Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Al Yaqoubi

Ask a Sheikh to make a Dua for you, it will change your life.

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf

Interview Cartoons

Freedom of speech was used in the west used this to criticise politicians and leaders.

We should be sensitive to he beliefs of other religions

It’s wrong to trample on the Danish flag.

The media tends to focus on extremist views

There’s a lot of good in this country, lowest corruption levels in the world

Anjam would be arrested if he was in the middle east because he was seen as an extremist

We should have a respectful opinions and dialogue with each other

Sheikh Saad Al Attas

Hikam Number 72

If there is continuity in spiritual work then that, inshallah Allah will accept the work at the end.
(Wherever he finds fruit.)

If he finds sweetness, he stops there and if he does it for the sweetness then it isn't solely for Allah Ta’ala, so the intention has to be or Allah Ta’ala.

Look inside yourself and examine your intention.

Sheikh Abu Jafr Al Hanbali

Dampening down the flames


How do you make sense of it, Should be repelled by it

We have seen explosions of violence and anger

In the past the Muslims have been on the back foot for 500-1000 years
When the retreat happened, we became defensive

Two responses, (the first way they responded and now how we respond)

So much wastage has occurred, paper, energy etc

We should look at the first three generations and use their reactions to be our reaction

We lost the moral ground in this argument, due to our overreaction

The Muslims did not kill Dante but he was actually killed by the Catholics

We have we seen so many die in these riots. This is the “Hatfield and McCoy Syndrome” where two families fought over a well for over four generations. They killed each other and then forgot what why they were so angry but kept fighting.

Those pictures were not him, (they can’t be him, How can a picture illustrate a man who used to light up a room, in the middle of the night.) We have descriptions of him in the Sahih Tirmindi, The pictures were not historically accurate buttons across his chest, when the clothes had open necks. There were 12 pictures, 11 from Denmark and one done by an Israeli to provoke Palestinians.

A man who used to see the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) walk by, he would throw hot ash at him.

Everyday his walls were soaked with urine and someone would defecate in his house.
He visited a man who used to urinate in his house and visited him and told him “I missed you today.” (peace and blessings upon him). He converted to Islam after this.

One his daughters were murdered while in Mecca and after the conquest of Mecca, he saw man and said to him “I forgive you.” (peace and blessings upon him)

Someone threw a rock at him and it cut him near his hairline and he didn’t retaliate

Could be possible that people have seen a bad image of Muslim, suicides, credit card cheats, heroin addicts, abortions, gangster type mentality, A Muslim attacked his mother because she refused to give him money for his crack habit. Is this because of Islam? (Or is it us?)

Someone asked me why I am was wearing a dress, he replied “A dress has a floral pattern on it.” Then he said, “Why are you wearing a long shirt on?”
“Because it’s a fruit of my faith.” (He was happy with that.) Maybe we need to grow a thicker skin. I was asked why I was wearing a towel on my head, “the towels in my house are too big to wear on my head, I wouldn’t be able to walk. “What’s that scarf on your head?” It’s the what all the prophets (upon them peace) would wear on and I like to wear it because it’s a fruit of my faith.”

We have to learn to be tough skinned, someone said to him “Bin laden” he replied “Abu Jafr.” (So it looked like one of them aid their name and the other replied.)

Who is discriminating whom? Is it us or is it them, we should not act in the same way.

I was lost in London and I found a Jewish man who had a big beard and asked him for directions and he helped. The friend said he didn’t want to ask the Jewish man. You don’t ask a man with a rocket launcher who is running at you, for directions.

Some new converts to Islam wanted to destroy Jewish books, The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) told them to give them back to their one who owns them.

In 1948 in Palestine, a Muslim saw a Jew he called him the Jew was disturbed. The Muslim beckoned him to follow him and he did, the Muslim took him into a house and locked the doors behind him and then gave him part of a parchment of the Torah he had saved.

