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Inshallah ta'ala I'm planning this weekend to
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teach one of my favorite classes that I
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think I spend a lot of time in
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this class, preparing this class more than any
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other time because this class is the outcome
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of decades of learning, reading, and what you're
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going to get in this class inshallah ta
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'ala is something that you're not going to
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be able to get it unless you spend
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decades of your time learning and searching and
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going into the books of the So I
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really encourage those who are able to attend
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to do so.
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I promise you it'll be a lot of
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fun too.
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Why this is a very special topic, talking
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about the life of the scholars.
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Talk about history through the life of the
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scholars.
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You know you can talk about historical events
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just saying in this year happened this and
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this and that but that's not what I
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do and I don't like history like reading
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history like that.
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I like to read history and what happened
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through the lens of people who lived that
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period of time.
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What experience did they have?
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What their personal experience looks like?
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What kind of life did they have?
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This class will allow you actually to get
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to know a lot of people's psychology and
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the social issues at their time.
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How they were thinking, how they were feeling
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about certain things, how this impacted their views,
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their decisions, their you know positions in certain
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things.
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And very often when we study fiqh or
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study history of the movement of scholars or
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schools thoughts and fiqh or even theology, we
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don't take these things in consideration.
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But this class actually do.
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I will allow, this class will allow us
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to walk into their homes, see how they
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live their life, what kind of relationship they
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had with their spouses, with their children, with
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their neighbors, with their society, with rulers, with
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the challenges that faced them in their life.
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You know and I can't you know wait
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until we speak about those scholars and I
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have chosen scholars from different generations from the
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first century or the first from 200 to
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300 then from 300 to 400.
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I just give an example so you kind
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of understand what this period of time looks
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like, what kind of challenges that they have
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and during that period of time until you
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know basically the last hundred years or the
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hundred years that we're living in inshallah.
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We will have people from all over the
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place, from India to Spain to Africa to
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Arabia, from all kind of gender, men, women,
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young, old, rich, poor, scholars of hadith, scholars
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of fiqh, you know of quran, you name
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it.
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So we will have a very good you
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know collections of scholars and individual who have
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contributed tremendously to their society and one of
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the things that we will do, this class
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is a very interacting class so every time
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we talk about someone's life we will always
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have this kind of discussion in the end.
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But tonight I want to focus on why,
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why this is important.
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Because first of all it is important part
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of our religion, Allah yaqul wa anna hadhi
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ummatukum ummata wahida.
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This ummah, the nation of muslims is one
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nation from the beginning to the end.
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We are connected to the people who lived
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before us.
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Subhanallah if you ask one of the brothers
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who Alex today I met at Jumu'ah,
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he just became muslim, he just became muslim
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Alex and when you ask him the moment
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he became muslim or a sister who just
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became muslim, instantly you have in your credit,
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in your history Al Bukhari and muslim and
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Abu Dawood and Imam Ahmed and Al Shafi,
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you feel you connect to those people.
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You can claim them as your you know
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forefathers.
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You can claim them as you know somebody
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that I belong to them and that's the
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beauty of this religion.
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It's connect all of us together and that's
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why the sahaba radiallahu anhum, if you look
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at the second generation Islam which is attabi
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'oon, you know they used to teach their
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children not only the religion, not only the
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life of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, yaqul
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ibn Sa'd kanu yu'allimuna ashabahum sirata Abu
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Bakr wa Umar kama yu'allimunahum surata minal
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quran.
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They used to teach them the life of
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Abu Bakr wa Umar the same way they
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teach them the quran.
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They used to teach them the maghazi, the
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journeys and the battles and the incident that
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took place in the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
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sallam time the same way they teach in
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the surah from the quran.
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They teach them the love for Abu Bakr
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and Umar, the love for the sahaba, the
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stories of the companions.
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It was something embedded in the second generation.
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Then the second generation transferred to the third
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and so forth and with it transferred all
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the stories of the scholars and them and
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the leaders and the righteous people who lived
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in that time and Imam al-Bukhari once
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was asked, aren't you get bored?
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You're always by yourself.
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He said, I never was, I never by
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myself.
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I never by myself.
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When you see me alone in my library
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or my you know inside my house, I'm
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with Sufyan al-Thawri and with the Sufyan
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ibn Uyayna and al-Shu'ba.
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He means the scholars that he narrated the
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hadith from.
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I read their life, I read about them,
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I read their history, I feel I'm part
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of their life, I kind of connect to
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them.
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So I never really felt alone.
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By studying the life of the scholars, we
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know that they say history repeats itself but
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I like what Twain said.
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He said history does not repeat itself but
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it rhymes.
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It rhymes and that's very true.
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History rhymes.
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There is nothing like, you will find a
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lot of similarity between them and us, between
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their challenges and our challenges.
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You know, yes there is a unique challenges
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for every generations but you will find a
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lot of similarity.
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That's why the person who don't study history
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doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
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You know, will not be able to grow
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and you look at their life, learn from
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their experience.
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Lucky, smart person, the one who learned from
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others and the other kind of people are
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the one who wait until they learn it
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by themselves.
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It has to be your own experience to
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learn.
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It doesn't work this way, you know, and
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sometimes it's very costly that you have to
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experience everything yourself.
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No, other people's experience in life, something I
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can learn from and grow.
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I don't need to repeat the same experience
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of the same mistake and sometimes it's very
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interesting.
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Like for example, Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad.
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Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad, this is a name,
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when it's mentioned it means the peak of
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Arabic language.
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If you think of the man who mastered
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the Arabic language, if you count five people
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in history of Islam or the Arabic literature,
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Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad will be one of
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them.
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Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad started learning Arabic and
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Arabic grammars and Arabic literature and he found
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it to be very difficult.
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He couldn't understand it.
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He tried years, months, he couldn't get it.
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So one day he said, you know what,
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I'm gonna quit.
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And he said, I was sitting and just
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thinking about after all this time I spent
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learning the Arabic language, I'm not getting it.
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It's not, I'm not processing it.
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He said, I saw drips of water falling
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on a rock and that drips of water
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have made actually engrave the rock, affect the
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rock that it became like, you know, it's
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smoother.
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And I said to myself, my aql, my
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brain and my heart is not harder than
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the rock.
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I'm not dumber than rock, you know, which
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is dumb as a rock.
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He said, I'm not as dumb as a
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rock.
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And yet that drip of water impacted the
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rock.
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And he said, I knew what is my
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mistake is that I'm trying to get it
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all at once.
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That's why there is a very famous statement
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came later.
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If you try to get the knowledge all
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at once, you lose it all at once.
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So he said, I start taking, you know,
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step by step in Africa, since I'm traveling
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to Africa on Monday.
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Okay.
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In Africa, they said, how you eat an
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elephant?
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They said, one bite at the time.
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So that's, that's what it is.
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So he starts, I start taking one step
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at the time, one thing, one, one point
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at the time, until he became the one
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who mastered the Arabic language.
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Another scholar in Arabic language, his name is
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Al-Kasa'i.
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Al-Kasa'i had an imam.
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He has one of the qiraat we have.
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He's a great imam in Arabic language.
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He said, I was 40 years old and
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I was walking.
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I was at that time a shepherd and
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my clothes was dirty.
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I am like, you know, have the stain
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of the sheep, smell like a sheep.
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And I was walking and this mother with
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her son and her son crying because she's
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taking him to the school, to the kuttab.
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And she told her son, you better go
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to school or you're going to end up
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like this man.
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And she pointed to me.
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Al-Kasa'i said, I felt like I'm
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an example of a loser.
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If you want an example of somebody who's
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a loser, I became that model representing that.
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And I said to myself, no, I'm not
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going to be that person.
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You're talking about someone who's 40 years old.
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He started his journey at the age of
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40 and he became one of that landmark
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of Islamic history.
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When I read that, I'm inspired by that
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experience.
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It's not hard.
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I can do it.
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I can, you know, push myself.
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When you study the life of the scholars,
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you understand what cause changes, how people change,
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how people change the course of their life.
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You have to be decisive to take an
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action.
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He said, I started my journey as a
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person who's studying medicine.
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He wanted to be a doctor.
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He said, so I studied the book of
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Al-Qanun Ibn Sina to be a doctor.
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And he said, my heart became so dark
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because Ibn Sina was not just a doctor.
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He was not a physician.
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He was a philosopher.
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And he has a very dark philosophy, Ibn
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Sina, to the extent that many Muslims don't
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consider him as actually a Muslim because he
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went very far to say that Allah does
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not really exist.
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And there is no such thing called prophethood.
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There's no such thing called angels or Jibreel
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or anything like that.
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He went very far in his views and
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his ideology.
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It's way more corrupt as a theologian from
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a theological perspective than other religions that we
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don't consider Muslim today, in any case.
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So he said, it became so hard for
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me to read this.
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And one day he said, you know what,
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that's it, I'm done.
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And he start learning Hadith.
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And he switch, he take that decision and
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he switch.
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I can tell you, Ibn Nawiyah was a
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doctor and he was the most famous doctor
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of his time.
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The impact of Ibn Nawiyah would be like,
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in my opinion, it's still very minimal.
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Ibn Sina had a great job, but still
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his impact is to a certain extent limited.
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Compare the impact, let's say he became like
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Ibn Sina even better in medicine, taking consideration
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that he died at the age of 40.
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Compare this to what Nawiyah is today.
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Anybody who never heard of Riyadh As-Saliheen,
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never heard of 40 Hadith There is many
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books wrote 40 Hadith.
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Many books written as 40 collection Hadith.
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And Nawiyah's 40 Hadith is the most famous
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one, hands down.
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How many people read Riyadh As-Saliheen?
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How many people read his books in Fiqh?
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He is one, his opinion was at very
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long time, the authority in the Shafi'i
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Madhab.
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And he talk about someone die, not even
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in his 30s.
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Well, I will never forget, I really appreciated
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in Nawiyah Rahimahullah, I was once in Guam,
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in an island, not even an island in
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Guam.
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Guam, anybody knows what is Guam is?
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Specific ocean, in the middle of nowhere.
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For God's sake, Guam, they don't have even
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birds in their, in that island.
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There's no birds, never seen in my life,
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an island with no birds, except this one.
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And I asked, why there's no birds in
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this island?
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They said, you know what, you have very
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good observation actually.
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Not many people will observe that.
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Anyway, this is another story.
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But there is no birds, and it's very
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far land.
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Guess what?
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There is masjid there, there is Mashallah Muslim
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community there.
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There is an accountant there, a brother who's
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from Pakistan, another brother from Malaysia, started a
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masjid.
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So proud of these couple, because they start
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very good community there.
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There's a lot of marines who became, who
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are Muslims, they go to the masjid.
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And anyway, guess what book they are reading
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after Isha, Riyadh Al-Saliheen.
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The imam know his book all the way
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there.
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Every corner in the world, you will see
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his book.
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What kind of impact that he had?
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I bet you anything when he made that
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decision to switch to study, it was hard,
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not easy.
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But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows that
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he's so sincere.
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This man is so sincere.
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Now I understand the impact.
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And Nawawi rahimallah was praying in the night,
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just to show you, to understand how sincerity
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is one of the causes for success.
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And Nawawi was praying in his house, and
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he heard somebody jump inside his house.
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A thief.
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A thief, he couldn't find anything worth stealing,
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except Nawawi's shoes.
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So he took his shoes and ran away.
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And Nawawi rahimallah was finished, and he saw
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him running with his shoes, he started running
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after him.
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Do you know what's Nawawi running after him
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for what?
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Nawawi was saying to the thief, these shoes,
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this pair of shoes is a gift, say
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I accept.
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He's telling the thief, this is a gift,
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just say I accept.
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Why?
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Because the gift, it's a transaction in fiqh
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in Islam.
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Only gift, if I give the doctor a
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gift, he has to accept it, either verbally
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or by action.
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But if I put it next to him
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and he didn't show acceptance, it's not a
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gift, he cannot possess it in fiqh.
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If he take it and I didn't say
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approve it, it cannot be his.
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So in fiqh, in order for it to
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be a gift, you have to offer and
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accept.
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So in Nawawi, we want to transfer the
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transaction from stealing to be halal and gift.
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He cared about the thief not to be
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sinning in front of Allah.
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What kind of heart is this?
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What kind of kindness is this?
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I just make you understand that what why
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they became so effective, why they became so
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popular, it is because of their sincerity and
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relationship with Allah.
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We will see how good manners and moral
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can be a live example in front of
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you when you study their life.
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And I'm saying this because I'm hurt from
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so many bad examples that we're living today.
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We want to really see how those people
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understand what it means to represent the sharia,
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to represent Islam, to represent the Quran, to
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represent the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ, to
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represent the deen.
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You have to take yourself to another level,
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a standard that befitting this responsibility that you
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claim.
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Al-Rabi' Ibn Khuthaym, which is one of
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the students of an Imam Abdullah Ibn Mas
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'ud, the companion, the famous companion.
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Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud used to tell Al
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-Rabi' you know Al-Rabi' if the Prophet
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ﷺ seen you, if he met you, he
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would have loved you.
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And I love that.
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He said if the Prophet ﷺ met you,
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he would love you.
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And I read that story and I ask
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myself, if the Prophet ﷺ met me, would
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he love me?
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Would I be one of his closest companions?
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If he walked to my room, would he
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love me?
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If he look at my phone history, would
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he love me?
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If he hears my speech and my talk
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and the way I treat my family, would
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he love me?
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If he see my salah, would he love
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me?
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If he see my commitment to the deen,
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would he love me?
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When Ibn Mas'ud said this to him
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because he have seen from him what he
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knows for sure that make the Prophet ﷺ
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love him.
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So someone like that, when I read this,
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I remember this one of the early things
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I ever read about Al-Rabi' Ibn Khuthaym.
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It made me interested to know more about
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his personality, more about what kind of role
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model he was.
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One of the students, he said I was
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with Al-Rabi' 20 years.
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I don't think I ever heard him saying
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a bad word.
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I don't think he said a single word
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that can be written against him as a
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sin.
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20 years, today 20 minutes, you know.
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So 20 years, can you imagine that?
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One time, a man came to Al-Rabi'
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house.
