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I want to start with a hadith thats related by imam of Papa Ronnie with a nice knife and it's from of
The hadith says that everything has a bad which is a movement towards something and an eight ball which is a movement away from something and from the bad of this Dean from these beams coming to us moving towards us he said is that you were in blindness and ignorance and then allah subhana allah sent me with what I have to you and from
this beam coming is that a tribe will
learn thick all of them
an entire tribe the LCD huh until you
will not find in that whole tribe one
fashion or two facets one bad person or
two bad persons and then he said if they
speak these two bad persons are maharani
very Lani they're the ones that have to
shut up they're the ones that don't have
any authority and power the bad people
because they're surrounded by too many
good people so they don't have a time to
actually or an opportunity to bring
their filth into the community and then
he said if they speak out they will be
subdued conquered and belittled put down
and then he said from the movement away
of this Dean is that a favela tej fool
by Assyria Jeff a mean they'll become
harsh they'll become harsh they'll the
entire tribe until their will only
remain one or two puppies people who
understand the ding of Islam and if they
speak these two people with good
encouraging them the whole tribe will
attack them and say oh scoot be quiet
don't tell us and then he said some a
lot it was sudden if they command a good
or forbid evil they're overpowered by
these people and their weak amongst them
and you won't and they won't find anyone
to help them and anyone to give them
support I wanna and one sada people to
give them victory people to be a noun a
support for them now I just like to
mention one thing in relation to this
habit I first became Muslim almost 20
years ago when I became Muslim i think
it was after a year that i found out
that Tia mone was not permissible if
there was water when you were traveling
in other words and I love forgive me
because I don't know how many if I
prayed with I can't remember but I
learned that time home after one year of
being Muslim with Muslims living with
them after one cuz
was initially thought if you're
traveling you have a choice if you can
do time one it's a rock site makes it
easier or you can do what I didn't know
that that was wrong until after a year
of being Muslim I had some people tell
me put your hands here some people
talking to put them here some people
some people told me move the finger some
people said no keep the finger still I
started becoming bewildered what's
what's going on here what what is this
teaching and I realized after a few
years that the only way that I'm going
to get any peace of mind is to find out
for myself and I realize that I have to
first learn Arabic because the
literature and there's more literature
now in English but at that time when I
became Muslim and city of the logic in
knows that this is true and other people
around at that time there was not a lot
of literature in english and they're
certain wasn't a book sunsilk to teach
you anything about film so i realized i
had to go and find out well at that
point the trouble begins because where
do I go where do I go as a young I was
about 21 years old and I decided I want
to seek knowledge and I said where do I
go well I got an opportunity from a
wonderful man sheikh abdullah ali and
mahmoud who was a man from sharjah
sharifa in the emirates and he was an
older man who remembered he actually
rolled by camel around the the niche i
mean that's that's the era that he came
out of and he was a puppy and he was a
very spiritual and and sincere person
and he met me in London and I had just
learned some words in Arabic I was
trying to put them together I got a
little book I was trying to learn how to
speak Arabic and I said tone cave AHA
Luca and a minute America is me Hamza
you know and I'm calling Hamza is
actually a letter it's not it's not a
name it's a letter so he just all all
hired on said you have to come and study
and I'll facilitate that for you
so he actually gave me an opportunity to
go to the Emirates and a study when I
got to the Emirates I was put into a
place called an emeritus Anatomy which
is in a line and by a good or bad
fortune I went to extremely good schools
in the United States I went to private
Jesuit school and so I was used to a
very high standard of education in the
West when I went to add mahady tsunami I
found and it was a good experience for
me because I learned a lot of words
immediately like yeah hey MA yeah hubby
yeah washy yak mauch you know and the
Arabs know what it means and most of you
who don't think ever no it means because
this is what the teacher used to say to
the students constantly Oh donkey Oh
jackass Oh fool Oh idiot so I learned
those words very quickly because you
learn things that you near all the time
now I had never seen that because I grew
up in a place where the teachers
actually respected you and I and and
really this is actually we should be
crying in fact because we know now what
what that type of attitude does to