We have difficulties that we need to address, double standards that we have to sort out.

Russian propaganda published a book that was sent to Muslims which was found to be a fake, it was about Zionism. (It stated that the Jews wanted to take over the world.)

Some people hate Islam because of what we have shown them of Islam

We should stop racist literature by using language that they don’t understand like “Shidi.”

We cannot become Islam-o-nazi’s! I will not allow it to happen!

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) said he was the first one made and the last one to be sent.

In Arab custom if they would see an army coming they would take off their clothes and go the sacred place and the people would listen. The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) went to that same place and warned the people. “If I warned you about an army over the hill, would you believe me?” They said yes but they denied his message.

Eleven places in the Quran that the people would meet their lord. 22.23

The first theological verses are from 78-114 in the Quran, understand the faith.

During the Ottomans caliphate of 800 years they only stones one person for adultery and 8 people had their hands cut off for stealing.

We need to work at the grass roots of our communities

The ends don’t justify the means the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) said “They are wrong even when they are right.”

We need to understand each other religions and know we cannot agree on some issues

Paradise is mentioned more in the Quran than the Fire is

Work on three things
1. Get a thicker skin
2. Refuse to be oversensitive.
3. Be lenient

We shouldn’t punish the entire Danish population for what a small number of them have done. Pointless, is the ban on Danish products.

Some of the best qualities of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)
1. Eloquence, frankness, bold, straight forwardness
2. Reliable
3. Character towards his family (he served his family while he was at home.) (peace and blessings upon him)

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) once asked a blind lady,"where is God?" She pointed upwards and then he asked who is the messenger? She pointed at him (peace and blessings upon him). Be, on the religion of the blind lady.

Sheikh Saad Al Attas

Hikama 105

I wonder about the lesson that the trail is teaching him

A great blessing is to know what test is from and its ease and Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala is the one who will make it easy.

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala is more merciful than a mother to his child

Perhaps you dislike a thing that is good for you

Have belief that only Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala can help you

One atoms weight of good is the same as 1000 mountains of good work

If Allah Ta’ala loves a servant he will test him

Sheikh Saad Al Attas

Ramadan Radio


What is needed in this month is Sabr (patience) during trials and desires

Allah Ta’ala helps people who are patient

Continue doing good deeds that you have started in Ramadan and if they persist then s/he will get an opening

Everything with a soul will be resurrected

After the gathering will come the standing

Those who carved idols out of wood or stone will be hell with that person

Good works can be rewarded in the dunya and the afterlife
Person who does an act in the world
S/he can remain in heaven

Jihad is a means to protect the deen and only Muslims can protect the deen not a non-Muslim

Jihad is Ibada (an act of worship) and a non-Muslim cannot do an act of worship

Reward

Great reward can only come after great effort.

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf

Just enough religion to hate


We don’t haven’t done anything wrong and nobody can accuse us of anything

With every right, there is a responsibility

Mishala Morsal are laws made by man but not sacred law

Ibn Qaum Jawzi said that;
There are 4 types of Haram
Is easy to wipe out sins I.e. drinking
Harder one, between you and people
Between you and Allah
Saying what you don’t know

You can’t say what’s halal and haram

Our understanding needs to be open

People consult Sheikh Google?!?!

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) said, “Enter into this religion, gently.”

A bedion urinated in the mosque (the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) explained to him the rights of the mosque.) “Know peoples level and what they will do and teach gently.” Understand the nature of the people.

We are losing our balance as a human nature

Rule of law is part and parcel of Islam

Tarhb in the Quran means to deter. (The modern word in Arabic for terrorist is Irabi which is from this root.)

We have every right to defend ourselves

Governing principle in Islam is justice

Jihad is in carried in order to prevent injustice

Allah Ta’ala is enough for you a protector if they incline to peace your should incline to peace

Ibn Tamiyyah said that “Christians only show the sword as proof and Islam conquered with proof.”