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So he told his wife, bring me cookies,
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like a nice cookie.
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They bake cookies or cake, whatever.
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It's a dessert.
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So Al-Rabi' was making sure it looks
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nice and decorated.
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Then his wife said, why are you doing
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this?
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This man is blind and he's deaf.
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He can't hear.
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And he's not going to see, nor someone
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would describe it to him.
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Why doing this?
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Why are you doing this?
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He said, but Allah sees and hears.
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Allahu Akbar.
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Allah sees and hears.
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That's why I'm doing this.
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That's Al-Rabi' Ibn Khuthaym.
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One time his horse was stolen.
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He raised his hand.
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He said, oh my God, if Al-Rabi'
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make dua against someone, khalas.
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Al-Rabi' said, ya rab, if this man
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who stole my horse, poor, make my horse,
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make him sufficient so he doesn't need to
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steal anymore.
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And if he's rich, make this the last
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time ever to do that.
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He made dua and he was asked, he
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said, what, what would I gain?
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That's why Imam Ahmed said, tell me what
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you will gain from making dua against your
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brothers that your brother go to * fire.
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What this will benefit you, Imam Ahmed said.
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Tell me one benefit you will get.
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If your brother go to * fire, or
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you pray against someone that go to *,
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how this will benefit you?
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How can Allah's punishment to your brother or
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sister or some person, how this will help
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you?
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It will have zero help to you.
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Will not benefit you much.
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When you read the lives of the scholars,
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you see how they're really role model.
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Another example, Uthman.
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When you read Uthman ibn Affan, the Khalifa
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of the Muslimin, he said, I never ever
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stare at my mother's, to her eyes.
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Every time she talked to me, I lower
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my gaze.
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I never look at straight to her eyes.
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That's Uthman on the line.
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The third man in Islam, that's how he
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treats his mother, the Khalifa.
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And once he was asked, yeah, Uthman, when
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you eat with your mom, we notice you
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don't ever, you don't, you wait until she
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finish.
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He said, because when I eat with her,
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I don't know, I'm worried that I will
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reach out to something in the plate that
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she desire, and I will take it without
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knowing.
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And I'm worried that this will not be
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a nice thing.
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I want her to make sure that she
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take, fulfill her need and she take what
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she desire first, then I will eat.
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Ask me about it.
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Mom's, where's my food?
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Where's my coke?
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Where's my things?
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Gone.
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MashaAllah, the kids finito.
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Finish the whole thing before you even start
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eating it.
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Every scholar was way less than what he
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was described with, some of the ulama said,
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except Shuraih.
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No matter what praise it was said about
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him, he is much better than whatever was
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said about him.
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And then now he can give you example
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of how noble this man is.
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He said once he was teaching in Masjid
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Nabi ﷺ or in the Masjid, and the
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students are not mashaAllah like this, but thousands
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of students.
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Then all of a sudden his mother came,
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you know, no matter how big you are,
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you're still aish, my baby.
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So the mother came and she said, Shuraih,
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the chicken need to be fed, go feed
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the chicken.
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Then he told the student to wait, and
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he went to his house, fed the chicken
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and came back.
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A young man, when you hear that, when
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you study that, you understand, when your mom
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said, take the trash, take the trash, take
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the trash, take the trash, 5 cents 20
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times, I never reply.
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Please, can you do this?
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Can you go get me that?
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I'm busy, I'm this.
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When you study the life of the scholar,
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that inspire you to know what kind of
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manners and adab.
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And it's more effective than, you know, just
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telling you do this or not to do
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that.
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You know, Aoun, Abdullah ibn Aoun, he said,
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one time my mother called me and I
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replied because she was far, but my voice
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was raised over her voice.
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Yeah, I was higher than her voice.
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He said, I consider that a sin and
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I made a sadaqah just to sin.
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He said, I consider a sin that my
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voice was louder than her voice.
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That's something required when you read the life
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of the story, the story of the scholars
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and their life, and you go deep into
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these details, it really help you and teach
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you a lot about manners.
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We can talk about manners, but I'll give
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you a live example.
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You know, Ibn Taymiyyah, there is one Maliki
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scholar, he hated Ibn Taymiyyah so much.
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He hated, he told the president, the Khalifa
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at that time or the wali, the amir,
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kill Ibn Taymiyyah, put him in jail until
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he rot in jail.
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He hated Ibn Taymiyyah.
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Guess what?
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This man died and Ibn Taymiyyah, when he
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heard he died, he's a great, he's a
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Maliki scholar.
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Ibn Taymiyyah went to his family and he
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said to his wife and his children, your
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father and your husband die, I'm like a
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father to your kids.
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Anything they need, I'll take care of it.
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When you read that, you know that the
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manners and the morality and and the standard
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nobility is another level.
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Another thing that has a personal impact on
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us when we study the life of the
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scholars, man, you want your heart to be
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softened?
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Read the story of the scholars.
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You want your heart to be connected to
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Allah?
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Read the story of the scholars and the
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original.
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If you want to put a standard for
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yourself, look at their stories and it just
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inspire you, it melts your heart.
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Marra Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan entered Mecca.
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He entered to the haram and he saw
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this man making tawaf and he said, is
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this Salim, the son of Abdullah Ibn Umar?
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They said, yes.
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He said, call him for me.
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He came, Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan, this is
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a great khalifa, great king, one of the
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richest king in history, powerful.
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So he told Salim, yes, Salim, I hear
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a lot about you.
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Tell me what you want so I can
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give you anything you wish.
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And obviously, Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan is also
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biased in this because Salim and his father,
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Abdullah Ibn Umar, had a semi kind of,
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you know, position in favor of Abdul Malik
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Ibn Marwan and the Umayyads against Ibn Zubayr
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when they had a clash at that time.
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So he always respect that household for a
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political reason as well.
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So anyway, Salim is not, he wasn't born
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yesterday, you understand.
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So Salim told him, would it be appropriate
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for me to be in his house and
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to ask someone else?
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And imagine if I'm in your house, would
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I ask another guest, can you do me
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this for me, give me water?
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No, if I'm in your house, I ask
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the one who owns the house.
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He said, I'm in Allah's house, would I
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ask someone else?
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Then he got embarrassed, the Khalifa.
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See the dignity, the nobility, he waited outside,
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outside Mecca, the Masjid Al-Haram, Al-Kaaba,
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he waited outside.
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They told him, go, king, go to your
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home and we'll bring him, or go to
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your tent and we'll bring him.
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He said, bring him?
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He's not going to come.
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Let's wait.
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He waited until the sunrise, it was after
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Fajr, and it was hot, but he waited
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until Salim left the Masjid.
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When he left the Masjid, he saw the
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Khalifa waiting outside.
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He said, now you are outside his house,
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ask me.
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Are you in debt?
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You have a debt, you need money, you
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need whatever you need.
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He said, would you give me from something
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related to this world, or next one?
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He said, next one, I don't control it.
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00:30:00
Allah only made me control of this world,
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00:30:01
or what's in this world.
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He said, Allah have put you a distributor
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00:30:09
over the wealth of this world, that's right?
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00:30:11
He said, yes, you don't even own it.
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00:30:13
He said, yes, I'm just a distributor.
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00:30:15
Just tell me what you want, I'll give
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you.
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He said, I never asked the one who
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owns it, anything from it.
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Allah, the one who owns everything in this
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dunya, I never asked him anything from it.
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You think I will ask the distributor?
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Thank you.
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When you see that, you know that you
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know what?
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There is something, there is people you can't
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buy them by your money.
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Those people really, not only had good principles
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in life, but they lived up to these
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good principles.
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They lived by these principles, rahimahumullah.
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00:31:06
There is a scholar, used to make night,
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00:31:07
he used to wake up in the night,
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00:31:11
and he will pray in the night, and
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00:31:13
he will get tired.
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00:31:15
Then he will look at his legs and
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he will do like this, just to move
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00:31:19
the blood a little bit.
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00:31:21
And he said to his legs, stand up.
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00:31:28
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ companions, they were around
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00:31:30
him and surrounding him in the dunya because
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00:31:35
Allah created them and made them live in
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00:31:36
the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
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00:31:38
So they were the only one get that
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00:31:41
pleasure of being around the Prophet ﷺ.
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00:31:45
But in the next life, in the hereafter,
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wallahi, I will not let them be the
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00:31:50
only one around him.
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I will work so hard to secure for
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myself a place next to him.
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00:32:00
And that will inspire him every night to
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00:32:01
pray.
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00:32:06
That's Abu Idrees Khawlani, rahimahullah.
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00:32:11
You see how they're connecting to Allah ﷻ.
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00:32:13
One of them used to wake up in
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00:32:15
the night, and he will touch the bed
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00:32:17
and he said, wow, this is so soft
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00:32:17
and so nice.
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00:32:24
So warm, sometimes, especially winter coming, when your
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00:32:25
bed is nice, especially if you have one
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00:32:29
of these like mattress, 10 to 13, $15
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00:32:30
,000 mattress.
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You know, I still remember Sheraton Hotel, they
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00:32:37
had this line of, you know, at one
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00:32:39
year they said, heavenly bed.
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00:32:43
That's how they basically sell their rooms.
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00:32:44
They said, we have a heavenly bed.
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00:32:47
That's really good beds, I'm telling you, okay.
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00:32:49
It's really nice bed.
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00:32:52
It's like they said each bed worth $10
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00:32:54
,000, okay.
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00:32:58
So anyway, one of these nice beds, and
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00:33:00
he touching the bed, he said, it's so
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00:33:03
soft, it's so warm, but the beds of
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00:33:04
Jannah is much better.
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00:33:11
Then he will push his way, he will
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00:33:12
push himself away from the bed and he
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00:33:14
will go make wubu and pray.
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00:33:26
And he will recite, they
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00:33:29
leave their beds, they stay away from their
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00:33:29
beds.
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With jaffa, they don't want to go back
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00:33:33
to it.
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00:33:37
Because they have hope and fear from Allah
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00:33:38
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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When you read about them, it gives you
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00:33:50
that honor.
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00:33:54
Subhanallah, you feel you belong to people like
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00:33:55
giants.
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00:33:57
I am part of that.
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00:34:10
When people are so proud of pyramids or
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00:34:15
tower or building or this or that.
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00:34:19
No, our pyramids, our buildings, our towers are
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00:34:21
Abu Bakr and Umar and Uthman and Shafi
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00:34:22
and Ahmed.
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00:34:27
These are giants, more powerful than any accumulating
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00:34:33
dust that was built through history, reading their
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00:34:34
lives.
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00:34:37
It shows you the strength.
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00:34:43
There is a scholar, his name is Abu
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00:34:51
Umar, his father was a fisherman, the son
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00:34:53
of As-Sammak from Samak, which means fisherman
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00:34:55
or sell fish.
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00:35:03
He was invited, okay, he lived in the
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00:35:08
fourth century, 344 Hijri, which is about 955.
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00:35:12
When he was invited by Abu Ja'far
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00:35:16
al-Mansur, Abu Ja'far al-Mansur said
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00:35:21
to him, he was writing something and he
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00:35:21
ran out of ink.
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00:35:25
Then he said, can you pass the ink
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00:35:25
to me?
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00:35:28
He said, no, that's the king.
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00:35:31
He said, no, he said, why?
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00:35:32
He said, I don't know what you're writing.
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00:35:34
What if you're writing something haram?
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00:35:37
What if you make an order for somebody
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00:35:41
to be executed unfairly or confiscated a land
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00:35:42
that's not, I'm not going to be part
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00:35:42
of that.
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00:35:48
Then the king was so angry.
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00:35:50
How can he said this to him?
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00:35:54
He said, no, I'm not doing anything of
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00:35:54
that.
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00:35:56
He said, so I'm not your servant.
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00:36:00
The king said, I'm not making any of
00:36:00 -->
00:36:00
them do anything.
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00:36:01
He said, I'm not your servant.
00:36:02 -->
00:36:04
I'm here as a guest.
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00:36:06
I'm not going to give it to you.
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00:36:11
Then he knows he can mess with them
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00:36:13
because he's a very respected person in society.
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00:36:17
Then he want to embarrass him.
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00:36:21
There is a fly coming in front of
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00:36:22
his face.
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00:36:24
So Abu Ja'far al-Mansur said, may
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00:36:26
Allah curse flies.
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00:36:30
He said, Ibn al-Sammak, why Allah created
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00:36:31
flies for?
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00:36:36
Then Ibn al-Sammak said, to humiliate dictators
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00:36:37
like you.
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00:36:40
Allahu Akbar.
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00:36:44
To humiliate dictators like you.
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00:36:49
That this fly can humiliate great king like
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00:36:49
you.
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00:36:55
When you read that, you know you're part
00:36:55 -->
00:36:56
of ummah.
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00:36:59
You're part of a history that's so rich.
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00:37:07
When a king told one of the scholar,
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00:37:09
he said, I will set you free if
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00:37:10
you kiss my hand.
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00:37:12
He said, I will not let him kiss
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00:37:13
my hand.
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00:37:14
That king.
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00:37:19
I will not, I will not allow him
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00:37:20
to kiss my hand.
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00:37:27
Abu Hanifa rahimahullah was sitting and stretching his
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00:37:29
feet in the masjid.
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00:37:32
So that one of the most powerful men
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00:37:34
passing by, he's a minister.
00:37:35 -->
00:37:36
Very powerful man.
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00:37:39
He saw him and he was so offended.
00:37:39 -->
00:37:41
Why he didn't change his sitting?
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00:37:43
He's just relaxing, casual like that.
00:37:43 -->
00:37:44
He should show respect to me.
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00:37:46
I will do this and that to him.
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00:37:48
So one of his advice said, no, you
00:37:48 -->
00:37:49
don't do that to Abu Hanifa.
00:37:49 -->
00:37:51
Abu Hanifa is more powerful than you in
00:37:51 -->
00:37:52
this city.
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00:37:55
He said, you want to humiliate?
00:37:55 -->
00:37:57
You want Abu Hanifa to show you the
00:37:57 -->
00:37:57
respect?
00:37:58 -->
00:37:58
He said, yes.
00:37:59 -->
00:38:00
He said, give him money.
00:38:01 -->
00:38:02
Buy him out.
