Teachings of Mahdi ibn Tumart | Mufti Abu Layth

profound question. Abdus Salam uh Kilponen Kilpinen says, "Can you comment on the teachings of Ibn Tumart?" Uh the Mahdi uh Mahdi Ibn Tumart was um the the kind of inspiration behind the Muwahhidun movement, which which became a a dynasty, an empire, and took over from the Murabitun. Um was he Zahiri? He was kind of Zahiri, uh although he was Ash'ari in thought, strictly Ash'ari uh in thought, but he was kind of um literalist in in certain ways, and he had a lot of the fiqh books burnt, and

he himself never got to see his empire rise, by the way. It was um what's his name? Um uh Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali al-Kumi, who really took it forward. And it's amazing, because he says to Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali that, you know, one day, who comes to him was also a Berber, and he says to him that uh that this Mahdi, despite failing on so many times, he says to this guy that to Abd al-Mu'min, you know, I see greatness being achieved at your hands.

And I see great kingdoms collapsing before you. It's amazing how words can mobilize the hearts and minds. His words fueled the passion within Abd al-Mu'min, who, after the death of uh Mahdi, went on to take over. I mean, he um at his hands collapsed the capital of the Murabitun, which was Marrakush, Marrakech.

And he took it over, and his empire became one of the most powerful empires throughout Muslim history. Uh in its time, at its zenith, it was ruling over a third of Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, Spain, Portugal, the Palmyric Islands, parts of maybe Sicily, things like I mean, it was a powerful dynasty in its strength.

Obviously, like all dynasties, it waxed and waned, but it was incredibly powerful and in his um at its zenith, when he'd taken it over, one of the things, you know, the the kind of the the common the the arrogance, one may say, that he had. Almost not in not to say in a a negative way, but the kind of confidence he had is that he had the the the the kind of walls of Marrakech uh demolished.

I mean, some of them were damaged anyway, because in when they took over Marrakech, um but he had the rest of them also raised to the ground. And they asked him, "What are you doing? The city is naked and vulnerable. You know, we could be attacked." And he said they said that, you know, "Where's our uh you know, siwaruna? That these these fences, not fences, but these walls and And he said that uh siwaruna siufuna.

He said, "Our our walls, our defense are our swords." He said, "Whoever wants us, come and get us." Va, confidence. The guy had confidence. Wallahi, Tum What is it? Tum teer azmao hum jigar azma. You know, that that we will test our liver, you test your arrow.

The guy had uh he had some strength about him. And he did, he was incredibly powerful. And that is sometimes the power of prophecies and visions. Um that when p-