. And some professors in university was saying well,
		
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			it must be coming from what had us which means an event so probably because they have a Thursday
night event and they were the calling No, it's not none of that. It was our table Imam Abdullah
Galloway al Haddad, we're even lost track of where it's coming from. But it remained the hub that
would be kept up. Because through though these practices Islam had been preserved, and all that it
is, it is a litany it's a wheel of a car, of the soul of the remnants of the soul is the remnants of
the soul of the great majority of 300 years ago. Through his efforts, he compiled this particular
wheel that we it was read by so many people, and they managed to keep the man fresh and alive
		
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			through sake of Allah tala, the dhikr of Allah the Most certainly keeps the hearts alive with the
time then came that Muslims now found the opportunity to start sending their children overseas. So
this started happening from the late 1800s, early 1900s. Now links were established, but unlike the
		
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			Indian community, which had maintained links with their homelands, this particular community, they
already had 200 years in which to forget way before the language, our great grandparents perhaps
remember some of the Java Mala Mala yo The only thing that we remember is canal and trauma Cassie
and a few other things beyond it. But links were the homeland had been lost. links with family had
been lost. The only thing that the main when you have no other home, your spiritual home remains
Makkah and Medina. So that's where they started sending the children for studies. As the
opportunities arose, they started sending their children to Makkah, they started sending the
		
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			children to Al Azhar in Cairo. And from there the children would go study this very same as abroad
to these shows by sheer use over
		
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			With a lie alley, perpetuated thereafter by one guru, and then there was a bit of turbulence in the
time of Effendi. But that must have still persisted and you've taken it had been taken elsewhere,
and it still serve as a vehicle for cohesion and unity within the community. And of course for the
preservation of the
		
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			and then came a time when not only students were going to the Middle East to go and study, other
opportunities arose, they started going to the Indian subcontinent to study. And gradually a moment
came also, when local Institute Institute started being developed. The seeds that had been planted
by those guys are so long ago was starting to bear fruit within
		
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			a decade or two from the founding of the first mothers in South Africa. Students are coming now from
other parts of the world to come study Dena land to which Islam had been banished in order to get
extinguished. But you read una yo fionnula La Jolla for him. Why Allahu Illa UT menorah, they wanted
to extinguish the light of Allah Allah was a mouse, Allah refuses, but to not just to keep the flame
alive, but to bleed to bring it to complete fruition. We are seeing that fruition happening in the
world as we we are others are coming from elsewhere and South Africa is becoming the place where
others are coming to learn the deen. And in these wonderful ways, a lot of as brought about that
		
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			this particular month hub, which had come here with those exiles now is starting to give those
particular foods and it's part of our legacy, a part that we take pride in a part because of what
because of the manner first of all in Michigan Shafi rato lyerly created synthesis between opposing
structures, the manner in which he brought his own personal sensibility to the table, the manner in
which he sought to preserve the Quran and the Sunnah, and to allow people the ease of practicing the
Sharia, without having to ask every time without having to go to the Quran and Sunnah directly from
the started and all the efforts of those generations, after generations of Yokohama de la mufa City
		
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			and eventually coming down trickling down to this part of the world as well to preserve the the main
hub is not a jail. The mother is not something is not handcuffs that you put upon you and you can't
go lift and you can't go Rakim assembly walks like this month hub is a vehicle for preservation.
That makes it easy for even a little child to learn how to make his model without having to go to
the Quran and make each Jihad without having to figure out which add sorry, which add no sorry,
because every little child needs to learn he cannot become a missionary. every adult needs to learn
because Riba Allah, Allah Muslim, and if every one of us have to learn and we have to constrain
		
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			seven to 10 years in America, to become much tides and then go to the Quran and Sunnah, what will
happen to the rest of our lives who's going to earn to feed our families, so there will be those who
specialize in this regard. And they will be this vehicle, called a man have an easy packaging of
this area to which people can refer and easily learn in little bite sizes, in little bite sizes,
what they need to learn, a system in which fuqaha can be trained, new generation of women can be
trained without having to reinvent any wheels, without having to go back and go search all over
again for something that has already been clarified. In this manner. Islam has perpetuated itself
		
