Asslamo Allaikum
It only came back after I heard Dr Israr Ahmed (he didn't mention it directly).
He is the ONLY person in the world today whose Tafseer of the Qur'aan and Ahadeeth makes sense of me (in terms of global situation and Muslim/Kuffar Problem, Mahdi, Isa etc.)
I know that he is NOT a Scholar/Shaykh/Maulana in the tradional sense of the word; but he is light years ahead in contextualisation (a word that most Brothers/Sisters don't even know the meaning of; let alone comprehend).
Scholar/Shaykh/Maulana's these days simply talk about Fiqh issues ONLY; which are no doubt important as we need to know about Halal/Haram; but there have been people in this Ummah whom Allah (SWT) gives vision (Firasa as mentioned in Hadeeth) and Dr Israr Ahmed is one of them (in my humble opinion)
That person is called Mujaddid. He is not so much baghee type of Mujaddid thoug.
Since I heard his first speech I am his mureed. (I dont believe in peeri mureedi anyway). But respect him very very much and wish if I happen to meet him then I kiss his hands like mureeds,
. I am worried that he is old now and has the waist problems too. I wonder what will happen is such a visionary person gets away from the world? The person who is most eagerly waiting for the Mahdi.
It is the very thought provoking speech of Dr. Israr Ahmed from which I came to know that it is Farz to have complete viel with Niqab for women. You might have seen his video speech about that.
Whenever I see such video about end of time or video of Dr. Israr Ahmed, every thing becomes evident and fresh , but then I forget many things, I have some memory problem
Anyway, I think you watch his videos by searching in the google videos. I used google videos for this purpose.
Ahmed Deedat was a very solid scholar on comparitive religions.
But I have not seen a living mufassir like Dr. Israr Ahmed. May Allah give him long life with health.
Brother have you seen his videos about shirk, Jihad and women in Islam? I hope you have seen more than that.
Wassalaam,
VE