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00:38:04
Do a favor to him.
00:38:05 -->
00:38:07
So he sent, he said, he asked what
00:38:07 -->
00:38:10
Abu Hanifa, let's say, makes, whatever.
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00:38:13
He give him a thousand pieces of gold.
00:38:13 -->
00:38:15
Can you imagine a thousand pieces of gold?
00:38:16 -->
00:38:17
Alif, dinar.
00:38:17 -->
00:38:20
In a pouch and they send it to
00:38:20 -->
00:38:20
him.
00:38:20 -->
00:38:23
Abu Hanifa smile and he told the one
00:38:23 -->
00:38:24
who brought the money.
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00:38:26
He said, go back to your master and
00:38:26 -->
00:38:29
tell him the one who stretch his legs
00:38:29 -->
00:38:30
will never stretch his hand.
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00:38:42
When you read that, you know you belong
00:38:42 -->
00:38:44
to an ummah that know what dignity and
00:38:44 -->
00:38:45
nobility means.
00:38:46 -->
00:38:50
You appreciate the value of knowledge and the
00:38:50 -->
00:38:51
knowledge of the scholars.
00:38:54 -->
00:38:58
And it's very interesting to see how Allah
00:38:58 -->
00:39:01
bring people who no one, nobody and Allah
00:39:01 -->
00:39:03
make them very famous.
00:39:03 -->
00:39:05
When you read most of the scholars life,
00:39:06 -->
00:39:08
he was a servant, a slave.
00:39:09 -->
00:39:10
He was a free man by this.
00:39:10 -->
00:39:13
All of them, not Arab, not from tribe,
00:39:13 -->
00:39:14
not from no, nothing.
00:39:15 -->
00:39:17
They don't descend from a family that they
00:39:17 -->
00:39:18
just not at all.
00:39:20 -->
00:39:22
What have made them so popular with so
00:39:22 -->
00:39:25
their name is still until today mentioned even
00:39:25 -->
00:39:29
in Houston, Texas in 21st century is the
00:39:29 -->
00:39:29
knowledge.
00:39:30 -->
00:39:35
The ilm elevated them and made them noble
00:39:35 -->
00:39:38
and made them with this character, made this
00:39:38 -->
00:39:40
have basically shaped their character.
00:39:42 -->
00:39:44
And I'm telling you any knowledge will not
00:39:44 -->
00:39:46
shape your character is not a knowledge.
00:39:48 -->
00:39:49
Sufyan al-Thawri was nine years old.
00:39:50 -->
00:39:52
His mom is a single mom.
00:39:52 -->
00:39:54
She used to help him and to take
00:39:54 -->
00:39:58
care of him, work, earn and support her
00:39:58 -->
00:39:59
child.
00:40:01 -->
00:40:03
She sent him and she said, if you
00:40:03 -->
00:40:05
go to this shaykh and you learn 10
00:40:05 -->
00:40:07
things from him, and if you found this
00:40:07 -->
00:40:09
10 things you learned from this shaykh did
00:40:09 -->
00:40:12
not improve your iman, did not improve your
00:40:12 -->
00:40:15
character, did not improve your akhlaq, your character
00:40:15 -->
00:40:19
trait, your mannerism and your connection with Allah,
00:40:19 -->
00:40:20
leave this shaykh.
00:40:23 -->
00:40:25
And I say, if you ever attend a
00:40:25 -->
00:40:27
class to any organization and you ever attend
00:40:27 -->
00:40:29
a class to a shaykh or you come
00:40:29 -->
00:40:31
to khutbah jumu'ah to a masjid, that
00:40:31 -->
00:40:34
masjid or that imam or that organization do
00:40:34 -->
00:40:37
not help you to grow spiritually, morally.
00:40:39 -->
00:40:40
Look for someone else.
00:40:44 -->
00:40:45
And that's a challenge.
00:40:48 -->
00:40:52
When you read about their life, you know
00:40:52 -->
00:40:56
how they this basically journey of their life
00:40:56 -->
00:40:57
meant a lot.
00:40:58 -->
00:40:59
You know, a lot of people go for
00:40:59 -->
00:41:03
work these days to earn a living.
00:41:03 -->
00:41:03
That's right.
00:41:05 -->
00:41:06
We go to work every day to earn
00:41:06 -->
00:41:07
a living.
00:41:08 -->
00:41:09
But you know what's the biggest challenge?
00:41:10 -->
00:41:13
Is to make a life while you're making
00:41:13 -->
00:41:13
a living.
00:41:17 -->
00:41:19
The challenge is to make a life while
00:41:19 -->
00:41:20
you're making a living.
00:41:23 -->
00:41:26
And that's something so interesting to see it
00:41:26 -->
00:41:26
in their life.
00:41:27 -->
00:41:29
They really made a life.
00:41:29 -->
00:41:30
They really made a difference.
00:41:31 -->
00:41:34
I think it is Abraham Lincoln who said,
00:41:35 -->
00:41:38
it's not the days of your life that
00:41:38 -->
00:41:38
counts.
00:41:38 -->
00:41:41
It's the life in your days that which
00:41:41 -->
00:41:42
really counts.
00:41:43 -->
00:41:45
Very powerful and very true.
00:41:49 -->
00:41:53
You will become motivated to give da'wah,
00:41:53 -->
00:41:59
you know, to basically to set a practical
00:41:59 -->
00:42:02
goals for yourself, to make your surrounding better.
00:42:03 -->
00:42:05
This is something that inspired me.
00:42:05 -->
00:42:07
Those scholars that you read their life, they
00:42:07 -->
00:42:09
never were lived for themselves.
00:42:09 -->
00:42:12
They always lived for something bigger than themselves.
00:42:13 -->
00:42:15
They always want to think to change to
00:42:15 -->
00:42:16
be better.
00:42:16 -->
00:42:19
Even if it is their own immediate family
00:42:19 -->
00:42:21
and growing farther and farther.
00:42:25 -->
00:42:28
Also, it allowed you when you read their
00:42:28 -->
00:42:32
life to learn how to set priorities in
00:42:32 -->
00:42:32
da'wah.
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00:42:37
Listen to the story of Ibn Taymiyyah when
00:42:37 -->
00:42:43
the Muslim defeated by the Mughal in Sham,
00:42:43 -->
00:42:44
in Syria.
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00:42:46
You know, the Mughal came and wiped out
00:42:46 -->
00:42:48
two million Muslims in Baghdad.
00:42:48 -->
00:42:49
They killed them.
00:42:50 -->
00:42:52
They wiped out, genocide.
00:42:53 -->
00:42:54
Then they start moving towards Syria.
00:42:55 -->
00:43:00
Several battles and the Muslim were defeated badly.
00:43:00 -->
00:43:03
Ibn Taymiyyah said, so in my city people
00:43:03 -->
00:43:05
were talking about the fight and preparing themselves.
00:43:06 -->
00:43:15
Then people, they used to say, If you
00:43:15 -->
00:43:18
want help against the Mughal, go to the
00:43:18 -->
00:43:21
grave, to the shrine of Abu Umar, ask
00:43:21 -->
00:43:22
him for help.
00:43:23 -->
00:43:26
Ibn Taymiyyah said, we're never going to win.
00:43:28 -->
00:43:31
He said, I said, no fight, no training.
00:43:32 -->
00:43:34
We're not going to train people for the
00:43:34 -->
00:43:34
army.
00:43:35 -->
00:43:37
He said, I change.
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00:43:40
I said, what we need to focus on
00:43:40 -->
00:43:43
making people understand what tawheed and iman is.
00:43:44 -->
00:43:46
That you pray only to Allah.
00:43:46 -->
00:43:49
Because Allah said, the victory will be given
00:43:49 -->
00:43:51
to the muhadeen, to the mu'mineen.
00:43:51 -->
00:43:53
Not to the people who pray to a
00:43:53 -->
00:43:53
dead.
00:43:54 -->
00:43:55
Not to the people who pray to someone
00:43:55 -->
00:43:56
other than Allah.
00:43:57 -->
00:44:00
And he said, I focus on changing them
00:44:00 -->
00:44:03
and giving dawah and talking about this.
00:44:03 -->
00:44:06
Until I found that this was corrected in
00:44:06 -->
00:44:06
people mind.
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00:44:09
Then the battle came of Shaqhab.
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00:44:13
And he said, in this battle, we were
00:44:13 -->
00:44:14
facing the enemy.
00:44:14 -->
00:44:19
For the first time, the Muslim defeated the
00:44:19 -->
00:44:19
Mughal.
00:44:20 -->
00:44:22
Before the battle, Ibn Taymiyyah said, we will
00:44:22 -->
00:44:23
win today.
00:44:23 -->
00:44:26
So the people say, inshallah, mashallah, and now
00:44:26 -->
00:44:27
their tawheed became stronger.
00:44:27 -->
00:44:29
They even corrected Ibn Taymiyyah.
00:44:29 -->
00:44:34
Ibn Taymiyyah said, inshallah, not if, no.
00:44:35 -->
00:44:37
It will, because Allah promised victory to the
00:44:37 -->
00:44:38
believers.
00:44:39 -->
00:44:41
He knows what the priorities are.
00:44:42 -->
00:44:44
It's just not to pick a weapon and
00:44:44 -->
00:44:45
to train for fight.
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00:44:48
There is something much important than this, which
00:44:48 -->
00:44:50
is not your hand and your muscles and
00:44:50 -->
00:44:54
the arm and the armor that you're wearing
00:44:54 -->
00:44:55
or the weapon that you're carrying.
00:44:56 -->
00:44:58
It's more important than the heart that you
00:44:58 -->
00:45:00
have, the iman that you have.
00:45:00 -->
00:45:02
When the ummah change that, Allah will change
00:45:02 -->
00:45:03
the situation of the ummah.
00:45:04 -->
00:45:06
That's understanding priorities.
00:45:07 -->
00:45:10
Another example of Ibn Taymiyyah to show you
00:45:10 -->
00:45:10
priorities.
00:45:11 -->
00:45:14
Ibn Taymiyyah said, there were the border of
00:45:14 -->
00:45:17
Muslims and the enemy attacking the Muslims.
00:45:18 -->
00:45:20
And the Hanbali and the Asha'ira, which
00:45:20 -->
00:45:24
is a sect, okay, they were fighting one
00:45:24 -->
00:45:24
another.
00:45:26 -->
00:45:28
I went to them, even Ibn Taymiyyah is
00:45:28 -->
00:45:34
very harsh against the Asha'ira, which is
00:45:34 -->
00:45:35
against the sect and group.
00:45:35 -->
00:45:38
It's very hard, but he still considered them
00:45:38 -->
00:45:40
part of Ahl as-Sunnah, in the general
00:45:40 -->
00:45:41
sense.
00:45:41 -->
00:45:44
And now we are basically facing the enemy
00:45:44 -->
00:45:45
or non-Muslim who will come, will not
00:45:45 -->
00:45:48
differentiate between what kind of madhab you follow
00:45:48 -->
00:45:49
or what kind of that you do.
00:45:49 -->
00:45:50
They will kill everybody.
00:45:51 -->
00:45:52
He said, I went the priority.
00:45:53 -->
00:45:55
He said, now since we have this enemy
00:45:55 -->
00:45:56
in front of us, I told them you
00:45:56 -->
00:45:59
cannot debate this theological issue among yourself.
00:45:59 -->
00:46:02
Now we have to be unified against this
00:46:02 -->
00:46:02
enemy.
00:46:03 -->
00:46:04
That's a priority.
00:46:05 -->
00:46:07
You learn this when you learn the scholar's
00:46:07 -->
00:46:08
life.
00:46:11 -->
00:46:17
You will learn to prepare, you know, yourself
00:46:17 -->
00:46:20
for what comes, the challenge that comes.
00:46:22 -->
00:46:25
Every scholar you study their life, every great
00:46:25 -->
00:46:29
man and woman I come across, they always
00:46:29 -->
00:46:33
test it and test it hard.
00:46:34 -->
00:46:37
Because these pressures that comes on you, that
00:46:37 -->
00:46:38
would make you strong.
00:46:39 -->
00:46:41
That would elevate you.
00:46:43 -->
00:46:46
And you learn through their life, how they
00:46:46 -->
00:46:46
grow.
00:46:51 -->
00:46:55
In Texas, there's this guy, he had a
00:46:55 -->
00:46:59
big land, had a dog on his farm,
00:46:59 -->
00:47:00
fall on a crack.
00:47:02 -->
00:47:04
He thought the dog is dead.
00:47:05 -->
00:47:05
So he was so sad.
00:47:05 -->
00:47:06
He said, I'm not going to let any
00:47:06 -->
00:47:07
animal get hurt again.
00:47:07 -->
00:47:10
So he get a sand and he start
00:47:10 -->
00:47:13
putting the sand to fill up that crack
00:47:13 -->
00:47:13
with the sand.
00:47:13 -->
00:47:15
But the dog was not dead.
00:47:16 -->
00:47:17
The dog was just unconscious.
00:47:18 -->
00:47:20
But the dog realized that he has been
00:47:20 -->
00:47:22
buried, the dog was buried alive.
00:47:23 -->
00:47:25
So every time the sand fall on the
00:47:25 -->
00:47:27
back of the dog, he will shake it
00:47:27 -->
00:47:29
off and will jump on the sand.
00:47:29 -->
00:47:32
Every time it comes down, he will shake
00:47:32 -->
00:47:33
it out and jump on the sand.
00:47:34 -->
00:47:37
The sand that meant to bury that dog
00:47:37 -->
00:47:40
alive, is the same thing that risen that
00:47:40 -->
00:47:41
dog from that hole.
00:47:45 -->
00:47:47
The moral here that those scholars, these things
00:47:47 -->
00:47:51
that life threw on them, they have used
00:47:51 -->
00:47:53
it to put together to stand on the
00:47:53 -->
00:47:54
top of it.
00:47:54 -->
00:47:57
So they stand tall, strong to lead.
00:47:58 -->
00:48:00
It's amazing when you see this in real
00:48:00 -->
00:48:01
life.
00:48:07 -->
00:48:10
You learn how they tested so hard.
