the students at on the floor and the
teacher sat on the chair until you had
the chair of metal Castillo never
concealed Phil Casteel terawatts Co Co
Co Co Co heavy and on and on I could go
on and on graduation where do they get
this down from because it looks a lot
like what our scholars we're in the
middle east it was called Jupiter 15 and
it's what you got when you got your each
other to Sydney's why is it that they
have that tassel coming off of it
because this was what was given to the
atom to remind him that Allah had him by
the
asja and that he should have fear of
Allah when he taught people because a
lot could seize him at any moment and
now we see these people come in with
their cap and gown to be given a piece
of paper which is false testimony now
she had at the zoo because it tells them
that they actually knows something and
it's quite frightened when you realize
that you spent 16 years and learn
nothing that's a scary feeling you know
if somebody tells you now you know
something you start getting a little
shaky because you realize what what
exactly is it do I know well let me it's
right here on the diploma says you're a
bachelor in arts what are the arts well
those are the liberal arts well what are
they grammar logic rhetoric those are
the three of the the humanities and then
you learn the four arts mathematics you
had to learn geometry you had to learn
astronomy you had to learn music those
were the liberal arts those are called a
duets and these were the things that a
student had to learn in the Islamic
madrasas system in order to be able to
study now just to look I think that we
had two extraordinary periods of
scholarship that are unparalleled in the
Muslim world and they are the first
period which is the period of the
prophet muhammad sallallahu Sedna the
greatest teacher who ever lived in the
Metro Moran Lima I was sent a teacher
from the light incident Allah will not
choose for His Prophet other than the
best the best of profession professed to
teach that's what a profession is to
teach profess to profess what you
believe the first period was a time of
the prophet salallahu them in a book by
evan haja who lived in the 15th century
by christian dating which is called at
asava feet amis of Sahaba accurately
measuring the companions he says
that out of twelve thousand forty three
persons notables amongst the Sahaba that
he gives us a biography of in order that
we can know who these people around the
problem or who were the human beings
that our prophet produced for the world
out of those twelve hundred and
forty-three 1551 or women 1551 mentioned
in the book we're not talking about the
women at home that we don't know about
we're talking about the women that were
known all of the sahabi ads were great
but because of the nature of islamic
modesty there are many names that we
will never know that allah subhan allah
tala knows now what happens then in the
second period the second group consists
of a period in the 13th and 14th century
there's a book written by even Haji up
in which 1300 women are mentioned in his
book that consists that he wrote 1300
women of the Ummah of his age alamat
even haja has imam asif ali out of
11,000 691 out of 11,000 691 scholars
that he considered to be the greatest
scholars of his age not looking at their
sex not looking at their mail or their
female qualities he's talking about who
the greatest scholars of his time was
out of 11,000 691 1075 are women 1075
I want to tonight to remember one to
remember one woman
there are names Omaha and she lived
between 1376 and 1466 she was born in
Cairo on Friday in the mid of Shaban the
blessed time and that's the time we're
in now she was born mid shot down in 778
and she died in Cairo on the third of
the day of Saturday the thirtieth suffer
871 Imam Musa how he says Oh mahany also
known as Miriam the Cairo in the chassis
is the daughter of nurudeen Alberta
Hassan Ali the son of the judge of the
man even informatics on her mother's
side she was the granddaughter of Judge
Mohammed bin Mohammed Al Hayat e she was
born in Cairo on Friday night in the
middle of the month of Shaban her
maternal grandfather judge little Fiat
II took care of her upbringing in 785 he
took her to audit hadith in Mecca
directly from four masters he mentions
the names in Cairo she studied with her
grandfather himself and many other
masters six names given she obtained
certificates of audition from a large
number of important masters 13 names are
given she married Muhammad ibn Omar even
putalocura advocate amore and had the
following children by him shuja OD
mohammed shah suri sayfudine mohammed al
hanafi fatima eunice al-maliki Mansour l
somebody her son studied and followed
the schools of law by which they became
known this is all manny
her son Mansoor hum buddy was brilliant
but he died young and it was said that
his intelligence killed him after her
first husband died she married a house
and even swayed the Manichean had her
children Ahmed and aziza by him when her
grandfather judge I as he died her
