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Preparation for Ramaḍān by Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Recap: the virtue of the Qurʾān and its revelation in Ramaḍān • Fasting as an act of gratitude for the revelation of the Qurʾān • Ḥadīth qudsī: "Every deed of the son of Ādam is for him, except fasting; it is for Me and I reward it" • Good deeds multiplied ten to seven hundred...

Staying firm after Ramaḍān, a lecture by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Remaining upright (istiqāmah) on obedience after Ramaḍān ends • Continuing the good deeds built up during the month • The three kinds of taqwā • Questions and answers, including on celebrating the Mawlid Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester, 2019

Preparation for Ramaḍān, from the words of Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Opens a short series welcoming Ramaḍān, after the 40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī was completed the week before • Shaykh al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): the Salaf asked Allāh to reach Ramaḍān, then to be aided in it, then for their deeds to be accepted • Ramaḍān is the m...

A lecture by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh), in collaboration with the teachers of Ummahātul Muʾminīn • "The religion is sincere advice": what naṣīḥah to the Book of Allāh entails • Shaykh al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): believing the Qurʾān is the Speech of Allāh, revealed and not created • How the Qurʾān becomes a proof for a person or a proof against him • The obligation to adhere to t...

Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • The ḥadīth of ʿUmar: actions are only by intentions – a foundation of the religion • Ikhlāṣ (sincerity) is one and the same as Tawḥīd al-Ulūhiyyah • "And they were not commanded except to worship Allāh, making the religion sincerely for Him" • The three people (the fighter, the scholar, the generous man) who sought the praise of peo...

Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • The ḥadīth: the strong believer is better and more beloved to Allāh than the weak believer • Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh): the strength meant is strength of Īmān, not of the body • Īmān according to Ahl as-Sunnah: belief of the heart, statement of the tongue and action of the limbs; it increases and decreases • The pillars of...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1447H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Ramaḍān is an opportunity to stop, reflect and bring ourselves to account - ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: "Bring yourselves to account before you are brought to account" - Don't be the one whose zeal fades after the first days; make the most of every day and night - None of us knows if this w...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Question: the claim that warning against the ḥizbī groups splits the ranks - The groups themselves caused the split by leaving the Book, the Sunnah and al-walāʾ wal-barāʾ -...

ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - The first lesson back after Ramaḍān, continuing the chapter of ghusl - Ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah: the Prophet's ﷺ ghusl from janābah, beginning with the hands and wuḍūʾ, then running the fingers through the h...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Question: groups who arrange voluntary fasts together so that others feel compelled to join - Making binding what Allāh did not make binding is among the most severe of thes...

ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Purification, with explanations taken from various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Continuing the chapter of ghusl - Ḥadīth of Umm Salamah: Umm Sulaym asks whether a woman must make ghusl after a wet dream - "Allāh is not shy of the truth": shyness (ḥayāʾ) in the creation, and as an...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - The second part of the answer: anāshīd, and the poetry that was recited in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ - Imām Aḥmad on chanting said to soften the heart: "It is bidʿah"; t...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Question: the spread of acting, plays and anāshīd among the youth and at summer camps, claimed to be a means of daʿwah - The questions were put to the Shaykh over twenty yea...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - The groups that branched off from the Ikhwān: the Quṭbiyyūn, who defend Sayyid Quṭb in truth and falsehood - "Shaykh Rabīʿ is not infallible": a true statement used to rejec...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - The groups: the Ikhwān al-Muslimīn, the followers of Ḥasan al-Bannā - Their negligence in tawḥīd al-ʿibādah; why "tawḥīd al-ḥākimiyyah" is not a further category - Their sil...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Second part of the question: the claim that the Committee of Senior Scholars holds the ideology of the Freemasons - Freemasonry calls to dropping the Sharīʿah and following...

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Question: the claim that the senior scholars do not understand current affairs (fiqh al-wāqiʿ) - The status of knowledge and its people: the scholars are the inheritors of t...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Recap of ribā: the six commodities, those measured by value (gold and silver) and those measured by weight - When trading the same commodity it must be equal and hand to hand, and when trad...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Sea creatures are lawful without slaughter, unless they live on land, and crabs are mentioned specifically - The two dead animals (fish and locusts) and the two bloods (liver and spleen) ar...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Recap of loans, ḥajr over the bankrupt and the foolish, ḥawālah, the guarantor and the collateral - Reconciliation over a debt: the creditor may waive part of it or allow part of it to be d...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Recap of ribā: the six commodities, those measured by value (gold and silver) and those measured by weight - When trading the same commodity it must be equal and hand to hand, and when trad...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - What can be slaughtered must be slaughtered, and game that cannot be caught is lawful when wounded, with six conditions - A hunting dog must be trained and sent by the hunter, and the virtu...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - The final chapter of the Book of Ḥajj: the ʿaqīqah is mentioned here because, like the uḍḥiyah and the hady, it is a slaughter - The ʿaqīqah is a Sunnah, and it is the slaughter itself, not...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - Recap of the three types of slaughter and which animal each is recommended for - Slaughtering a cow by naḥr or a camel by dhabḥ is still valid, as the distinction is only what is recommende...

ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bassām and Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī (raḥimahumallāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) - The start of Kitāb al-Aṭʿimah after the Book of Divorce: food is either from animals or from other than animals - The default for food is that it is permissible, except what is impure or ha...