00:48:13 -->
00:48:16
You know, Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah, Imam Ahmed rahimahullah.
00:48:17 -->
00:48:20
Do you know, the grand mufti of the
00:48:20 -->
00:48:22
Muslims at that time, the grand mufti.
00:48:23 -->
00:48:25
And guess what, the chief judge of the
00:48:25 -->
00:48:29
whole entire Muslim world, telling the king, kill
00:48:29 -->
00:48:32
this man, and I'm responsible for his blood
00:48:32 -->
00:48:34
in front of Allah in the day of
00:48:34 -->
00:48:34
judgment.
00:48:38 -->
00:48:39
I want to ask how many of you
00:48:39 -->
00:48:42
guys know Ahmed Ibn Abi Duat or Ibn
00:48:42 -->
00:48:42
Abi Duat?
00:48:42 -->
00:48:43
No one.
00:48:45 -->
00:48:47
How many of you know Ibn Zamalkani?
00:48:47 -->
00:48:48
No one.
00:48:48 -->
00:48:50
How many of you know Imam Ahmed Ibn
00:48:50 -->
00:48:50
Hanbal?
00:48:51 -->
00:48:52
Everybody.
00:48:52 -->
00:48:53
Ibn Taymiyyah, everybody.
00:48:54 -->
00:48:55
Their enemy disappeared.
00:48:56 -->
00:48:59
And this, the name, I said, nobody knows
00:48:59 -->
00:48:59
who they are.
00:48:59 -->
00:49:00
They are the one who used to give
00:49:00 -->
00:49:03
fatwas and kill him, the chief judges or
00:49:03 -->
00:49:04
grand muftis or whatever.
00:49:05 -->
00:49:05
They are forgotten.
00:49:06 -->
00:49:06
Their name forgotten.
00:49:08 -->
00:49:11
But those who stood their ground, those who
00:49:11 -->
00:49:15
were patient, those who were basically holding into
00:49:15 -->
00:49:17
these principles, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made
00:49:17 -->
00:49:17
them survive.
00:49:20 -->
00:49:22
And also sometimes we kind of get you
00:49:22 -->
00:49:23
know, we'll be tested hard.
00:49:25 -->
00:49:28
I get mad today, you know, somebody showed
00:49:28 -->
00:49:30
me a picture, somebody put in a Facebook
00:49:30 -->
00:49:32
post about me, was not nice.
00:49:32 -->
00:49:33
You know, I got a little bit upset,
00:49:33 -->
00:49:35
but I said this to myself, you know
00:49:35 -->
00:49:35
what?
00:49:36 -->
00:49:37
So what?
00:49:39 -->
00:49:41
Do you know that I got just a
00:49:41 -->
00:49:43
bad post in Facebook about me?
00:49:43 -->
00:49:45
Somebody like making not a very nice comment
00:49:45 -->
00:49:46
about me.
00:49:46 -->
00:49:47
That's fine.
00:49:48 -->
00:49:49
Do you know what happened to Ibn al
00:49:49 -->
00:49:53
-Qayyim and I'm nothing compared to Ibn al
00:49:53 -->
00:49:53
-Qayyim.
00:49:54 -->
00:49:57
Not even 0.1% of what Ibn
00:49:57 -->
00:49:58
al-Qayyim is.
00:49:59 -->
00:50:01
One of the greatest scholars in Islam, do
00:50:01 -->
00:50:03
you know Ibn al-Qayyim was, his head
00:50:03 -->
00:50:06
was shaved, his shoes was put around his
00:50:06 -->
00:50:10
neck, and he was put backwards in a
00:50:10 -->
00:50:13
horse, and he was taken inside the basically
00:50:13 -->
00:50:17
the city, the kids throwing tomatoes and lettuce
00:50:17 -->
00:50:19
and things on him, and like shoes, and
00:50:19 -->
00:50:23
he kicked with the shoes and giving names.
00:50:23 -->
00:50:26
And that's the greatest scholar in Islam that
00:50:26 -->
00:50:28
we all read his book today.
00:50:35 -->
00:50:36
So what if you get humiliated?
00:50:37 -->
00:50:38
Or somebody said bad words about you?
00:50:39 -->
00:50:42
When I know what the scholar threw, ya
00:50:42 -->
00:50:45
akhi, Imam al-Bukhari, who doesn't know what's
00:50:45 -->
00:50:45
al-Bukhari?
00:50:45 -->
00:50:47
Do you know in the end of his
00:50:47 -->
00:50:49
life, the end of his life, al-Bukhari
00:50:49 -->
00:50:51
couldn't find anyone to come to study under
00:50:51 -->
00:50:52
him.
00:50:52 -->
00:50:53
Not a single student.
00:50:56 -->
00:50:57
People abandoned him.
00:50:59 -->
00:51:02
He had to go to a middle in
00:51:02 -->
00:51:05
the boonies, you know, in the end of
00:51:05 -->
00:51:06
the Muslim world at that time.
00:51:07 -->
00:51:07
Where?
00:51:07 -->
00:51:09
All the way up in Russia today.
00:51:10 -->
00:51:13
In a city that's unknown, where he was
00:51:13 -->
00:51:14
born.
00:51:14 -->
00:51:15
Couldn't find any other place.
00:51:18 -->
00:51:20
Even there he couldn't find support.
00:51:24 -->
00:51:27
When you talk about Qur'an, who's the
00:51:27 -->
00:51:30
best book of the best one ever wrote
00:51:30 -->
00:51:31
the books of Tafsir?
00:51:32 -->
00:51:34
Ibn al-Jarrah al-Tabari, hands down.
00:51:34 -->
00:51:36
Nobody, nobody questioned that.
00:51:37 -->
00:51:39
Ibn al-Jarrah al-Tabari, rahim Allah, he
00:51:39 -->
00:51:41
was accused that he is rafidhi.
00:51:42 -->
00:51:43
Shi'a, extreme Shi'a.
00:51:44 -->
00:51:45
He died in his house.
00:51:45 -->
00:51:47
They couldn't even bury him in public cemetery.
00:51:52 -->
00:51:53
Tested so hard.
00:51:54 -->
00:51:56
People realize his value later on.
00:51:56 -->
00:51:58
So when you read that, you know what?
00:51:58 -->
00:51:59
You take it easy.
00:52:00 -->
00:52:06
Who am I to think I'm immune to
00:52:06 -->
00:52:06
this?
00:52:08 -->
00:52:10
When you read this, why?
00:52:10 -->
00:52:12
So it really has a great impact and
00:52:12 -->
00:52:14
also sitting strategy.
00:52:14 -->
00:52:17
Umar ibn al-Aziz said to his son,
00:52:17 -->
00:52:21
I'm worried if I force people to accept
00:52:21 -->
00:52:23
Islam all at once, they will leave Islam
00:52:23 -->
00:52:24
at once.
00:52:24 -->
00:52:26
After I die, they leave everything.
00:52:27 -->
00:52:29
Something I learned about my kids, you can't
00:52:29 -->
00:52:31
force everything in your kids because they're gonna
00:52:31 -->
00:52:32
leave it the moment you're not in the
00:52:32 -->
00:52:33
picture anymore.
00:52:35 -->
00:52:37
Sometimes, I love one of my teachers said
00:52:37 -->
00:52:38
something very profound.
00:52:39 -->
00:52:43
One of my teacher once said, some student
00:52:43 -->
00:52:44
of knowledge are not realistic.
00:52:45 -->
00:52:46
Some du'at not realistic.
00:52:46 -->
00:52:48
Some parents are not realistic.
00:52:48 -->
00:52:49
Some people not realistic.
00:52:49 -->
00:52:50
He said, why?
00:52:50 -->
00:52:54
He said, you know, they want you today
00:52:54 -->
00:52:59
in 21st century to represent what Allah subhanahu
00:52:59 -->
00:53:01
wa ta'ala have distributed over the companions.
00:53:01 -->
00:53:05
The companions of Muhammad, one of them is
00:53:05 -->
00:53:07
masha'Allah great soldiers.
00:53:07 -->
00:53:09
Abu Bakr, great wisdom.
00:53:09 -->
00:53:11
Umar, strength.
00:53:11 -->
00:53:13
Ali, wisdom.
00:53:14 -->
00:53:16
Ibn Mas'ud, you know, hadith.
00:53:16 -->
00:53:17
Anas, hadith.
00:53:18 -->
00:53:21
Ibn Abbas, masha'Allah Quran and tafsir.
00:53:22 -->
00:53:23
He wants you to have all this in
00:53:23 -->
00:53:24
you.
00:53:25 -->
00:53:28
To be the hadith and the mujahid and
00:53:28 -->
00:53:30
the scholar and the one who everything in
00:53:30 -->
00:53:33
the sahaba and multiple companion, he wanted to
00:53:33 -->
00:53:34
be in one person.
00:53:34 -->
00:53:35
Not realistic.
00:53:38 -->
00:53:39
You know what?
00:53:39 -->
00:53:40
I learned that as I grow.
00:53:42 -->
00:53:43
And as I read in this in the
00:53:43 -->
00:53:45
life of the scholar, I see how they
00:53:45 -->
00:53:46
are complement one another.
00:53:47 -->
00:53:53
In a communal level, the more I study
00:53:53 -->
00:53:56
about the scholars, I appreciate certain things.
00:53:56 -->
00:53:57
For example, I appreciate the role of women
00:53:57 -->
00:53:58
in society.
00:53:59 -->
00:54:02
Often we think that because we don't read
00:54:02 -->
00:54:04
much about it, or hear about it, but
00:54:04 -->
00:54:06
if you actually start learning, you'll find a
00:54:06 -->
00:54:08
lot of role the women play.
00:54:08 -->
00:54:11
Not only as scholars, but also sometimes behind
00:54:11 -->
00:54:12
the scenes.
00:54:13 -->
00:54:15
Do you know that al-Shafi'i was
00:54:15 -->
00:54:18
nothing but the product of our single mom?
00:54:19 -->
00:54:21
A single mom who took care of her
00:54:21 -->
00:54:21
son.
00:54:22 -->
00:54:24
Brought to us one of the greatest scholars
00:54:24 -->
00:54:25
in the history.
00:54:26 -->
00:54:29
A single mom was behind al-Imam Sufyan
00:54:29 -->
00:54:29
al-Thawri.
00:54:31 -->
00:54:32
She took care of him.
00:54:36 -->
00:54:40
Malik rahimahullah, his daughter, used to be one
00:54:40 -->
00:54:42
of the, Malik rahimahullah, the book he wrote,
00:54:42 -->
00:54:44
his daughter used to memorize it.
00:54:44 -->
00:54:47
And used to correct and reply and comment
00:54:47 -->
00:54:48
on her father.
00:54:49 -->
00:54:51
When you read the role that this woman
00:54:51 -->
00:54:53
played, and inshallah in the class, I'll give
00:54:53 -->
00:54:54
you examples of that.
00:54:55 -->
00:54:58
There is a leader in Egypt, his name
00:54:58 -->
00:54:59
Ahmed ibn Tulun.
00:54:59 -->
00:55:02
He started a state called the Tulun states.
00:55:03 -->
00:55:06
Ibn Tulun was very fascinated by like Roman's
00:55:06 -->
00:55:08
empire and history.
00:55:08 -->
00:55:11
And he made in Egypt, in Cairo, something
00:55:11 -->
00:55:15
similar to what's in Rome, the Colosseum.
00:55:15 -->
00:55:19
Okay, like that structure, something like that.
00:55:19 -->
00:55:21
And he used to bring the prisoners and
00:55:21 -->
00:55:24
put them in the middle with tigers and
00:55:24 -->
00:55:26
lions and to fight and stuff like that.
00:55:26 -->
00:55:28
And make people watch this, torture people.
00:55:30 -->
00:55:33
One day, this king was walking in the
00:55:33 -->
00:55:33
street.
00:55:34 -->
00:55:37
And the entourage, you can imagine.
00:55:38 -->
00:55:40
All of a sudden, a woman walked from
00:55:40 -->
00:55:43
the crowd and held his horse.
00:55:46 -->
00:55:48
Then she said to him, Ya Ahmed.
00:55:49 -->
00:55:52
Straightforward, his name, no title, nothing.
00:55:55 -->
00:55:56
Who is she?
00:55:56 -->
00:55:59
Every, the sister around him, they told, this
00:55:59 -->
00:55:59
is Zaynab.
00:56:01 -->
00:56:03
This is Sayyida Nafisa.
00:56:05 -->
00:56:08
She's the grand granddaughter of the Prophet ﷺ.
00:56:11 -->
00:56:13
He stepped down from his horse immediately.
00:56:15 -->
00:56:17
And she said, Ya Ahmed, until when?
00:56:18 -->
00:56:21
Allah give you all these blessings, and you're
00:56:21 -->
00:56:25
just using them in fighting Allah subhanahu wa
00:56:25 -->
00:56:27
ta'ala, and not appreciating Allah subhanahu wa
00:56:27 -->
00:56:28
ta'ala.
00:56:29 -->
00:56:33
Then she gave him this, a great lengthy
00:56:33 -->
00:56:33
admiration.
00:56:34 -->
00:56:35
You start crying.
00:56:36 -->
00:56:38
And Ahmed bin Turan, if you read the
00:56:38 -->
00:56:40
history today, they will tell you in the
00:56:40 -->
00:56:42
beginning of his life, he was a dictator.
00:56:43 -->
00:56:45
But later on, he became a role model
00:56:45 -->
00:56:50
of justice and as somebody who cared for
00:56:50 -->
00:56:50
his people.
00:56:52 -->
00:56:54
Because that brave woman.
00:56:56 -->
00:56:59
When you read about Umm Zaynab, you know,
00:56:59 -->
00:57:02
she used to sit on the minbar of
00:57:02 -->
00:57:04
Masjid in Damascus.
00:57:04 -->
00:57:07
Not to give Khutbah Jumu'ah, but the
00:57:07 -->
00:57:07
steps.
00:57:08 -->
00:57:10
She will sit, and people will come to
00:57:10 -->
00:57:10
ask her.
00:57:12 -->
00:57:13
That's in the time of what?
00:57:13 -->
00:57:15
Who, who pray in this masjid?
