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دعواتكم للشيخ مسلم بالشفاء.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَاةِ ۚ إِنَّ اللهَ مَعَ الصَّابِرِينَ

“O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allāh is with the patient.”

[Sūrat Al-Baqarah 153]

The scholars and the students of knowledge must get up and respond to these attacks, not only defensively, but offensively, by showing the corruption and invalidity of those ‘aqā'id and ideologies. […] This should be done whether there will be people listening to them or not.

(وَإِذْ قَالَتْ أُمَّةٌ مِنْهُمْ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوْمًا اللَّهُ مُهْلِكُهُمْ أَوْ مُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا قَالُوا مَعْذِرَةً إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ)
‘And when a community among them said: Why do you preach to a people whom Allāh is about to destroy or to punish with a severe torment? [The preachers] said: In order to be free from guilt before your Lord’ [Sūrat Al-A’rāf 164]

So the scholar and the student of knowledge should make the truth clear and respond to the people of bid’ah, and should not fear the blame of the blamers, why? To respond to the Command of Allāh سبحانه وتعالى, spreading the truth, and to be free of guilt in front of Allāh عز وجل, whether there are people who will listen to him or not. His job is:

(لَتُبَيِّنُنَّهُ لِلنَّاسِ وَلَا تَكْتُمُونَهُ)
‘…To make it known to people and not hide it’ [Sūrat Āli-‘Imrān 187]

As for people accepting or not, this is by the permission of Allāh سبحانه وتعالى.

I say this because there are those who have sought knowledge for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years, and now their age is 70 and 80 years old, and for all of these years, none of them said a word towards those who rule the lands of the Muslims by other than the Sharī’ah of Allāh سبحانه وتعالى. Sixty years of teaching people, yet he has not even said an advice, not even an advice of, ‘O rulers, rule by the Sharī’ah of Allāh.’ He has not spoken a word about the blood of the Muslims that is shed each day. For him, the blood of the Muslims being shed is not a fitnah, the Sharī’ah of Allāh not being applied is not a fitnah, the children of the Muslims being under ruins is not a fitnah, but the fitnah, according to him, is speaking the word of truth. That is indeed the fitnah itself.

The student of knowledge must uphold the matter of ‘aqīdah fully, in a complete manner.”

— Shaykh Muhammad Az-Zubaydī حفظه الله, Sharh Hilyat Tālib Al-‘Ilm

“Some of the students of knowledge, they get busy with responding to Az-Zamakhsharī in what he said in Al-Kashāf, and responding to Al-Qādī ‘Abdul-Jabbār, the Mu’tazil, who died 900 years ago, and also with responding to the doubts of Jahm ibn Safwān, who died 1200 years ago, while right next to him is an institute that spreads secularism and atheism and doubts around the Dīn and the Sharī’ah, the hijāb, erodes the ‘aqīdah of people, while he does not give weight to that at all.

You find some of them, similarly, being busy with fighting one particular bid’ah that someone in China practices, while near him there’s many institutes that spread atheism and destruction. Among the institutes that spread atheism and destruction are the schools! The schools in our time are among these institutes. One of us may be busy with responding to the people of bida’ while the children of the Muslims, perhaps 90% of them, go to these schools that teach the people disbelief in Allāh سبحانه وتعالى, obeying the laws of the land, and obeying those who rule by other than the rule of Allāh, while they do not give any weight to this at all. This is actually deviation in ‘aqīdah!

This should be in the classes of ‘aqīdah, it’s not just the Mu’tazilah and Jahm ibn Safwān, it’s not only the Ashā’irah and Māturīdiyyah, we have secularism, liberalism, atheists, those who rule by other the rule of Allāh, and modernists. Those people, we interact with and live with, while they are even harsher upon us than the others, so therefore it is upon the student of knowledge, just as he learns the ‘aqīdah in refuting those mubtadi’ah, to learn the ‘aqīdah in refuting those atheists, who are against Islām and its people!

This is not a call to take one side and leave the other, no! The ‘aqīdah should be taken fully, and the Muslim should fight all sides, just as he fights those who have bid’ah in the Names and Attributes of Allāh سبحانه وتعالى, the mushrikīn who worship idols and graves, he should also fight those who rule by other than the rule of Allāh and seek ruling to the man-made courts and legislative laws, and he should also fight the secularists and liberals, those who instil doubts and distort the ‘aqīdah of the people, and even remove the hayā and fitrah from the people!

And upon all levels. This is the student of knowledge, he is in a fierce confrontation with all of these sides, as the Messenger ﷺ said:

يوشك الأمم أن تداعى عليكم كما تداعى الأكلة إلى قصعتها
‘The nations are about to gather against you as diners gather around their dish.’

And the one who wishes to be from the saved sect, the victorious, needs to uphold the command of Allāh سبحانه وتعالى with all of those people, and should not be busy with one and not the other. If three people were to come kill you, and you were busy with only one, what would the other two do? They’d kill you. Same thing with those people, they are all plotting against Islām and Muslims. The guards of Islām, who are they? They’re the students of knowledge. If they are distracted from one side of it, Islām is attacked from that spot! This war with them is fierce and it does not end. This is war with the allies of the Shaytān, while the people of knowledge are the allies of Ar-Rahmān!

The Messenger ﷺ said:

فمن جاهدهم بيده فهو مؤمن، ومن جاهدهم بلسانه فهو مؤمن [...]
’…So whoever strives against them with his hand, then he is a Believer, and who ever strives against them with his tongue, then he is a Believer. […]’

And we see that during this time, the fight against the Muslims is extending to many different methods and levels. On the military level, the political level, economically, and even the level of knowledge. They do not leave anything but that they try to stab the Dīn of Al-Islām through it. Even in the natural sciences, like astronomy, and even physics, they try to use them to insult the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ.

