Ahmed Bullock - Abdal Hakim Murad: Paradigms of Leadership

Paradigms of Leadership returns with a new lecture on the late Ahmed Bullock, a respected British Muslim, Arabic and Hebrew scholar, dealer in books, and the first English Imam of Oxford. Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad takes us through his life, looking at a number of the Imam's own handwritten letters.
This talk was recorded in Ramadan 2021 (h. 1442).
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[@sharp7866]

Preserving stories like these are where we should be spending our time! May Allah gave mercy on the soul of Shaykh Ahmed Bullock! Ameen!!

[@ashwadhwani]

Abdal Hakim Murad's voice and vocal mannerisms are medicine to my heart and I am a Sindhi in India

[@muslimtraditionalist]

I am so lucky to have met Shaykh Ahmad Bullock. Such an amazing man!

[@zubair2306]

Mashallah, may Allah protect Shaykh Abdul Hakeem, really enjoyed this series. It’s a pity Imam Ahmad Bullock was not bought to our attention in his lifetime. Gem of a person. Barakallahu Feekum to everybody at CMC for this series.

[@yusufjha4248]

Absolutely brilliant talk. What a fascinating life, thank you CMC for bringing Shaykh Ahmed Bullock's life to our attention.

[@frankzappa951]

Indeed. Why have we not heard of this gentleman before. Thanks for your time and effort into making this fantastic video SubhaanAllah

[@johnbutt8852]

Thanks for you kind comment Yusuf, which I can see in my notifications, but not in the actual comments.

[@mashkooracct2536]

@@johnbutt8852 ok no offence but did he make fun of your surname or something? 😂

[@samanthauk6438]

Humbling and inspirational. May Allah reward Shaykh Abdul Hakim and all involved with bringing this series to us. Most interesting to me after 33 years since my own conversion to Islam was how Idris guided Ahmed to concentrate most on his own inner state, spiritual journey and relationship to Allah through the sort of "back to basics" focus on essential, simple practices done with consistency. This is exactly what I find matters to me most at this stage of my life and journey as a Muslim. There is beauty and accessibility in how simple Islam truly is and this is what brought me to it in the first place. The entanglements and distractions of worldy affairs in the matter of the Muslim ummah and its divisions are of no interest to me and I feel that Ahmed was well guided by Idris Shah in this in the latter part of his life. It is extremely touching listening to their correspondence and sensing the intimacy and love of friends connected by the love of Allah over many years. It is also a testimony to the benefit of having a spiritual guide, mentor and dear friend on the path - especially as a convert, which in my experience can feel very isolating. However, listening to this I have a poignant awareness that it is not as easy for women to find and access this kind of spiritual mentorship and friendship. Men have more time and personal freedom away from the kitchen sink and are validated in their desire for experiences and spiritually elevating connections beyond home and hearth. So for me, the story of Ahmed Bullock also illustrates that men had and still have more opportunity to seek, find and nurture such relationships among other men who devote a lot of their lives to scholarship and the mentorship of other men. I'm aware of a sense of sadness listening to this sort of "Who's Who" in the Muslim annals, where it's clear there is a male privelege in men's lived socio-spiritual realities and the recounting/valorising of them, and the danger of a gender blindness to that unless we acknowledge it and the impact of it. Even listening to this has its impact from that perspective, as it is in some sense perpetuating my feeling of being "on the outside looking in" as a woman, although I hasten to add that I still greatly enjoyed and benefitted from hearing this and am galvinised in my commitment to the simplest practices of fard prayer and dhikr. In fairness though, I'd also like to say that it is wonderful to see and feel that CMC are modelling an admirable commitment to inclusiveness for Muslim women, both with including women as subjects in this Paradigms of Leadership series and also in giving women opportunity to study, teach and lead on CMC courses and the content on this excellent channel.

[@iljasbaker9655]

He wasn't guided by Idries Shah but received advice, which he didn't always take, from Idries's father. He was a boyhood friend of Idries but I believe disapproved of his adult associations and "entrepreneurship": magic and Sufism without Islam, for example.

[@danieljohnson1924]

Beautiful light shining into the room adds to the effect of this lecture.

[@mr.h3737]

The archive of the CMC must be impressive.

[@Billydeekidds]

You inspire me with the intellectual fullfilness of Islam.

[@786humaira1]

Sheikh Abdul Hakeem Murad is a real healer of hearts . Listening to him is an inspiration to rise and shine . May Allah give a long life to sheik

[@dawnsvideos6413]

This is sooooooo interesting! Thank you Shaykh Abdul Hakim

[@editionewigeweisheit5782]

Remarkable talk. Thank you.

[@sameednaama]

These lectures are amazing. Thanks a lot for making them available:)

[@ahmeddine]

Amazing series.

[@themooncaller]

This was excellent. I have heard the name before and wow nothing beyond that. Thoroughly enjoyed this video.

[@theobserver7639]

This series is incredible. Wish you had written a book on Paradigm of Leadership. Concentrating on almost 2 hours video between family and work often becomes a challenging task.

[@josephmuhammad1025]

Dear Shaikh, assalam alaikum, inshallah all is well. Thank you for your illuminating discourse. Alhamdillah you offered an insightful perspective on Idris Shah and brought to our attention the work of Shaikh Ahmed Bullock. May I suggest that you consider replacing parasitical with symbiotic at 30:50 in the presentation, as I am sure that our brothers in the restaurant trade were providing a service.