husband put his hand on her inheritance
and used it freely but then he died and
she inherited all of it with the money
she bought the great workshop famous for
its enormous size and many spinning
wheels so here's a scholar who's buying
a factory a woman in Cairo who's a
scholar the mother of scholars who's
buying a factory she's a working woman
buying a factory known as in shall I
come near beer cotton field maybe some
of the Egyptians here even know where
that is one of the descendants of the
original owner challenged the legality
of the sale in court but the ham buddy
judge must not allow ruled that the sale
was legal and confirmed her ownership of
the workshop so here's a male who's
saying this is my shop goes before a
judge on the judge rules for own Hanny
she taught hadith for a long time and
many eminent scholars heard it from her
personally everything I have learned
from her teachers I learned through her
yet I believe that she knew much more
than I was able to learn I'm miss Yvonne
so sorry this is not a simple person
we're talking about a great scholar so
this is letting you know he's letting
you know by that statement Who am Hannah
is her grandfather had presumably taught
her the rest of the six books of Hadees
and among nasha we r DS version of Sonia
vihari she was a good woman who used to
weep for fusillade when the names of a
lioness Robert were mentioned she would
weep she was consistent in her fasting
and night prayers firm in her religion
and especially concerned with ritual
purity which is an important point here
she was especially concerned with ritual
purity she wrote well and she was a
natural poet able to make up verse
spontaneously and the young woman she
had memorized the Quran
and Abu Shuja is Marcus are the
abridgement of sherry jurisprudence and
the mall half of Imam al-hariri in
Arabic grammar as well as other works I
heard her recite beautifully serratus
off she performed the pilgrimage 13
times often staying for months to study
and teach in Mecca and Medina as she
grew older she lost her eyesight but she
was patient and she lost the use of her
legs and became housebound her hannah p
son looked after until she died on
saturday while i was in Mecca she was
buried in burial grounds of her
grandfather near the mausoleum of our
Imam Shafi in Karratha may allah have
mercy on her and on us oh honey
now just just a look at what what's
being said here she was one of so how is
esteemed teachers of hadith her
involvement in the marketplace as an
owner of a textile worship workshop and
her close relationship to the Sun who
took care of her in her long difficult
ol days the extreme mobility of their
own ama comes across in her 13
pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries women
figured prominently among the teachers
of famous male scholars even had yoda
himself when he went to Damascus he only
had four dollars of a hadith they were
all women these aren't made up things
are you sure this our heritage only
Hanny was only one of 68 women experts
on whose authority amongst our how he
recites in his own transmission of
hadith she's only one of 68 I we could
read other ones of amazing women one of
68 from one scholar an Egyptian scholars
even had renamed 53 women amongst his
direct authorities 53 women amongst even
Hodges direct authorities one of the
greatest whole amount that this woman
has ever produced and 53 of his teachers
are women and what's going on in salt
what's going on here think about this
really think about this now hear this is
important this renaissance of women's of
religious learning coincided with a new
assertive promotion by the suit the
Ummah of Shem and the ulama of Egypt of
Aisha the wife of the Prophet sallallahu
Sam there was a renaissance of Ayesha's
position during this same time this this
is not this is an important connection
because if you don't know who you were
if you don't know who you were in the
past you can do nothing in the future
the women were suddenly exposed to the
greatness of aisha as an edema as a
scholar and this created a design that's
only reason I'm mentioning on the head
she was that she was the wife of the
proper the daughter of the first Kelly
salamati said I'm what'll be alone on
you as the most foremost female source
of heavy she relates over 2,000
these an unrivaled source of hadith
concerning women in particular she was
acknowledged expert on ritual purity and
we can directly relate this to umm Hany
zone concern about the books of ritual
purity now the sad thing about all this
is the unique importance of universe of
Howie's dictionary becomes clear when we
recognize that for reasons which we do
not understand women practically
disappear from the Centennial biography
dictionaries that followed him they
disappear where'd they go where did they
go lsv who died in 1651 christian who
wrote about the 16th century included
only twelve women amongst his 1647
entries and mohit be in who died in 1699
christian included none in his
dictionary of 1289 biographies of his