Islam came to conquer hearts and souls not bodies

Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) had a desire to guide people

Every person in the world is part of the Umma of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

I’ll leave you with three things

Change your understanding of Jihad. “peak of the peak.”

1a. Jihad al naafs “The one who struggles against his passion.”
Musa (Upon him peace) dropped the tablets, if we get carried angry we will lose the sacred

Isa's (Upon him peace) way was to turn the other cheek

Ibn Jawzi al Qalbi said the best revelation is in the mercy

You cant say about Allah Ta’ala what you don’t know

Ali (May Allah Ta’ala be pleased with him)wanted to find out what was in a letter sent to the Muskrin

We could be wrong in something

There are more Muslims living in Europe than in the Arab peninsula

Don’t call each other Kafir, Kufr is about belief

Abu Hammish said “It is easier for me to call 1000 non muslims , mulsim than call one muslim kafir.

Taqwa is to behave with Allah ta’ala inwardly and outwardly

Stop backbiting, don’t find fault in your brother, its as if you have faulted yourself

Don’t mock other groups

Allah ta’ala puts the Muslims into one group and the Kafir put us into smaller groups.


The prinples of Jihad are three

Justice (in the path of Allah)
Response to aggression
Don’t be agressors
The Abbassids had diplomatic ties with france, Harun Al Rashid sided with the French over the Ummayyads in spain.

Prohibit yourself first

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) visited someone who used to put thorns in his path, he wanted to find out if she was ok.

Imam Zaid Shakir

Collateral Damage

Much of our lives are removed from Islam

Removed from the reality of Islam

What the future holds isn’t what is in the present

After 9/11 the conversation rate was five times as much

In Spain after the bombing they cried out for peace

We are given a false dilemma that is mutually exclusive

Either you affirm your British identity or your Muslim one

A confusing situation, to affirm something that means leaving the other

There is a 3rd option affirm both

We have been given Physic space to think

Totalarian regimes have caused millions to perish. I.e. Marxism

Idiots of the Islamic state who haven’t fully understood it, they lack the purity of vision and lack the resources

Think about the intellectual roots

Islam didn’t say we’d win everything

It’s easy to believe without a (test inflicting us) trail

Progressive revelation is a mega myth

We think that we are better than that; everyone thinks he is better than the other

We divorce ourselves from the value of Human rights

Egypt, Rome, Greece, Aztec all rose and fell

Islam rises and falls and it is Arab centric

It roose in Arabia then fell
It roose in Turkey then fell
It roose in Africa then fell
Rising in the West….

Allah Ta’ala brought all these people from different nations to be unifed by Islam in order to re-invigorate Islam we should not replicate our divisions. Islam can create community out of chaos, we relate to our own environment

“Thisstan or thatstan”

We have common cultural identity

We have to break down the barriers of racism in our own societies

Islam is about saving people not killing people

We can show people how to live

It takes a lot more courage to live

Have the courage to talk to your neighbours about Islam

Rise above the circumstances a moral vision needs to be put forward to save these people in a western de-humanizing system, which cultivates a climate of hate

Get involved at grass roots levels, involved in school boards at local levels

Relax if it’s decreed then it will happen if it doesn’t then we don’t need to
worry about it

Trust in Allah Ta’ala

We are living for the afterlife

We don’t have anyone but Allah Ta’ala to turn to

Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Al Yaqoubi

The People of Allah are not agrieved and are not sad

Imam Zaid Shakir

Spiritual remedy for the Present Crisis Part Two

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) “Muslims are bricks in a wall they support each other.”

Don’t be distracted by women or a woman

Globalisation of sport
“It doesn’t matter if you win or lose it how you play the game.”

Jihad is not about winning or losing, and if you think it is then you don’t understand Islam,

In the Mahraka (battlefield) you cannot kill non-combatants

Who is fighting whom? There is no Shariah basis for these actions

We have to become closer to the Quran

Patiently persevere the problems, which inflict people

Don’t panic when things aren’t going our way, this place is a test.

