Salem Al Amry – Lesson 85 Weekly Class Virtues of Islam
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The importance of Islam is discussed, including its source of pride and the need for people to be aware of its reality. The need for unity among Muslims is emphasized, and the importance of acceptance and obeyment is emphasized. The importance of unity among Muslims is emphasized, and the need for practical advice and guidance is emphasized. The division of religion among Muslims and the importance of avoiding negative consequences is emphasized, and the need for practical advice and guidance is emphasized.
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As-salamu alaikum.
Wa alaikum as-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
How are you sheikh?
Alhamdulillah.
Inshallah we'll get started with the class.
Dear respected students, may Allah bless you all
for your attendance.
Today we are covering the virtues of Islam
by Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab.
Just a quick reminder, please take notes, listen
attentively and send your questions to me over
the course of the lesson.
With that said, I'll hand it back to
the sheikh to start the class.
Inna hu man yahdihi Allahu fala mudhillah lah,
wa man yudhil fala hadih lah.
Wa ash'hadu an la ilaha illa Allah
wahdahu la sharika lah.
Wa ash'hadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh.
Amma ba'du fa inna astaghal hadith kitabullahi ta
'ala.
Wa khayran hadi hadi Muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wa
alayhi wa sallam.
Wa sharrul umuri muhdathatuha, wa kulla muhdathatin bid
'ah.
Wa kulla bid'atin dalalah.
Wa kulla dalalatin fin nara ma ba'd.
My dear brothers and sisters in Islam, today
is our weekly class Fadha'il al-Islam,
the virtues of Islam by Sheikh al-Imam
al-Mujaddid Muhammad al-Abdul Wahhab rahimahu Allah
ta'ala.
In the last session we talked about our
identity, and our identity, the followers of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, is Islam.
That is our identity.
And we continue insha'Allah.
Allahu amara ni bihinna al-sam'u wa
al-taa'a wa al-jihadu wa al
-hijrah wa al-jama'a.
Fa innahu man faraqa al-jama'a qayda
shibrin, wa qad khala'a ribqata al-Islami
min unqih, illa an yuradi'a.
Wa man da'a bi da'wa al
-jahiliyyah, fa innahu min jutha jahannam.
Fa qala rajulun ya Rasulullah, wa in salla
wa sama, qala wa in salla wa sama.
Fa da'u Allah alladhi samma'akum al
-muslimina wa al-mu'minina, ibad Allah.
Wawahu Ahmad wa-Tirmidhi wa qala hasanun sahih,
wa sahahahu al-albani.
Rahimahum allahu yami'a.
Al-Harith al-Ash'ari reported, and I
hope that you are taking notes.
This hadith is very important hadith.
It reported Allah's Messenger as saying, I command
you five things to maintain.
The five things to maintain the jama'a,
maintain the unity of the ummah.
To listen, to obey, to emigrate, and to
fight in Allah's path.
He who secedes from the community as much
as Span has cast off the tie of
Islam from his neck, unless he returns.
And he who summons or calls to what
the pre-Islamic people believe belongs to the
assemblies of Jahannam, even if he fasts, prays,
and asserts that he is a Muslim.
Reported by Ahmad in his Musnad, Tirmidhi in
his Sunan, and who graded it as hasan,
and also authenticated by Sheikh al-Albani, may
Allah's mercy be upon all of them.
Now, let us ponder upon this beautiful hadith.
Here the Prophet said, I command you five
things to do.
Number one, that Allah commanded his Prophet to
tell us.
Number one, you hear.
What does it mean?
As-Samad.
Samad, that means you hear attentively the commands
from those in authority, when they, whether you're
ameer, you're ruler, you're king, commands you.
As long as he doesn't command you to
do something haram, you have to hear.
You see the problem with many of us
Muslims, we do not abide by what Allah
says and what the Prophet says.
This is the problem.
There is no, when the commands comes from
Allah and his Messenger, you have no choice.
You have no choice whatsoever, except to say,
I hear and I obey.
This is the meaning of Islam, submission.
It's not befitting a believing man or a
believing woman when Allah, decides a matter, decrees
a matter, and His Prophet to have any
choice or have any option.
And the famous hadith of al-Irbaad ibn
Sariyya, which many of you, they know about
it.
Towards the end, the Prophet, he gave a
powerful speech to the Sahaba, touched their hearts,
so much so, they felt that the Prophet
is telling them goodbye.
He's leaving them.
So they asked him, advise us, O Prophet
of Allah.
This is a farewell speech.
He told them, my advice for you, taqwa
Allah, fearing Allah.
And to hear and to obey.
You listen to what is said to you,
and then you obey and you implement what
is requested from you.
Even if your Amir is a slave from
Abyssinia.
As long as he does not ask you
to do something haram, you have to hear
and obey.
That was the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
told the Sahaba.
That was the last piece of advice he
gave them.
And then he told them, Whomever and whoever
lives longer from among you, he will see
a lot of changes.
Things will change after I leave you.
And you will see things that differ from
what you have today.
When you see these changes, what should you
do?
He told them.
Follow my sunnah and the sunnah of the
guided case.
And be aware of invented matters in the
deen.