century and more adi one who died in
1791 found a place for only one woman
among 753 18th century notables and the
biography of the biographer of the 19th
century ave afar found room for only two
women out of 777 person to women now I
think because you can see that the 13th
century anybody that studies Islam
recognizes the 13th century is the point
when it all starts to descend because if
we don't have women we don't have man
this as simple as that if we don't have
women we don't have men if we're not
educating our women then our certainly
our men aren't going to be educated and
one of the unique aspects of this age is
that the men are seem to be equally as
ignorant as the women and I think
there's a direct correlation now
whatever happened 1400 years ago that
we're living and tasting the fruits of
it to this day the joy that we have in
our lives because I have no joy in my
life other than the joy of Islam because
I knew life before Islam and I knew
was like and I think City abdallah you
agree with me the joy that we have in
our lives is the fruit of the labor of
those who went before us it's the fruit
of their labor we're eating the fruit of
their labor what fruits are those who
come after us going to eat from what
fruit of those who come after us are
going to eat from because we're eating
the fruits of those who went before us
one of the scholar said kasambara Teresa
cool Omaha wotty you some believe in you
some modification madara see the
hospital lan mianna thomas arrow rebate
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aveda hazardous Hepzibah diamond whose
area kula were had to somehow cool
democracy people are teaching now idiots
being called the great teacher the great
instructor so the people of knowledge of
this age have every right to use a piece
of poetry that was mentioned often in
the olden times this old hag is so worn
out that even its kidneys are showing
which means the the camel even the
kidney is so worn out that even the
kidneys are showing and every every
impoverished one has surpassed it what
he's saying is that knowledge is gone
now there's a beautiful hadith in which
the prophets a license says you will
remain in good condition as long as you
don't let at the shallow you don't
equalize equalization is the
characteristic of the age we're living
in everybody's the same if you go to the
masjid you don't see notables we don't
see notables in our masjid anymore we
see this kind of flat state of affairs
where are the lights that are going to
illuminate the people where are those
who have spent their early youth in the
acquisition of knowledge so that they
can guide this oma one and i'm going to
tell this a young
man a young man who was a graduate from
one of the top universities in this
country he wanted to go to Mauritania to
study fifth and jizz all had on his
father and his mother gave him
permission because they're honorable
people but she curses me because she
thinks I'm the cause that he's not going
to medical school we can't give one
person to the soma our mothers can't
give one son for this own mouth how many
doctors do we have how many engineers do
we have who's going to learn this beam
to give it to the people to come after
we have own am i dying all over the
place while I method of azadi him or why
he just died who's going to take his
place the Pakistani scholar hora Mora
braheem wawa a little Lyonnaise he just
died I was with him not that long ago
and he was asking me hello Deborah he
had pain and physical pain in his heart
while I was sitting with him and I said
some online are you all right he's at my
shop how are the brothers in California
how's the Islam how's the Islam is there
is yet is there increase what are you
doing what are your activities really
well who's going to replace them we have
asked this question what are our
educational system which provided for
them has been dismantled and we know
what Allah saw it wasn't what it's
become we know there's no more cuddle EE
there's an attempt now at reviving and
in sha allah give them success there's
no more zaytuna they tuna that even out
of that one of the greatest amount
product there's no more zaytoun is gone
where are the matter had where are the
maddest where were the cotati where are
they why are we so obsessed with dunya
we need for kaha we don't need doctors
that that I am been to a doctor in 10
years I need a puppy I could I
to my on the phone I need a puppy
everyday people ask me questions and I'm
like that poetry I just recited to you
people has me questions every day they
don't ask their doctors questions every
day people call me every day what am i
doing this situation somebody just died
how much we've got such in such
situation how do we divide the
inheritance I'm going on Hajj and I have
debts what do i do I did this in my
prayer is it invalid or dealt what do i
do I left the prayer for 10 years and
I've come back is it do I have to do it
do I not have to do it this is everyday
life because this is about worshipping
Allah subhanAllah Donna and either we
