Who Was Khidr (a.s.)? -Mufti Abu Layth

people have asked me about Hitler those of you have heard about no not sometimes people say his er and from there in English Kaiser Kaiser does sound sleek though yeah you gotta say Kaiser Kaiser Soze [Laughter] that boy that was a Don movie usual suspects ah a pig people epic right but right so I thought well let's lean in on this book well Heather the Amaral all had their fee I'm real happy now this

was written by Malala Lodi great Hanafy scholar from few centuries back who wrote on the topic of hurdle now Hitler Ali Salam who was leader okay Heather is this character that exists in Islamic literature and in Islamic belief and especially in Islamic folk belief right so first of all what's his name a lot of the people in the past the scholars tend to prefer the name how

they're now his nowadays what seems to be more popular amongst people is hidden it can be said as Hitler it can be said as hid or it can be said as hard there it can be I mean people have used any of these and many of these kind of names his this wasn't his actual name per se his name once again we're gonna come to whether what his actual name people have allegedly said so Mullaly little party fields in this book that his name was

Bell yeah valia sounds of it this he doesn't he like a desi nickname Ballia his name was bull yeah I don't know why where on earth he got that from and his Cunha was apparently able a bus know where we go from but so who was this hidden hater oh ha there means the one to do with green why they call him green is apparently because where he would sit that piece of land that piece of soil would turn green so this is what some people say some

people say no because he would carry something that's green and and they've got different versions for why he was called her there now what is this whole story about what is this merchants and this is important because he is the the character the person that people say Allah is referring to in Surat al-kahf so if I open for us if we go to Surat al-kahf right how to be lemon Shaitaan or a team when we approach verse 60 in surah kahf

allah mentions what is called a masala Fatah who Abra then I had abdominal Bahraini oh um dia praça ban now this is a story of Moses begins at this stage in Surat al-kahf and then it's about Moses and his assistant his kind of companion this young man who in the hadith you'll see is you shebna moon Joshua and they set off on this journey fallible of a madman a baby hey - Yahoo Tahoma Fatah Hadassah Villa who feel very sorry bah and they reached this place and they've they take some rest and they forget they

have this fish and the fish kind of jumps out into the into the sea then they go off and and the whole point is that they are told that that was the place we were meant to go to where these two seas meet and here they meet it mentions for what their abdomen a bird in an art anatomy nineteen our alumni who militant our alma that they found a slave of us and this slave had been given certain knowledge and him and Moses go on this journey Coppola Allahu Musa hell attaboy Carla and and aluminum a limiter Russia so he asks him

can I go with you on this journey and he says to him that this servant says that look you won't be able to keep up with me and you won't be able to be patient enough to put up with me and and Moses tells him no I will and and they set off on this journey and on this journey this this person had their or hidden I will call him hither I prefer hither hither he embarks on certain tasks and adventures amongst them they embark on a ship and he purposely damages the ship

and then in another place he murders a child and then in another place he rectifies a broken wall Moses on each of these occasions objects heavily and each time is reprimanded for not being able to maintain his promise of staying silent and then Moses apologizes on each occasion and then eventually he is told some of the secrets and other says to him that or Martha Alto Annamarie that that's not something that I did out of my choice but this is what God had in

and instructed or inspired me to do so now this the elaboration of this hadith we find in Sahil Bihari okay so and this is where we actually find the greater detail so this had the e things I'll be cutting this several hadith to do with Moses and Heather spanning several pages but this particular one in the book of tafseer where you have hadith four seven two four sorry after that beginning for seven to five well it's all a masala

Fatah hula Abra who had two Elohim Albahari know under Yacouba so Musa says that I will go he tells him in Joshua that I will go so in this hadith it begins with side image obeyed saying to ignore that there's a person called knoefel miquelina no filmer kelly was somebody that would tell tales he was an orator he said that the Moses of Heather was a different Moses so he was saying this in their day and age society and Jubei tells this to Edna bus even our bus objects and says Cather but I do Allah that he's lying I heard a wave niqab

tell me that the Prophet said in a Moosa pharmacotherapy bani israel Fasulo am-ness Arnim so musa one day stood and he preached and he said to people that somebody asked him if bani israel the israelites who is the most knowledgeable of people so he said i am because he was a prophet of god so at this stage that he is told by God that actually you these other people more knowledgeable than you why didn't you set off on this journey and he goes on this journey and for ojala alayhi anneli abdun so Allah tells him I have a servant who is by