If the invented matter in the deen is
a form of misguidance, and every misguidance leads
to the hellfire.
So in the hadith of Al-Irbaad, this
hadith, he told them, you hear and you
obey.
You listen and you obey.
Even if your Amir is a slave from
Abyssinia.
So here, the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the first thing he mentioned, that Allah commanded
him to tell his ummah, As-sama, you
hear, you follow the commands.
Because without this obedience and listening to those
who are in authority, there will be chaos.
Because they will not be there a system
to follow.
Everyone, no rule, it will be just the
law and the law of the jungle.
Everyone wants to follow his own whims and
desires.
Islam is not like that.
The ummah, the unity of the ummah is
the most important thing.
And the ummah should not be split and
should not be divided.
And that's always there.
Should be there in the mind of every
Muslim.
Don't you know, my dear brothers and sisters,
the burial of the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, was delayed.
Delayed the burial of the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, because they were trying
to contain and avoid any split.
When the Ansar met in Saqifat Bani Sa
'idah, and they were asking that the Khalifa
should be from among them.
So Sayyidina Abu Bakr has to rush to
them with Sayyidina Umar and to remind them
and he mentioned to them that the Khalifa
should be only from Qurayn.
They realized that they were mistaken and they
gave the bay'ah, the unity of the
ummah.
The Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said, if
the bay'ah is given to one Khalifa,
Muslim agreed and gave him the bay'ah.
So now all the Muslims, they gave their
allegiance and the pledge to this Khalifa.
Then, after that, another Khalifa appeared.
Another person came and said, I am the
Khalifa.
What the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said?
He said, Touch his throat, irrespective of
who he was.
Because now he is coming to split the
ummah and divide the ummah.
So listen to this hadith.
Five things Allah commanded me to tell you.
Assam, you hear, you listen.
And then you obey.
You obey the one who is in authority
as long as he doesn't command you and
ask you to do something haram.
Because by hearing and obeying things, order, the
order will be established.
There will be order.
Now, chaos.
Assam, you hear, you listen.
And Jihad, striving in the cause of Allah.
I command you.
These things Allah told me to inform you.
And to emigrate from Makkah to Medina.
It was mandatory, obligatory.
But after the conquest of Makkah, the hijrah
from Makkah to Medina was not, was obligated
and it's not mandatory or obligatory anymore.
Because Makkah now is a place, is Dar
al-Islam, is the land of Islam.
Wal jama'a.
So Assam, you hear, you obey.
Wal jihad, the jihad and the belief of
Ahl as-Sunnah, al jihad.
Okay.
If the ruler announced jihad, even if he
is not pious, the imam, the ruler is
not pious, is not righteous, but he announced
the jihad, the Muslims, they fight along with
him.
Read the history of the Muslims.
They fought with many of the rulers who
were not role models, because you have to
defend the ummah, the wickedness or the impiety
of this ruler, that will harm him.
Not the ummah, that is something personal.
He is the one who is going to
be held accountable for Allah.
But the unity of the ummah is very
important.
And this is what many Muslims, and especially
the youth, they don't see the consequences.
The enemies of Islam, they are trying to
divide all the Muslims.
Because they know when the Muslims are divided,
they are weak.
So we will eat them one by one,
one by one.
Anyone who is strong will make him weak.
Through the Muslims, the ignorant Muslims, I hope
you are following and know what I'm saying.
And then you became weak, he became weak,
another one is weak, and divided, then it
is easy for them, divide and rule.
But if you are together, difficult for them.
Well, jama'ah, the unity, and jihad, and
when, and the Muslims, they should put their
hands together against their enemy.
And they should forget about their own internal
differences.
Even if these issues are issues of aqeedah,
read our history.
Some of the rulers, they were having wrong
aqeedah.
Yet the Muslims, they followed them when they
announced the jihad.
Ma'mun, the Ameen, Al-Mu'tasim, they
believed that the Quran is created, the aqeedah
of the Mu'tazila.
Did the Salaf leave them and say we
will not fight with you?
No, they fought along with them, and they
followed them.
Against the enemy of the deen.
Imam Ahmad was asked, if there are two
rulers, one of them is pious and righteous,
but he is weak, weak.
He doesn't have a strong army, weak, but
he is pious and righteous.
And another one, he is powerful and strong,
and he is a leader, but he is
not pious.
Which one you will choose to fight with?
He said, I will fight with the one
who is powerful and strong, though he is
impious and lacks righteousness.
Because his impiety and his lack of righteousness
harms no one but himself, it will harm
him.
But his strength and power is for the
ummah, for the ummah.
See the fiqh of Imam Ahmad, see the
fiqh of Imam Ahmad, because the
unity of the ummah This is a red
line, no compromisation about it, no compromisation whatsoever.
You know when Sayyidina Uthman r.a in
the hajj in Mina, he prayed dhuhr for
raka'ah, asr for raka'ah, isha for
raka'ah, no shortening.
That was his ijtihad, r.a, because he
has family in Makkah, so he thought, I
am resident, I am not a traveler, though
the sunnah is to shorten.
The Prophet s.a.w., he shortened during
the hajj, the dhuhr, asr, and isha.
Ibn Mas'ud, he objected and he said
this is not the sunnah.
