Love & Respect for Shaykh Muhammad Abdul Jabbar | Mufti Abu Layth

you know shift somebody Mike Cahn is asked you know chef abdul-jabbar yeah I do actually I I know chef abdul-jabbar recently shared a message I sent him a message somebody asked me about you know I'll people I'll share something with you you see chef abdul-jabbar I when it comes to viewpoints perspectives we may be polarized opposite ends we may be I mean I totally don't you know I don't obviously believe in the whole gene

position and demonic possessions and stuff like that and and somebody had sent me a clip saying do you know this chair and you know I basically what the hell you know Muftis why don't you have a go at shared Jabbar abdul-jabbar and and I can and I said in the comment I said this is aadi I call him call the abdul-jabbar I said even the Shaitaan seeks refuge before messing with called iam do Jabbar the reason I say all these there was a famous scholar in the past called Cardinal Jabbar you see I have

immense respect for chef abdul-jabbar and a soft spot a forever soft spot in my heart when it comes to chef of the Jabbar and I and I'm gonna share this with you you see people you have to remember something at the end of the day the most important thing is always the human connection it is always the human connection and as this there's a poem I've quoted I quoted often actually an

Arabic poem where it says hacen el an asset establish cool uber homo well at all a mastaba del insula Essen that show a son this kind of kindness this human not human et tu people that it has for so long captured the hearts and this is how one truly captivates the heart you know there was a time in a few years ago in my life when I went through a very testing I went through some very testing

circumstances and there was a whole you know you it was very I mean and I to be free I'd you know took you know okay my chin up during the whole thing but it was a very kind of a testing time it was very pressing and there was it was tense there was a lot of pressure it was the time that you know I many people know that I helped out a certain friend and I ended up because of that going to prison as well for a short time

and there was this whole thing and there was a lot going on and obviously there's my family who were gonna suffer as a consequence and other people and because obviously and there was a point of undetermined outcome when when I wasn't sure what exactly was gonna happen and it was very because it was a very difficult time just to give you an idea I remember that one of the actually that that actual day when I was going to to the sentencing you see one of the most

difficult things was actually you know that that kind of right there coating thee and that morning and I because it was the potential that you know this may be it and you're gonna you're gonna go on a nice little vacation and I remember my daughter Leila was probably just about three and I remember she woke up that morning and she doesn't normally she never used to normally get up that kind that early and she did and she woke up and I think she just wanted to go to the toilet or something and she woke up and she and I was getting ready

goto to court and and she had woken up and she said oh and she just came and said oh she she asked me oh where are you going and and I just said oh yeah and she said oh you going work and I said yeah yeah I'm just gonna I'm just going to work I said you got you go back to sleep but it was really difficult as a parent these kind of things that the the difficulty that that one goes through it's beyond words it's immeasurable

the uncertainty factor so it was at that kind of time in life I mean I'm not saying on that day but that time of that time in life that those months and weeks that shaykh abdul jabbar he actually came to visit me he I mean I didn't ask him he just he just came to visit me off his own back and he turned up to my house on his own and he just and he'd come to hear of that I was going through certain certain you know testing times that there was certain issues and there was this whole kind of hearing and things like this

now Andy and I have to say he came and he kind of to to just for that support and heat he shared some words with me shed some personal stories and he told me that listen whatever happens don't give up on Allah and I seriously have to say that you know at that time his words meant so much to me it's it's amazing that you could be going through something and it's not that you don't know these things

but it's as as the as the verse in the Quran says the kid phonetic return fall not me me you know that remind people that the that a reminder helps the people of faith and share of the puja but he came to my house he came to my home and he kind of sat there and he told me about some store his personal some personal stories when he went through some very difficult times and how everything was salvaged and saved at in the end and how you know - what cool he had this - oh cool a la la de stoical that this kind

of reliance on Allah and God and how God was there for him and have to say that this really it meant so much for me at that time and he gave me a such a like he kind of boosted my support mechanism my internal mechanism and I really deeply till this day appreciate that he because he didn't have to you know if anything like now tell you something because my views are nothing like the