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			not only here, but in so many other parts of the world as well. This model of sincerity, this model
of synthesis, this month hub of ultimate simplicity, it's a very simple some of the Shafi mother was
eager to have a relationship between the mother and Hadith is a very simple and straightforward one.
There is the hottie the mother, in most cases, will agree with it without much
		
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			complication, without much complexity, very simple and straightforward. It doesn't have all that
		
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			many restrictions and
		
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			and rigidity within it is a multiple flexibility, flexibility, that says when the need calls for it,
you are not expected to stay within the bounds of this method, in every point in every every day of
your life for the rest of your life, it is a guide that serves but at times when needs arise, then
you can by all means go to somewhere else, if your need and your situation if the relief can be
brought to you situation in that regard, we the age in which we live is an age of the explosion of
knowledge, everyone has access books are freely available, it wasn't the case with our grandparents
and their grandparents.
		
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			before them, books are available information is readily available, what is unfortunately not so
freely available is the sincerity and commitment and the other of a valuable item of a student of
knowledge that they used to have once upon a time. So while all of us available,
		
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			we need to do something else in order to bring that humility of a student within us the humility
with which a student approaches the Quran with which he approaches this one of us Allah sallallahu
wasallam in our community, various different practices have originated we have spoken about the
huddart for example, these practices originate What is it? It is not so it is that particular branch
of of our Deen which Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam
		
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			was asked by God, money man, money, man Islam. What is the man what Islam in? The third question was
woman yes on that particular the spiritual life of Islam, the spiritual ethos, the spiritual core of
Islam is not just a matter of making Salah giving Sokka nowadays a very, very spiritual, a very
personal relationship with a lot of which we maintain through our ibadah which blows relatively life
into our ibadah that is that their son, their son, which Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam explained by
saying, and taboo de la Cana Katara not just to do a bad job of making any bad in the sense it's
almost as if you are seeing a loudhailer what we'll bring our iPad up to that level, yes, our normal
		
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			deeds, but then something else that is needed as well. That thing which will perpetuate Dean
preserved in in the darkness of his moments, the vicar of Allah, Allah, Allah says oh to under the
current law, he Akbar is the greatest of things. And it is easy to teach a few of a few sutras of
the Quran, to people who otherwise know nothing else. And through the recitation of those things,
through visitors days of that, of that little bit of Islam had been preserved in countries such as
ours, there is sometimes a controversy around these things. There is a controversy now, the
controversy which exists exists for good reasons, people are not malicious. People are not being
		
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			funny about this, the intentions are good, but sometimes the method is not so wonderful. The
intentions are good, that intention is rooted in what in the desire to go back to the Quran and the
Sunnah to go back to the pure Palestine uncorrupted sumofus, Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, it's
a wonderful and a noble sentiment. But sometimes it just misses the boat and a few things. Because
those of God they are very they are part and parcel of the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam.
It is through a girl such as these, the dean had been preserved, not just here in so many other
places as well. So no, it's not against this honor. If anything goes wrong within the manner in
		
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			which is upheld, and what must we do, we don't throw the baby with the bathwater, take away What is
wrong? If it happens, that Salah is neglected on account of something like this, if it happens that
males and females start mixing on account of these gatherings, what do you do? Just stop what is
just take away the wrong element. But that which is right, that which is useful, that we just
perpetuated and preserved in that shouldn't be just thrown by the wayside. It has proven its
		
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			its usefulness. They are also the occasions of the Molitor. fasudil lasala Holly was another issue
of great controversy. Again, the desire to live strictly according to the Sunnah of Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam leads to the to the view that says Well, these functions they did not exist in a
time of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam therefore they should not exist now. As far as the Shafi
mother is concerned, I have yet to see a sharpie Sharpie, Ali mazovia muhaddith, who condemns the
practice in itself. There's been no condemnation from the time that the Moly the period has been up
to up to very recent times, there's been no condemnation of the practice itself because the manner
		