But then the jama'ah started, he got
up and he joined the jama'ah, praying
behind Uthman for raka'ah.
Though he objected and said this is not
the sunnah, but he prayed behind him.
After the salah, he was asked, you said
and you objected to what Uthman did, and
just then you joined and prayed behind him.
See what Ibn Mas'ud said, see the
understanding of the sahaba.
What did he say?
Al khilafu sharrun, difference, division,
disagreement is evil.
Because imagine Ibn Mas'ud decided not to
pray behind Uthman.
There will be some Muslims also follow Ibn
Mas'ud.
So what will happen to the sahaba?
Division.
Ibn Mas'ud, that was fixed in his
mind, the unity.
Always, you don't cause any division.
That's how the Prophet ï·º brought them up
and that's how he taught them.
These are the five things.
Then the Prophet ï·º said something.
Listen to this.
He who secedes, separates
himself from the jama'ah, from the ummah,
from the community.
Innahu man faraqal jama'ata qayyida shibrin.
This is the shibrin, span.
To go a distance just of one span
from the group, from the jama'ah, from
the community, from the ummah, qayyida shibrin, faqad
khal'a ribqat al islami min anuqih.
La ilaha illallah.
If someone leaves the jama'ah, the Prophet
ï·º, even if it is just for a
small distance, the Prophet ï·º said he has
thrown away, cast off the tie of Islam,
the bondage of Islam from his neck.
That means he has become an apostate from
his neck unless he returns, till he comes
back to the jama'ah.
That's why the Prophet ï·º said la yahilu
damum ri'in muslim illa bi'ihda salat.
The blood of a Muslim will not become
permissible to be spilt, Muslim
to be killed, except under three conditions.
Only three conditions.
La yahilu damum ri'in muslim.
Without these three conditions, his blood is sacred,
inviolable.
An-nafsu bi'n-nafs.
If a Muslim kills another Muslim, not by
mistake, deliberately, on purpose, then the retaliation, then
the capital punishment, he should be killed.
Until the heirs and the members of the
family of the one who was killed, the
murderer, forgives or accepts the blood money.
An-nafsu bi'n-nafs.
Number two, a thayib uz-zani.
A married man or a married woman committed
zina.
He or she should be stoned to death.
Thirdly, at-tariq li-deena al-mufariq li
-l-jama'ah.
He who left the jama'ah, he who
left the deen.
So here the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said, he who secedes, separates himself from the
ummah as much as a span he has
cast off, thrown off, he got rid of
Islam.
And this is who he turns if he
repents.
Fa-qad khala'a ribqa al-Islami min
'uniquh, illa anju waj'a.
Wa man da'a bi-da'wa al
-jahiliyyah fa-innahum min jutha jahannam.
He who calls for jahiliyyah, invites the people
to follow the jahiliyyah and the practices of
the days before Islam.
And the people, they believed him and followed
him.
Then he will be, okay, thrown and cast.
And he will be among the inmates, the
inmates, the inmates, the assemblies of jahannam.
Even if he fasts, wa-in salla, because
now he left the jama'a.
Wa-in salla, even if he prays and
fasts and asserts that he is a Muslim.
This hadith is very scary.
Keep this hadith in mind all the time.
Another hadith reported by Abu Dharr, radiallahu anhu,
and it is in Sunan Abu Dawood, Sunan
Ahmad, Sunan Ibn Abi Asun, authenticated by Sheikh
Albani.
The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, Man
faraqa al-jama'a taqayda shibrin fa-qad
khala'a ribqa al-Islami min'uniquh.
He who separates himself, a hand bleeds from
the community, or one span, has cut off
the rope of Islam from his neck.
Wa-fi s-sahih, an-Nabi Huraira, radiallahu
anhu, an-Nabi, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, qal,
man kharaja an al-taa'a wa faraqa
al-jama'a wa mat fa-meetatuhu meetatan
jahiliya.
Abu Huraira reported, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, said, He who rebels against, obedient to
the ruler, he revolts, abandons the Muslim
ummah, community, and then dies.
His death will be as if he died
at the time of jahiliya, before Islam.
That is, his death will be like that.
This is al-sahih imam Muslim.
Also, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said,
Abi da'wa al-jahiliya wa ana bayna
abhurikum.
The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, You
call to, or you go back to the
call of jahiliya while I am present in
your midst, among you.
The background is that the Ansar, Aws
al-Khazraj, were sitting, and they were happy,
and the atmosphere was so cozy, brotherly atmosphere.
So, one of the non-Muslims passed by
them, and he did reply to that gathering,
brotherly gathering, and this is the case always.
They don't want you to come together, and
we Muslims, out of our ignorance and naivety,
and sometimes stupidity, we held them and paved
the way for them, and they used us.
So, this non-Muslim, when he saw that,
he didn't like it.
So, what to do?
He reminded the Ansar, Aws al-Khazraj, and
they were cousins, about the day of the
battle, one of the battles that happened between
them before Islam, the day of Bu'ath.
So, he triggered the baton of jahiliya, the
remnants of jahiliya.
So, now the Aws became one side, the
Khazraj one side, and they pulled their swords,
and they were ready to fight each other.