[@muslimphilosophy]

Training a next generation of Islamic thinkers is probably one of the main goals for muslim community in the next 40 years.

[@aishabaajamaal5046]

Thank you 🙏 sheikh And CMC.

[@alleballeism]

beautiful lighting in the background

[@johnbutt8852]

Interesting that Khalid Sheldrick was appointed to be Amir of the Uyghur Muslims around 1935. Somewhat earlier, though I am not sure of the date, an Uzbek by the name of Torajan Sabuni was accorded a similar accolade. He is famed as the author of the Seerat of the Holy Prophet, in Uzbek. The family of Torajan Sabuni is still very well known in Tashkent.

[@themooncaller]

Looking forward to your book too InshaAllah.

[@m.h.5929]

جزاك الله خيرا كثيرا جزاك الله خيرا كثيرا جزاك الله خيرا كثيرا

[@shaheedrehman7013]

Please tell me there is a potential episode in the pipeline on Malcolm X?

[@ahm2213]

I love this series alhamdulilah, may Allah accept from you Shaykh and from those involved in this series and He continue to bless you and all involved. Could you possibly do an episode about Shaykh Nazim al Qubrusi al Haqqani?

[@moonisali5296]

I had the honour of meeting with one of Shaykh Nazim's (q) close disciples in Germany, Shaykh Hassan Abdul Ahad Dyck (q). There I was astonished and very happy inside of my heart to see a thriving muslim community with a strong thrust on Shariah while practising the 'sober' tassawuf of the Naqshbandi methodology in the West of Germany. I had never seen such a beauty in my home place in the eastern sub-continent + central asian lands. I wish with my heart that Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad does an episode on Shaykh Nazim (q). There are so many of like us, who were not turned away at the door of the house of Shaykh Nazim (q). The renaissance of Islam in America and Europe is a reality that me and many like me feel and partake in each month with the beautiful muslim jama'ats here.

[@ferdoushossain2133]

Assalamualykum Are there books on the topics by shaykh Murad? This is an amazing lecture series!

[@JaefarSABNW]

Even if it is not wanting to fight with a Muslim, it s incredible just how much fighting and destruction that stops; even when the Islamic call to allow the safety of other religious communities and their sacred places are ignored. Truly, Islam transcends the nationalism and mere politics of the modern time.

[@rajaalbattat8271]

We love you in allah very much

[@johnbutt8852]

Not sure why Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad seems to have omitted this point, but Ahmad Bullock was not able to subsist from his book business in Oxford. For many years, he worked on the floor of the British Leyland plant in Cowley.

[@sonofJurell]

He did. Briefly. 15:06

[@iljasbaker9655]

I'm not sure he ever intended to subsist from his book business. I always thought it was his sideline. He showed me his stock one day and it was located in a not large room and the shelves weren't exactly overflowing.

[@miralabualjadail4206]

I think the word your looking for is he was a rebel and a super cool guy 😉 in other words, excuse my language, Shaykh Ahmed Bullock was a bad**s Allah yerhamo. Such a legend and awesome man.

[@TheUneducatedTeacher]

Asalamu Alaykum KM Hemmans the KZbinr

[@mustafahusainmomin471]

Shaykh Please deliver a lecture on Al Imam Ahmed Rida khan from Indian. Jzakallah

[@30251]

Alhamdulillah, this is a pleasant surprise. I thought this series concluded with Sh. Daryabadi's story. Is this a one-off or will there be more? I will be very grateful either way.

[@CambridgeMuslimCollege]

In sha Allah, there will be more to come! We aim to do a new Paradigms of Leadership lecture every few months, depending on Shaykh Abdal Hakim's availability.

[@30251]

@@CambridgeMuslimCollege Wonderful news. I'm looking forward to it. Jazakallah khair for your work.

[@user-sb4hj9kh2e]

@@CambridgeMuslimCollege good news!

[@Nihatuddin]

@@CambridgeMuslimCollege this compilation of lectures would make an excellent book

[@mohamedAli-tj1uf]

Can the shaykh come to Hyde park plz an clarify the misunderstandings there 🙏

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

I extract info from this book but I would like to know about the author. He could not be an anonymous. At least there at the cataloguing data provides his birthdate so that we could guess that this al-Ghazali is junior than the other famous al-Ghazali mentioned in a book written by Y. Q. (I read the translated one) I self-published book too. There my birthdate (1980- ). This means the writer is alive around the book is published. Many people hesitate about people knowing their birthdate. I am not. By next year I am 40+2 =42. Old.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Synthetic dyes.

[@ALiJ4LIFE]

57:40

[@ALiJ4LIFE]

42:45

[@MrResearcher122]

A slight dig at the sister,Meghan Markel, at 5: 19:). But what if the good Muslim, like many African American Muslims, believe in "woke" justice? If there are right sounding muslims,is it permissible for left sounding Muslims to counter claim?

[@Alejandro-te2nt]

alhamdulillah Islam predate left and right.

[@sadiqjaved2457]

Utterly sad story

[@zareenasaeed8880]

Depressing…must have been heart wrenching …sectarian conflict against the very spirit of Islam.

[@ny-ne6jq]

Malikies need only 12 for Jum3ah Shafies require 40

[@ShanksController7]

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