the views of maybe chef abdul-jabbar it was so different in our perspectives he could have said that oh you know almost he's just a deviant he could have said that he could have said and this is another thing that some Muslims resort to sometimes oh this is a punishment from God for this person ha ha ha serves him right you should ridiculous there's recently that you see I don't follow rapping in the rap culture so closely but there was recently that drill artists or rap artists that got stabbed

in in Birmingham and some Muslims because he used part of surah Fatihah in a rap video and some Muslims were offended that why did he say alhamdulillah and things like this in video so when he got stabbed recently some Muslims that commented serves him right and unfortunately Muslims can suffer from this kind of very very pernicious and cancerous kind of attitude that when they see something bad happening to someone they say oh this is God punishing you

aha and he's crazy but religious people do that and this could have been like Sheldon Shabbat could have taken a stance like that he could have said that you know this guy's absolutely look at him is he's a deviant and he makes you know he deems all these things to be halal or whatever or at the least he could have just ignored the situation but he went out of his way to come to my home and to kind of sit there and talk to me and to tell me that listen forget about everything else right now your

morale might be low but I want to tell you just hang in there and that you know forever has captured my heart at least so I will forever have a soft spot for Sheikh Abdul Jabar you know may Allah forever preserve him and keep him smiling I disagree obviously on views with him and and I think we can always disagree with anyone you know where I can disagree with myself I might have an opinion five years ago that I've changed today but I feel that you see what it comes down to is the human character and

definitely to me chef abdul-jabbar is a man of substance he's a man of character so so definitely I mean I hate now somebody said oh sure you know this shirt is going on about these stories at look whatever the sheiks view is is his view my view may be different but I truly have you know like from my heart doors for him and similarly I would like to echo that message to people I do try seriously I try that sometimes if I come across especially people that I make that I know if they're going through certain

circumstances I do try to to kind of extend some support or some help and that's something that I would advise all of you that do that because it really it is the thing that counts you know it's not this you know this kind of debating this we can do that like I can do that you know I love debating and philosophical arguments and doing this and doing that and feel that in some ways I I am kind of mentally wired for that but you know

this stuff is not what people remember what they remember is the human element you know there's that famous story of those of you that are familiar with the table key culture may have may know of Abdul Wahab Saab he's the great Amir in Pakistan of the Tablighi Jamaat now there was a story that he related where he mentioned that he said you know he met a person once he was riding a train and it was a long journey he was

gonna be like a an 11 hour trip or something and he ended up sitting next to someone and he thought well you know with the Tablighi Jamaat they always want to give that way that way let's give this person that WA you know like they say Dada let's do that I listed our so and they feel kind of duty-bound to give that hour to someone every day so he thought this isn't you know the guy can't leave he's not gonna get up and go so this is an opportunity to preach so he thought look how do I open you know because if I just start preaching the guy might just say to me look listen excuse me if you don't mind you know I just like my peace and quiet so what

happened is in the Train you had somebody come past they they come and sell things like some savories or sweets or tea so he so he bought himself a cup of tea and he bought this guy a cup of tea he said oh you know can I have two cups of tea please and and he handed wanting him the guys at all well thanks and and he said I used that opportunity to preach so he said I preached to him for an entire something like nine hours I preached preached and preached and preached and he says you know I'm fine you know we got to our destination parted ways he says you know as it

happened years later I bumped into that individual he came I think the guy was travelling to the city of Lahore or something and he bumped into him and he said to him he said o sir he said and he said old have we met he said yes it says and he reminded him he said oh we met in the Train he said you brought me tea and of the Rahab saw it when he was retelling the story he said I preached to this guy for nine hours and he couldn't remember a damn word that I'd said but do you

remember that I brought him some tea that I bought tea for him he remembered that you see because the human element people that's what people remember they don't remember who gives a damn about your lecture so yeah so I hope that's