Death Of A Learned Person

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate

Shaykh Abdul Fattah Madkur, a Quran teacher, passed away on Monday, June 15, 2020. May Allah shower him with mercy and grant him the highest Jannah. One of his teachers was Shaykh Ahmad Dabbaqh, the head of Quran reciters of Egypt in the 1980s. Shaykh Ayman Suwed, the author of Tajweed Musawir, was one of his students. It was told by Shaykh Ayman Swed that his teacher (Shaykh Abdul Fattah) told him once he was reciting the Quran to his teacher (Shaykh Ahmad Dabbagh) and a light came down in between them (but closer to his teacher) and he was mesmerized by it. His teacher (Shaykh Dabbagh) told him that the light was the light of the people of Quran and asked him to continue his recitation.

Recalling Shaykh Abdul Fattah's words during his presentation of the ijazah sanad al Quran to us about three years ago in his home -- that when you hold knowledge you have to carry it as one worthy of that knowledge. When you receive knowledge of the Quran, you have to fulfill the rights of the knowledge, which is to teach it and practice it. When you learn the Quran and receive an ijazah, you now have a duty to impart what you have learned. This is an amanah (a trust) from your teacher and your teacher's teacher and so on.

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, "He who follows a path in quest of knowledge, Allah will make the path of Jannah easy to him. The angels lower their wings over the seeker of knowledge, being pleased with what he does. The inhabitants of the heavens and the earth and even the fish in the depth of the oceans seek forgiveness for him. The superiority of the learned man over the devout worshipper is like that of the full moon to the rest of the stars (i.e., in brightness). The learned are the heirs of the Prophets who bequeath neither dinar nor dirham but only that of knowledge; and he who acquires it, has in fact acquired an abundant portion."

قال سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول‏:‏ ‏ "‏من سلك طريقًا يبتغي فيه علمًا سهل الله له طريقًا إلى الجنة، وإن الملائكة لتضع أجنحتها لطالب العلم رضا بما صنع، وإن العالم ليستغفر له من في السماوات والأرض حتى الحيتان في الماء، وفضل العالم على العابد كفضل القمر على سائر الكواكب، وإن العلماء ورثة الأنبياء وإن الأنبياء لم يورثوا دينارًا ولا درهما وإنما ورثوا العلم‏.‏ فمن أخذه أخذ بحظ وافر‏"‏ ‏(‏‏(‏رواه أبو داود والترمذي‏)‏‏)‏‏.‏

[Abu Dawud and At- Tirmidhi].

May Allah enable us to fulfill the trust that was given to us by our teachers and fulfill the rights of the Quran. Aameen.

Allahumma salli 'ala Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wasallam.

And Allah knows best and is Most Wise, and He alone grants success, and to Him is the final return of all.

Wassalaam