“The one who understands the nature of this world. Aliments become easy for him.” Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (May Allah Ta’ala be pleased with him)

There was a man in solitary confinement, he had killed people on heroin and was a womaniser. He converted to Islam, came out of prison nine years later married an older sister, worked 12pm-8am at night, he would sleep 30 mins and work until 4pm (on a Muslim housing project) sleep for three hours and then went back to work.

Patience is promised, the greatest reward

Sheikh Nuh Ha min Keller/ Hafiz Gul Muhammad/ Sidi Hassan Rasool

Spiritual remedy for the Present Crisis Part one

Hafiz Gul Muhammad

A Sheikh came to a Magician and told him that Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala desires good for you, for what you have done. The magician couldn’t think of anything good he did the sheikh explained to him. A old lady knocked on his door, when he opened it she didn’t say anything, he asked her but she didn’t reply, this happened three times.
After she went away he heard the cries of her children when he approached her house. The old lady felt she couldn’t beg from people after asking and begging to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala, so when the magician heard the cries of her children. He gave her food and clothes and when the sheikh explained this to him he became Muslim.



Sidi Hassan Rasool

The nourishment of the body ends up as nourishment of the soul

The nourishment of the soul can only enrich a person.



Sheikh Nuh Ha Min Keller

A Word of advice – Tell the truth

Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what they have done and a bit of punishment is shown as a mercy to go back from sin

Body mind and sprit must be one

Inward must be sound for the outward to be sound

The sea change must change

When the trees get torn out of a forest what is left? Weeds.

The Masjid was the first thing build in Medina after the Hijra

Tawasul is a means to draw closer to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

A sect appeared that make takfir over other groups, conquered Mecca in 1806 and the removed in 1812. Until 1920 the Wahabis killed 4,000 hujaj (Hajji's) from Yemen.

A generation of Satan

The CIA has an office in the University of Ibn Wahab

They provide the financial support for 4,000 madrasas for the Deobandis
Jason burke was made to feel welcome in Afghanistan until he met an Egyptian who hated his guts.

Jihad is “Ibada Maqula” it has a specific purpose it is supposed to make an improvement.

Nothing has improved for the Muslims with these events. In fact the conditions are worse for the Muslims, there is no improvement.

Egyptians came to Afghanistan to spread the Wahabi doctrine

People see endless punishment
Essence of fascism is the cooperation of big corporations and government

Sheikh Naeem Abdulwali

Mercy to Creation

You come back to life when you come back to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

The verb in Arabic Hayy (live) Haay (modesty) and Istahayyi (to give life) all come from the same root

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) puts people back into the garden

The Kaaba is a reflection of a heavenly level in the seventh heaven, where Ibrahim (Upon him peace) was.

The Kaaba is covered a satir (covering)

Our sins are covered

The reason why the women is covered because of her womb, she is mercy and like the mercy of the Kaaba, the woman is covered. The woman has heaven under her feet because of her mercy.

Aminu means making safe and secure

Heaven is a place of security

How can you be proud of something you haven’t chosen, in being a Muslim

A bedwin asked the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) to call a tree, he did, the tree uprooted itself and came to him and the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) and the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) gave him a choice to be eaten by the righteous. The tree chose to do that, the tree chose to be in heaven to be eaten by the righteous.
If this is what the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) can do to a tree what about you?

Shaykh Abdul Raof Al Attas

Advice

First thing we need to do is to clarify three things

Where we are (condition)
Where we want to be (heaven)
How to get there (Quran and Sunna)

The Prophet Yaqub (Upon him peace) sons Yusuf (Upon him peace) wasn’t with him for a long time, he went to visit his son. Yusuf (Upon him peace) asked, “ we shall meet in heaven why did your put so much effort to see me.” Yaqub (Upon him peace) replied, “I wanted to see If Islam was alive in you.”