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			in which he had no lead was *. What was the only the only it was an occasion to reconnect with
the CEO of our son sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The first books are not only that were written
written by magazine, in which they explained the life of Aristotle not just the birth, the life of
Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam, in which we acquaint ourselves with a noble way of life with the
Sierra, the manor, the biography of our Navy SEAL alone is unknown, because how much do we know
about him? We know that his name was Mohammed. We know that his father's name is Abdullah. We know
that his mother's name was Amina. And beyond that, have we equipped our children with enough
		
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			knowledge about that Nerys Allah, Allah Salam that will allow themselves to allow them to stand firm
in the face of attacks against the noble character of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. Well, it
happened, that they are so bereft of knowledge about this era, that when someone attacks him, then
they shy away, they slink away they do not have the answers, or they even start feeling inferior. Or
now the law, they start believing the propaganda about Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, this oma
however, I believe that even when they are not so knowledgeable, the seed of the love of Mohammed
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is so deeply implanted in these hearts, that even the sinners
		
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			amongst us, when we find an attack against the character that there is a lala land and then we stand
up, then we stand up and we register our protest with dignity as but as loudly as possible, you can
miss with anything you don't miss out on a piece of the law and how much stronger when those
sentiments we if we connect with the CLF, I will not be allowed is and I'm not just in the month of
audio Well, not just on the 12th night of review, but throughout the year, when we connect with the
CEO of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam, not just through hearing lectures, not just through the
reading of the Rebbe Versace, but actually by implementing his life in our own lives, actually
		
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			taking his noble character traits and bring making it part of our lives. This was what the mold was
intended to have been the platform from which the light of the car to the normal fragrance era of us
		
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			Last will allow this will be diffused into the lives of all Muslims. It's not just an occasion to
perform certain deeds, it's an occasion to come to be spiritually enhanced to be spiritually
refreshed and refreshed and to reconnect was the senior officer Allah Salallahu alaihe salam was the
son of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam, if that is what the knowledge is going to be, and I don't
think law vehicles shall know two persons are going to differ about the fact that this is most
certainly what is needed for the preservation of the in our day and age. But if the mohli will be
reduced into simple, empty occasion, in which bunker at certain haram activities also associated
		
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			with it, sometimes certain mcru activities associated with it, then we need to revisit the issue,
remove those things, which might not be so good about it. But don't lose the opportunity to diffuse
the light of Nobunaga of the life of Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam that must never be lost track of
these differences of opinion have occurred before they will continue to occur. These differences of
opinion
		
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			have occurred before they will continue to occur. But we have to understand that there is a method
of dealing with difference. What is the method of dealing with difference? First of all, to respect
the intentions of the opponent. Once you respect the intentions, the upper understand that he's only
doing what he's doing is only saying what he's saying for the for the best of purposes,
		
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			not to condemn what the other is doing. has an Allah taught us in so many different ways in so many
different ways? What are the bad effects of the last? What can we still have, they still have one
party starts fighting with another A lot of us is Latin a zero for the shallow water and Hillary
hokum do not argue amongst one another. Because the result of that will be that your enterprise will
fail. Your enterprise your enterprise, your enterprise is to spread the light of Islam as far as
possible. The moment you start fighting with one another, just go back to the sea the lives of the
whole of arancini in the town of Santa Barbara City, alone, Islam spread all over the Arabian
		
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			Peninsula in the time say nomina Papa Rome, territory of Rome was conquered the entire Persia and
collapse in front of the advance of the armies of Islam Islam spread in the time of Satan of man or
the low until we reach the Atlantic Ocean on one side, and we reach the heartlands of Central Asia
on the other side. And then came the fitna, when say North Mondavi alone was murdered, and decided
society became divided amongst themselves. And three different wars occurred during the five years
of the offseason, I mean, Alibaba, Alibaba lohana, the Battle of the German, the Battle of sci fi in
the Battle of naran, three battles occur and just before the occurrence of the fourth one piece was
		
