Our noble brother, Abū Khadījah, goes into detail concerning the importance of having love for the Salaf and the Scholars of the Sunnah, both past and present. Having love and allegiance for them is a sign of one’s īmān, and there is not a true believer except that they love these scholars who deserve our total love, respect and allegiance due to their diligence and striving in serving the Sunnah and conveying its true understanding to all corners of the earth.
The Salafī does not harbour ill thoughts towards the Salafis and the Scholars, and we do not fall into the foolishness of thos…
From the many beneficial points that our noble brother Abū Ḥakīm brings forth concerning the importance of keeping family ties are:
The affair of giving thanks for the blessings bestowed from Allāh is from the reasons Allāh will increase those blessings. Giving thanks is from the reasons for having an increase in blessings from Allah and is from the affairs which will protect a person from Allāh’s punishment, so the affair of giving thanks is from the important characteristics of a Muslim.
When Shayṭān disobeyed Allāh in prostrating to Ādam (ʿalayhi al-salām), he said to Allāh that he…
The Believers Are of Three Categories
1) Those who race towards the good: They are those who establish the obligated and recommended things and abstain from the impermissible and disliked things.
2) Those who ration: They are those who confine themselves to carrying out only the obligated matters and leaving off the impermissible matters.
3) Those who oppress themselves: They are those who mix righteous actions and evil actions.
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The salaf used to say that the soul is a thief. It takes the characteristics of those whom it accompanies. If it accompanies evil people, it will become evil, and if it accompanies the righteous, then it will become righteous.
Just as Allāh commanded the Prophet (ﷺ) to keep companionship with the pious and righteous regardless of their wealth or status so too we are encouraged to keep companionship with the pious, regardless of their wealth or status. Allāh is only concerned with one’s ʿibādah; He is not conce…
Shaykh Sālih al-Fawzān (حفظه الله) was asked about the specified times that an individual is allowed to make the morning, afternoon and night adhkār. He (حفظه الله) responded with the following:
The time for the morning adhkār [begins] from dawn, and the time for the afternoon/night adhkār [begins] from the diminishing of the sun, Ẓhuhr time. All of this is the time in which adhkār is done. All of them [i.e. the adhkar] performed at these times: after the diminishing [of the sun, Ẓhuhr time], after Ẓhuhr [i.e. after the Ẓhuhr ṣalāh], after ʿAṣr [i.e. after the ʿAṣr ṣalāh], after Maghrib [i.e…
This issue is a disease plaguing the Muslim ummah. How many people have we seen promoting themselves in the daʿwah, yet they are totally unqualified? They think they are aiding the daʿwah, but in reality, they are not. They destroy and corrupt it more than they aid and rectify it.
Shaykh Ibn Bāz (رحمه الله) said: “The ignorant destroys, [he does] not construct, and he corrupts, [he does] not repair.”1
And indeed Allāh has spoken the truth when He said:
إِنَّمَا يَخْشَى اللَّـهَ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ الْعُلَمَاءُ
“From Allāh’s slaves, it is only the scholars who truly fear Him.”
[Fāṭir, 35:28]
There…
Cultivation Begins with the Parents
Abū Khadījah delivers a very stirring sermon on how to cultivate children/youth. He says that Allāh has commanded parents to cultivate their children and for children to remain steadfast upon what they have been cultivated with.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said that there are seven who will be shaded on that day when there is no shade (the Day of Judgement) and from amongst them is the youth who has been raised with the worship of Allāh.
Allāh has placed responsibility on the one who cultivates (parents) and the one who has been cultivated (children/youth). Cultivat…
Shaykh Ibn Bāz (رحمه الله) was asked:1 “What is the ruling on fasting the day of Āshūrā? And is it better to fast the day before or after it? Or should we fast all of them [i.e. the day of Āshūrā and the day before and after it]? Or should we fast the day of Āshūrā alone? We hope for some clarification on that, and may Allāh reward you with goodness.”
The Shaykh (رحمه الله) responded with the following:
Fasting the day of Āshūrā is sunnah because of what has been confirmed in numerous authentic Aḥadīth from Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ) supporting that.
It was a day the Jews used to fast because A…
Letters would come to him, and he would not know when they were written and when they were sent. Therefore, he (رضي الله عنه) set the calendar to make it begin from the month of al-Muḥarram.
Al-ʿAllāmah Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-FawzānShaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (حفظه الله) said:
As for the beginning of the year [starting the Islamic calendar with al-Muḥarram], then it is an affair that was adopted in the era of ʿUmar [ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the second rightly guided Khalīfah] (رضي الله عنه) because of the letters that would come to him from his workers.1
Letters would come to him, and he would not know whe…
