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Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • Beginning a new treatise: Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb's explanation of the word of Tawḥīd, Lā ilāha illAllāh • The word that distinguishes between disbelief and Islām, the word...

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Point 53: all of creation acts by Allāh's Will • Ibrāhīm's argument with the tyrant: "Allāh brings the sun from the east, so bring it from the west" • Splitting and differing occur by Allāh's universal Will (irādah kawniyyah)...

ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Fasting, a Ramaḍān three-day workshop shared between several teachers (session 1 of 10, part 2), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • The second ḥadīth of the sitting, from Ibn ʿUmar: "When you see it, fast, and when you see it, break your fast; and if it is hidden from you, complete the count" • T...

The wisdom behind the descent of Ādam (ʿalayhis-salām) from Paradise to the earth, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh), from Ibn al-Qayyim's Miftāḥ Dār as-Saʿādah (raḥimahullāh) • Every decree of Allāh carries a wisdom, whether or not we can see it, just as a car maker's choices have reasons the driver may not know • Tasting the toil and hardship of this world makes the believers valu...

Principles of the Salafi Methodology (Part 2), the conclusion of the lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) that began in Part 1 • Christianity as a dīn of irjāʾ: Paul as a Jahmī Murjiʾ, and the refutation of faith without works found even in the Book of James • How the innovators ruin the religion, and why a distorted, altered revelation cannot rectify a society • Salafīs call to...

Principles of the Salafi Methodology (Part 2), the conclusion of the lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) that began in Part 1 • Christianity as a dīn of irjāʾ: Paul as a Jahmī Murjiʾ, and the refutation of faith without works found even in the Book of James • How the innovators ruin the religion, and why a distorted, altered revelation cannot rectify a society • Salafīs call to...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • The slave's two great needs: tawḥīd and istighfār (seeking forgiveness) • Tawḥīd is the right of Allāh over His slaves, the purpose for which He created them: "I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me" (adh-Dhāriyāt 51:56) • Tawḥīd is the condition for deeds to be accepted: an act...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • The Salaf took great care over how they concluded their deeds at the end of Ramaḍān, following the example of the Prophet ﷺ (Shaykh al-Fawzān, hafidhahullāh) • "And those who give what they give while their hearts are fearful that they will return to their Lord": the believers fear that their deeds...

Explanation of the Book of Tawḥīd, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • Chapter 50 of Kitāb at-Tawḥīd on the verse: "But when He gave them a good child, they ascribed partners to Him in what He had given them" (al-Aʿrāf 7:190) • Naming someone "ʿAbd" of other than Allāh, such as ʿAbd al-Kaʿbah: minor shirk when only the name is intended, and major shirk when servitude is intend...

Explanation of the Book of Tawḥīd, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • Chapter 12 of Kitāb at-Tawḥīd: "From shirk is making a vow to other than Allāh", and the verse "They fulfil their vows" (al-Insān 76:7) • The meaning of a vow (nadhr) in the language and in the Sharīʿah: binding oneself to an act of worship that was not obligatory • Why making vows is prohibited: it burdens...

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • Completing the 15th ḥadīth, of Abū Hurayrah: "Whoever believes in Allāh and the Last Day, let him speak good or remain silent…", with the explanation of Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh) • A conditional sentence meant to encourage: "If you believe in Allāh and the Last Day, then speak good or r...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • The polytheists in the time of the Prophet ﷺ differed in what they worshipped, whether stones, trees, angels, the Prophets, the righteous, the sun or the moon, and he fought them all (Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān, hafidhahullāh) • Those who worship others besides Allāh can never agree on what to worship:...

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • Beginning a new treatise: Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb's explanation of the word of Tawḥīd, Lā ilāha illAllāh • The word that distinguishes between disbelief and Islām, the word...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • Allāh accepts only the religion of Islām: the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, understood upon the understanding of the Companions and the early generations, not what the innovators have changed, nor neglect and extremism • "Allāh is the protector of those who believe; He brings them out of the darknesses int...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • Zakāt al-Fiṭr is legislated at the end of Ramaḍān to purify the fasting person of lapses and sins, and to feed the poor (Shaykh al-Fawzān, hafidhahullāh) • It is obligatory on young and old, male and female, free and slave, and is given on behalf of oneself and those under one's care • The time for...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • Allāh ended the verses of fasting with iʿtikāf: "Do not approach them while you are in iʿtikāf in the masājid" • Iʿtikāf is staying in the masjid in obedience to Allāh: a sunnah, rewarded if done and without sin if left, established by the Qurʾān, the Sunnah and the consensus of the scholars (Shaykh...

Questions and answers after the lesson on Kitāb as-Sunnah of Sunan Abī Dāwūd, with Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) It opens with a discussion of the preceding lesson (the statement of Sayyid Quṭb on the khilāfah of ʿUthmān and ʿAlī, and the conditions for accepting narrations from an innovator), followed by the questions: 1. The ruling on a woman going to a women-only gym: uncovering...

Questions and answers with Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh), after the lesson on ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn 1. Advice following the recent passing of Shaykh al-Ithyūbī and Shaykh Ḥasan al-Bannā (raḥimahumallāh): take knowledge from the scholars while they are alive, be firm as Abū Bakr was at the death of the Prophet ﷺ ("Allāh is ever-living and does not die"), Allāh preserves His religion, and se...

Advice to a brother who had just embraced Islām, by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh) • Embracing Islām is a great blessing: it returns a person to the purpose of his creation, worshipping Allāh alone, and a creation that does not function according to its purpose suffers ill effects • Islām is the religion that Allāh has promised to preserve, perfect and free of contradiction: when trials co...

The Khawārij of Today – ISIS and the Warnings of the Messenger ﷺ, a lecture by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh) • Why young people are joining ISIS, Jabhat an-Nuṣrah and al-Qāʿidah, and what the Messenger ﷺ said about the foolish young men of the last days • The traits of the Khawārij from the aḥādīth, and how today's groups match them • The Dīn is complete; the verse of Sūrat al-Baqarah o...

40 Ḥadīth of Imām an-Nawawī (Islam Teesside), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • Continuing the 7th ḥadīth, of Tamīm ad-Dārī: "The religion is naṣīḥah", with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl ash-Shaykh (hafidhahullāh) • Recap: naṣīḥah to Allāh, His Book and His Messenger is fulfilling the rights owed to them, and naṣīḥah to the rulers includes obeying them in good, supplica...

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • "O you who believe, do not follow the footsteps of Shayṭān": Allāh addresses the believers, commanding what leads to Paradise and forbidding what leads to the Fire, with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) • Allāh is free of any need of His servants: if all of creation disbelie...

al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah, taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) • A new section: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's statement "We hold wiping over the khuffs, when travelling and when resident, as has come in the narration" • Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh): three days and nights for the traveller and a day and a night for the resident, if the socks were put on with wuḍūʾ; janābah still requires...

Advice to the children on seeking knowledge, a talk by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Taqwā is of three types: doing righteous actions, staying away from the ḥarām, and staying away from doubtful matters • Each type needs knowledge of the Qurʾān and the Sunnah: you cannot pray correctly without knowing wuḍūʾ and the way the Prophet ﷺ prayed • Knowing that Allāh exists is not enough...

The Last Ten Nights – Reward and Repentance, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh) • The last ten nights are the most virtuous and blessed part of the most virtuous month, containing Laylat al-Qadr • The ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhā): the Prophet ﷺ exerted himself in the last ten nights, revived the night, woke his family and tightened his waist-wrapper • Shaykh Ibn ʿU...