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			made within that community for those five years what happened, Islam did not spread Anyway, when
Muslims start fighting one another, stop arguing with one another, and sometimes for the most, the
silliest, the most negligible of reasons and what starts happening, they will always be movement in
this oma, but movement can either be linear, going forward, or moving can be lateral between
yourself. So there was movement, but it was not constructive movement. It wasn't forward movement,
it was lateral movement, nothing was getting forward, the two sides was simply oscillating, and
beating one another senseless. And it was not to the benefit of Islam, and was not to the benefit of
		
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			his of Islam is not to the benefit of mankind out there. Because what our Susannah law is and abroad
was for the benefit of mankind, not for the benefit of us who have already received it, it was for
the benefit of mankind. He was not Russian petroleum muslimeen. He was mentally ill Allah means
Allah to Allah. So the moment we started engaging in this interesting differences, it was happening,
the Baraka Allah through which Allah Allah allows the winds of victory to drive our ships forward.
That is taken away, Latin as alpha, Tasha habari hokum, your winds are taken away, you won't be able
to go forward. So difference of opinion, they will be respect the other person and the spirit in
		
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			which it must be done was Pharaoh in the llama savini Dahlia concludes, you need to have some or you
have an opinion, we tend to be opinionated about ourselves at times, we tend to be opinionated about
the position which we ourselves hold, we need to understand that the other man also might have a
point of view, a valid point, you might also have a valid point and create space. And this is more
especially more especially address of importance insignificant to our Lama. When they speak, they
should preferably speak in one voice, do not one person speak this way, and one person speaks the
other way. And then the two starts attacking one another, because the bad effects of that will be
		
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			suffered by who by the Obama administration must offers the bad effects of that, then mankind
suffers on account of it, and the Dow which has spread will not be able to go forward. So how does
does one three differences of opinion by respecting the opinion of the other and if things need to
be set right, then they need to be discussed between one another not with condemnation? Because you
know what condemnation does condemnation only drives the opposition into further obstinacy, even
Shafi Rahmatullah is is damaged neediness. heikoff invalid. He was a great poet, Dharma
		
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			Maybe mostly caffeine for the Nazi Germany minasi Hatoyama if you want to advise me advise me
privately. Don't in front of everyone attack me and tell me these for clear that this Iranian vj,
that shouldn't be the case. Speak to a person, how cola cola in alanda Croatia when you have to
admonish, admonish softly admonish, humbly admonish, meekly don't come with a strong minded attitude
a strong word attitude equals you'll only drive the opposition into further obstinacy Tammany be no
state of inferiority speak to me when I'm on my own. Virgin nibblin nasi Hatfield, Yama. Don't
reprimand me in front of everyone for in an NA Sabina nurse in our own Minato de la voz de la to
		
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			speak to me and remind me in front of everyone, that's not advice. That's not goodwill. That is what
that is, that is reproach of the worst kind. And that's the kind of repose that I do not even care
to listen to, for in Harlesden. iwasa only touches our taco bar. If you will not do as I say and you
will persist in attacking me in public. Do not be astonished when I don't listen to you, when I
don't take your word seriously. So, there needs to be a certain one add up of a stealer, there
should be a certain manner in which we engage with one another. If the love exists way between the
various motherhood, for example,
		
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			from from the perspective of the Hanafi madhhab. The Daily coup that we make in fudger is considered
a bita. From the perspective of the Shafi mother to make must happen, the robber in the widow is
considered to be da, does that mean we must now print templates and say, Mother x is B Dharma? Why
is the Dharma know we have learned to live with one another? What is the law? We have learned to
live with one another side by side was on another test that a lot of us placed upon us allowance to
see what are you going to do about it? Are you going to take the opposition to task Are you going to
attack we need to create space for one another to live in that we will bring the Baraka that a lot
		
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			of that has in store for us we will bring it down upon us. So the same thing applies here is
activity X or Y is it a bit or not? Well, they will be certain all and I will say that it is as far
as the sharpener is concerned.
		
