Suhaib Webb – An Explanation of AlAkhdari (Part One)

Welcome now

to the second leg of this important journey

as we continue to

expose ourselves

to the science of worship,

filk.

Unfortunately, filk is associated with arguments and differences,

but that's not the purpose of filk. The

purpose of learning filk is to learn what

I should be doing,

how I should be living my life,

what is obligatory, what is recommended, what is

repugnant, what is impermissible,

and what is permissible.

And we're going to be going through a

very important book called,

written by Abdrahman

who was a great scholar

from West Africa who wrote a large number

of texts. If you're interested in learning more

about him,

watch the first lesson

on this book here on Swiss that's done

live with SinnerDC.

You can find like

a tremendous

amount of information about him, about medhebs,

about the Madiki medheb.

So I encourage you actually to watch that

first and then come back here and, and

join us for this journey. At Swiss, we

believe in a process,

method of learning. So it's kind of like

a slow drip, like a pour over, if

you will. And that is that that

scaffolding and scaling knowledge,

is done through a deliberate process,

so the text that we are choosing are

following sort of a classical system. I will

also teach more contemporary

text in the future as well.

And I also plan to teach this completely

in English,

for new Muslims and for young Muslims who

want to learn

how to worship

and improve their worship as that is our

purpose.

As Allah

says in the Quran, after

I did not create jinn in men except

to worship me,

jinn and human beings.

And in that vein, it's important that you

start with Al Akhdarri.

And before Al Akhdarri you have an 'ashmaawiya',

which I've already explained, I believe, 30 lessons.

And then Al Akhdarri,

and after Al Akhdarri, you move on to

another text, Ibn Ashir,

which is,

a poem. And then from there, you move

on to the Risada of Ibn Abi Zayl

Qairawani.

And after that, you're going to be great.

You know, after that, you're done with us

at Swiss, right? There is an ultimate ending

to all this here as far as fiqh.

And there's a great poem. I heard this

one time from, Sheikh Mahmoud,

a Libyan

brother who I used to read to in

Egypt.

This poem says

a sign of ignorance in this era.

Is to avoid taking the risala of Ibn

Abi Zaid, which is the 3rd book in

our series,

and instead going to the khalil,

Muqtasul Khaliyah, which is really, really difficult, subhanAllah,

specifically because of how the Muqtas Surat are

written.

And then to avoid taking

and go to even Ashir,

they

nearly reset,

or

ignoring both of those, al Akhdarri

and ibn Ashir and going straight to, the

Risara of ibn Abizaid. That's a sign of

someone who's negligent or or someone ignorant. Now

some of you may not necessarily like this

class because

it is ancient.

Right? In the sense, it's it's it's a

classical style.

I do plan to put on courses that

are more in a contemporary language,

that I think people enjoy, but but give

this an opportunity. This is coming from our

ancestors. This is something which is very important.

And if you're interested in religious vocation,

then definitely you want to be taking these

kind of classes with me. What I'm going

to be doing is reading the text and

then discussing the meaning of the text and

giving you some of the evidences,

of the medhab, as well as maybe explaining

some of the words,

which you may find difficult to understand,

Insha'Allah.

So we begin,

we're going to start now with the introduction.

He says, Alhamdu

Lillah. Why do you think the writer of

this book would start with Alhamdu?

Of course, he's he's emulating the Quran,

and also recognizing that everything is is by

Allah's permission.

Even people who enter Jannah, what are they

going to say?

Even they will say Alhamdulillah.

And the prophet

said that any important affair which doesn't begin

with

is is like aibiani,

it's aqta, it's it's deficient.

So he begins,

The word rub, I don't like the translation

Lord.

The word rub is the one that brings

things from nothing and causes them to grow.

So Allah

means Allah is the creator of all things.

So he says,

is from the word 'alam' which is a

flag,

and also used to describe everything in the

universe except Allah, because everything is an indicator

of Allah's existence. And

this is different. We talk about this in

our courses on theology.

Contemporary

atheism

has framed

the mere,

right,

idea

of belief as being something impossible to prove.

Islam says, no, the mere idea of disbelief

is impossible to prove because everything around us

is a sign

of our creator,

So he says,

Then he says, and salah and salam. The

word salah, the scholars differ over what it

means, the salah of God to the Prophet.

Wallahu 'alam.

You find that many people say it means

mercy, but that doesn't make sense if we

look at, for example, the second chapter of

the Quran, verse 100 57, Allah

says,

They they it is they who upon them

is the salah of their lord and the

mercy of their lord. Why would Allah say

salah and rahma if salahamirahma?

So Allahu Alam,

there are numerous

interpretations

of salatulahi

alaasidin

Rasulillah

and

perhaps the strongest opinion is the blessings of

Allah, the khayr which Allah is going to

give to the Prophet

in the hereafter, Insha'Allah.

Warrahma

and mercy. So peace

and blessings upon the Prophet Muhammad

the seal of the prophets.

Imam

al Mursaleen

and the imam of the messengers.

So alhamdulillah,

that is

the brief introduction to the text.