‪#‎HafizPatel‬ ‪#‎Legend‬ ‪#‎Historic‬ - May Allah have his mercy on him.

‪#‎HafizPatel‬ ‪#‎Legend‬ ‪#‎Historic‬ - May Allah have his mercy on him.



Whilst I know that this is a time mourn, but I believe that this is also a time to reflect. Almost everyone, except whoever arrogantly refuses, has praised the great efforts of this historic man; a true pioneer of da`wah in a country to which he came as a foreigner. A man who selflessly went from house to house calling people to masjid despite being faced with the good, the bad, the ugly, the moody, the angry, the sad, the anxious, the hater and the lover. A man who relentlessly traveled for Allah overlooking the obstacles that age brings. A man who continued on the call to Allah for 90+ years. May Allah have his mercy on #HafizPatel and grant the Ummah great successors.



A group of my friends had once visited Sh. Abdullah ibn Jibrīn who asked them where they were from. When each one of them named a country which hosts Muslim minorities, the Shaykh immediately started praising the ‪#‎TablighiJamat‬ for all the great efforts they have done in spreading Islam. He emphasized that they have brought Islam to corners of the world to which, perhaps, none other than them has been able to reach.



My next door neighbour in Riyadh was from the ‪#‎Saudi‬ #TablighiJamat and he was the best neighbour I have ever had. He was the neighbour who would wake me up for fajr. He was the only neighbour who would ask about me, and everyone in the neighbourhood, if he noticed them missing in prayer. He was the neighbour who truly understood the rights of neighbours! Despite this, I would hear in the neighbourhood gatherings, "He is a good man but watch out as he is ‪#‎tablīghī‬." By Allah, if the aforementioned is what being #tablīghī means, I wish I was raised up a tablīghī.



Sunnah is not about hoping to be on the Sunnah. Sunnah is about the embodiment of that Sunnah. Sunnah is not a mental exercise, rather sunnah is a comprehensive code of conduct. If someone has the "y=mx+b" of theology figured out and claims that belief is a "word, action and belief," rather believes that omitting the actions from this list is a bid`ah, yet omits the actions from his own practical life, "what do you make of such a person!?" Our religion is not based on mathematical equations. Whoever doesn't understand this fact well enough hasn't understood the very essence of Islam.



And if you want to use all the statements of the ‪#‎Salaf‬ to discuss who is on the ‪#‎Sunnah‬, then look at this statement of Imam Ahmad, the Imam of the Sunnah: "Tell the people of ‪#‎Bidah‬ that the deciding moment between us and you will be the funerals!" This man, by the leave of Allah, had between 22 000 - 30 000 attendees in his funeral from all sects of the religion in a majority non-Muslim country. This is the largest funeral I have heard of in the recent past. The largest which I have ever attended was that of a famous Shaykh in Riyadh which had 10 000 - 14 000 in a capital of a Muslim country, where 99% of the population is Muslim. This is a sign.



Let us not forget the famous tradition of the Messenger -SAWS- in regards to two funerals which passed by, "He whom you praised in good terms, Paradise has become certain for him, and he whom you condemned in bad words, Hell has become certain for him. You are Allah's witnesses in the earth, you are Allah's witnesses in the earth, you are Allah's witnesses in the earth." [Muslim]

It is necessary to highlight what I did because as soon as the emotions settle some overzealous or understudied youngster (in age, experience or knowledge) who barely has the peach fuzz of his religion will capitalize on the silence to say things we don't want to hear. May Allah have His mercy on the Shaykh and the movement to which he strongly adhered throughout his life. Ameen!

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