have people that can guide us or we
don't and the chaos the anarchy the what
i would call ideological tribalism that
exists in this own manam ideological
threat we used to have tribalism based
on blood now we have tribalism based on
ideology try we've got try going around
with names and they call everybody else
kaffir or or bond or bitter EE I mean
somebody was handing out CDI bloody we
know this story man somebody was handing
out man shot in London I it's amazing I
don't have time to Danny now Iman times
the use of his bond victory handing out
at the masjid botica logic i need a
house a nap I don't know abroad with it
I feel sorry for him I'm not worried
about me and that gives me encouragement
more has enough in the bank account but
get a life like the same California and
get my you know I mean if attacking me
is is is your idea of a good time where
you have a problem you know Subhan Allah
I don't like to attack Muslims i really
don't i don't want to attack muslim i
want to work with muslim really i want
to work with Muslims as far as I'm
concerned this being compasses a lot of
different opinions and one of the
beauties of his being unlike other
religions is we don't
one fixed opinion that if you don't
follow it you're you're out of the pale
of the teaching we don't have no we have
broad rod our way is am ahad Jeff
mahajan Arabic means a broad road a
clear bra road Mahad Jeff serafuku madam
editor bebeh late Oaxaca najadi huh now
is you want her in the Attic it's so
wide that if you deviate from it you're
finished because it spits on both sides
it encompasses a lot we don't make
sexier bye-bye even the UNA Matthew
study you know fifth which people don't
you study a camara de you know there's a
cam related to calling somebody a cactus
there's rules if you don't know them you
better shut your mouth you better shut
your now because the Prophet said
whoever calls a Muslim a Kaffir one of
them's Cassar and that's in sahih muslim
one of them's Kathy so if you feel so
secure in your email that you can go
around and afford to call other Muslims
non-muslim then good luck good luck I
wish you the best so we have to do
something we really do don't and I'll
tell you something the people of this
Dean intensive because this is one of
the strategies that that a group of
brothers conceived as an attempt to
start educating Muslims in some
fundamentals some basic fundamentals of
Islam that's all that was our intention
just to kind of cut through a lot of the
confusion and just let's look at what
our Dean teaches us let's look at it and
so that's one of the things we did but
my they invited me here and said we want
to do a fundraiser to help you in some
of the activities you're doing and also
to support some of the brothers overseas
in Syria I did not request that and as
far as I'm concerned give your money to
whoever you want give it to whoever you
want I'm not necessarily for it there's
other brothers and sisters that are
doing activities after I 10 11 model the
people in Toronto they have more right
to your money than I do but give your
money support activities be rejoiced
when a new
I stood open when a new method also
opens when people start coming into the
team because they're coming in now I'm
seeing this there are people coming into
this Dean now and we have to be able to
accommodate those that we have and to
accommodate those that are coming in
because it's happening we have a crises
in the American prison system because we
have so many Muslims I was there not
that long ago and i gave a talk six
people became muslim said Shahada after
it one of the ships that we brought from
Mauritania our community when and gave a
talk and can people become assume one of
the brothers askia Mohammed who is the
head of the governor's Commission on
drug abuse and a Youth Authority speaker
went to the Youth Authority gave a top
40 men under the age of 18 embraced
islam after his talk 40 men well what
are we going to do because it's not just
saying like I hey Lala mohammad rasool
allah there's all of this stuff suddenly
that we as a community are responsible
for these people and now there's people
at the intellectual levels that are
getting interested in some there's
people at really it's happening and
there's a point where it's going to
reach critical mass it will because this
is a deen of allah and we have a promise
from a lot that it will complete its
lights that it will be in every house
bez aziz and elderly ready it will be in
every house islam it already in a sense
is that's already starting to happen
because islam is the hot topic and
they're scared and the only people that
are scared like malcolm used to say are
the wolves that want to prey on the
sheep because islam is about protecting
the sheep it's about protecting the weak
from wool so those are the people that
are worried and they put fear in the
hearts of the sheep because they want to
eat them for lunch and the wolf eats the
one that strays from the flock so when
the Muslims are united we don't have to
