Abū Khadījah gives a brilliant, detailed, and concise lecture concerning the position of the Salaf with respect to those who oppose the Sunnah of Allāh’s Messenger (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and oppose the Daʿwah al-Salafīyyah. He draws upon the works and opinions of the noble scholars Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī, Shaykh Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn al-ʿUthaymīn, Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān, and other than them (ḥafiẓahum Allāh). The lecture gives detailed insight into the obligation of sticking to the Sunnah, and taking from the Saḥābah and those who came after them fr…
From the points discussed:
The importance of practising and maintaining Islām
Clinging to the rope of Allāh
Do not be split and disunited
The call to Islām needs to be devoid of splitting and differing
The Believers must cooperate with each other
Splitting is evil, uniting is goodness
Most of the Muslims today are divided
Goodness is in cooperation
The lone sheep is devoured by the wolf
The basis of clinging to the religion is adhering to tawḥīd
The patience of Nūh in calling to tawḥid, like all of the prophets
O Salafīs, stick to the scholars, be strong upon …
When you rise, O’ Muslim, for the service of prayer, face the direction of the Kaʿbah wherever you are, in both the obligatory and supererogatory prayers.
Imām Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Talkhīs Ṣifat Ṣalāt al-Nabī, (ﷺ) The Muḥaddith, al-Albānī [d. 1419H], may Allah have mercy upon him, wrote:1
1. When you rise, O’ Muslim, for the service of prayer, face the direction of the Kaʿbah wherever you are, in both the obligatory and supererogatory prayers. This is one of the integral elements of ṣalāh; without it, prayer is invalid.
2. The obligation to turn one’s face towards the qi…
There are no people amongst whom sins are committed and they are stronger than those who commit them, yet they do not prevent them except that God will punish all of them.
Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ)
O you who believe, stand persistently firm for Allāh as witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of the people [who were unjust to you] prevent you from being just to them. Be just, that is nearer to righteousness.
Qurʿān, al-Māʾidah, 5:8
Shaykh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī, in his book, The Methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah in Criticizing Men, Books and Groups, says:
“Let the person look at this great difference between the position of the Muslims that Shaykh al-Islām ibn Taymīyyah is talking about, and how they dealt with those who had statements of opposition (to the Salaf); they were individuals explaining the circumstances of those people and warning the Ummah from those people, and this was wājib (obligatory) by agreement of the Muslims. Then look to the reality nowadays of many of those who connect themselves …
Unity within the ranks of the Muslims is quite possibly one of the most discussed and debated topics amongst the Muslims today. What are the principles and guidelines that Allāh has commanded the Believers in the Qurʾān and commanded His Prophet in the Prophetic Traditions by way of unity, in order that they may be given strength, honour and protection? The command for the Muslims to unite is from the fundamentals of the fundamental principles of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamāʿah, and thus it is an important subject and one which should be given its proper place within the teachings of al-Islām.
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (حفظه الله) said1:
Fitnah2 [in the Arabic language means] examination.
Thus, a person is not left to say: ‘I believe,’ ‘I have accepted Islām,’ ‘I am a Muslim’ and ‘I am a believer’; [rather,] it is inevitable that he is tried and examined.
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān
If he endures upon his faith and is firm upon it when fitan [strikes], then certainly he is truthful in his faith. As for if he swerves when fitan [strikes] and deviates from his religion, then he is a hypocrite, and is untrue in his faith, as Allāh said:
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَقُولُ آمَنَّا بِاللَّـه…
Allāh mentions in Sūrah Āl ʿImrān (3:103),
وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا ۚ وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنتُمْ عَلَىٰ شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِّنْهَا ۗ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ ﴿١٠٣﴾
“And hold fast, all of you together, to the Rope of Allāh (Qurʾān and the Sunnah), and be not divided among yourselves. And remember Allāh’s favour upon you, for you were enemies one to another but He joined your h…