One of the Sahaba ran to the Basra
side, and he came, and he said, Still,
you have remnants of jahiliya within you, yourselves,
and you remember the jahiliya, and you defend
the call of jahiliya?
Leave the jahiliya, and the call to jahiliya,
leave it!
It is rotten, stinky, you are brothers, you
are Muslims.
They came to their senses, they realized that
they were fooled, and they regretted it.
This is the Kunya of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn
Taymiyyah said, Anything that
takes you away from what Islam calls, or
anything that goes against the call of Islam
and the Quran, or contends and opposes the
Islamic teachings and what the Quran teaches, min
nasabin the lineage, you start saying, I am
from this tribe or that tribe.
This is jahiliya, when you start boasting, we
are the nobles, we are from this class,
so you are boasting of your lineage and
your ancestors.
We are from this country, we are Arabs,
we are this, we are that, we are
from this school, all
these things are prohibited and haram, and from
the practices of the days of ignorance.
So my dear brothers and sisters, we are
Muslims, so let us stick to our Islam
and leave the jahiliya.
Then the author Rahimullah said, Allah
said, O
believers, enter into Islam wholeheartedly, wholeheartedly, totally, total
submission, this is the Islam, submission
to what Allah has said.
We are Muslims, so whatever Islam says, we
hear and we obey, we hear and we
obey, we don't follow the small idols we
have, the ego, the hawa, the whims and
desires, no.
Allah said, finish, Islam is saying this, that's
it.
O believers, enter into Islam wholeheartedly, we
don't pick and choose, no, whatever Allah says,
we accept it.
Not this is okay, this portion of Islam,
I accept, that one, no, no.
For you who believe, enter into Islam wholeheartedly,
that's the meaning of an Islam.
And we invite the people to enter into
this Islam, because it's the only way of
salvation, and we Muslims are not selfish, we
want everyone to enter paradise.
That's why we have a duty to share
this rahmah, this mercy with mankind.
You are the best ummah, community, nation, ever,
raised and sent forth for mankind, because you
command and you enjoin what is right, and
forbid what is evil, and you believe in
Allah.
Say, this is my way, what is my
way?
Calling to Allah, inviting people to the guidance.
Don't you see, subhanAllah, many people now becoming
Muslims?
When they started reading the Quran, this shows
what?
This shows that we as Muslims, we are
not doing, we're not doing our duty, which
is the dawah.
How many thousands and maybe millions, millions, no
doubt, of people died as non-Muslims.
Who is responsible?
The Muslims, who will be held accountable.
Because they failed, failed to deliver the message.
When the Prophet ï·º told the sahaba on
the plane of Arafat, on the day of
Arafat, the farewell speech, the farewell pilgrimage, those
who are present should carry and convey the
message to those who are absent.
The sahaba understood that very well.
Handfuls of them, few of them died within
Arabia, the rest of them outside Arabia.
Doing what?
Taking the message for Islam.
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, old man, he didn't
stay behind.
When the Muslims went to open Constantinople, and
his grave is there, buried at the wall
of Constantinople.
So we as Muslims, we have a heavy
burden on our shoulders to teach the people,
to share with them.
People, they are reading the Qur'an and
they are crying, crying, because
this is what they were looking for.
And no one approached them.
This is our Islam, justice, fairness.
He mentioned in his book, Minhaj al-Sunnah,
the methodology of Sunnah.
He said, Many Muslims who
are innovators, they are not presenting
the correct deen, the correct teachings of Islam.
But they are Muslims, and they have a
lot of misconceptions and innovations they invented and
added into the deen, but they are still
Muslims.
They went to the land of the Christians,
and they gave da'wah, and many of
the non-Muslims became Muslims.
And he said, and this is better for
the non-Muslims, to become a Muslim who
is deviant than to die as a kafir.
No doubt, at least now he became wahid,
a monotheist, believing in the oneness of Allah.
Also Allah said, Have
you, O Prophet, have you
not seen those who claim they believe in
what has been revealed to you, and what
was revealed before you?
They claim, they claim.
Yet, they seek guidance elsewhere.
So the true Islam that you submit to
what the Prophet ï·º gave you, what the
Prophet ï·º taught you, what the Prophet ï·º
called you to.
Otherwise, if you are not doing that, you
just claim that you believe, that you believe.
Allah said, Those who claim, they are not
truthful.
That's what they claim, that's what they say
by their tongues.
But what is there in their heart is
totally different.
So they are not true believers.
Have you, O Prophet, not seen those who
claim they believe in what has been revealed
to you, and what was revealed before you?
And yet they don't follow you.
How come?
You are a Muslim, then you follow what
Allah said.
Also Allah said, that's why, my dear brothers
and sisters, the concepts are not clear in
the minds of many Muslims.
I am a Muslim, but no submission.
I will not submit.
Doesn't work that way.
Muslim, finished.
I submit to what Allah said.
And that's what the Prophet ï·º worked on,
in calculating and instilling these basic concepts in
the hearts of the Sahaba.
And that changed their entire being.
In one of the battles, I think the
battle of Uhud, because, you know, many of
the Sahaba were martyred.
So a woman was coming to see the
dead, the martyrs.
And, you know, blood, and some of them
were disfigured, like Hamza, his nose was amputated,
cut.