majima al-bahrain at a particular location with the two seas unite he is more knowledgeable than you so so he sets about on this journey he's told to take a fish with him and carry it so they go on they set off one palakollu would be fatter who so he's you shall I burn and moon so Joshua I mentioned inside Buhari his companions name is Joshua hatela Atia Sakura until they reached this big boulder this big rock what the ARA osama they placed their heads down they lay their heads phenomen

they go to sleep now this is a really interesting point why because this is where a lot of I feel the scholars in the past for whatever reasons overlooked this the rest of everything that happens happens whilst they were asleep it was a vision right so this thing of them going to sleep here as it mentions and he alludes to in the Quran that they go to this place then this Joshua sees that the fish

takes a unique it takes a unique path into the sea as the verse of the quran mentions the he says look Fattah Hadassah Bela who feel very sorrowful and then Moses says to him as they set off then they get up and they walk off and then later Moses says to him I'm hungry where's that fish and he says oh but the fish it jumped into the sea but it went in such a strange way he kind of emerged and and the reason it was doing this is all this was a vision they never emerged from that sleep this the rest of

everything that happens happens in a dream in a vision right so he goes and and they say oh really is that way that lets go back to that place and they can see that this fish the Morpher serene say that the water around it is like so as it's kind of taking it's kind of unique path into the sea the water around it is making a formation the waters kind of standing up around it it's keeping itself it's from collapsing and it's really strange so they like what is this about and then they they find this person Heather and in certain

stories that he will wherever he sits the lamb turns green and that's because this is all a vision it's happening within a vision hence you see that look all of a sudden you will find that they then as they carry on that all of a sudden they're up on a boat so many of the seller discussed how well how was Heather on this boat puncturing creating a hole in this boat so it can drown so what he does is he he damages this boat so it will it will start to sink and

because it's damaged the person that was about to kind of rob the boat will let it be but the question that the selleth asked is when he was damaging this boat the people on the boat they weren't blind I mean if you're on a boat and somebody is damaged why did they let him do this so a bool earlier from the cell earth and other people they said that's because he was invisible to them you see now this is the thing and then all of a sudden they no longer on this boat and then they're traveling and they see this boy and he

murders this bully and moosa aleihsalaam says to him God you know Jetta Shaitan look at the war on earth have you done a cattle turn ifs and Zakia be ready enough that you murdered a an innocent soul so the prophet Moses is condemning what he's done and he says to him look you I told you you can't be patient and then they go and they find a wall all of a sudden they're at a town where this wall is dilapidating and and Heather fixes rectifies this wall and he fixes it and he asks Moses and then Moses says to him look why didn't you take these

people of this village were rude to us they didn't even offer us because in that day and age there was like a global custom or especially in that regional custom that when you went past a village if there were strangers you would offer them food or water that was a custom but these people ignored Moses and Heather they completely blanked them and yet Heather fixes their wall and does work for them and so Moses says to him why didn't you at least charge them for this we should have taken something from them we worked we gave labor to them so and then at this stage Heather says that she

had a fair aku he says had this is had a falafel be neewa Banach this is it we now this it all ends here you go your way I go my way now the question is how were they shifting from all these paradigms and then he tells Moses that ok I'll tell you what I was doing that that child was gonna cause great harm and Allah was gonna replace that child with another child and that ship was gonna get robbed in these things and so on and so forth the ship that there was a king Kanna what Oh Malik ooh Yahoo the coolest finit in

a hospital every ship now the reason for this was that you see the reason for all of this was that there was a moral now that a lot of the scholars in the past took this as a literal kind of reading now when they took it as a literal reading they kind of got stuck because now they had to explain a lot of what was going on so they had to say first of all who was they that so this became a question so now when they said okay who was cleared on some of them said well

first of all was he a prophet so this became the first kind of debate so many people said that oh and this once again you're gonna get a hell of a lot of debate and discussion going on here so you you're gonna have scholars that say okay he was a prophet for Taylor in the Hobby then they say was he a prophet sent to the people or he wasn't sent to any people so they disagree once again you're gonna get people like ignore Josey coming from the seller even Arbus there's the transmission from him from what happened I'm gonna be they said he

was a prophet sent to people that's why because he says from a file to an Emory I didn't do this myself God commanded me to do this and God only commands prophets so if no Josie took this position Mohammed eveness Huck and so they had this understanding that he must have been a prophet then but he wasn't sent to a man no he says well let the allele at their own and no canon opinion so he was a prophet most people say that yet you have people like bar we have fiddle but are we saying that most of the scholars say he was not a Nabi and other people challenged him for saying that then some people said okay he