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			They does exist the phenomenon of the Buddha has on the shelf he is from the time of a mama is
renamed Abdul Salam was called Susana Lola. He developed the methodology of dividing innovations
into five different categories. There's there's a there's an innovation which is even worse. There
is on innovation which has to be undertaken. Just look at when after the Battle of yamamah. Center
Omar, Abu Dhabi alone comes to Santa Monica de la says, look, we have to compile the Quran as one
complete scripture because the whole father dying, and cinema worker says that, how do you expect me
to do something which Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam did not do you find the same sentiments today?
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam did not do it? How can I do it? On the other hand, cinnamon says but
this is for the preservation of our Deen and then he convinced us a number of the Alona because even
savvy say we want you to undertake the completion of the Quran Zayed says it felt as if they were
loading a mountain onto my shoulders, because they adherence to this analysis of my beloved theories
of Amala. Solomon did not do it. How can I do it? But then say no more of the low or no, that genius
will not Allah.
		
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			Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah said that there were many men of inspiration, many inspired
individuals in previous months, if there is no such man in my own mind, and he says
		
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			that inspired men, a lot of made inspired him to go forward with the stars and convince his
colleagues that what you're thinking to be an innovation because it was not done by Rasulullah
sallallahu wasallam is in fact, the means of preserving this Deen is going to be the means of
preserving this Deen. And they agreed and they came together they even thought of it. So now Mark
cinemabox address of the heart of the Quran was compiled, we had the very same Koran amongst us. The
sentiment is a normal one and someone says it wasn't done by Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam if I would
not do it, it's the same sentiment expressed by people of the Alibaba enzyme even therapy. But
		
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			eventually, in the long run, what was proven to be the correct view, the view of say normal,
Pavarotti alone, we've seen the fruits of it. So similarly, just the fact that something had not
been done doesn't have its own accord show that it is a bad thing. However, it needs to be kept
within certain parameters, and the focus of our method have laid down very, very clear parameters.
The moment and innovative practice leads to the extinction of asana practice, then that innovative
practice must be stopped. The innovative practice which contributes to the preservation of DNA,
which contributes and falls in line and harmonizes with objectives again, that's a welcome
		
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			innovation. But when that innovative practice leads to the extinction of something Indian, then you
should be stopped if the innovative practice is eventually elevated to the level of a thought, and
someone says, but who can do it particularly, also omein sama hatanaka do we need to have the large
heartedness the breadth of vision to know that these
		
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			practices are not at the level of soon. They are not at the level of four. They are permissible
practices. So if someone does not do them, he doesn't make them a pass. If someone doesn't do them,
he's not a bad Muslim. We need to have the breadth of vision to allow for these differences to
exist. Someone who doesn't uphold ethical practice is still a good Muslim, he's probably practicing
10 times more of this another one I am, we have to have to have the spirit of charity and in the
spirit of charity, where we entertain the best possible idea of the opposition, inshallah he's doing
it for the best of reasons. And a lot of us sees that attitude amongst us that inshallah this
		
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			community will be blessed, then this committee will be blessed in the same way as it was placed 300
years ago, when those exams were transplanted to this land, what did they have in their minds only
the best of intentions, inshallah, we are making the sacrifice, but may come from this video, a
sacrifice what people who will one day carry the, the flags of the infoworld when Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam was given the option of having the town of power if we had punished him, we had
hurt him in ways that no one else had. He had the opportunity of destroying them. He said, No,
perhaps from the loins of these people will come in who will carry the standard of Islam forward.
		
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			When our focus is upon what the bigger picture, not just a smaller picture of me, my practices my
inherited legacy, but on the bigger picture the picture of what Islam was in the interest of Islam,
then I believe what that kind of charity does, Dean will go forward from strength to strength and
fulfill the ultimate objective, which is what was intended by the sending of Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam and the extension of his mission to his alma Neo Hara who Allah de nikoli to raise it above
every other Diem that does you know Islam should be raised above every other Deen one okay health
care of your own. Even though the calf is might not approve their of Allah plan will come to
		
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			fruition. Allah plan will most certainly come to fruition. If we adopt the correct attitude towards
it. We will become the instruments through which Dean will come to fruition. I restrict myself to
this much work it is our honor and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa sallahu wa salam ala Sayyidina
Muhammad Ali, he was mine, I might not have adequately covered everything. So therefore in the
question answer session that follows here after you are free to ask your questions to the extent
that I can. I will answer inshallah.