worry about wolves and the only thing
that I've ever seen in the history of
Islam that's United us is knowledge when
there are a number to guide us
when there are focal at to give us
proper opinions despite their diversity
that they're true and proper and we
recognize that to make a monk are you
have to know that it's a moon you
have to believe that there's a benefit
in doing it and that the benefit is
greater than harm that might come about
from attacking the moon thought and that
the moon car is much maiale that all the
autumn are in agreement about it a lot
of people don't know those rules but
those are the rules that the altima have
given us but a lot of people don't know
this rule there's a time when you
shouldn't condemn amonkar because it
will lead to a fit my greater than what
you're condemning and you have
there's a time when you shouldn't
condemn among cut because it'll lead to
a fitment greater than what you're
condemning and you have next menu TV
level the higher ah you thought then
halted beam if Allah one's good for
someone he gives them understanding of
this Dean were in the mid advocate alum
knowledge is acquired painfully through
the acts of learning email mythology
says about this hadith and moved to them
my futon Sahaba in Arabic grammar the
move today is contained in what's being
told in the sentence was shocked muscle
until mushroom and the condition is
contained in what is conditioned so he
says a la hora de of higher his desire
for higher for somebody is based on that
person understanding their religion if
they don't understand their religion it
means a lot didn't want good for them
but I had to be left so we're asking a
lot behind with the other to give us
subtended deep to understand the Dean at
just the last thing and I'm done this is
from a book about the the whole Islamic
educational system its impact on the
West he says Muslim institutionalized
education was religious privately
organized and open to all Muslims who
sought it there is a young man came to
me the other day and said I want to
study where can I study I can't get in
to medina because they have a condition
you it has to be 24 that less under 24
di can't go this place because of this I
can't go and he asked me he said why is
it so easy to go to school here and so
hard to go to school in the Muslim world
well if you if you find out the answer
to that you'll understand why we're in
the conditions that we're in and why
these people are ruling the world if you
understand the answer to that question
you will understand why these people are
ruling the world and we're in the
conditions that were in I don't think
there's any other answers and I told him
the thing that breaks my heart is when
the UNA ma and the hell were teaching in
the mosque of this omas from Indonesia
to Morocco there halaqa was open and
anybody could sit in
they had students that would sit for 20
years but if you were a worker a labor
and you came in to praise the horse and
you wanted to sit in that halaqa and
listen to the words of that scholar you
had every right to do that you didn't
have to pay a feed you didn't have to
sign up for the course you didn't have
to put the conditions down fulfill the
conditions to get into the university
you simply have the right as a Muslim to
sit and learn your Dean and it was an
obligation on this oma to produce men
and women's the kids hid in that circle
and teach those people that is an
obligation it's a legend just as it's a
logic to learn it's a logic to teach and
just as it's a lot of upon us to learn
it's a word of upon us to spend from our
wealth in order to create privately
maintained institutions not government
institutions because we know what the
political agenda of our governments are
we know what they are and the
destruction of Islam begins with the
appointment of an official-looking
that's the beginning and it happens in
the 14th century the must be becomes a
political position and at that point the
ruler starts telling him we need a fatwa
you see so our institutions were
maintained privately why so that there
were no strings attached so a man was
free to teach with a clear conscious but
that comes from people that are
concerned with the whole process of
teaching and learning so he served here
it was in essence privately supported a
private individual the founder
instituted as walk his own privately
owned property for a public purpose that
of educating a segment of the Muslim
society which he chose in one or more of
the religious sciences and their aunt
Hillary's he created his foundation by
an act of his own free will without
interference from any authority or power
because it's the right of every Muslims
to start a Muslim institution to educate
Muslims that is a right a very Muslim
and you don't have to be an atom but you
have to find one that can teach the
people even when the founder was
County for photon or other highly placed
functionary he created his institution
in his capacity as a private individual
so even the soap on like the salon who
