Al-Qaradawi .. the tongue of the nation and the renewer of the religion

On Monday afternoon, Al-Na’i mourned the sign of the era and the renewal of the century, Sheikh Professor Dr. And the assets, the Sunnah, the Qur’an, the call and the thought.

Thus, the published advocacy flag was folded, the manifesting of the manifest religion became silent, the impenetrable cave of the nation was blocked, its odorous mountain was demolished, its speaking tongue was silent, and Al-Aqsa bid farewell to its eloquent guard, and the tooth of the pen of truth was broken, and the ink of truth dried up. On whoever is in it.

I remember that I visited him for the first time in his office at Qatar University at the Center for Sunnah and Biography Studies in 1996, and some of them advised me to seek work for him or through him. The days in this regard in his right, was the visit of a student to a professor, a mentor to a sheikh, and a student of knowledge to a mujtahid mujtahid.

Situations and memories

God wanted Qatar to complete the mid-nineties, so I brought Sheikh Youssef to the fullness of hearing and sight. His sermons, which filled the Omar Mosque with his presence, were scientific and emotional nourishment in which you feel scientific preparation, mental presence and emotional flow, as was his weekly program on television and his presence in councils and seminars what increased my admiration for the man and appreciation for his knowledge. .

What surprises me about the man is his superior ability to balance what he says and poses, he was not to be silent about a right he saw or asked about, and he was not to prejudice the public or tread on the elite, and if Qatar honored him, she did not confiscate his opinion and did not be upset by his criticism of some political positions, he was loyal to them And for her men in moments of honesty that call for that without flattery or hesitation, and that for my age is equivalent to the first in difficulty.

I remember that he strongly criticized Peres’ visit to Qatar in 1996 and from the pulpit of the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab Mosque, in a directly transmitted sermon - and all his sermons are likewise. He washes his hands seven times, one of them with earth. I remember that an Arab ambassador who was present at the Eid greetings said that when Qaradawi came to greet His Highness the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, may God protect him, as usual, he said with a laugh: “Peace, Sheikh!

By God, I washed it as you requested, or what is the meaning of that.

Those who are familiar with the overall positions of al-Qaradawi and the State of Qatar realize how embarrassing Qatari policy was in his declared positions on its television, on Al-Jazeera, or on the pulpits. And whoever wants to be sure, let him review on the Internet his positions on normalization, and on the basis of many and from the general positions of the Arab League and others.

Until he fell ill, Sheikh Al-Qaradawi was present on all occasions, and he was the object of honor, not least the well-known congratulations after the siege in which Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani accepted Al-Qaradawi's forehead.

Encounters

I was a man who was instructed by God to keep away from the famous, not ascetic or ascetic, but he was an able nature, so my meetings with the man were limited, dictated by circumstances that were not arranged by me and no urgent endeavor on my part.

I remember that I visited him for the first time in his office at Qatar University at the Center for Sunnah and Biography Studies in 1996, and some of them advised me to seek work for him or through him. The days of this in his right, was the visit of a student to a professor and a mentor to a sheikh and a student of knowledge to a mujtahid mujtahid.

I remember that he rode with us in the car of His Eminence Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Abdu Al-Imam in the Al-Dafna area, to take him to his house, so he provided us with a present of humor, clear knowledge, beautiful poetry and flowing literature, what we wished with him if the journey was long and after the place.

And I remember that I asked him to chant us from his poetry, and I started to remind him of some of them, as I had previously read his book “Nafhat wa Lafhat” and read some of his poems:

O Muslim, with the nakedness of his conversion to Islam, be bound by God, and fulfill what is owned by you, it has been stipulated

My father sin, you see paradise close to those who sow thistle did not reap wheat

And I deliberately provoked him by saying: We hear from the poetry of poets, not the poetry of scholars, and he said with a laugh: That scholars have poetry as poets have knowledge.

Then the second meeting was in his home full of congratulations on the blessed Eid al-Fitr, years later, so he gave us as before and increased by asking about the homeland and the conditions of Muslims while he spread hope, in awareness, wisdom and ability.

I was cut off from him back to my nature in the distance, until the political arrests in Mauritania carried out by the regime of Muawiyah Ould Taya in 2003 and 2004, so I sought with a generous person to him in search of sympathy from the International Union of Muslim Scholars with Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hassan bin Al-Dado;

The detainee at that time was unjustly and aggressively due to his refusal to normalize and his issuance of a fatwa prohibiting it.

And if Anas, I will not forget the man’s pain and grief, and his willingness to do what is asked of him, and with that, he waited to be aware, and to look into the matter from all sides, so what made him his love for Sheikh Al-Dodo, nor his appreciation for the Islamic movement there, nor his sincere standing with the oppressed, hasten without being Completes the object of consideration of the issue.

And the first person to contact him - as I learned later from him - was Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayh, in appreciation of his knowledge, awareness and status in the union, and his knowledge and recommendation of his kinship with Sheikh Al-Dado, as well as their friendship and their jurisprudential and intellectual closeness in general at the time.

Here, Al-Qaradawi’s sense of responsibility and institutionalism emerges. Ibn Bayh asked him to postpone because he mediated with Muawiyah in the file, and he is waiting for him to take a positive step in the matter. Al-Qaradawi asked to wait in issuing a statement, and I personally did not see that, as Muawiyah would not respond positively to Ibn Bayah’s mediation - As confirmed by the days - and Ibn Bayh is not ready to be in a body that takes a position on the ruler of his country who is consulting his son, and this methodology is consistent with the thought of the man who grew up in a system, and became a minister and an official, who did not see opposition to a ruler nor standing with a political prisoner.