We need to keep Islam alive and do whatever we do for the sake of Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala.

Ibn Jawzi (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) was asked by his students for advice on his deathbed he said “Sincerity, sincerity, sincerity.”

Yusuf (Upon him peace) was gave an interpretation of someone’s dream and then ask him to mention him front of the Pharaoh but Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala didn’t want him to get that and he remained in jail. He has to ask Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala. Only Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala will give you position

Two things to remember

Give thanks to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala
Then ask Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala


When Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala is with you don’t make up normal calculations

Ibrahim (Upon him peace) was in the fire (that the people of Nimrod set up for him) for 3 days and he said that was the best time.

Musa (Upon him peace) and his people came to the sea and he said that Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala was him.

Power is only Allah’s Subhanu wa Ta’ala

Islam is the world power

You can only look for something you have lost

If your windscreen is dirty you can go anywhere (you have to clean the screen!)

Medicine is bitter at first then sweet afterwards

Sheikh Abdul hakim Murad

Commentary on the Burda


We need to re-orientate the soul to deserve the gift given to those who wish to open their eyes and see the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) in our dreams

Nothing in creation can prepare us for the beauty, which is comparable to seeing the beauty of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

The enemy retreats when mud settles in the sea

The one who is happy with the remembrance of Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

This was one of the ways of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him), he was beautiful

The truthful one is constantly reminded of Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala in everything in our life. The Kafir is the opposite.

Man needs constant reassurance that’s his nature.

Imam Busari (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) called the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) the biggest sign

Everything represents Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala. Only a human being can represent qualities of Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

Divine nature, our nature is to incline to beauty rather than rigour

We are venerable, the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) represents all of the divine names

He is kind to the believers

Muslim soldiers look for people to protect

Rumi (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) said “Taking the sword point from the madman is part of being Muslim.”

Imam Ali (May Allah Ta'ala enoble his face) was the best of openings, spiritual openings.

The internal beast needs to be slaughtered

Rumi (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) said “Youth is man, he is our friend."

Someone must be holy before you can become a holy warrior

Somehow we are out of touch with the beloved, the tents have folded

“Who is going to help me restrain this stallion?”

The ego demands witnesses

Relics of a world religion, we have a memory of a better time

We sit on a stallion trying to acknowledge the problems of ourselves

We need to acknowledge our problems;
Lost our way
We messed up
Take the medicine of the Prophetic qualities

When things are hopeless, don’t worry, we have been told this would happen by the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

Imam Hajar (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) commentary

“Life is the brother of death.” Said Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

Real darkness in Arabia left when the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) gave life to the Muslims

We are like sheep munching grass unable to contemplate

Submission to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala is hard to draw out tears of blood

Allah’s Subhanu wa Ta’ala Merchandise comes at a high price and you’ll be given

Is there anyone who will roll up there sleeves for Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala? we are the ones who will

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) is a reflection of the divine like the sun is reflected on the moon

His light is beautiful reflection. The most perfect representative of the divine

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala takes people out of the darkness into the light

The shadows

Shadows need light, this world is a reflection and shadows. There can never be absolute darkness without light and nothing is absolute except Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

Imam Busri (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) is giving us a hard lesson

Forgiven his faults, he was never complacent

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) was a thankful servant

Despite the high degree, he is still working hard, look at the reason for it. This is the highest station

“My eye sleeps but my heart doesn’t sleep.” Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) said.

Intensive abstinence of the things of the world

Death is the precious gift to believe

“Poverty is my pride.” We should call ourselves the poor. They are the ones who need help, Allah is free from all needs and wants.

Prostration of helplessness is what we have

A grateful slave

We have forgotten how to be poor

Joy of the believer is to remember the garden. Anything where Dhikr is towards Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala. The garden is where we feel at ease.

