Story of Asmai (الأصمعي)- Mufti Abu Layth

let me give you an example of how sometimes people in the past saw commanding or enjoining the good the story I narrated to you at the beginning of a tour if nubira bar is actually transmitted by a scholar known as a smile and he was a linguist a scholar an absolute light into his poetry and everything and and what happens is in his time he was in the time of Abu Jaffa al-mansour and you've all probably heard of Abu Jaffa elements or like he was the Caliph of one of the early caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty now in his time Abu Jaffa was really into all the knowledge

and he used to be into like learning about stuff and learning about firk and learning about poetry loved poetry but then you see the poets then obviously they you know they work hard for their poetry so they they thought that you know if they wrote a poem for you you had to pay them so he didn't want to really part with his money he's one of those that I don't mind the poetry but I don't really want to pay for it type of thing so what happens is he he puts out this claim now anybody who brings me a poem that I haven't heard of write with the condition I haven't heard of it

whatever they've written it on I will give them the weight of that in gold sounds very enticing right we've got some poets here Allah alright so the thing is how poets got to it they started working on it started writing their poetry now abu jaafar elements or what they didn't know is he had like a photographic memory I mean he if you read a point to him he could just repeat it back to you just like that so and then in his court amongst many of his servants and slaves he had a slave boy that had the memory like a solid memory

that if he heard something twice he could repeat it back to you and he had this one girl amongst his court that if she heard something three times she could repeat it back to you so what he would do is he would have them kind of waiting behind I knew these poets would come they've worked really hard they've written this come up with this poetry this cassada and you would say yeah I'm a crap you know and they would they would kind of say they think it listened to it I gotta phul go but but you remember the condition yeah I couldn't have heard it

before they say yeah that's fine he goes but I've heard this before say what are you talking about it said look I'll repeat it back to you this is this I've heard this since a while look I'll repeat it so you'd repeat it back and then it's the personal thing whoa wait um meaning I just wrote they say you know what let me convince you they say go call for that slave boy of mine go call for him so that Kay who's waiting behind the curtain would like come round I need you know the first line of a poem is called a muffler have you heard of this poem with this muffler and the guy would say yeah yeah yeah yeah you say we're gonna read it and the guy would read it so the poet

would be like whoa and he said you know what I don't think that's quite convinced you wait there go call for that girl and she would be waiting behind the curtain she would come forward say have you heard of this mutt clock this poem and she would say yeah I say all right go and read it she would read it so the poet would be just astounded that what the hell is this what's going on like I just came up with I mean how the hell did they actually manage to so that's it he would go they wouldn't get no money his efforts gone to waste so anyway this went on and on and on for awhile so all these poets

have got together so they've got together and they're kind of crying and you know going what the you know this guy's ripped us off and everything and along comes us my loser legend these are done in poetry he comes along and he says what what's going on and they say this is what's going on seriously it's not what he's doing all right I got this don't worry about what it is he dresses up as a Bedouin and he goes to the courts of Abu Jaffa Jaffa al-mansour and he goes yeah you know I'm Abed doing and I've come with a poem and he goes yeah

he goes but what's the condition he says all the condition is I have I can't I've heard this before remember that he goes all right cool he goes what do I get if you haven't whatever you written on its weight in gold alright cool all right cool he says this is called so to Sophie really that's the motto that Hagee jacolby a thermally that means that the that the chirping of the nightingale has kind of moved my intoxicated heart this is right go for it so he says Alma was a Roman Zahara

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cool for that hurt that boy see if he's around so he turns up he goes have you heard this sort of severeal hell no this is all right wait there wait there wait there he says go call for that girl she turns up he says have you heard at this poem Soltis of freedom mm-hmm I ain't heard of Psaltis of fetal bull buddy so he's like damn alright so I've got to pay this one out this says all right then he says go on then bring what you've brought it on written it on he goes yeah amirul mumineen I'm a Bedouin

I don't really have much possessions I only inherited a pillar of marble from My Father so I wrote it on this pillar of marble and so he says what is it you wrote it on one pillar of more voices just go on and he says but I need about four people to help me carry it it's outside by the way so now obviously Abuja Foreman sue has to do that so he brings it in their way and it's costing him almost the entire Treasury so then and he's got a Hyundai and there's all these witnesses

he's thinking boy and he gives it to him and then somebody says I think I recognize that Bedouin that's a smile so he says that's my he says to him are you a smile because that's my they'd heard of us my I mean II was a linguist he was a legend in poetry and he says yeah he says oh look you hid your identity from me and listen listen is ask my system listen he says it reached me what you've been doing to these poets and he says this isn't right that this is the Huq that these people work hard

for what they do it is a talent and you deprive them and he said that he said what I will do he said I'll give you this gold back you can have it back but you promise me that every person that is that has written a point for you that they will get their due and he said okay he said these people are my witness I will do that and he left and this takes us back to the perspective he could have landed with the what your the amirul mumineen woman lam yahkum bima anzala ma

and those who do not govern or judge by what Allah has then follow like a normal cafe or almost volley moon he could have tried that approach he was in the time of the selleth did he know he went there he in fact almost you could say engaged was it about him did he have the knowledge was the objective correct it did serve its purpose sometimes we have to go back to questioning and inquiring about what and why are we actually doing

this these are my thoughts for tonight i ask allah subhanaw taala to give us all the topic to reconnect with this amazing legacy we have and we seriously do have an amazing legacy does our common law hate for coming once again I'd like to thank the people that have arranged this for bringing such mashallah esteemed guests and we've got poets and the legend Imam Suraj here today I'm somebody who is definitely and I served as an inspiration to myself and I'm sure to everybody here may allah subhanaw taala

bless the moor and use a common law aid assalamualaikum warahmatullah al salam ala can you teach me that point well we're gonna stick with poetry