Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and his family,
are many a Muslim and many a Muslim.
My brothers and sisters, many times people come to me and say, I want to be a speaker.
I want to be a speaker. Teach me how to speak.
I remind myself and you, and I warn myself and you,
not to do what the best of us,
the most critical people, the most amazing people,
who lived before us,
don't do what they were afraid to do.
So think about it.
There is probably not even one
from the Sahaba or the Tabataween,
who are the best of the best.
There is probably not even one of them
who is mentioned as a great speaker.
Who attracted huge crowds
and who had XYZ followers.
Right? Not even one.
Whereas unfortunately we live in a time
when that seems to be
the way in which
scholars are judged and assessed
and valued.
This is not
a sign of anything,
except
the ignorant times that we live in.
So those people who are
very keen to
learn how to be great speakers and so on,
and may Allah have mercy,
they have those
who they
see as their role models,
who are known to be
so-called great speakers.
They charge big fees and so on.
So there is that desire and greed for money as well,
which comes into it.
So be aware of that.
Because see what,
how careful people were.
And these are the true scholars,
the real scholars of this Deen.
See how true,
how careful they were with
this Deen and with what Allah
gave them.
They treated that,
what Allah gave them,
which is knowledge of Islam,
they treated that as a
big responsibility and burden.
Burden not in the sense of,
they were not complaining about it,
but burden as in the sense of
great responsibility.
Not something that
they were keen to get
or keen to have,
not something that they ran behind,
not something that they used
to make posters
and to,
you know,
attract followers.
They were not
they saw this as a huge responsibility
and they were extremely,
extremely careful about what they said or did.
There is a famous story of
Gambali Krahuntullari
where a man came from Kufa
and said to him that I have come from Kufa
and we have heard about you
and you are a famous man.
Because people used to say
in the time of Imam Malik,
the scholars of Islam in the world used to say,
how can I give a fatwa
when Malik is in Madina?
So the man said,
I have come with 40 questions.
So I want to ask you.
Imam Malik said, okay ask.
He asked his 40 questions
and Imam Malik answered 8
and for the 32
he said, Allah O Allah.
He said, Allah knows best.
So the man said, this is very disappointing
because now what will I go and tell
the people in Kufa?
Malik said, that is very simple.
Tell them that you are mistaken.
Malik is not a great scholar.
Because,
how can I tell you something
about Allah
about which I am not sure?
So you are asking me a question.
I am not sure of the answer just now.
If anything you have to wait
and then I will have to check
and I will have to find out
and then I will tell you.
But right now,
Allah knows best.
This was the way of our Salaf.
This was the way of
the people of true people of knowledge.
Ibn Abbas said,
Ibn Abbas used to
he never said that so and so
you know he
he never sort of said about anybody
that this one will go to Jannah
and this one will go to Jannah.
He would say, I don't know whether he will find
he is talking about somebody's
you know action.
He would say, I don't know whether he will find
this among his good deeds or his bad deeds.
Now that does not mean that,
he was not sure of what the man is doing.
He was sure but he didn't want to take the risk of
saying something with certainty
when it might be something which
may have some kind of
you know
some kind of
other possibility.
So this is something that we should really
you know

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