made the Milania nevah Modine he was a
great so far from from the horus on and
he set up a system of training of which
imam al-ghazali was a chief advisor he
did it not as the sofam he did it as a
private individual and gave them the
authority to teach what they saw did to
teach and he did not tell them you have
to teach digital TV satin sheets that
I'm that I'm a great ruler education was
directed towards religious ends because
this is the point of education even
training in medicine in engineering and
all of these things it is Authority vaya
and a Muslim should do it with the
intention to serve this oma education is
not to earn a degree so that you can eat
and drink and buy a house and get
married that is not why we become
educated so we can serve on lots of
behind were to add up as educated human
beings this is the point of education
this is why we're supposed to learn and
the book is that whoever learns
knowledge other than the sake of allah
that allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will
raise him and expose him and say to
people on your map iana newsman learned
knowledge for other than my sake woman
took my meds some wahoo know who Yama
Piana the one who goes around saying
what he knows and doing all these things
Allah will expose him on your mccammon
say so-and-so look at him so and so he
learned knowledge to be called a learned
man the first thing that the fire is lit
for is a scholar who learned for other
than the sake of God and I'm telling you
that includes all the sciences because
they're all for aisle so if you learn to
hand itself or other than the sake of
God you should have fear in your heart
if you didn't learn it to serve this
beam because your money is to serve on
lots of Panama Tata in the LA ashdod
Amendment means I'm who soon well I'm
why don't young men own agenda he bought
you your wealth and yourself and the
deal the bargain is that you get Jenna
and we get your wealth in yourself
that's what Allah guess
and if I lies not getting his do you
have no right to what he promised you
education was directed towards religious
ends the salvation and eternal happiness
of a human being sad abadia we're not
here for very long some of us are
two-thirds of a natural lights lifespan
out of this world some of us are closer
than that and no one knows the edges
maybe it's today maybe it's tomorrow and
when there's no yo Murphy Emma one man
once my chick asked me to take him to a
english school in order for his son to
learn English very brilliant scholar he
wanted to UM to learn English and he
asked me to go with them so I can help
them he thought maybe they didn't speak
arabic i went there it turned out that
the man was an Arab I won't say from
which country and the man saw me always
American huh and then he said you know
they really don't know English in fact
let me show you he's saying this in
Arabic to the ship and then he turned to
these other students and he said here
work out this problem and Hum Dil I got
it wrong and he said you see they don't
know English I didn't listen and says
that would be gentle almond you know
rewards are according to action right so
let me you a hug honey so I have a
question for you I answered your
question now you answer my question what
are the fauna is it will do what are the
obligations that will do and I'll take
them on any of the format heads one says
for 1771 says eight to tell me anyone
I'll take for tomorrow and then I said
I'm going to tell you something see that
touched in English we don't have that
chest on the Omo kiama but if you can't
tax to pass my test you don't make it on
your mokey on so get your and I was
worried my shift because i was young man
at that time a lot of too much energy
hamas you know and and I was worried my
ship's gonna get mattress poor guy he
came to get his son into the school here
i am making this guy look like a fool
and when we went out he said just like a
baha'i daniela ready he said I may Allah
reward you my son you put that man in
his place he should be ashamed of
himself he said I was a benelli offer
him a little too it was directed towards
the announcement of a lot of government
on earth so it had an individual goal
this religious establishment had an
individual goal which is the happiness
of the people that learn in it and
studying it but it had a collective goal
which is to establish a large beam on
the earth the society at which it aimed
was one in which a lots of Hannah was
Diana was the hack him the culture it
aimed at developing was one inspired by
the Quran and the Hadees a culture
inspired by the Quran and hadith in the
pursuit of truth and its dissemination
it is insisted on each d HOD encouraging
the individual effort of the jurist
canceled the poppy it encouraged him to
strive to become a individual words of
understanding of an opinion not a
parroting person that had no deep
knowledge of his teaching and he goes on
I could go on and on so it was about
exile minute okok DiGiacomo mujeron was
that on my necks and welcome to my world