00:57:16 -->
00:57:17
Do you know who pray in this masjid?
00:57:17 -->
00:57:18
Ibn Taymiyyah.
00:57:20 -->
00:57:21
Who pray in this masjid?
00:57:22 -->
00:57:23
Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Kathir.
00:57:25 -->
00:57:27
That's the level of scholars that were there.
00:57:28 -->
00:57:31
And she's still recognized in society as a
00:57:31 -->
00:57:34
person of give fatwa and authority.
00:57:36 -->
00:57:38
And she used to have a stick with
00:57:38 -->
00:57:38
her.
00:57:38 -->
00:57:41
And she goes by some group circle, making
00:57:41 -->
00:57:44
dhikr, and you know, moving, and she will
00:57:44 -->
00:57:44
kick them out.
00:57:44 -->
00:57:45
She says, get out of the masjid.
00:57:46 -->
00:57:48
Don't bring this bid'ah to our masjid.
00:57:52 -->
00:57:52
Read her line.
00:57:57 -->
00:57:59
You will learn how to deal with differences
00:57:59 -->
00:58:00
in community.
00:58:01 -->
00:58:02
When you read the story of al-Shafi
00:58:02 -->
00:58:07
'i, when he said, he said, I had
00:58:07 -->
00:58:10
a heated debate with al-Sadafi, one of
00:58:10 -->
00:58:11
the scholars.
00:58:12 -->
00:58:14
Al-Shafi'i, after Isha, he went to
00:58:14 -->
00:58:14
al-Sadafi's house.
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00:58:18
Then he held his hand out, took him
00:58:18 -->
00:58:18
out.
00:58:19 -->
00:58:24
And he said, Yusuf, I hope our disagreement
00:58:24 -->
00:58:28
early in the day will be okay for
00:58:28 -->
00:58:30
us to go to sleep in the night
00:58:30 -->
00:58:32
while we're still brothers.
00:58:32 -->
00:58:33
He said, absolutely.
00:58:35 -->
00:58:36
But look at al-Shafi'i, how he
00:58:36 -->
00:58:38
cares about his brother's feeling.
00:58:42 -->
00:58:44
Deal with this kind of differences of opinions
00:58:44 -->
00:58:47
should not make turn against each other.
00:58:48 -->
00:58:51
We should care for each other's feelings.
00:58:56 -->
00:58:59
Through the example of scholars, you'll learn how
00:58:59 -->
00:59:06
to interact with those around you, Muslims, non
00:59:06 -->
00:59:08
-Muslims, those who agree with you, don't agree
00:59:08 -->
00:59:09
with you.
00:59:13 -->
00:59:16
I can't wrap my head around some of
00:59:16 -->
00:59:17
the stories that you read.
00:59:19 -->
00:59:22
You know, Imam Ahmad had a doctor who's
00:59:22 -->
00:59:24
a Christian, came to him and he said,
00:59:24 -->
00:59:29
Ya Imam, please before you dying, basically, he
00:59:29 -->
00:59:32
said, please, can my priest come and meet
00:59:32 -->
00:59:33
you before you die?
00:59:34 -->
00:59:35
He said, he can come.
00:59:44 -->
00:59:47
You know, I love it.
00:59:47 -->
00:59:49
I was recently in an event, and I
00:59:49 -->
00:59:51
saw one of the rabbis, one of the
00:59:51 -->
00:59:53
priests here in Houston, very well known.
00:59:53 -->
00:59:55
They came to one of the Imam and
00:59:55 -->
00:59:56
they said, it's an honor.
00:59:57 -->
00:59:58
We've been hearing a lot about you, and
00:59:58 -->
01:00:01
we really would like, looking forward to meet
01:00:01 -->
01:00:01
you.
01:00:02 -->
01:00:03
When I heard that, I was so happy
01:00:03 -->
01:00:05
that this is how they look at one
01:00:05 -->
01:00:06
of our Imams in Houston.
01:00:07 -->
01:00:08
They really respect him.
01:00:10 -->
01:00:12
It reminded me of these kind of stories,
01:00:16 -->
01:00:17
where the scholars respect.
01:00:18 -->
01:00:22
Imam Al-Awza'i, do you know when
01:00:22 -->
01:00:27
he died, one third of his janazah was
01:00:27 -->
01:00:28
non-Muslims.
01:00:28 -->
01:00:30
One third of his janazah was all non
01:00:30 -->
01:00:34
-Muslims, the Christians, the Orthodox Christian, the Catholic,
01:00:34 -->
01:00:37
and the Jews, all came to his janazah.
01:00:38 -->
01:00:41
I'm asking you, why a Jewish or Christians
01:00:41 -->
01:00:43
will go in the funeral of someone who
01:00:43 -->
01:00:43
is Muslim?
01:00:45 -->
01:00:47
Unless there is a reason.
01:00:47 -->
01:00:48
They love this man.
01:00:48 -->
01:00:50
They know this man had an impact on
01:00:50 -->
01:00:50
their life.
01:00:52 -->
01:00:53
He died.
01:00:54 -->
01:00:57
Tell me today, if an Imam died, how
01:00:57 -->
01:00:59
many of the non-Muslims will go to
01:00:59 -->
01:01:00
his funeral?
01:01:02 -->
01:01:04
Will be impacted by him.
01:01:07 -->
01:01:09
Ibn Taymiyyah, when he went to the king
01:01:09 -->
01:01:15
of the Mughal, this barbaric, you know, army
01:01:15 -->
01:01:20
who killed everybody in their way to Sham,
01:01:21 -->
01:01:21
in Syria.
01:01:22 -->
01:01:24
When Ibn Taymiyyah went to them, and he
01:01:24 -->
01:01:26
said, you have taken prisoners, and you claim
01:01:26 -->
01:01:28
that you accepted Islam, you should free the
01:01:28 -->
01:01:29
prisoner.
01:01:29 -->
01:01:31
So the king said, I'll free all the
01:01:31 -->
01:01:31
prisoner.
01:01:32 -->
01:01:34
He said, not the Muslims and the Christians.
01:01:34 -->
01:01:37
Then he said, strange, you're a Muslim, why
01:01:37 -->
01:01:38
do you care about the Christians?
01:01:39 -->
01:01:42
He said, they are our dhimmah to Rasulullah.
01:01:42 -->
01:01:45
They are basically, in a modern language today,
01:01:46 -->
01:01:47
they are citizens like us.
01:01:48 -->
01:01:51
The Prophet ﷺ asked us, those who non
01:01:51 -->
01:01:54
-Muslim live among us should be protected by
01:01:54 -->
01:01:54
us.
01:01:55 -->
01:01:57
And I want them to be freed as
01:01:57 -->
01:01:58
you free the Muslims.
01:01:59 -->
01:02:00
And I'm not going to leave before you
01:02:00 -->
01:02:01
free all of them.
01:02:03 -->
01:02:05
When you see that, you know what?
01:02:06 -->
01:02:09
And you compare this to people who undermine
01:02:09 -->
01:02:13
the world, the people doing interfaith work and
01:02:13 -->
01:02:14
reaching out.
01:02:15 -->
01:02:18
Al-Baqi Al-Lani, rahimahullah, had a whole
01:02:18 -->
01:02:21
entire, there's an institute where Muslim, Christian, and
01:02:21 -->
01:02:23
Jews used to sit in a dar al
01:02:23 -->
01:02:25
-hikmah and debate.
01:02:27 -->
01:02:29
Have you ever heard of something called Isra
01:02:29 -->
01:02:30
'iliyat?
01:02:30 -->
01:02:32
What's Isra'iliyat?
01:02:32 -->
01:02:35
Is the narration of Bani Israel from the
01:02:35 -->
01:02:35
people of the book.
01:02:36 -->
01:02:37
Where does this came from?
01:02:38 -->
01:02:42
It came from an interacting, from listening, from
01:02:42 -->
01:02:43
reading.
01:02:47 -->
01:02:51
We're not inviting, inventing anything new here when
01:02:51 -->
01:02:52
we do an interfaith work.
01:02:53 -->
01:02:54
As long as it's guided in the same,
01:02:55 -->
01:02:58
we learn a lot from the scholars, rahimahullah,
01:02:58 -->
01:03:05
even in modern day scholars.
01:03:08 -->
01:03:11
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, he said, I went
01:03:11 -->
01:03:14
to Sheikh Ibn Baz because he had a
01:03:14 -->
01:03:16
book he wanted to publish in Saudi Arabia
01:03:16 -->
01:03:19
and it has to take, you know, the
01:03:19 -->
01:03:20
Grand Mufti has to approve it.
01:03:22 -->
01:03:23
So he went to the Grand Mufti of
01:03:23 -->
01:03:25
Saudi Arabia and he said, I heard of
01:03:25 -->
01:03:26
Sheikh Ibn Baz.
01:03:26 -->
01:03:28
I never met, I think maybe met him
01:03:28 -->
01:03:29
before or first time.
01:03:29 -->
01:03:31
So he told Sheikh Ibn Baz about his
01:03:31 -->
01:03:31
book.
01:03:31 -->
01:03:32
He said, I read your book.
01:03:34 -->
01:03:36
He took me on the side and he
01:03:36 -->
01:03:38
told me your book have 1, 2, 3,
01:03:38 -->
01:03:40
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15,
01:03:40 -->
01:03:43
13, 20 points against my book.
01:03:43 -->
01:03:44
I said, Oh my God, that's it.
01:03:45 -->
01:03:46
I'm not going to be able to publish
01:03:46 -->
01:03:46
my book.
01:03:48 -->
01:03:51
He said that by the morning, I found
01:03:51 -->
01:03:54
out that he actually gave permission for the
01:03:54 -->
01:03:55
book to be published.
01:03:56 -->
01:03:58
In another word, Sheikh Ibn Baz was telling
01:03:58 -->
01:03:59
him, this is my opinion.
01:03:59 -->
01:04:01
This is my advice to you.
01:04:01 -->
01:04:04
But you're free to publish it because that's
01:04:04 -->
01:04:04
your opinion.
01:04:08 -->
01:04:09
I love an opinion like what?
01:04:09 -->
01:04:11
They disagree on music.
01:04:11 -->
01:04:12
Ibn Baz said it's haram.
01:04:12 -->
01:04:13
Al-Qaradawi said it's not haram.
01:04:14 -->
01:04:14
Things of that nature.
01:04:18 -->
01:04:20
But see how we tolerate one another.
01:04:20 -->
01:04:22
We have a space for one another.
01:04:23 -->
01:04:24
You learn this when you read their stories
01:04:24 -->
01:04:25
and their life.
01:04:29 -->
01:04:31
That's why Imam Abu Hanifa used to say,
01:04:32 -->
01:04:35
reading the life and the story of the
01:04:35 -->
01:04:37
scholars are more beloved to my heart than
01:04:37 -->
01:04:38
reading their fatwas.
01:04:41 -->
01:04:47
Allah says, لَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِأُولِي
01:04:47 -->
01:04:57
الْأَلْبَابِ There is in their stories lessons for
01:04:57 -->
01:04:57
us.
01:04:58 -->
01:05:02
Lessons for men or for those who understand.
01:05:04 -->
01:05:06
That's why Qur'an is not a history
01:05:06 -->
01:05:09
book but have a lot of stories about
01:05:09 -->
01:05:13
the prophets and messengers, the biography of individuals.
01:05:13 -->
01:05:16
He actually told us the history of humanity
01:05:16 -->
01:05:20
through the life of individuals or nations.
01:05:24 -->
01:05:36
I would like
01:05:36 -->
01:05:39
to wrap it up by talking about another
01:05:41 -->
01:05:43
topic for tonight.
01:05:45 -->
01:05:46
And you know what?
01:05:46 -->
01:05:47
I will make it just quick.
01:05:48 -->
01:05:49
I was supposed to give you a break,
01:05:49 -->
01:05:50
then we go.
01:05:50 -->
01:05:51
But you know what?
01:05:51 -->
01:05:53
Maybe in 20 minutes, I will just call
01:05:53 -->
01:05:54
it for the night.
01:05:55 -->
01:05:56
I'll see tomorrow.
01:05:56 -->
01:05:58
But what I would like to share with
01:05:58 -->
01:06:00
you something that you will find it so
01:06:00 -->
01:06:03
clear in my class, which is something I
01:06:03 -->
01:06:05
call it in your binder called ground rules.
01:06:05 -->
01:06:08
I put these ground rules of how to
01:06:08 -->
01:06:11
study history and to understand history, to enjoy
01:06:11 -->
01:06:12
it and to understand it properly.
01:06:13 -->
01:06:16
And one of my first rule in regard
01:06:16 -->
01:06:20
to this, that on history, don't look backwards.
01:06:20 -->
01:06:22
Go back and look forward.
01:06:23 -->
01:06:24
Why?
01:06:25 -->
01:06:27
Because anytime you look at history from here
01:06:27 -->
01:06:29
and you just look back at history, you
01:06:29 -->
01:06:31
don't appreciate it as much as you go
01:06:31 -->
01:06:34
back in time and you put yourself in
01:06:34 -->
01:06:35
this position.
01:06:36 -->
01:06:36
I'll give you an example.
01:06:38 -->
01:06:40
Do you remember the story of Ibn Sammak,
01:06:40 -->
01:06:42
the one whose father was a fisherman with
01:06:42 -->
01:06:44
the king, Abu Ja'far Al-Mansur?
01:06:45 -->
01:06:47
You know, when the king told him, give
01:06:47 -->
01:06:49
me the ink, he said, no, I'm not
01:06:49 -->
01:06:49
going to give it to you.
01:06:49 -->
01:06:52
I just said, I want you to give
01:06:52 -->
01:06:53
you the perspective.
01:06:55 -->
01:06:58
So you appreciate, now you appreciate him being
01:06:58 -->
01:07:00
so strong, spoke against the king.
01:07:01 -->
01:07:02
But I want you to know a little
01:07:02 -->
01:07:04
bit about, go back in history.
01:07:05 -->
01:07:06
Imagine you're living in that time.
01:07:06 -->
01:07:08
Do you know Abu Ja'far Al-Mansur,
01:07:08 -->
01:07:09
who's that is?