wasn't a Nabi he was a wali he was a holy person and this is like a possible Kosh ad in his result of the saw wolf he mentions that then you had another discussion is he somebody who live right throughout the ages so you have people like him and no we saying that Jim huden or majority of the scholars believe that he is still alive and amongst us so he's like living amongst us this soul who kind of travels amongst human beings even a Salah I says who are you named Adam who Jamaa Hirayama so he says that this is even though eveness allah says even though some had the

theme denied this and so you get this this kind of understand some people said he will then combine with the Madi later the Mahdi and Jesus they will all get together fie Masjid al-haram on a Juma you have these kind of stories that emerged you had people like Abdul Razak al kashi who was a Suffolk scholar from the 8th century who actually said hey there was not even a real person he was simply a symbol symbolism that Allah

meant giving that this kind of an expansion in the universe was symbolized by this character of hither and Ely and he mentions the alias Ali salam another prophet that is mentioned in the quran that we don't know much about but there's a lot of stories around was about the kind of the kind of caving in so these were opposites so this was abdul razak share of the radical kashi from about 700 years ago so her worthy in his book said the hither Ali sallam has told us 300 hadith had that a man

that he told him and the people in his time hadith that he actually heard from the Prophet Shaba this is so we went to this extent and then obviously some scholars said look like hospital Iraq he said look let's behave ourselves the heather is not somebody who transmits hadith okay now so most people felt that look Heather was a prophet even Imam Ghazali went that way right so the whole thing then then they have all these interpretations why did he do these things why did he kill the boy

why did God allow him to commit murder and they said well oh this was to save the family later on because the family were going to the family were going to later on really suffer at the hands of this child so God was gonna replace him so you have all of these kind of thing and some people obviously challenged this whole thing certain Muslims felt that hither and ilyas both are alive these two prophets still roam the earth and they meet every year a Hajj okay and that they have drank from the what they

say sherry bomb in a nil hired from the elixir of life so they can't die this is one of the interpretations and some people feel that these two Haidar Ali Salam and Ilyas aleihsalaam meet every night they roam around the earth and they meet and then other people challenge this people said look that's not true Ibrahim Oh Josie I said there's no such Haditha Hitler Ali Salim is alive all these things are our faults even at a mere took that understanding other people I believe everyone Josie may have gone that way even akathisia there used the verse of the Quran that will match Allen Ali by

sharing me in public al hold we have never given any humans eternal life the Imam Buhari is allegedly of this opinion that no Heather died he died and they used the hadith as an example that the Prophet said alright ah come lay let to come Hadi do you see this night they will not be a single person on the planet today than a hundred years from today is still alive meaning that death comes over us all so they say Mamba hardly used that as a Delisle then people have all these stories that all know he did exist then they say well if he existed why didn't he meet the Prophet and the companions so then people say he did they come up

with these stories like in the most other of cavil Hakim you have stories Mullaly how he brings that he went and gave condolences to the companions when people say oh he the profit some people say he will live and eventually will fight the job then you have all these other stories of like people saying they saw either like a bromo Bharat saying especially a lot to do with the battlefield so every time there's this kind of like they they saw somebody ignore Mubarak saying I met this person on the you know we approached my horse and he was like this and then I saw him on the on the battlefield and then I saw him here and

this was hidden so basically what you have is anytime throughout history under certain ominous kind of circumstance circumstances a a kind of all striking figure is met people in their folk belief felt that that was either the way the Christians kind of had this with st.

George or with other people that they they they that they all we saw st. George are when we were in Jerusalem and we saw this and so every time Muslims are kind of going on certain battles or they better certain strange you know kind of figure that it's kind of acting like kind of almost ominously strange and odd and might say some words of wisdom and then you don't see him and they felt oh that must have been hidden a lisanna so this whole issue arises why

because Muslims felt that they needed to explain who this character was why even though the Quran doesn't mention him as Hader but inside Buhari you have this hadith right that he was called hither and then if he's an actual person if he's a person how could he do all these things over he must be a prophet well if he's a prophet was he sent to a people no he wasn't sent to a people but he was instructed so if he used to go around interfering in nature killing people and building things and drowning shapes or with hidden kind of greater good then