I reviewed Sheikh Al-Qaradawi and was urgent about that, and I told him - from what I said - that mediation will not result, and that Sheikh Ibn Bayh will not agree to the union issuing a statement, and there was a meeting in which there was some heat, for the Secretary-General, Dr. Sheikh Ali Al-Qarra Daghi was present, and he sees Waiting for the result of the mediation of Sheikh Ibn Bayh, and Sheikh Al-Qaradawi was embarrassed by this path and saw merit in my words, so what is the solution while the Secretary-General and the Vice President are waiting for a response from those who will not respond?!

Al-Qaradawi respected the institution, but he respected the legal position, and he fulfilled his duty at the time, and did not leave them to fictitious balances as it turned out later, so he issued a statement in his own name, in which he demanded the rulers of Mauritania to release its brand, Sheikh Al-Dado, honor him and deal with him accordingly, and that message is still in the news archives. With the signature of Al-Qaradawi personally, not as the president of the union, and she should correct a word printed in his elegant patchwork script.

I deliberately marketed this incident to reveal an aspect of the personality of the man who does not compromise with what he really sees, and does not go beyond what he sees as institutional, and it is a difficult balance that he would not have succeeded in establishing and managing the largest organization of scholars across the Islamic world without it. The statement is issued in the name of the union, but he did not want to violate the spirit of shura in the institution, nor to violate the duty of time to denounce evil, and that is a true creativity with appreciation and praise.

Many were prejudiced against al-Qaradawi, including Salafis, whom the Salafists disavowed, and some of them adhere to a letter of jurisprudence that stagnated on imitation, and feared every spirit of renewal. I have the honor to read what was printed of those fatwas.

Then there were three other meetings at the request of Mauritanian visitors who did not find in themselves the ability - and they have the right to do so - to visit Qatar and not meet Sheikh Yusuf.

The last of these meetings was after his visit to Mauritania, and he praised well its officials, starting with the president and ending with the general public. About him what it means is that he is the Ghazali of the age, his soldiers, his memorizer, and his owner, and perhaps another occasion that allows him to review the details and positions that he cited in that visit.

Mujaddid al-Din..the tongue of the nation

I read Al-Qaradawi early in the preparatory days, and this reading, although not conscious, was calm.

With its bright expression, generous expression, and relentless educational methodology, then readings followed in his intellectual books, memoirs and scientific writings, and he was the best teacher, educator, conscious jurist, organic thinker, and ideal intellectual.

Many were prejudiced against al-Qaradawi, including Salafis, whom the Salafists disavowed, and some of them adhere to a letter of jurisprudence that stagnated on imitation, and feared every spirit of renewal. I have the honor to read what was printed of those fatwas.

His book “Al-Halal and Al-Haram”, one of his early works, was the most prominent title in this field. The nation received it with acceptance, and it was not without criticism, and this is a requirement in the books of jurisprudence that are free from the tyranny of tradition, and it was not spared from prejudice until some people called it “halal and halal.” And until secular France refused to enter him in the mid-nineties, he was hated by both parties, which is what jurisprudence recommends him in the middle. , And in this is the foresight of the future of jurisprudence, God guided him to Sheikh Yusuf.

The truth is that this man was not only the scholar of the nation, but he was the renewer of the religion who performed the duty, so God Almighty granted him success by making him one of those concerned who embody the words of his Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him: Al-Ghalin, or the interpretation of the ignorant, and in the two narrations, Al-Qaradawi was refining the religion from the interpretation of the Galen to clarify the ease of religion and return to its seriousness, and in response to the ignorant with its facts, purposes, reliable origins and easy branches.

The intelligent Azhari was not satisfied with obtaining and explaining the legal knowledge - and this is not an easy job - but rather he pleaded for it with a sial pen, which has the ingenuity of the writer, the radiance of the flowing writer, the spirit of the compassionate preacher, the transparency of the enlightened mystic, the accuracy of the verified fundamentalist scholar, the images of the delicate poet, the rhetoric of the eloquent preacher, and the sincerity of Feelings, the accuracy of expressions and the quality of the words are what help the rhetoricians and silence the envy.

He was a Salafi without the apparent literalism, a jurist without rigidity, a Sufi without sorcery, and a Muslim aware of the age, calling to God with insight.

The man mixed with the rulers, but he did not deceive, and he debated with the secular, and he did not betray, and he confronted the tyrants, and he did not relapse, and he responded from the normalities of everyone, so there is no weakness, nor cowardice, nor relapse.

He was an interlocutor in a non-rejected argument, arguing in a way that is better, and refuting the argument with the argument, assisted by an intelligent mind, clear awareness, a hospitable tongue, and a clear present science. Without hesitation or emotion.

He benefited in everything and excelled, and he was the owner of the legal position as he was the owner of the legal position, and this duality was attributed in a time when religious scholars retreated, cowardly, or lied.

He mixed with everyone, rulers, notables, politicians, scholars and thinkers, agreeing with them or disagreeing with them, so he did not compliment them in the right and did not retreat from them on a principle, he was not one of those who were tempted by sites nor of those who were fascinated by glamor and appearances, and his relationship with everyone remained within its specified framework in keeping with rights, performing the duty and fulfilling the right.

I console the entire nation in renewing its religion and bearing the banner of defending its causes. I console the working scholars who carry the banner of reform who adhere to the guidance of prophecy. I extend my condolences to knowledge and jurisprudence and the statement and stances that ensue from that. They are orphans with his death, they have lost a humble father and a protective cave, so he was not tempted in the case and was not satisfied with a position below the highest, clearest and clearest. I back off.

May God have mercy on Sheikh Yusuf and peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he is resurrected

Peace be upon him among the working scholars

Peace be upon him among the righteous

May God prove him with firm words and give him the reward and wrote patience and solace to his family, students and lovers.

And unto God and to Him we shall return.