01:07:09 -->
01:07:14
Abu Ja'far Al-Mansur executed himself 30
01:07:14 -->
01:07:16
kings by his hand.
01:07:19 -->
01:07:23
He killed 30 king and princes with his
01:07:23 -->
01:07:23
hand.
01:07:24 -->
01:07:26
Executions, have no mercy.
01:07:26 -->
01:07:29
Some of the people that he executed, his
01:07:29 -->
01:07:29
own uncles.
01:07:35 -->
01:07:37
Now I understand the value of this man
01:07:37 -->
01:07:40
saying to somebody known to be that brutal
01:07:40 -->
01:07:42
to tell him, I'm not your servant.
01:07:43 -->
01:07:46
You might kill someone, you might be do
01:07:46 -->
01:07:46
something.
01:07:47 -->
01:07:49
That's give you a very different perspective.
01:07:50 -->
01:07:53
Appreciate a lot that position.
01:07:54 -->
01:07:56
I'll give you another one.
01:07:57 -->
01:08:01
Al-Hassan Basri was asked, is it allowed
01:08:01 -->
01:08:04
to charge people for writing the mushaf?
01:08:04 -->
01:08:05
Like if I make a copy from the
01:08:05 -->
01:08:09
mushaf, can I get paid for that service?
01:08:10 -->
01:08:10
He said, yes.
01:08:11 -->
01:08:14
Now you read this, what's so big deal
01:08:14 -->
01:08:14
about that?
01:08:15 -->
01:08:16
That's right.
01:08:17 -->
01:08:18
But actually, if you go back in time,
01:08:19 -->
01:08:23
the popular opinion at that time, the Sahaba's
01:08:23 -->
01:08:27
position was, Ibn Umar used to say, we
01:08:27 -->
01:08:30
should treat the one who sell the Quran
01:08:30 -->
01:08:32
like the one who steal from the homes.
01:08:32 -->
01:08:34
We should cut their hands off.
01:08:37 -->
01:08:38
You're not allowed to sell the Quran.
01:08:39 -->
01:08:41
That was the most common fatwa.
01:08:41 -->
01:08:43
The Sahaba, the companions say that.
01:08:44 -->
01:08:46
And for someone from the second generation to
01:08:46 -->
01:08:48
come and to say, yes, it's allowed.
01:08:51 -->
01:08:51
Why?
01:08:52 -->
01:08:55
The Sahaba said this because they worry about
01:08:55 -->
01:08:57
people in the time of the companions, it
01:08:57 -->
01:09:00
was about establishing the authenticity of the Quran.
01:09:01 -->
01:09:03
So they don't want it to be a
01:09:03 -->
01:09:03
business.
01:09:04 -->
01:09:06
So there's no room for someone to make
01:09:06 -->
01:09:09
a quick copy, to make a quick box,
01:09:09 -->
01:09:11
as we say, you know, and it's not
01:09:11 -->
01:09:12
going to be accurate.
01:09:12 -->
01:09:14
You make mistakes, people will rely on the
01:09:14 -->
01:09:17
copies and they will not memorize it.
01:09:17 -->
01:09:18
And it's so early on time.
01:09:19 -->
01:09:21
If you just rely on writing at that
01:09:21 -->
01:09:22
time, the Quran will be forgotten.
01:09:22 -->
01:09:24
So they don't want copy.
01:09:24 -->
01:09:25
They want people to memorize it.
01:09:25 -->
01:09:26
It was a strategy.
01:09:27 -->
01:09:29
But Hassan al-Basri, now he live in
01:09:29 -->
01:09:30
a new Muslim land.
01:09:30 -->
01:09:32
There is another strategy.
01:09:32 -->
01:09:34
Those people don't memorize, don't know Arabic much.
01:09:34 -->
01:09:35
They're learning.
01:09:35 -->
01:09:38
So for him, it was important to allow
01:09:38 -->
01:09:40
the copy to be made because in that
01:09:40 -->
01:09:42
region, in that area, they need it.
01:09:42 -->
01:09:45
That shows you how forward thinking he was.
01:09:46 -->
01:09:49
You understand and you value a lot of
01:09:49 -->
01:09:50
history when you go back in time and
01:09:50 -->
01:09:51
you understand it.
01:09:51 -->
01:09:54
That's why every time I study, we're going
01:09:54 -->
01:09:56
to study someone, I will give you a
01:09:56 -->
01:09:59
background about what kind of life, where they're
01:09:59 -->
01:10:01
living, what's going on in their time before
01:10:01 -->
01:10:04
we go study his life, rahimahullah.
01:10:05 -->
01:10:10
Another quick rule, knowing that actions and statements
01:10:10 -->
01:10:12
of the scholars are not source of legislation.
01:10:13 -->
01:10:13
And that's important.
01:10:14 -->
01:10:16
Nobody can tell me because he said this,
01:10:17 -->
01:10:18
it means halal or haram.
01:10:19 -->
01:10:22
The actions and the action of the scholars,
01:10:22 -->
01:10:26
even in the books of Usul al-Fiqh,
01:10:26 -->
01:10:27
we have a mas'ala.
01:10:27 -->
01:10:31
If the mufti did something, is that means
01:10:31 -->
01:10:33
that this is his fatwa?
01:10:33 -->
01:10:34
This is his position?
01:10:36 -->
01:10:37
The majority of the scholars said no.
01:10:38 -->
01:10:38
Why?
01:10:39 -->
01:10:40
Because I might did something not because I
01:10:40 -->
01:10:43
believe it's halal, because of circumstance, because of
01:10:43 -->
01:10:43
a reason.
01:10:43 -->
01:10:44
Maybe I forgot.
01:10:46 -->
01:10:47
Maybe I got confused.
01:10:50 -->
01:10:52
So it's not necessarily what I did, it
01:10:52 -->
01:10:53
means it's approved.
01:10:53 -->
01:10:56
So many people they study the scholars live
01:10:56 -->
01:10:57
or what they said or what they did
01:10:57 -->
01:10:59
as if it's a source of legislation.
01:10:59 -->
01:11:02
No, the only one, his actions, his source
01:11:02 -->
01:11:04
of legislation is Muhammad ﷺ.
01:11:07 -->
01:11:08
So if you read there is a scholar,
01:11:09 -->
01:11:11
for example, used to pray 300 rak'ah
01:11:11 -->
01:11:13
in the daytime and 300 rak'ah in
01:11:13 -->
01:11:14
the night.
01:11:14 -->
01:11:16
One scholar read the whole Qur'an in
01:11:16 -->
01:11:17
one night.
01:11:17 -->
01:11:19
One scholar is used to fast every day
01:11:19 -->
01:11:21
in the year except Eid.
01:11:21 -->
01:11:23
That's not a source of legislation.
01:11:23 -->
01:11:26
It doesn't mean it's sunnah or it's recommended.
01:11:26 -->
01:11:29
We take this the religion from what?
01:11:29 -->
01:11:30
From the Prophet ﷺ.
01:11:32 -->
01:11:34
Another ground rule is important.
01:11:34 -->
01:11:36
Understanding that they are not infallible.
01:11:37 -->
01:11:39
They make mistakes.
01:11:40 -->
01:11:43
So some people use, that's why they're not,
01:11:43 -->
01:11:44
they're not source of legislation.
01:11:46 -->
01:11:49
The Shia believe their Imams are infallible, but
01:11:49 -->
01:11:51
the Sunni believe don't believe that.
01:11:53 -->
01:11:54
We believe that they make mistakes.
01:11:57 -->
01:12:04
Also, just an example of mistakes done, that
01:12:04 -->
01:12:05
the Sahaba criticize.
01:12:05 -->
01:12:09
Al-Husayn, for example, for him to carry
01:12:09 -->
01:12:10
weapon and to fight.
01:12:10 -->
01:12:14
It was criticized by majority of the campaign.
01:12:14 -->
01:12:17
Nobody can say and goes against hadith in
01:12:17 -->
01:12:18
Nabi ﷺ what he did.
01:12:19 -->
01:12:22
Nobody can say because Al-Husayn, you know,
01:12:22 -->
01:12:24
carried weapon and rappel, it means it's allowed
01:12:24 -->
01:12:25
to do that.
01:12:25 -->
01:12:27
No, the Prophet ﷺ said don't.
01:12:29 -->
01:12:31
You can't leave what the Prophet ﷺ did
01:12:31 -->
01:12:34
or said, what he said, for somebody's action.
01:12:34 -->
01:12:36
No matter who, how great this person is.
01:12:37 -->
01:12:39
That's why when Abu Bakr said you cannot
01:12:39 -->
01:12:42
make Hajj and Umrah together.
01:12:43 -->
01:12:45
Ibn Abbas said what you're saying, the Prophet
01:12:45 -->
01:12:48
ﷺ allowed this, and you're telling me Abu
01:12:48 -->
01:12:48
Bakr said no?
01:12:50 -->
01:12:52
A stone will come from the heavens to
01:12:52 -->
01:12:53
stone you to death.
01:12:53 -->
01:12:55
I'm telling you the Prophet ﷺ said, and
01:12:55 -->
01:12:57
you're telling me Abu Bakr ﷺ said?
01:12:59 -->
01:13:02
There is no space for anyone to challenge
01:13:02 -->
01:13:05
the Prophet ﷺ, even if that's Abu Bakr
01:13:05 -->
01:13:05
ﷺ.
01:13:08 -->
01:13:10
So that's an important concept to keep in
01:13:10 -->
01:13:10
mind.
01:13:11 -->
01:13:17
Also, another thing is studying their life, not
01:13:17 -->
01:13:21
to expose their shortcoming, but to derive lessons
01:13:21 -->
01:13:21
from them.
01:13:24 -->
01:13:28
Allah ﷻ said, اغفر لنا والإخوان للذين سبقون
01:13:28 -->
01:13:29
بالإيمان.
01:13:29 -->
01:13:30
We said, Ya Allah, forgive us and those
01:13:30 -->
01:13:31
who became Muslim before us.
01:13:33 -->
01:13:35
رَبَّنَا لَا تَجْعَلْ فِي قُلُوبِنَا غِلًّا لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُونَ
01:13:35 -->
01:13:37
Don't put anything in our heart against our
01:13:37 -->
01:13:38
brothers and sisters.
01:13:39 -->
01:13:40
Living or dead.
01:13:42 -->
01:13:44
That's why when some scholar was asked, Al
01:13:44 -->
01:13:47
-Hassan Basri was asked about the fight between
01:13:47 -->
01:13:48
the companion.
01:13:48 -->
01:13:51
He said, الحمد لله, Allah protects our hand
01:13:51 -->
01:13:53
to be involved in it, so let's protect
01:13:53 -->
01:13:53
our tongue.
01:13:57 -->
01:13:57
And that's what we should.
01:13:58 -->
01:14:00
But sometimes we mention, and in the class
01:14:00 -->
01:14:05
I will mention some things happen, not the
01:14:05 -->
01:14:08
most correct thing, wrong things.
01:14:08 -->
01:14:11
Things that they were criticized for, but not
01:14:11 -->
01:14:13
because we want to backbite them, but because
01:14:13 -->
01:14:14
we want to learn from their mistakes.
01:14:15 -->
01:14:18
That's why Quran mentions some mistakes of prophets
01:14:18 -->
01:14:20
and messengers and noble people, because we want
01:14:20 -->
01:14:21
to learn from it.
01:14:22 -->
01:14:22
And that's allowed.
01:14:27 -->
01:14:30
And also it's important because, another reason.
01:14:32 -->
01:14:34
Sometimes when people read a lot about the
01:14:34 -->
01:14:36
life of the scholars and you know, the
01:14:36 -->
01:14:39
early generation, they live in a world of
01:14:39 -->
01:14:40
fantasy.
01:14:41 -->
01:14:43
You know, when I write a biography of
01:14:43 -->
01:14:45
somebody, usually I focus on what?
01:14:45 -->
01:14:46
On the good thing, that's right?
01:14:47 -->
01:14:50
So when you read that later on, you
01:14:50 -->
01:14:52
think that this person is always good.
01:14:53 -->
01:14:55
It's a psychological thing.
01:14:55 -->
01:14:57
Because all what you read about him, the
01:14:57 -->
01:14:59
good things, that you immediately have this image
01:14:59 -->
01:15:01
of that person that is perfect.
01:15:01 -->
01:15:03
And some people have that image that the
01:15:03 -->
01:15:05
sahaba must be perfect, and the companion, the
01:15:05 -->
01:15:07
scholars must be perfect.
01:15:07 -->
01:15:08
He must be perfect.
01:15:08 -->
01:15:09
He's not.
01:15:10 -->
01:15:12
That's why they get shocked when they see
01:15:12 -->
01:15:15
some statements that's different than that image that
01:15:15 -->
01:15:16
they put in their head.
01:15:17 -->
01:15:19
I think it's important to shock you a
01:15:19 -->
01:15:20
little bit.
01:15:21 -->
01:15:24
Not to undermine the level of the scholars
01:15:24 -->
01:15:24
of...
01:15:24 -->
01:15:26
No, but to understand that they are human
01:15:26 -->
01:15:27
being.
01:15:27 -->
01:15:31
Because sometimes we're looking for perfect people.
01:15:32 -->
01:15:35
We can't process that people make mistakes.
01:15:35 -->
01:15:37
We can't process that people make sin.
01:15:37 -->
01:15:39
We can't process that people can make evil
01:15:39 -->
01:15:40
things.
01:15:43 -->
01:15:48
Obviously, there is levels, but especially when it
01:15:48 -->
01:15:51
comes to personality, you will find very different
01:15:51 -->
01:15:52
scholars have different personalities.
01:15:54 -->
01:15:57
Also understanding they were individuals with their own
01:15:57 -->
01:15:59
personalities, habits.
01:15:59 -->
01:16:01
Not expect the same from everybody.
01:16:02 -->
01:16:05
Imam Al-Bukhari, he would never used to
01:16:05 -->
01:16:06
say strong words.
01:16:07 -->
01:16:10
If this man is the worst narrator ever,
01:16:10 -->
01:16:12
he would say, don't write his hadith.