does he still continue to do that and then people felt yes of course he's still alive and in fact he still amongst us as Imam Noah we and even a Salah and all these people and seal tea and all these people felt and the truth is people look from a folklore perspective people of all religions have kind of believed in these kind of things it's nothing unique to that kind of Muslim folklore you will see people in Christianity believing that Saints are still kind of these ancient Saints still kind of roam amongst them in Hindu mythology you'll have about avatars kind

of roaming around amongst people interfering with the divine laws of nature and stuff like this and but from a objective perspective there is no such thing as hid are Ali Salaam like that okay the truth is that this was all a vision it was all in a dream and the reason musa alehsalaam was shown those that dream was not that vision was not really it was to reinforce his own mission you see because the three events

that took place in that green were deeply connected to the life and mission of Moses alaysalam you see Moses are in this particular dream you will see that they they they embark upon this shape and they damage this ship so something being very damaged okay but yet it has a greater good that will come out of this you see the Israelites the

way they had been damaged the way Moses had to lead them out of the kind of calamity this was to reinforce his mission the candies Israelites actually make it these people who are constantly pestering and annoying the Prophet these people that have been damaged for generations now that that even though they've undergone this damage and they trying to go back to this kingdom of God on earth they want they're trying to head back to Jerusalem that this will that this has some hidden hating me the

fact that neither murders this this child he didn't murder him in real life God would never allow anybody to murder a child that would be absurd because if you're gonna say well it was for a greater good then why not murder all the other children right that doesn't make any sense right because if you're gonna say well God murdered this child because the child was gonna grow up and turn them into a car filled well then what about all the other car fares on earth why doesn't God murder their children so what is what an absurd thing that would that belief would never you see in Moses in his life he had

committed accidentally murder he had murdered a person in a fight so it got into a fight with and with one of the Egyptian pharaoh soldiers and he had hit him resulting in his death from which Moses had fled now this thing was always bothering Moses that you know I accidentally killed that person and this incident or in the vision where he was to witness that actually that did happen yes but there was a greater good that

because of that you fled and because of you fleeing a great journey of prophecy prophethood and the salvation of the Israelites was began to unfold so this was to do with Moses witnessing this murder of this child in his vision not in reality and as to building this wall and Moses getting being like kind of frustrated why didn't you charge them this was because Moses was fed up with the behavior of these relights just because they were pestering him they

even went when he goes to Mount Sinai he comes back they've built a golden calf what is this about you know what Roger a Musa Allah omigod Vanna Asifa that Moses comes back and he's angry for Uncle Al wha ha he threw the kind of tablets that he was so angry that what on earth is wrong with you people but Allah was showing in this vision that look yes these people the village villagers disrespected them they didn't host them well they didn't

because Moses you see Moses dies before the Israelites reached Jerusalem they don't actually enter Moses does not enter Jerusalem he dies before the Israelites actually make it across the Jordan River and into Jerusalem he never sees the fruits of his whole mission but God shows him in this vision that yes the wall right now is dilapidated but these orphans will grow up and beneath it is a treasure which will manifest in

the great magnificent kingdom of David and Solomon serving and playing out to be one of the most powerful kingdoms on earth in its time that this was a manifestations of this all of these three incidents related deeply to the life and mission of Moses aleihsalaam so this is what Haider Ali Salaam was he was part of that vision he was not actually a real person and he's not actually somebody who roams around amongst us interfering in that sense

unless you're using that term symbolically okay so symbolically I guess you could say things like that but in Muslim folklore many Muslims believe he is a person he's roaming around and he's doing all these things but that's not actually real I mean many Muslims might believe that but that's not actually true cool guys I hope that made some sense I hope it helped certain people inshallah whoa whoa people whoa that's taking us way way beyond people certain people's bedtimes alright folks with that I think

we're gonna wrap it up I hope things somebody said many prophets have many allegations against them do inshallah let me know I will try to respond I I do feel that Muslims we have a duty to to respond and I feel that we should never be insecure about our faith but at the same time we should remove these cobwebs of folklore superstition and mythology I feel we should remove them and we should be confident about our faith but that does involve exploring certain aspects and answering them where that's necessary right so with that people hell

yeah vampire sessions so some heinel ie what - I'll admire say foon Allies praised and above and transcendent above that which they attribute and ascribe to him of being cruel and things like this were that of salat while salam ala al imam noon and the best of salutations and blessings upon the messenger who said and medina - hi de l'homme loca no yeah no moon that indeed medina and it's cool people is much better for them if but only they knew with that people take very good care of yourselves in sha allah do like this page if you haven't already subscribed to my youtube channel

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