The Shaykh Ali al-Halabi speaks about his meeting with the Shaykh Safer al-Hawali and the discussion between them regarding the importance of guiding enthusiastic youth toward the path of purification and education
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The student : I say, my Shaykh, this speech that you have favored us with reminds me, from one aspect, of our meeting with my brother Salim al-Hilali andThe Shaykh : Safer, may Allah reward him with good. Perhaps I had already told you the general outline, but the details truly require a long session in which we discuss this...
The Shaykh : We want to hear it.
The student : Yes, by Allah, it is true.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : It was truly a good session, my Shaykh, from nine-thirty after the night prayer until two-thirty.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student : In his home, may Allah reward him with good, he honored us, and, by the will of Allah, it was a good session. Among the things discussed, and there was a great deal of talk, we spoke about the reality of the Ummah, which you mentioned, specifically the reality of the youth, meaning the enthusiastic youth who finds no one to guide their enthusiasm toward the methodology of purification and education. So, among what he mentioned, almost word for word, I hardly miss a letter, if Allah wills, he said, "I am amazed," or "I do not raise my head for many of these youths, who are numerous and fill the lecture halls and the like, because they have not received the scientific and creedal education that enables them to bear the responsibility of calling to Allah."
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : "As proof, when I speak about jurisprudence or creed, it is as if something ordinary has happened, but when I speak about Kissinger and Nixon, my words soar across the horizons of the world."
The Shaykh : By Allah, may Allah reward him with good.
The student : These are his exact words, my Shaykh.
Another student: Allahu Akbar. And the reality I have seen also nearly confirms this.
The student: Yes, Shaykh.
Another student: Because he has a class in creed, a class on the Tahawi creed, in the mosque of Prince Mutib. So when I went... I attended, I was hearing that Safer's gathering includes, meaning, thousands.
The Shaykh : Thousands upon thousands.
The student : So when I went... I think... I found that it was... not hundreds, meaning, so I was amazed and said, where do these thousands come from? Now, this speech is something he himself realizes.
The Shaykh : This is from his generosity.
The student : Yes, indeed, it is truly from his generosity.
The Shaykh : From his generosity.
The student : That he saw that the number of people in serious scientific classes in jurisprudence, creed, and hadith is decreasing, while in these events or general matters, which others call the jurisprudence of reality, people fly to them from all corners of the earth.
The Shaykh : Yes, and they elevate the speakers and organizers in these fields, whose benefit we do not deny, more than they establish and focus on the status of the people of knowledge, whose effects are such righteous youths as these.
The student : Correct.
The student : My Shaykh, to draw attention to the point our professor Abu Malik, may Allah reward him with good, raised, the issue that he felt this thing.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : He presented it, may Allah reward him with good. Although the speech was later transmitted in reverse, I say he presented it.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : Ali and my brother Salim to all write, or to cooperate in authoring, a book on the methodology of change among the people of the Sunnah and the community, following the way of the Salaf. This was part of his presentation. He said, by Allah, this is a worthy matter, so that the ideas of the youth do not remain scattered, and so that... and so that... So we said, by Allah, this is good, but sometimes we wish to review everything among ourselves, but after the distance and the busyness, these things sometimes prevent it. So, may Allah reward him with good, he was very kind and gentle, and receptive to many of the matters we discussed.
The Shaykh : That is the opinion of him.
The Shaykh : We want to hear it.
The student : Yes, by Allah, it is true.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : It was truly a good session, my Shaykh, from nine-thirty after the night prayer until two-thirty.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The student : In his home, may Allah reward him with good, he honored us, and, by the will of Allah, it was a good session. Among the things discussed, and there was a great deal of talk, we spoke about the reality of the Ummah, which you mentioned, specifically the reality of the youth, meaning the enthusiastic youth who finds no one to guide their enthusiasm toward the methodology of purification and education. So, among what he mentioned, almost word for word, I hardly miss a letter, if Allah wills, he said, "I am amazed," or "I do not raise my head for many of these youths, who are numerous and fill the lecture halls and the like, because they have not received the scientific and creedal education that enables them to bear the responsibility of calling to Allah."
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : "As proof, when I speak about jurisprudence or creed, it is as if something ordinary has happened, but when I speak about Kissinger and Nixon, my words soar across the horizons of the world."
The Shaykh : By Allah, may Allah reward him with good.
The student : These are his exact words, my Shaykh.
Another student: Allahu Akbar. And the reality I have seen also nearly confirms this.
The student: Yes, Shaykh.
Another student: Because he has a class in creed, a class on the Tahawi creed, in the mosque of Prince Mutib. So when I went... I attended, I was hearing that Safer's gathering includes, meaning, thousands.
The Shaykh : Thousands upon thousands.
The student : So when I went... I think... I found that it was... not hundreds, meaning, so I was amazed and said, where do these thousands come from? Now, this speech is something he himself realizes.
The Shaykh : This is from his generosity.
The student : Yes, indeed, it is truly from his generosity.
The Shaykh : From his generosity.
The student : That he saw that the number of people in serious scientific classes in jurisprudence, creed, and hadith is decreasing, while in these events or general matters, which others call the jurisprudence of reality, people fly to them from all corners of the earth.
The Shaykh : Yes, and they elevate the speakers and organizers in these fields, whose benefit we do not deny, more than they establish and focus on the status of the people of knowledge, whose effects are such righteous youths as these.
The student : Correct.
The student : My Shaykh, to draw attention to the point our professor Abu Malik, may Allah reward him with good, raised, the issue that he felt this thing.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : He presented it, may Allah reward him with good. Although the speech was later transmitted in reverse, I say he presented it.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student : Ali and my brother Salim to all write, or to cooperate in authoring, a book on the methodology of change among the people of the Sunnah and the community, following the way of the Salaf. This was part of his presentation. He said, by Allah, this is a worthy matter, so that the ideas of the youth do not remain scattered, and so that... and so that... So we said, by Allah, this is good, but sometimes we wish to review everything among ourselves, but after the distance and the busyness, these things sometimes prevent it. So, may Allah reward him with good, he was very kind and gentle, and receptive to many of the matters we discussed.
The Shaykh : That is the opinion of him.
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