So the Prophet ï·º, he didn't want the
woman to see such horrible scenes.
So he saw her running towards him, to
the place, towards the area.
So he told them, the woman, stop her!
The Sahaba, they tried to stop her, they
couldn't.
If anyone wants to stop her, she puts
them away, she puts them away.
And she's running.
So one of the Sahaba told her, the
Prophet is telling you, stop!
Don't move!
Immediately, on the spot, she stopped.
This is the Islam.
The moment you heard, Allah's Prophet ï·º is
telling you, don't move!
She stopped.
This is Islam.
We hear and we obey.
No argument.
Allah said, we hear and we obey.
The Prophet said, we obey.
We hear and we obey.
Also, Allah ï·» said, in surah Ali Imran,
ayah number 106.
On that day, some faces will be bright
while others will be gloomy.
May Allah make our faces bright and full
of light on that day.
The Day of Resurrection, the
faces of the disbelievers, the hypocrites, will be
dark, covered with dust, gloomy, sadness.
You read the sadness on their faces.
On that day, some faces will be white,
shining, bright, while others gloomy.
Ibn Abbas, the interpreter of the Qur'an,
said regarding the tafsir of this ayah, listen
to this, so
the faces of the people of sunnah, the
people who follow the Qur'an and the
sunnah, the people who listen to what the
Prophet ï·º told them and maintain the unity
of the ummah, their faces will be bright.
The ones who follow the sunnah and maintain
the unity of the ummah.
The people who are innovators, invented matters in
the deen and added things into the deen,
and of course, the people of bid'ah
are divided among themselves.
Their faces will be dark and gloomy.
Dark and gloomy.
Another beautiful hadith, Even
if one of them came to his ummah
openly, there was in his ummah someone who
would do that.
This is in the termini.
And the continuation of the hadith, Arabic Let
us reflect on this beautiful hadith.
So the Prophet ï·º is telling the Muslims
that what happened to the Israelites will happen
to you.
Exactly.
Bit by bit.
Even if * is committed, you will find
among the Muslims who commit * to sleep
with a woman who is one of your
mahram.
And it is happening.
There are cases.
And he did mention that the Israelites were
divided into 71 sects, Christians
72, this ummah into 73.
Only one will be delivered, and when he
was asked about this group, the safe sect
that will be delivered, he said Arabic What
I am upon today and what you are
upon today.
I am upon and what my companions are
upon.
That is the Islam.
At that time, 1400 years ago, if you
are following the Islam that was taught by
the Prophet ï·º to his companions, then you
will be, insha'Allah, delivered and you will
be saved from the hellfire.
That is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
warned us when he said, Arabic Whoever
contends, opposes, Arabic This
is in surat an-Nisa ayah 115.
Arabic After the guidance, the deen was made
clear to him.
Arabic And he adopts and follows other than
the path and the way of the mu'mineen.
And the mu'mineen here, definitely the sahaba.
When this ayah came down, it is not
talking about the people of the scriptures, not
talking about the Zoroastrians or the pagans.
It talks about the sahaba themselves.
So if you follow a way other than
the way of the sahaba, Arabic We shall
leave him in the way he has chosen.
Arabic And we will cast him into the
hellfire.
Arabic We will make him feel, experience, taste
the chastisement and the painful punishment in the
hellfire.
Arabic What a horrible abode, what an evil
destination.
May Allah save us from going astray.
And may Allah keep us to remain steadfast
on the path of the Prophet and his
companions.
And may Allah give us the ability to
maintain the unity of our ummah.
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala unite
our ummah with the haqq and unite our
hearts with the haqq.
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep
us to remain steadfast on this beautiful deed.
Until we breathe our last and meet our
Rabb and find him pleased with all of
us.
Ameen.
And may Allah forgive us our faults and
mistakes and ignorance.
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless
us with the beneficial and holy abode of
deeds.
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless
you and bless your family and reward you
immensely for your patience and attendance.
BarakAllahu feekum.
JazakumAllahu khaira.
Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Ameen.
JazakAllah khairan.
We have received a couple of questions, Sheikh.
So let me know when you're ready.
Inshallah.
Without posting them.
Inshallah.
Have you received the first question?
One minute.
Okay, go ahead.
Read.
So question number one says, Sheikh Al-Islam
Ibn Damiyyah said, Some of the great people
we are talking about now who died may
already be in Jannah.
What's the meaning of this statement and how
is it similar to his other statement?
If I say what my opponents are saying,
then I will become a kafir.
I heard in one of Sheikh's classes that
both of these are similar statements.
Yes, this is what Ibn Taymiyyah said.
My dear brothers and sisters, if you know
Arabic, read the books of Ibn Taymiyyah.
You will see the ilm.
And you will see the justice and the
firmness when you are talking about people who
disagree with you.
So here when he said, We are talking
about people who
passed away.
And perhaps they are already in Jannah.
And we are talking about them and warning
the people not to read their books, etc.
Why?
Because you have to understand one thing.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is adl, just.
If a person tried his best and
he thought what he was doing is correct
and he was sincere, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala will not punish him.
It's up to Allah to punish him or
not.
But there is a leeway of forgiveness.