You need a hard forgiveness

His choice of poverty

His form is not like our forms he was fed by Allah, but we cannot fast like the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) fasted. Ibn Hajar (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) said he is being given strength, it doesn’t mean he didn’t feel hungry or feel the pain of hunger. He used to tie a rope and a stone around his stomach.

He made the choice to be hungry

Unimaginable treasures were offered to him (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him), but he refused

Gold is called dhb because it goes. (the word for go is spelt the same)

Money is called mil so it is mal, which inclines

The world dunya is the lowest thing

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala sent Gibril to the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) to ask if he wanted mountains of gold, he refused.

He was undisputed leader of Arabia yet he didn’t take from the public funds “bait al mal”

Always remember poverty we need money comforts. He never ate his fill

We should be considered this money

Legimate to take financial consideration when a father marries his daughter to someone

A scholar married a woman
He pretended to be half deaf when he was alone with his wife for the first time when she released wind and he pretended for the rest of his life with her. He didn't want to hurt her feelings

Work for the world for the proportion (for time you will spend there)
Work for the afterlife in the proportion (for time you will spend there)
Work for Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala in your need for him

Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) “What have I got to with the world as someone who takes a rest under a tree and then goes.”

Hands should be empty of property

Zuhud is not to see anything but Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

Whenever your turn, there is the creation of Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala

A Sufi from Kufa says “Does the dunya have any value with you, when it doesn’t have an value in the first place."

Prophet (peace and blessings upon him), “Renounce the dunya and Allah will love you. Renounce what is in peoples hands and the people will love you.”

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala is without needs and is perfect

Time is his creation

The purpose of this world is to (to give a place to) worship

The moments of the Prophets (peace and blessings upon him) prayer was the reason the world was created

When we kiss the black stone we are confirming our allegiance

Sira are subjections of hadith

A believer should walk gently on the earth

Where dead people are being questioned

An Arab is called Arab and a wandering arab is called arabi

Adam (Upon him peace) language was Syriac

8% Syrians are non Muslim and 10% of Egypt and 1% in turkey

There is a universal attraction of the Prophetic message

85% of the Muslims are not Arab

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)
“There is no difference between Arab and a non Arab except in piety.”

Habib Ali Jifri

Uniting for the Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) Part Six

Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him) name is Insan Al kamil, The complete human being.

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) was a manifestation of virtuous and pure character

When he was stoned by the people of Ta’if, he complained about his own state, his own weakeness.

Helplessness is empowering if you complain to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala.

Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Al Yaqoubi

Uniting for the Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) Part Five


(He was given an introduction and he came onto the stage in tears because he didn’t feel worthy of being mentioned at a talk on which the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him) was the subject.)

We have to throw away all our pride and we have to go to Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him)

He considered himself imperfect

He wasn’t he was the best of creation, he was creation.

Prophethood was summed up in him(peace and blessings upon him), In him (peace and blessings upon him) is perfection.

Twenty minutes is too short a time to talk about him

He said that he could talk about his own imperfections

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala has put someone like this to turn us away from the dunya.

At the end of every prayer, the salat on the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) is a conversation “Salam alik aiuhal Nabi…”

We need to practice our love for the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) how could we sit with him, when we don’t do as he says.

The one who practises the sunna is the one who you should learn from

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala loves only as much as we love him

All of the examples of man are flawed except the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

“Home”(Heaven) is the easiest address, turn right and go straight.

We cannot love Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala without loving the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

Don’t you miss the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)?

Sheikh Nuh Ha min Keller

Uniting for the Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) Part Four


(All the other speakers stood up and delivered their speeches he sat down on a prayer matt made a dua and after several minutes of silence said.)

Imam Jazuli said “when the truth appears nothing remains"

Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala has the power to do all things

The Physical world exists to represent something higher

We love people for something in them, Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala has all these and more in fact, no shape exists

Imam Ghazali (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him)retreated from public life after being in a meeting with people who have been employed by the Sultans

“If the wage wasn’t there I would be.” Abdul-wakeel Ad-Daroubi said.