01:16:15 -->
01:16:17
But you look to another scholar, he said,
01:16:18 -->
01:16:20
he's the worst liar ever on the face
01:16:20 -->
01:16:20
of the earth.
01:16:27 -->
01:16:30
Somebody's name, Thor.
01:16:32 -->
01:16:40
Thor, which it means bull or cow or
01:16:40 -->
01:16:42
Hema, donkey.
01:16:43 -->
01:16:45
And he said, if you narrated the hadith
01:16:45 -->
01:16:47
of this man, you are donkey like him.
01:16:49 -->
01:16:51
Some people very strong, strong language.
01:16:54 -->
01:16:55
People have a different personality.
01:16:55 -->
01:16:56
There is people so friendly.
01:16:57 -->
01:16:58
There is people so quiet.
01:16:58 -->
01:17:00
There is people, mashallah, fire.
01:17:01 -->
01:17:05
You will see these different personalities in people.
01:17:06 -->
01:17:12
Also, referring their clear statement or actions to
01:17:12 -->
01:17:13
the unclear ones.
01:17:13 -->
01:17:14
And this is so important.
01:17:15 -->
01:17:16
This is part of justice.
01:17:17 -->
01:17:19
If you hear some scholar make a statement
01:17:19 -->
01:17:22
is not clear, is not, you know, it's
01:17:22 -->
01:17:23
ambiguous.
01:17:23 -->
01:17:25
Go to the clear statement.
01:17:25 -->
01:17:28
Go to the majority of their positions.
01:17:29 -->
01:17:30
And that's important.
01:17:32 -->
01:17:34
That's why Sa'id ibn Musayyib said, one
01:17:34 -->
01:17:36
of my friend from the companions of the
01:17:36 -->
01:17:40
Prophet ﷺ wrote to me once, anytime you
01:17:40 -->
01:17:43
see your brother did something that is suspicious,
01:17:45 -->
01:17:49
ambiguous, could mean bad or good, always understand
01:17:49 -->
01:17:51
it in the light of goodness, unless you
01:17:51 -->
01:17:52
have proof otherwise.
01:17:53 -->
01:17:56
And when your brother says something that could
01:17:56 -->
01:17:59
mean something good or bad, always take the
01:17:59 -->
01:17:59
good first.
01:18:00 -->
01:18:02
Always think of the good first.
01:18:06 -->
01:18:08
Not examining authenticity of narration.
01:18:08 -->
01:18:10
We don't treat the story of the scholars
01:18:10 -->
01:18:13
the same way we treat the hadith, unless
01:18:13 -->
01:18:15
we want to establish a ruling.
01:18:16 -->
01:18:18
And we don't establish ruling from the action
01:18:18 -->
01:18:19
of the scholars action.
01:18:19 -->
01:18:21
But if you want to establish ruling on
01:18:21 -->
01:18:24
the person that you really this person said
01:18:24 -->
01:18:26
that or believe in that, in this case,
01:18:26 -->
01:18:28
we examine the authenticity of the narration.
01:18:29 -->
01:18:34
Also, being moderate in one's view and position
01:18:34 -->
01:18:37
regarding them, because some people are very extreme.
01:18:37 -->
01:18:41
When you read in history, somebody said, one
01:18:41 -->
01:18:45
look at Imam Ahmed equal to worshipping Allah
01:18:45 -->
01:18:46
one year.
01:18:47 -->
01:18:49
Just one look at Imam Ahmed is equal
01:18:49 -->
01:18:50
to worshipping Allah one year.
01:18:50 -->
01:18:54
Lidhahabi, when he was writing the biography, he
01:18:54 -->
01:18:55
said, this is extremism.
01:18:56 -->
01:18:58
This extreme, unacceptable.
01:18:58 -->
01:19:03
Somebody said, the stick of Ahmed is better
01:19:03 -->
01:19:06
than all the deeds of Bishr al-Hafi.
01:19:07 -->
01:19:11
He's a righteous, you know, ascetic person.
01:19:11 -->
01:19:13
Lidhahabi said, Bishr al-Hafi is like Ahmed,
01:19:14 -->
01:19:15
great Imam as well.
01:19:15 -->
01:19:18
How can you say that Imam Ahmed's stick
01:19:18 -->
01:19:21
or cane is better than Bishr al-Hafi?
01:19:22 -->
01:19:24
And who are you to know how the
01:19:24 -->
01:19:25
deeds will be weighted in the day of
01:19:25 -->
01:19:26
judgment?
01:19:26 -->
01:19:27
That's not acceptable.
01:19:31 -->
01:19:35
Also, being moderate and just, it makes even
01:19:35 -->
01:19:37
if you love this person so much not
01:19:37 -->
01:19:39
to exaggerate and not to justify their mistakes.
01:19:40 -->
01:19:45
Imam Ibn Qayyim, when he wrote his commentary
01:19:45 -->
01:19:47
on a great scholar, his name known as
01:19:47 -->
01:19:50
Sheikh al-Islam of his time, Abu Ismail
01:19:50 -->
01:19:51
Harawi.
01:19:51 -->
01:19:56
He said, Ibn Qayyim, Abu Ismail Harawi is
01:19:56 -->
01:19:59
someone that we love so much, we dare
01:19:59 -->
01:20:01
so much, and we love so much.
01:20:01 -->
01:20:03
But we love the truth more than him.
01:20:06 -->
01:20:07
Al-haq ahabbu ilayna.
01:20:07 -->
01:20:09
We love the truth more than him.
01:20:09 -->
01:20:11
That's why when it's a mistake, he said,
01:20:11 -->
01:20:12
that's wrong, that mistake.
01:20:12 -->
01:20:13
It's not acceptable.
01:20:16 -->
01:20:22
Also, looking into the reasons behind their statements
01:20:22 -->
01:20:25
and action or examining the situation and time
01:20:25 -->
01:20:27
when action or statement were made.
01:20:27 -->
01:20:30
And this is very important rules when it
01:20:30 -->
01:20:32
comes to understanding the life of the scholars
01:20:32 -->
01:20:33
or the statement.
01:20:33 -->
01:20:36
You have to understand why they said that.
01:20:37 -->
01:20:38
What's the reason?
01:20:38 -->
01:20:39
Is it an answering?
01:20:40 -->
01:20:44
For example, Imam Malik or Imam Ahmed, both,
01:20:45 -->
01:20:47
somebody came to him and said, what do
01:20:47 -->
01:20:49
you think of somebody who practice innovations?
01:20:51 -->
01:20:53
Should I refute them?
01:20:53 -->
01:20:53
He said, no.
01:20:56 -->
01:20:57
Another story.
01:20:58 -->
01:20:59
Should I refute?
01:20:59 -->
01:21:01
He said, yes, firmly.
01:21:03 -->
01:21:04
Why the first time he said no?
01:21:05 -->
01:21:06
And this one, he said, yes.
01:21:08 -->
01:21:10
You have to look at the story.
01:21:10 -->
01:21:12
Look, and you'll find that the one who
01:21:12 -->
01:21:15
said don't, because this man came from Khorasan.
01:21:16 -->
01:21:18
And Khorasan is a land where the Sunnah
01:21:18 -->
01:21:19
is weak.
01:21:20 -->
01:21:22
The people of Sunnah are few.
01:21:24 -->
01:21:25
So he said, don't, because that will cause
01:21:25 -->
01:21:27
more problem to you.
01:21:27 -->
01:21:28
They can kill you.
01:21:28 -->
01:21:29
They can harm you or your family.
01:21:30 -->
01:21:30
Don't.
01:21:31 -->
01:21:33
So understand that the reason behind it, the
01:21:33 -->
01:21:35
story behind it will allow you to understand
01:21:35 -->
01:21:38
where, what's the position or why they said
01:21:38 -->
01:21:39
what they said.
01:21:40 -->
01:21:43
Also, one of the knowing that one of
01:21:43 -->
01:21:46
the scholars of the Muslim ummah, whose status
01:21:46 -->
01:21:49
was agreed upon by the Muslim scholars, would
01:21:49 -->
01:21:50
never reject the Sunnah.
01:21:51 -->
01:21:53
That's why the four Imam, Abu Harifah, Malik,
01:21:53 -->
01:21:55
or Shafi Ahmed, and others than them, these
01:21:55 -->
01:21:58
great scholars of Islam, are always, we know
01:21:58 -->
01:22:00
that they always honor the Sunnah of the
01:22:00 -->
01:22:02
Prophet, and we don't allow anyone, especially these
01:22:02 -->
01:22:05
days, to raise doubts about these great scholars.
01:22:05 -->
01:22:09
You might criticize some positions of them, but
01:22:09 -->
01:22:12
they are great Imam, well established.
01:22:13 -->
01:22:17
Examining their whole lives and not passing judgment
01:22:17 -->
01:22:22
based on individual incident, and that's part of
01:22:22 -->
01:22:23
the justice.
01:22:24 -->
01:22:25
I give you an example.
01:22:32 -->
01:22:35
Al-Imam Ibn Khuzaymah, Rahimahullah.
01:22:36 -->
01:22:39
Ibn Khuzaymah is a Shafi'i scholar, one
01:22:39 -->
01:22:42
of the most important names when it comes
01:22:42 -->
01:22:44
to the Sunni theology.
01:22:46 -->
01:22:49
He mentioned one of the Ahadith in relation
01:22:49 -->
01:22:53
to one of Allah's attributes, and he reinterpreted
01:22:53 -->
01:22:55
other than the apparent meaning.
01:22:59 -->
01:23:02
Shafi'i, Imam Al-Dhahabi said, he's wrong
01:23:02 -->
01:23:08
in the way he treated this particular attribute
01:23:08 -->
01:23:08
of Allah.
01:23:09 -->
01:23:11
He said it's wrong, but if you look
01:23:11 -->
01:23:15
at his methodology in every other attributes, it's
01:23:15 -->
01:23:17
according to the way of Ahlul Sunnah.
01:23:17 -->
01:23:20
But this one specifically, he did not.
01:23:22 -->
01:23:24
So he did not judge him based on
01:23:24 -->
01:23:26
that mistake in one incident, he judged him
01:23:26 -->
01:23:30
based on his methodology, that is constant, consistent
01:23:30 -->
01:23:31
in following the way of Ahlul Sunnah.
01:23:32 -->
01:23:37
And he said, if one mistake of a
01:23:37 -->
01:23:40
scholar will make us cancel the scholars, no
01:23:40 -->
01:23:41
scholars will be left.
01:23:41 -->
01:23:45
And memorize this, he said if one mistake
01:23:45 -->
01:23:47
of a scholar will lead us to cancel
01:23:47 -->
01:23:50
the scholar, no scholar will be left.
01:23:53 -->
01:24:01
No one will be left for us.
01:24:01 -->
01:24:03
And something like this also Ibn Al-Qayyim,
01:24:03 -->
01:24:03
said.
01:24:06 -->
01:24:09
Also learning the culture of each scholars, and
01:24:09 -->
01:24:12
specifically, and how it kind of terminology they
01:24:12 -->
01:24:15
use, what kind of language that they use,
01:24:15 -->
01:24:15
it's important.
01:24:16 -->
01:24:20
Because sometimes we understand some terms and words
01:24:20 -->
01:24:21
that we use in the past, and we
01:24:21 -->
01:24:23
think it's like our usage today.
01:24:24 -->
01:24:24
No.
01:24:24 -->
01:24:25
Like for example, Ghazwa.
01:24:27 -->
01:24:29
Today Ghazwa, it means the Prophet's battle.
01:24:30 -->
01:24:32
But at certain time Ghazwa, means just a
01:24:32 -->
01:24:33
battle.
01:24:34 -->
01:24:36
Some words might seem so rude to us
01:24:36 -->
01:24:38
today, but in their time it was not
01:24:38 -->
01:24:39
rude.
01:24:39 -->
01:24:40
It's a way they talk.
01:24:41 -->
01:24:43
So understanding that, because why they are so
01:24:43 -->
01:24:45
rude, it's not rude, that's their culture, that's
01:24:45 -->
01:24:46
how they talk.
01:24:46 -->
01:24:47
That's not rude at all.
01:24:47 -->
01:24:48
Rude here, but not there.
01:24:49 -->
01:24:50
I remember when I first came to America,
01:24:51 -->
01:24:53
and I don't speak English, because every language
01:24:53 -->
01:24:54
has a culture too.
01:24:55 -->
01:24:58
So for example, in Arabic, if I say
01:24:58 -->
01:25:03
to you, no thank you, or please give
01:25:03 -->
01:25:06
me this, that's a very formal way.
01:25:06 -->
01:25:10
That's not actually a good, a very friendly
01:25:10 -->
01:25:12
way of talking to your friends.
01:25:12 -->
01:25:15
If you're really friends, you don't say please
01:25:15 -->
01:25:15
or thank you.
01:25:16 -->
01:25:17
What kind of culture is that?
01:25:18 -->
01:25:20
But I don't know about other cultures, but
01:25:20 -->
01:25:22
in Arabic, that's not a very friendly way.
01:25:22 -->
01:25:24
If you're really my friend, you didn't tell
01:25:24 -->
01:25:25
me that.
01:25:25 -->
01:25:27
That means you treated me like I'm your
01:25:27 -->
01:25:28
boss or something.
01:25:29 -->
01:25:31
But in English, no.
01:25:31 -->
01:25:32
It's so rude to say no.
01:25:33 -->
01:25:34
You say no thank you.
01:25:35 -->
01:25:37
So it takes us time to pick the
01:25:37 -->
01:25:37
culture.
01:25:38 -->
01:25:39
You get it?
01:25:40 -->
01:25:41
So that's why when you read this story,
01:25:41 -->
01:25:42
you can't judge.
01:25:42 -->
01:25:44
You need to understand their culture, and what
01:25:44 -->
01:25:46
kind of things, how they talk, how they
01:25:46 -->
01:25:48
deal with things, in order for you to
01:25:48 -->
01:25:50
be able to understand them properly.
01:25:52 -->
01:26:01
Also, understanding, okay, that social and economic and
01:26:01 -->
01:26:06
psychological influence and political influence at that time.
01:26:06 -->
01:26:09
It's so important when you study the life
01:26:09 -->
01:26:09
of a scholar.
