News Archive
Sep 5, 2007
From the Beautiful Aspects of Islām
The daʿwah (call) to single Allāh out with one’s worship, love, and hate for Allāh’s sake is based upon this principle, those who do not embrace and live by this are declared to be disbelievers.
Warning against shirk, associating partners in any type of worship with Allāh and being serious in this warning, and having hatred for polytheism. Whoever would uphold these two principles, in truth, is a Muslim, a worshipper of Allāh, not worshipping other than him, having hope in Allāh alone. These are the two principles that all the Prophets and Messengers confirmed to.
Shaykh ʿʿUbayd al…
Aug 18, 2007
Is it Allowable to Pray (Ṣalāt) in Churches Where Images are Present?
These places are not considered to be houses of Allāh. Actually, the masājid are the only houses of Allāh. (The places asked about) are houses (where people) disbelieve in Allāh, even though He may be mentioned in them. The houses are classed according to the people that inhabit them. If these houses are occupied by non-Muslims then these are houses where the non-Muslims worship.
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn TaymiyyahShaykh Al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) was asked: Is it allowable to pray (Salāt) in churches where images are present, and is it (correct) to say that these pla…
Aug 15, 2007
Examples of How the People of the Past Used to Raise Their Children and Interact with Their Families
I heard Ibn ʿUmar say to a man: Discipline your children because you will be asked: How did you discipline your child? What did you teach them?
ShaykhʿUthmān al-Hātimī
Aug 3, 2007
We Supplicate to Allāh but He Does Not Respond to Us?
Ibrāhīm ibn Adham was approached by a group of people. They asked him about the Saying of Allāh, The Most High:
وَقَالَ رَبُّكُمُ ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْم
“Call upon your Lord and He will answer you.”
[Ghāfir:60]
They said: “We supplicate to Allāh but He does not respond to (our invocations).”1
Ibrāhīm ibn Adham replied:
You know Allāh but yet you do not obey Him.
You recite the Qurʾān but you do not act upon it.
You know about the shayṭān (devil) but you agree with him.
You claim that you love the Messenger of Allāh but you abandon his sunnah.
You claim that you love (to enter) P…
Jul 7, 2007
The Evil Effects of Zinā
Who is Shaykh ʿAbdullāh ‘Atīq al-Harbī
Shaykh ʿAbdullāh ‘ʿAtīq al-Ḥarbī is one of the professors in the University of al-Madīnah, he is a student of Shaykh Rabīʿ Ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī. He recently traveled to America for the purpose of daʿwah.
From the Lecture
“The Path to the Hell-fire is easy and may Allāh protect us from it, it is to do evil acts such as fornication and intoxicating oneself.”
Featuring the heinous evil of al-Zinā (the fornication), it’s causes, results and its prevention. Shaykh ʿAbdullāh ‘ʿAtīq states, ‘From the greatest thing that will make the servant of Allāh corrup…
Jul 7, 2007
Means of Sustenance
Who is al-‘Allāmah Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Waṣṣābī?
He is from amongst the senior (eldest) students of Imām Muqbil Ibn Hādī al-Waadi’ee (raḥimahullāh), to the extent that Shaykh Muqbil referred to Shaykh Muḥammad as ‘my khalīfah.’ His specialty is in Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), and he has a centre of Islamic studies in Hudaydah, Yemen.
From the Lecture:
From the doors are:
1. (Steadfastness in the Religion) – Allāh says ‘and if only they hade believed in Allāh and had Istiqāmah on the right way, we would surely have bestowed upon them water (rain) in abundance.’ So Istiqāmah …
Jul 7, 2007
The Importance of Actions in One’s Life
Statements from the lecture:
“Adding knowledge to actions shows that Allāh’s favour is upon a person!”
“The Salaf used to say, ‘Knowledge is not that people relate a lot, knowledge is sought in order to fear Allāh.'”
“The salaf used to say ‘ the one who does not act upon knowledge is ignorant.'”
“Fuḍayl Ibn Iyāḍ said ‘The Scholar remains to be ignorant until he acts upon his knowledge.'”
“The two feet will not proceed on Yawm al-Qiyyammah until they are asked about four things, one of those things is ‘knowledge’ and what he did with it. Why did he learn? Was his purpose to learn and ac…
Jul 7, 2007
Advice and General Questions Answered
General advice to the Salafīs of Toronto (June, 03) over-viewing the roles and responsibilities of the ahl al-sunnah living in this land. The noble shaykh and scholar of al-madīnah quotes numerous āyāt and aḥādīth detailing these issues. After this general advice, the ‘Allāmah invited the community to pose their questions, from them:
Questions[Q1]: O Shaykh, we do not have a Salafī masjid in Toronto, the Salafī brothers have gathered to purchase a masjid soon, in shāʾ Allāh, what is your advice to those who will be responsible for the masjid.
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