He doesn’t ask anyone to do anything, he just does it

If your knowledge isn't light, if its doesn't work forever “junk” it.

Don’t be inclined to luxury

Help others and don’t help yourself.

The knowledge of the inward should be what your concerned with and an alim should be most interested in this

One should be humbled by true knowledge

Abu Madyan (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) said “One should look at his spiritual works as useless.”

One who knows his work and thinks that they are for showing off.

The Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) asked for forgiveness 70 times a day because he was increasing in rank everyday

Look at what validates and invalidates works

The purity of the hearts is the purity of Dhikr

A scholr refused to accept the judgement of a scholar who did not read 2 Juz of the Quran a day.

The deen binds hearts to Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala, If he doesn’t have the ilm that englistens the heart, its not light.

There was a general election somewhere and someone had put a sticker on a hot fan machine in the toilet. It said “Press hear to hear the government talk.”

Imam Ghazali (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) said “We have to love Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala but we also have to fear him and we are in the middle of this and we know if we disobey him we can do two things. Either turn further away in ignorance or ask for forgiveness and we will attain forgiveness.”

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf

Uniting for the Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) Part Three

There is always something new in store for you when you have heard a hadith before and your heart is open.

If we have forgotten about the deaf its because we don’t hear. (He commented on person signing for the deaf.)

In sign language the sign for the Americans is guns blazing (similar to a cowboy stance with hands in a pistol shape, at waist height.)

The sign for the British is jaw moving (he puts his hand on his jaw and moved it side to side)

The Americans go in all guns blazing and the British talk too much, he found this out from a deaf Arab.

People assume that they can’t speak.

Chivalry is to listen to a completed thought he (the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)) never interrupted peoples speech.

The meaning of Usama is a leaping lion and the meaning of Hamza is a roaring lion.

There were non Muslims who couldn’t understand the Quran but understood the Character of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him)

The Crusaders brought back soap with them and washed themselves.

It took 500 years for amount of converts to reach 50% in Syria

Paraclete means Intercessor (The name of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) in the Bible)

By their fruits thee shall know

We need to live Islam

The Sahaba didn’t have anger, they did what they did for Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala not for their own needs.

200 years ago less than 30 people in London started a movement that abolished slavery.

What destroys people is arrogance

If there is an Alliance to help weak people, we should be there

We cannot be a people of hatred

We should desire guidance

Those who show mercy, Allah Subhanu wa Ta’ala will show mercy to them

When kings conquer a city, they ask the leader, “If you’re angry then it can’t be for Allah.” Subhanu wa Ta’ala

The Muslims were already in Europe during the 8th century when Christianity came to Britain.
Those who disgrace the messenger, disgrace the religion

You should be concerned in looking for where you are going

Broaden your horizons

Understand the Quran and study the Sira

The word mawlid is noun of time and place it is also a masdar (nominalised noun). You cannot deny the masdar.

The grammarian was on a boat and asked the man, “have you studied grammar?”
He said “no.”
“Then you have wasted your life.” The boat began to sink,
“Have to learn how to swim?”
“No.”
“Then you are about to lose your life.”

Vessels can only pour out what they contain

Imam Haddad (May Allah's Ta'ala mercy be with him) prayed Fajr and there was people waiting to shake his hand. He shook hands with the inhabitants of the city and he was asked why he did that. He said, “Why shouldn’t I shake hands with the people who think that I am worth the wait.”

It’s a honour for me to be here with you today.

Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) colour is green, the first and the last colour that can be seen with the eye.

He is the first and final Prophet (peace and blessings upon him).

Each Prophet (Upon them peace) has a colour, red is the earth colour for Musa (Upon him peace). The colour of the dome in Medina is green for a reason.

It needs to green with Iman not envy.