01:26:10 -->
01:26:13
If you study somebody like Imam al-Qurtubi,
01:26:14 -->
01:26:18
he is so negative, so harsh against rulers.
01:26:22 -->
01:26:24
He speaks a lot of very negative tone,
01:26:24 -->
01:26:26
very harsh tone, not negative, harsh tone.
01:26:27 -->
01:26:28
Why?
01:26:28 -->
01:26:31
Because he witnessed the fall of Al-Andalus.
01:26:32 -->
01:26:35
He saw how Al-Andalus, this beautiful land
01:26:35 -->
01:26:39
of Muslims, collapsed because the rulers didn't care.
01:26:40 -->
01:26:44
You know, when the Spaniel surrounding Qurtubi, and
01:26:44 -->
01:26:46
killing the people in Qurtubi, you know that
01:26:46 -->
01:26:50
the king and the khalifa was sitting with
01:26:50 -->
01:26:52
his singer, female singer.
01:26:52 -->
01:26:54
She's singing and dancing for him, and an
01:26:54 -->
01:26:56
arrow came from the wind to kill the
01:26:56 -->
01:26:59
singer, while she's singing and dancing.
01:27:00 -->
01:27:03
He was so broken down that he start
01:27:03 -->
01:27:06
crying, and he said, for three days, nobody
01:27:06 -->
01:27:07
allowed to go outside.
01:27:07 -->
01:27:09
He refused to talk to the generals.
01:27:09 -->
01:27:11
He refused to talk to the army leader.
01:27:11 -->
01:27:14
He said, I'm just declaring sadness over the
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01:27:15
death of my singer.
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01:27:19
I don't care what's happening outside.
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01:27:23
If you live that life, and you see
01:27:23 -->
01:27:25
your own father murder in front of you,
01:27:25 -->
01:27:27
your own line taking, what do you think
01:27:27 -->
01:27:28
his reaction?
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01:27:30
He's furious.
01:27:34 -->
01:27:36
Some people so strong in their language, do
01:27:36 -->
01:27:37
Shia.
01:27:37 -->
01:27:37
Why?
01:27:37 -->
01:27:39
Because he lived in a time where Shia
01:27:39 -->
01:27:44
dominated, ruled, killed, tortured Sunni.
01:27:45 -->
01:27:47
So he is a little bit overstepping in
01:27:47 -->
01:27:48
his language.
01:27:48 -->
01:27:48
Why?
01:27:49 -->
01:27:51
Because of that experience that he lived.
01:27:52 -->
01:27:54
I give you an example of modern person,
01:27:55 -->
01:27:57
because also his writing impact a lot of
01:27:57 -->
01:27:57
modern people.
01:27:58 -->
01:28:00
Sayyid Qutub, Rahimallah.
01:28:01 -->
01:28:04
Sayyid Qutub is a very famous person, very
01:28:04 -->
01:28:05
controversial figure as well.
01:28:06 -->
01:28:09
But Sayyid Qutub, one thing not many people
01:28:09 -->
01:28:10
pay attention to.
01:28:10 -->
01:28:13
Sayyid Qutub, most of his life, in my
01:28:13 -->
01:28:15
opinion, one of the worst thing about Sayyid
01:28:15 -->
01:28:21
Qutub is the spirit of his talk sometimes
01:28:21 -->
01:28:22
is so dark.
01:28:23 -->
01:28:25
It is so negative.
01:28:27 -->
01:28:28
But I understand why.
01:28:28 -->
01:28:32
Because he wrote things unbelievable great.
01:28:32 -->
01:28:34
Nobody can argue that.
01:28:34 -->
01:28:36
But also has a lot of dark side
01:28:36 -->
01:28:37
of his writing.
01:28:37 -->
01:28:37
Why?
01:28:38 -->
01:28:40
Because all his life was in jail.
01:28:41 -->
01:28:45
He lived, since he became religious, I think
01:28:45 -->
01:28:47
he only stayed out of jail for six,
01:28:47 -->
01:28:48
seven months.
01:28:48 -->
01:28:50
Other than that, he always tortured in jail.
01:28:52 -->
01:28:54
Imagine if you are in a dark cell,
01:28:54 -->
01:28:56
tortured by people, all your life.
01:28:56 -->
01:28:57
What kind of pen?
01:28:57 -->
01:28:58
It will be poison pen.
01:28:59 -->
01:29:00
He's not an angel.
01:29:00 -->
01:29:01
He's not a piece of rock.
01:29:01 -->
01:29:02
He's a human being.
01:29:03 -->
01:29:05
Definitely he, that's why he always talk about
01:29:05 -->
01:29:08
al-jahiliyyah, the ignorant, the corruption, the whole
01:29:08 -->
01:29:10
world is the bad and evil.
01:29:10 -->
01:29:12
He has this generalizing.
01:29:13 -->
01:29:13
Why?
01:29:13 -->
01:29:15
Because it's the impact of the time that
01:29:15 -->
01:29:16
he lived in.
01:29:18 -->
01:29:20
Understanding that allowed you to take the good
01:29:20 -->
01:29:22
and to leave the bad, to filter.
01:29:23 -->
01:29:26
And that's important thing when you read the
01:29:26 -->
01:29:27
life of the scholars.
01:29:28 -->
01:29:31
Somebody lived in a relaxing environment.
01:29:31 -->
01:29:33
Mashallah, no war, nothing.
01:29:34 -->
01:29:36
You say, why not everybody is like that?
01:29:36 -->
01:29:38
Yeah, because not everybody live like that.
01:29:39 -->
01:29:41
You know, sometimes you see the language of
01:29:41 -->
01:29:44
Muslims talking about non-Muslims in a very
01:29:44 -->
01:29:45
harsh term.
01:29:46 -->
01:29:46
Why?
01:29:46 -->
01:29:49
Because at that time, every non-Muslim at
01:29:49 -->
01:29:52
that time, the Romans and the Persians are
01:29:52 -->
01:29:54
in war, killing.
01:29:55 -->
01:29:58
That's what shape how the fiqh view of
01:29:58 -->
01:29:59
the relationships.
01:30:00 -->
01:30:02
But that's not the same when you live
01:30:02 -->
01:30:05
in a time and in a society where
01:30:05 -->
01:30:06
they lived next to each other.
01:30:07 -->
01:30:08
There were non-active war happening.
01:30:09 -->
01:30:11
These are so important to put things in
01:30:11 -->
01:30:11
context.
01:30:13 -->
01:30:17
Also rich and poor, you know, people in
01:30:17 -->
01:30:19
position of power are not or prosecuted.
01:30:20 -->
01:30:24
Not following the odd opinions of scholars, especially
01:30:24 -->
01:30:26
when it is like rukhsah.
01:30:27 -->
01:30:29
You know, some odd opinion of a scholars
01:30:29 -->
01:30:30
and you go pick it up.
01:30:31 -->
01:30:33
That's why whoever picked up all the odd
01:30:33 -->
01:30:35
opinions will be odd person.
01:30:39 -->
01:30:41
Imam Ahmed rahimallah said, if you take from
01:30:41 -->
01:30:43
the people of Medina, that some of scholars
01:30:43 -->
01:30:45
in Medina said singing is allowed.
01:30:45 -->
01:30:48
And some scholars in Kufa said, which is
01:30:48 -->
01:30:51
some drink that intoxicate person, it's allowed.
01:30:52 -->
01:30:56
And from Mecca, which is temporary marriage is
01:30:56 -->
01:30:56
allowed.
01:30:57 -->
01:30:58
You take that opinion, send this and take
01:30:58 -->
01:31:00
it and you collect that.
01:31:00 -->
01:31:03
You end up fornicating, drinking alcohol and listening
01:31:03 -->
01:31:03
to music.
01:31:04 -->
01:31:06
Go to a nightclub and that's it.
01:31:10 -->
01:31:12
Nobody among these three allowed all these three,
01:31:12 -->
01:31:13
but you go pick and choose.
01:31:15 -->
01:31:16
That's not allowed.
01:31:19 -->
01:31:22
But here, I want you to be, there's
01:31:22 -->
01:31:23
a nuance I want you to be aware
01:31:23 -->
01:31:23
of.
01:31:24 -->
01:31:26
Something a lot of people don't pay attention
01:31:26 -->
01:31:26
to it.
01:31:29 -->
01:31:32
For you as an individual is not allowed
01:31:32 -->
01:31:34
for you to look for the easiest opinion.
01:31:36 -->
01:31:37
It's not allowed.
01:31:38 -->
01:31:41
But for me as a mufti, I'm allowed
01:31:41 -->
01:31:43
to do that for you, not for myself.
01:31:45 -->
01:31:47
And that's what a lot of people fail
01:31:47 -->
01:31:49
to understand the difference between the two.
01:31:53 -->
01:31:55
That's why the difference of meaning is mercy.
01:31:55 -->
01:31:56
Why?
01:31:56 -->
01:31:58
You come to me and you ask me,
01:31:58 -->
01:31:59
Shaykh, as happened.
01:32:00 -->
01:32:01
Yeah, Shaykh, you know what?
01:32:01 -->
01:32:03
I married this woman.
01:32:03 -->
01:32:04
There was no wali.
01:32:05 -->
01:32:07
There is no wali in the time of
01:32:07 -->
01:32:07
marriage.
01:32:09 -->
01:32:11
Okay, there is no wali for her when
01:32:11 -->
01:32:12
I married her.
01:32:12 -->
01:32:13
And now we have children.
01:32:14 -->
01:32:17
I do believe married woman without wali is
01:32:17 -->
01:32:17
invalid.
01:32:18 -->
01:32:20
But now somebody came to me and did
01:32:20 -->
01:32:21
this.
01:32:21 -->
01:32:21
I said, you know what?
01:32:21 -->
01:32:23
The Hanafi allowed that.
01:32:23 -->
01:32:24
That's fine.
01:32:24 -->
01:32:24
You're good.
01:32:25 -->
01:32:28
I choose from the opinion that I think
01:32:28 -->
01:32:29
can fit to me.
01:32:29 -->
01:32:32
You know, sometimes in business transactions, somebody said,
01:32:32 -->
01:32:33
you know what?
01:32:33 -->
01:32:34
No problem.
01:32:34 -->
01:32:36
I will find in one of the opinion
01:32:36 -->
01:32:37
of the scholars allowed this kind of business
01:32:37 -->
01:32:38
transaction.
01:32:38 -->
01:32:39
You're good to go.
01:32:40 -->
01:32:41
So it is allowed for them.
01:32:41 -->
01:32:43
And that's why no scholars, if you study
01:32:43 -->
01:32:46
any scholars, you will find them that they
01:32:46 -->
01:32:49
will choose some of the even an opinion
01:32:49 -->
01:32:52
against what they believe in cases that already
01:32:52 -->
01:32:55
took place or in cases that there is
01:32:55 -->
01:32:56
a need for this kind of fatwa.
01:32:57 -->
01:33:00
So it's allowed for you as a mufti
01:33:00 -->
01:33:03
or a scholar to choose from some opinion,
01:33:04 -->
01:33:06
even if it's not the strongest, because he
01:33:06 -->
01:33:07
sees there is a maslaha in it.
01:33:07 -->
01:33:09
And that's where the difference of opinion is
01:33:09 -->
01:33:10
mercy for the ummah.
01:33:11 -->
01:33:13
But it's not allowed for individual to do
01:33:13 -->
01:33:15
that as a difference between the two.
01:33:16 -->
01:33:23
Finally, studying their life to explore the pattern
01:33:23 -->
01:33:25
leading to positive change.
01:33:25 -->
01:33:28
So they can apply, you can apply this
01:33:28 -->
01:33:29
to our modern affairs.
01:33:30 -->
01:33:35
Transferring our study from theoretical to a practical
01:33:35 -->
01:33:36
one.
01:33:36 -->
01:33:38
And this is something I will focus a
01:33:38 -->
01:33:39
lot on them.
01:33:40 -->
01:33:42
You will hear me tomorrow saying my class
01:33:42 -->
01:33:42
a lot.
01:33:43 -->
01:33:44
It's not about his story.
01:33:45 -->
01:33:46
It's about your story.
01:33:47 -->
01:33:49
What we're going to study is not just
01:33:49 -->
01:33:51
what they have done.
01:33:52 -->
01:33:54
It's what we can learn from what they
01:33:54 -->
01:33:55
have done.
01:33:55 -->
01:33:56
It's about us today.
01:33:57 -->
01:33:59
It doesn't matter how great he was, what
01:33:59 -->
01:34:01
matter how great you will be.
01:34:01 -->
01:34:04
And that's basically the spirit of this class.
01:34:04 -->
01:34:07
And may Allah subhana wa ta'ala make
01:34:07 -->
01:34:10
us among those who listen to the speech
01:34:10 -->
01:34:11
and hear and follow the best of it.
01:34:12 -->
01:34:14
Sorry to stretch you for long, but tomorrow
01:34:14 -->
01:34:16
we'll have only 50 minutes sessions.
01:34:18 -->
01:34:19
Thank you very much.
01:34:21 -->
01:34:23
It's nine o'clock exactly.
01:34:23 -->
01:34:24
It's one and a half hour.
01:34:25 -->
01:34:28
That's very good for you guys to keep
01:34:28 -->
01:34:29
you that late.
01:34:30 -->
01:34:31
Looking forward to see you.
01:34:31 -->
01:34:33
If you're not registered, register in the class.
01:34:33 -->
01:34:36
We'll have fun tomorrow inshallah ta'ala.
01:34:36 -->
01:34:38
One thing if you come into the class
01:34:38 -->
01:34:41
tomorrow, one a common theme about the scholars,
01:34:41 -->
01:34:43
they really care about their look.
01:34:44 -->
01:34:46
Which is something strange.
01:34:46 -->
01:34:49
Most of them really care about dress well.
01:34:50 -->
01:34:51
So if you're going to come tomorrow to
01:34:51 -->
01:34:53
the class, dress well.
01:34:54 -->
01:34:57
Iron your hijab, you know.
01:34:57 -->
01:35:01
And you know iron your though or crisp
01:35:01 -->
01:35:01
shirt.
01:35:02 -->
01:35:03
So just dress well.
