What is true Islamic unity built upon?
How do we view differing in the Ummah?
What are the real solutions?
These pressing issues are discussed in the following class:
Class 10 of 12 from the ʿAqīdah Course of the 2007 Summer Islamic Courses in Toronto, Canada (available Autumn ’07 in shāʾ Allāh).
The ʿAqīdah course is based upon the ‘haa’iyyah’ peom of Ibn Abī Dāwūd. The tenth sitting focused on the final three verses of the 33 lines of outstanding poetry: (31) And keep yourself from the opinions of people and their stances, Since the stance of the Messenger of Allāh is more bef…
From the topics discussed:
Protecting ones’ self and one’s family from the shayṭān
The responsibility of guardianship/parenthood
The verdicts on magic according to the Qurʿān and Sunnah
The types of magic (illusionary and afflictive)
Black magic, white Magic – good and bad magic?
Harry Potter; his character, companions, teachers, passions and goals
Examples of the magic contained in the Harry Potter books
Divination – predicting the future
The position of the sharīʿah concerning fiction
What Prompted this Lecture? We strongly encourage the Muslims to propagate this lec…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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 …
