The Compass w/ Mufti Azeemuddin Ahmed | “O My Son” Part 7 by Imam Ghazali | Ep #38 | 10/05
Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 10 segments
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Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 10 segments
thisAfter a while, the question, after a good solid hour discussion, how, when, where, what, et cetera, uh, you know, I said, "We have to remind ourselves why are we doing this? What is the purpose behind this?" And, um, this, this at times becomes, uh, instead of being just a means to the actual matlub and the end, what happens is this becomes the end itself, that a person is so happy and, and filled with joy that, "Okay, I have, I've been able to achieve this success." But what does that do for you when the people who are reading it, the people who are discussing it, the people who are, uh, sharing it, they do not even have iman, most of them, in academia.
And having a purpose wi- uh, will make your ilm grow and become... make it much more fruitful.
So what he's saying here is that if we are simply s- out there, uh, for as we call for the love of knowledge, we see that in academia.
You have people who are absolutely not Muslims, but they have the level of intricacy that they have gotten themselves into in a small aspect of sometimes even a very obscure science of deen, and have spent their past three, four, five decades researching and writing on a topic that you would think that, "Wow, we cannot imagine someone like this exists." But then you get surprised to saw that the one who exists is not even a Muslim, and he has written hundreds and thousands of pages on some aspect of hadith, some aspect of sira, some aspect of tafsir, right? Some aspect of, of is, is, uh, kalam, aqidah.
When a person doesn't even believe in Allah, you ask yourself, "Why are you doing this?" And they'll say, "For the love of knowledge.
You ask yourself, what benefit is that? S- if someone does not even be able-- does not even reach a level of ma'rifa of Allah, knowing Allah that he can put his head down in sujood.
But sadly, he spent five decades writing and researching on this, and then he passes away, and he did not prepare for the three questions of the grave.
A sch- a scholar explains so beautifully, ilm and knowledge is that which helps you and assists you in answering the three questions of the grave.
[speaking Arabic] Who is your Lord? What is your religion? And what do you have to say about this individual, i.e., the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? This is ilm.
It ha-- The most important knowledge that we have to gain is the knowledge of Allah Azzawajal.
So if a person has, mashaAllah, the knowledge of deen, but he doesn't practice on it, this is junun.
What's the pur- what was the purpose of it? Person gets pulled over by the, by the, by the police.
"You're speeding, sir." "I know." "You know what the speed limit is?" "I know." "You're forty miles above the speed limit." "I know." Now this is junun.
thisAfter a while, the question, after a good solid hour discussion, how, when, where, what, et cetera, uh, you know, I said, "We have to remind ourselves why are we doing this? What is the purpose behind this?" And, um, this, this at times becomes, uh, instead of being just a means to the actual matlub and the end, what happens is this becomes the end itself, that a person is so happy and, and filled with joy that, "Okay, I have, I've been able to achieve this success." But what does that do for you when the people who are reading it, the people who are discussing it, the people who are, uh, sharing it, they do not even have iman, most of them, in academia.
And having a purpose wi- uh, will make your ilm grow and become... make it much more fruitful.
So what he's saying here is that if we are simply s- out there, uh, for as we call for the love of knowledge, we see that in academia.
You have people who are absolutely not Muslims, but they have the level of intricacy that they have gotten themselves into in a small aspect of sometimes even a very obscure science of deen, and have spent their past three, four, five decades researching and writing on a topic that you would think that, "Wow, we cannot imagine someone like this exists." But then you get surprised to saw that the one who exists is not even a Muslim, and he has written hundreds and thousands of pages on some aspect of hadith, some aspect of sira, some aspect of tafsir, right? Some aspect of, of is, is, uh, kalam, aqidah.
When a person doesn't even believe in Allah, you ask yourself, "Why are you doing this?" And they'll say, "For the love of knowledge.
You ask yourself, what benefit is that? S- if someone does not even be able-- does not even reach a level of ma'rifa of Allah, knowing Allah that he can put his head down in sujood.
But sadly, he spent five decades writing and researching on this, and then he passes away, and he did not prepare for the three questions of the grave.
A sch- a scholar explains so beautifully, ilm and knowledge is that which helps you and assists you in answering the three questions of the grave.
[speaking Arabic] Who is your Lord? What is your religion? And what do you have to say about this individual, i.e., the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? This is ilm.
It ha-- The most important knowledge that we have to gain is the knowledge of Allah Azzawajal.
So if a person has, mashaAllah, the knowledge of deen, but he doesn't practice on it, this is junun.
What's the pur- what was the purpose of it? Person gets pulled over by the, by the, by the police.
"You're speeding, sir." "I know." "You know what the speed limit is?" "I know." "You're forty miles above the speed limit." "I know." Now this is junun.
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