Because he didn't, it never crossed his mind
to go against the sunnah or to go
against the truth, no.
For example, because he was talking about the
sha'ira, many of the ulama who passed
away.
And they made some ta'weel and the
sifat of Allah, etc.
What was their intention?
Their intention that due to their understanding, which
was of course wrong understanding, that if we
take these verses literally, this will
lead to that the people will become anthropomorphic
or likening Allah and making Allah's attributes similar
to the attributes of the human being.
So for that reason, we have to explain
these attributes metaphorically to avoid that.
That is actually their intention.
Of course, they were mistaken and that's not
the right approach and that's not the way
of the setup.
But that was their intention.
So he's talking about such category of the
people, of ulama, towering figures, and they had
made some issues of the ta'weel and
the sifat of Allah.
Or they said things which are wrong, they
were mistaken.
So that's what he's saying.
He said perhaps they're already in the jannah.
Allah forgave them and forgave their mistakes with
the good things because they did good things.
They wrote many books that we are still
today benefiting from these books.
Yet, they left legacy behind.
So Ibn Taymiyyah was talking about the legacy.
And this is actually a sign of his
love for them.
He didn't want them to receive sins and
to be punished because the people are following
the things that they said which were wrong
and that people will continue following them.
So he's warning the people and he's critiquing
their legacy so that they will not be
punished and they will not be held accountable
before Allah.
So that's why he said perhaps they're already
in the jannah.
Yet, we are talking about them.
The same thing when he said to those
asha'ira with him who are saying things
without thinking of what will be drawn from
such a statement.
For example, you see the asha'ira, they
are saying things about the speech of Allah,
the Quran.
The mu'tazila, they say the Quran is created.
Asha'ira, they are saying it is not,
they don't use the word created but something
similar.
They say, ibar a'an kalam illahi an
-nafsi, which means Allah didn't talk, Allah didn't
speak.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says clearly
that wa kalam allahu musa takliman, Allah spoke
to Moses.
This is very dangerous.
But they don't know what will be based
and drawn from such erroneous statements.
Or when they are saying Allah is neither
inside the world nor outside the world.
Neither inside the creation nor outside the creation.
And they think by that they are actually
actualizing tawheed and attributing perfection to Allah.
They didn't know that such a statement leads
to the conclusion that Allah doesn't exist.
Because Allah, if he is not outside the
creation, nor inside, so where is he?
He doesn't exist.
It only exists in the mind as an
abstract concept.
But there is no real existence for him
outside.
It's only in the mind.
The haqeetah, the reality that there is a
true existence of Allah.
And there is arsh and person of Allah,
abzawajal.
And he was.
He is the first and the last and
he is above everything.
And he is closer to you than anything.
So all the creation was not there.
Then Allah created the creation.
So now you have the creator and creation.
So where is the creation with respect to
the creator?
There are only three possibilities.
Either the creation inside the creator.
That's one.
Creation inside the creator.
He created us inside himself.
Audhu Billah.
This is kufr.
Second thing.
The creator inside the creation.
So he created the creation, then he entered
into the creation.
And if you accept this, this is pantheism.
That whatever you see is God.
And this is kufr.
So what remained?
He created the creation outside himself.
And he is separate from the creation.
And he is above all his creation.
And this is the belief of ahlus sunnah
wal jamaah.
The belief of the sahaba.
The belief of the salaf.
When they say Allah is samaa.
And when they say samaa, they mean the
absolute highness of Allah.
Not one of the seven permanents.
Because these are created.
That's why Imam Abu Hanifa said, when he
was asked, if someone says I don't know
whether Allah is in heaven, or on the
earth, he said he is kafir.
Imam Abu Hanifa said.
Anyone says this, he is kafir.
Because Allah said, Allah, the most merciful, the
beneficent, rose above the mighty throne.
Then the questioner said, if he said yes,
I accept that Allah rose above the mighty
throne, but I don't know where the throne
is.
He said he is a kafir.
Because the throne is in heaven.
In the absolute highness.
So every time here, when he was arguing
with those ulama, who say such statements without
thinking of what these statements will lead to,
he told them, if I say what you
are saying, I will become kafir.
Because I know the consequences.
But I cannot label you as disbelievers.
Because you didn't mean what these statements will
lead to.
I hope this is clear to the questioner.
And to all of you.
Next question.
The next question.
It's easier to be steadfast in times of
ease.
How best can we remain steadfast in times
of trials when we are tested?
Please advise.
Okay, yes, that is true.
When things are nice and cool, everyone is
steadfast.
But the moment we are put on the
hotspot, through the test, may Allah keep us
steadfast.
Only Allah is the one who is going
to keep the person steadfast.
We don't know.
The hearts, they keep flipping.
Turning upside down.
We don't know.
That's why the dua, O you who change
it and flips the hearts and the sides,
keep our hearts fast and stay fast and
remain on the heart.
The dua, no one should say, I will
pass the test with flying colours.
No one.
And we should not wish for the ibtila.
No.
You should not wish to meet your enemies.
Because if you meet your enemies, then be
steadfast.
So don't flex your muscles.
Always ask Allah for safety.
O Allah, save me from the fitna.
And you should not look for the the
tribulations and the afflictions.