children you see if you're always being
told something you come to believe that
thing and what I saw basically was a
gross parent invitation of Western
education it was really at the lowest
levels of Western education and the
school was started by a very righteous
man with very good intentions but
unfortunately the people with the best
of intentions are still encumbered with
the difficulties on the problems that
exist from the post-colonial trauma of
the Muslim Ummah and how we get beyond
that now after a very short time there
and I was learning Arabic more and more
rapidly I met a West African scholar
from Mauritania and the first thing I
recognize is the man had light on his
face unlike a lot of the people that
were teaching me at the man had they
actually appeared sometimes actually
dark to me and I went up to him and I
said that I have some worries from he
said mauritania I said you know I'm
looking for somebody who knows how to
teach this LOM in a traditional way and
he said well that's the way I learned
and I'm a movie at the
at the Sharia Court and you can come
anytime to my house that you want to day
or night that's what he told me he gave
me his number and he gave me his address
and I started going to this man's house
and he was he would sit there and he
would say what do you want to study and
then he I would ask him questions he
would answer them he would tell me this
this and this and he would say you
should memorize this because that's the
only way to learn and I noticed the
people in that environment other more
Italians coming most of the memorize the
Quran they knew fifth they were very
clear in our understanding of his mom
and I was very affected by these people
they affected me because I hadn't seen
people like them now the secret of these
people is simply one thing and one thing
only and I'm convinced of this now after
thinking about it for a long time these
are people that the Colonials actually
never got to because they were in the
middle of the Sahara Desert and
europeans tend to not like to be in
conditions where they don't have all the
perks that go was staying there and
Mauritania is an extremely difficult
environment to stay in and like sue
diamond yang dr. cinnamon yang says you
know thank God for the the malaria
mosquito because it really helped the
West Africans out a lot against these
Europeans that came now wherever you see
the Europeans went you will see a
dismantling of the traditional Islamic
education wherever you see them go you
will see this now what's fascinating to
me I do not in any way think that
mauritania is the end-all of Islamic
education I think there are a lot of
things lacking there I really do but I
don't like other places they have not
thrown the baby out with the bathwater
you see I mean there's there's bath
water there that needs to get thrown out
but the baby is still there as well if
you go to many other Muslim countries
now it all got chucked out and this was
a gross error by the Muslims than they
were tricked and if you studied I I
advise you to read a book called social
reform in Syria because it explains how
the Western people literally change the
whole understanding of the Syrian
culture about the place of traditional
knowledge in their societies
and it took engineering and medicine and
place them on as the highest thing and
Sharia became something that was really
insignificant of another era something
that we need to get beyond in fact this
is the very thing that's held you back
and that's why you conquered us and that
is that is a lie we were not conquered
because of traditional education we were
conquered in spite of traditional
education and we have to recognize that
we were conquered in spite of
traditional education and if you don't
believe that you have to question
yourself as to why they dismantled our
universities one by one until the last
one fell in 1938 in southern morocco in
marrakech you can see this it was
systematically done why because they're
very frightened of people who know their
Dean it bothers them now just to look a
little bit about the irony really of all
of this is that the western university
system is literally stolen without any
credit from the Islamic system of
training individuals and this these
studies have been done extensively by
several orientalists of the later
periods the early under Orientals
admitted there was some influence they
did not want to admit the extent of the
influence because it's very unnerving
when you're attacking of people calling
them backward and barbaric and then
having to admit that in fact the reason
that you have become civilized and
humanized is those very people that is
problematic if you have to admit that
the reason that you take baths is
because of Muslim cleanliness that the
reason that you have gardens to enjoy
it's because of Muslim love of reminding
themselves in this world of what we
expect in the next world because gardens
are uniquely Eastern and Western Islam
phenomena you find them in Asia also
amongst the civilized Asians because the
Asians were
far more civilized than the European
gardens do not show up in Europe until
they conquer Andalusia where suddenly
these Europeans walk into these houses
