This sharīʿah is full of wisdom and attaches rulings to reason. Some of those reasons are known to us and some are not. The prohibition of najis is linked to its impurity. Thus, whenever this impurity is found in anything it is considered najis. If impurity is not present, then it cannot be termed najis Imām ibn al-ʿUthaymīn [d. 1421 AH]Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn [d. 1421 AH] said: “Some of the scholars have taken the opinion that water is not termed najis (unfit for wuḍūʿ) except if that water has changed [in taste, colour, or smell] regardless of the amount of water present. Alth…

For He revealed His Book [the Qurʾān] upon seven ways, all of which allows one to reach the pleasure of Allāh, achieving true success by being granted jannah as long as they enact its teachings. Imām al-Ṭabarī [d. 310 AH] It has been narrated by Ibn Masʿūd that the Prophet [ﷺ] said: ‘The first book was revealed on one door, in but one dialect. The Qurʾān was revealed from seven doors in seven dialects: it forbids and orders, makes ḥalāl and ḥarām, [contains] specific and indefinite matters, and [contains] parables. So make ḥalāl that which is permissible and make ḥarām that which is impermi…

 Questions posed to Shaykh Aḥmad al-Najmī: س52- الحمد لله رب العالمين، وبعد: فهذه أسئلةٌ جاءت من أحد الإخوة السلفيين من قطر, أسأل الله أن يوفقنا وإيَّاه لكل خير، وأن يجنبنا وإيِّاه كلَّ شر وضير؛ قال السائل: هل طالب العلم إذا قرأ على شيخٍ متنًا من المتون العلمية، وفهمه دون أن يحفظه؛ هل يكفيه ذلك، ومن ثَمَّ هل يستطيع أن ينتقل إلى متنٍ آخر أم لا بدَّ أن يحفظ المتن، ويستوعب مسائل شيخه أفيدونا مأجورين ؟ All praise is due to Allāh, the Lord of the whole of the creation. To proceed: These questions are from one of the Salafī brothers in Qatar. I ask Allāh that he grant us and him success in…

Imām Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn [d. 1421 AH] said: The example of the person of which fasting becomes obligatory in the middle of the day—such that this person is subjected to either fasting [immediately] or on another day—[includes]: the woman whose menses cease, a woman whose postpartum period finishes, and a traveller who returns home [during the day] whilst not in a fasting state. These are three issues to which we will add a fourth: a sick person who makes a recovery. We collectively liken this to the issue of removing that which prevents the fast during the day [of obliga…