No, try to avoid it.
If there is this, and the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam says, fitna ka qitla al
-layl al-wudhl.
The fitna now are unfolding one after the
other.
And each one will be greater and bigger
than the previous one.
That this calamity makes the the latcha makes
the former trivial.
Can you understand?
Are you following?
The latcha will make the former trivial.
Because the latcha one, the late one, is
far greater than the calamity that preceded it.
So qitla al-layl al-wudhl, like the
different layers of darkness, batches
of darkness.
So that's why always keep asking and begging
Allah in your sujood to keep you remain
steadfast on the haqq, on the deen, the
dua, and avoiding the fitna, and do not
go to places where there are fitna, etc.
Next question please.
May Allah save us from...
Barakallahu feekum.
The next question.
In which paradise was Adam alayhi salam?
Someone said that he was here on earth.
In which paradise was Adam?
Adam was buried on the earth.
He died on earth, no doubt.
Like Musa died on earth.
And they are buried on the earth.
Of course there are souls, different souls, other
than Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
Next question.
Barakallahu feekum.
The next question.
If you feel really stressed in life and
feel it's too much yet and can't cope
and tell Allah it's too much pain and
you know that Allah only burdens you whatever
you can take, so how can you stay
focused if it's too much physically, emotionally, and
psychologically, and you can't go on anymore?
Let me read it.
If you feel really stressed in life and
feel it is too much yet and cannot
cope and tell Allah it is too much
pain and you think Allah only burdens you
whatever you can take, so how can you
stay focused if it is too much physically,
emotionally, and psychologically, and you can't go on
anymore?
First of all, my advice for you, brothers
and sisters.
You try to, many of the scenes you
see on the media, they are really painful.
So try to avoid that.
You know what is happening to your brothers
and sisters, so just keep engaged in ibadah
and dua for them.
Because some people, such scenes affect them.
And the effect will be negative, not positive.
The positive effect is that you come back
to Allah, you repent, you make tawbah, and
you become strong.
But some people, listen to me, they behave
like the alcoholic.
You know a person who is alcoholic, why
did he become alcoholic?
When he faces problems, he has problems, maybe
financial, marital, so he wants to forget his
problem.
So he takes drugs, or drinks wine, alcohol,
so that for a while he will forget
about his problem.
But his problems are there, are not solved.
So when the effect and the influence of
alcohol finishes, his problem is there facing him,
and his life becomes more miserable.
So some Muslims, when they are beaten, and
some calamities hit the Muslims, and catastrophes, instead
of repenting, and coming and turning to Allah,
they go doing something haraam.
Watching movies, anything, anything, just to forget about
these things.
Now, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you
see my dear brothers and sisters, what is
happening to the Muslim ummah, does Allah, does
He hate the Muslims?
No.
Definitely.
But He wants them to repent.
He wants them to come back to Him.
So He tests us.
He hits us with calamities.
So that we wake up and come back
and repent and turn to Him.
And there is a beautiful hadith, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, that the tribulations
and the calamities that hit this ummah, that
is it.
That is their punishment in the dunya.
Their punishment in the dunya.
So Allah hastens their punishment, so that they
will not be punished in the hereafter.
So it is win-win.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
said also, Ibadah,
doing ibadah, praying, fasting, when there are turmoil,
calamities, afflictions, it is just like making hijrah
to me in Medina.
So a situation like what we are going
through should make us intensify our ibadah, repent,
get closer, become more righteous and more pious.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ease the
affairs of the ummah and may Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala unite our ummah.
And make our ummah always victorious.
Ameen.
I hope it is clear to the questioner
inshallah.
Next question.
Ameen.
The next question, how do you advise someone
who justifies their wrongdoing by saying Allah is
ghafoor raheem and doesn't think he's also severe
in punishment?
Because shaitan is playing with him or her.
Shaitan is pulling his leg or her leg.
Yes, Allah is ghafoor raheem and shidid al
-iqab, why you forgot that?
Shidid al-iqab, severe in punishment.
So you should not trivialize your sin.
You should not treat your sins lightly.
Treating one's sins lightly is a sign of
hypocrisy.
The sahabi used to say, tell his students,
the tabi'een, you are doing things and
you consider them light.
Like a fly fell in the nose of
one of you and he did like this.
You just treat your sins like a fly,
lightly.
These sins we used to consider them at
the time of the sahabi as a mountain
is going to fall on the head of
one of us.
So the stronger the iman, the more sensitive
the heart will become and a person will,
the sanctification and the glorification of Allah in
his heart increases.
The ulama they said, do not look to
the magnitude of the sin, but look to
whom did you disobey.
You disobeyed Allah.
So if you are treating your sins lightly,
that means you don't care about Allah.
No respect, no glorification, no ta'deem.
Allah loves to be glorified and he loves
to be feared.
Fear Allah as he must be feared.
So my dear questioner, don't let the shaitan
play with you and pull your leg because
this will lead that you treat your sins
lightly and then the haram will not affect
you.
You enjoy the haram.
So you will not think of repenting and
you will die like that.
If the sin doesn't cause pain in your
heart and the pinch of the remorse and
regret is not there, hurry up and wake
up and return to Allah because this is
a sign that your heart is dead.