with flowers all over the place and said
this Exodus nice how'd you do that it's
called cultivating your garden they
never thought about they used to throw
their garbage god de loup means what's
your head from the thesis that they used
to throw out of their windows the plague
that happens in Europe as a result of
this now we don't know our history and
if people who don't know they've done
anything like easy matic Shabazz said
we'll never be able to do anything if
you don't know you've done something you
can't do anything you have to know your
history in order to become people of
history in other words in order for
those who come after us to say those are
great people you have to know that those
who went before you were great people as
well and we have to inculcate this
deeply in the minds and hearts of our
youth we have to recognize that we are
from a great tradition we are from the
tradition of thinkers saco de dino rossi
says in one of his books that he met a
Christian a keva an atom from the
Christians a scholar and he started
talking to him about what he believed he
said the man didn't have any foundation
for speaking because he didn't
understand intellectual underpinnings of
managua of a dialectic so he said to
this Christian he said listen I want to
teach you one thing and this is it it's
a kinda aplia I'm going to teach you
this and he said the fight he does this
the rule is this if you have a delisle
then you have to have a module if you
have an indication of something there
has to be the thing that it indicates as
well they go together there's a colossal
but if you don't have the Daneel it
doesn't necessarily mean you don't have
them at low in other words if you don't
have the indicator doesn't necessarily
mean the thing indicated doesn't exist
an example the world indicates Allah
subhanAllah Dada if there isn't a world
that doesn't mean there's not a loss of
Nana what
because Allah was before there was a
world so he explained this to this man
and he said I sure are a lazy can he run
for them as that matter what does AHIMA
ho he found is very difficult to
comprehend so I really worked on him
until he finally got it and at the point
he got it I said so let me ask you
something why do you say Jesus is gone
he said because I and Mota he brought
the dead to life and he said oh so
that's your deal that ISA is got the
module is that he need his God because
the Deville he brought things to life
that were dead and he said yes and he
said well that means then that you have
to say Musa is a God also because Musa
threw down a staff that was an inanimate
object and it became a living snake and
he said no no we don't say that either
why not didn't you agree with me that
this is a sound intellectual principal
and he said well I'm getting confused
pr4 boogie till daddy cough up that's
what he says Imam father says boo
utility company became because he won
him over and all at that point he just
has what's called Yahoo he has Jeff ooh
he can now at that point he'll reject it
but he knows it's true you see this is
Giroud and this is the essence of kufa
now imam sanusi commentating on this
story says the Christians really have
the most difficult time understanding
things so how is it that these people
who couldn't understand something I and
he was one of their scholars how is it
now that they are teaching fuzzy logic
that they teach you boolean logic that
they teach you these ugly-ass how is it
that they've learned these Sciences well
if you study how it is they got it
through interaction with the Muslims
Roger Bacon who was teaching in England
used to wear a Saracen road and a turban
and was accused by the Church of England
of apostasy because he was teaching that
the Muslims actually had important
things that we should learn this is a
medieval scholastic
the Pope was sending Christians down to
learn from the Muslims in and Lucia now
as you look at the university system
because there are no universities in the
west until they start looking at how the
Muslims are teaching their students this
is the fact the university introduces
the concept of Mencia dos ND which is a
license to teach a direct translation of
a 5th century 4th 5th century word each
other to therese a permission to teach
what was granted by adam who had studied
with an atom and given him ii jaza to
give to a student a permission to teach
and at that point he was called medeiros
doctor doctor is in fact someone who had
the license to teach but before he could
be given a license to teach in the West
he had to bring for the theses and prove
it before a group of scholastics now
where did they get that before somebody
would get a license to teach amongst the
Muslim set at ella's hard at the Pharaoh
we mean at other places he had to sit
before a group of scholars and he would
be asked question he would give a fatwa
and he would have to defend the fatwa
and if he couldn't defend it he would
not get an e jaza to teach because he
was not considered of a level in which
he could teach people you can see this
is right the chair they call it the
chair of a department where did they get
that from they're all sitting in chairs
in the university why call the professor
the chair because in the Muslim world