May Allah save us from going astray.
Next question.
Ameen.
BarakAllahu feekum.
The next question.
What situation can jihad become wajib?
And can we say only when Muslims are
defending themselves and being told you can't be
Muslims or told you can't practice your religion?
The jihad when Muslims are
attacked by their enemies and they are not
able to defend themselves then it becomes obligatory
on those Muslims next to them and it
will go like that.
And let us be practical my dear brothers
and sisters.
See the situation of our ummah.
Our ummah is divided among themselves.
So please come down to earth and let
us be idealistic, realistic rather than idealistic and
pray for your ummah and pray for the
unity of your ummah.
Because if the Muslims are one hand no
one will dare to do anything to them.
But we are divided among ourselves.
Divided.
That's the problem.
That's the problem.
We are weak.
Allah says Hold all of you together to
the rope of Allah.
Are we?
Do not be divided among yourselves so your
strength leaves you.
We are divided among ourselves.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said He
said He said
the time will come when the nations, the
non-believers will be calling each other against
you Muslims just in the same way the
eaters who are around the platter eating, those
eaters around the platter are calling each other
Come, come, have a bite.
Have a bite.
Have a morsel.
We are the platter.
The Islamic world is the platter and everyone
wants to take a bite.
So we have to come back to Allah.
Then Allah will be on our side and
we will have the upper hand.
And you start by yourself.
Repent and become a true Muslim.
And each one of us should repent and
become a true Muslim.
Then the help will come from Allah.
Next question, please.
We have a person who would like to
ask the question on the microphone.
Ali Ibrahim, if you would like to unmute
yourself.
Assalamu alaikum Wa alaikum assalam wa rahmatullahi wa
barakatuh Sheikh, Jazakallah Khair Regarding last Friday's class
about about Bul'an bin Buara Regarding what?
About Bul'an Bul'an, the man you
mentioned.
The man who is Allah says Yeah, so
The ayat to follow that says Is
it related to the same story or different?
Same story, yes.
Bul'an bin Buara, yes.
So Why the Kalb is here?
The Kalb is always breathless.
Have you seen a dog?
Always sticking out its tongue.
Yes.
Whether he is okay or not okay.
Whether he is relaxed or not.
Relaxes in that situation.
So this person, his life is miserable because
he left the Hidayah.
So he'll be in this situation of suffering
all the time.
Because now Okay.
Because once he Because he Sorry?
Once he leaves, so he's like a dog,
right?
Of course.
He leaves the Hidayah.
He left the Hidayah.
He left the guidance.
As Allah said So
whoever leaves my guidance he will have miserable
life.
So he's having miserable life.
And he will be suffering and having this
pain and unhappiness.
Yes.
Like the dog.
Like the dog who's always breathless.
And he will be breathless all the time.
Good.
So his name is in the Tafsir?
Is there an explanation?
Is it clear to you, brother?
His name?
Yeah, it's clear, Sheikh.
His name is in the Tafsir?
Is there an explanation available?
Yes, in the books of Tafsir.
Bil'an bin Ba'urah, they mentioned him.
Yes.
Next question.
The next and last question.
What can I say to my son who
is agnostic?
How can I make dawah to him?
Agnostic.
Agnostic is a person who doesn't know.
He said, I don't know.
I don't know.
Which is a person who actually doesn't know
anything.
He doesn't want to know, actually.
Because the fitrah is there.
He knows this must be the creator.
And this question, really, it scares me because
it seems it came from Muslim.
The questioner is a Muslim.
And the child is a Muslim.
And then the child is saying, I'm agnostic.
And I want to tell you something.
Many of the youth, Muslim youth, some of
them they say, I am an atheist.
And he doesn't know anything about atheism.
Because if you start arguing and discussing with
him, he is empty here.
Nothing.
Yes, it became like a fashion.
Oh, he is an atheist.
And many and some are confused.
So we need to educate them.
Say, fine, fine.
Come, sit down.
But the one who is discussing with him
or her should be qualified.
Qualified.
Just I saw a clip on the YouTube.
One famous atheist, Arab, he repented.
He came back to Islam.
Alhamdulillah.
So the one who argues with them should
be patient and should answer all their doubts
and remove their doubts.
This which means that the parents, they have
to educate themselves.
And they should not overreact.
Because this is the reality in many, especially
if you are living in the West.
So you have to remove the doubts from
his mind or her mind.
Because Shaitaan has two ways to approach one's
heart and to confuse the Muslim.
Either desires, so he makes you love the
shahawat, women, alcohol, drugs, etc.
Or doubts, shubhat, the remedy and the cure
for the overcoming the desires is the iman.
So you need to make the amber of
iman to glow again in his heart and
her heart.
And make him realize the greatness of Allah
and the blessings of Allah and give him
hope that Allah will accept him or her.
And he should not despair from Allah's mercy.
And if he has doubts, you clear his
doubts.
And remove his doubts, clarify his doubts.
And the remedy and the cure for the
doubts is the ilm, knowledge.
That's why we need to have this weapon,
the iman and the ilm, in order to
combat the shahawat, the desires, and the shubhat,
the doubts.
I hope this is clear to the questioner.