Whoever is unable to pray qiyām at night should not fail to neglect istighfār in it, strive to be among those whom Allāh عز وجل said about:

وَبالأسْحَارِ هم يستغفِرونَ
"And in the hours before dawn they would ask for forgiveness."
[Sūrat Adh-Dhāriyāt 18]

مَن جعل رفيقهُ الهوى هوى
Whoever makes desire their companion, they fall.

ومَن جعل رفيقهُ التُّقى ارتَقَى
And whoever makes piety their companion, they rise.

May Allāh عز وجل grant her a complete cure and full health, be pleased with her, and make every pain she goes through a raising of her ranks,

نسأل الله العظيم رب العرش العظيم أن يشفيها

Besides all the joy we feel because of the books, the brothers and sisters who help, and everything else, real life catches up with you every time, in seconds.
I never really liked asking for something like this publicly, but please keep my mother in your Adiyah, that Allah heals her and that He only takes her back when He is satisfied with her..!

JazakumAllahu khayran..

“… The matter requires abundant and persistent dhikr (remembrance of Allāh) due to the servant’s extreme need for it and the impossibility of being self-sufficient without it for even the blink of an eye. For any moment during which the servant is heedless of remembering Allāh عز وجل will result in a loss greater than any profit he could gain from his heedlessness of Allāh.

One of the righteous said, ‘If a servant were to turn to Allāh تعالى for many years, then turn away from Him for a single moment, what he missed in that moment would be greater than what he gained before.’”

• Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله | Al-Wābil As-Sayyib p. 79

The scenes that we’re seeing these days have made the heart shatter into a million pieces.

How does one even respond? By Allāh, I’ve been trying to write this for over a day now but I’m at a complete loss of words. But I cannot be silent more than this, may Allāh forgive me.

I wonder, where are those who were very recently downplaying the kufr of the Rāfidah and Nusayriyyah now? Where are those who opened their filthy mouths blabbering about the supposed “permissibility” of alliance with those… what word do I even use to describe them?

ألا قاتلهم الله أنى يؤفكون

Where’d they go? I can’t hear them, can you?

They can’t open their mouths now, they’re doing taqiyyah it seems.

The bleeding wound of Ash-Shām has been opened once more and it will not stop bleeding until the rest of our brothers and our sisters are freed and safe, and until the life of every single Muslim who was murdered is retaliated for.

Or are we supposed to wait until another life, more sacred than the Ka’bah, is taken, or until we see another mutilated face of a Muslim, someone who witnessed that Lā ilāha illa Allāh?!

You know what I genuinely cannot comprehend? One of those filthy liars when recently discussing the matter of the recent destruction of the leader of the Rāfidah, said something along the lines of, “We understand the rage of the people of Ash-Shām and their rejoice at the death of this individual, but this is extreme and we cannot declare takfīr upon these people because blah blah blah blah blah…” may Allāh paralyze him. As if we have not seen enough dead and mutilated bodies of the Muslims of Syria before???

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله

Allahu Akbar! Walhamdulillahil lathee bi ni'matihi tatimmus saalihaat!

Every Muslim feels immense joy upon the overthrow of any Tāghūt, even if the change is led by another Tāghūt.

Ibn Kathīr stated that Allah deals with the oppressors by allowing some to dominate others, bringing about the destruction of some through others, and taking vengeance upon them through each other, as recompense for their injustice and transgressions.

This joy is particularly pronounced when witnessing the release of innocent Muslim prisoners, especially our sisters, and the restoration of rights to individuals, including their homes, lands, and cities. However, our deepest joy is found only when the pure Sharī’ah of Allah is fully implemented across the territories.

The retreat of the enemy from a town and the fall of its Tāghūt is not considered a Shar’ī “liberation” until the country is governed by the Laws of Allah and the secular laws that have hindered the implementation of these Divine Laws are eliminated.

Replacing a rusted Tāghūt with a polished Tāghūt who doesn't implement the pure Sharī’ah of Allah cannot be considered “liberation” or “freedom”. Rather, it's merely a repetition of oppression and a reproduction of Tughyān.

Liberating territories in the name of "freedom" may lead to some vanishing worldly benefits, whereas liberating lands to establish Sharī’ah is the goal that will grant one a Jannah more expansive than both heaven and earth.

Today, we express our gratitude to Allah for allowing us to witness the decline of one of the most prominent oppressors of our time. We pray that Allah fills our hearts with joy as we observe the demise of the remaining tyrants, enabling us to live under the shade of Tawheed in those areas, under the governance of the pure righteous Muwahideen.

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Ahmad Musa Jibril
Jmd. II 6, 1446 AH

O Allāh, we ask You for your Mercy and Help for the weak among the Believers.

O Allāh, deal with the transgressors and the opresssors. O Allāh, unleash Your soldiers upon them and send down upon them Your Might.

O Allāh, the affliction has persisted long over the people of Gaza. O Allāh, do not leave them to themselves or their enemies, have mercy on them, lift the hardship from them, take care of their affairs, heal their sick and wounded, and accept their martyrs.

O Rahmān, who can show them mercy besides You?

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Keep them and all of the weak Believers in your ad’iyah tonight.

حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

The Messenger ﷺ said:

من دعا لأخيه بظهرِ الغيبِ قال الملكُ الموكلُ به: آمينَ, ولك بِمثل ٍ.

“Whoever supplicates for his brother in his absence, the angel appointed to him says: ‘āmeen, and for you the same.’”

[Sahīh Muslim 2732]

Cant post here anymore. Keep me and my family in your Adiyah, especially to protect us from the plots and plans of the Kuffar and munafiqeen. May Allah grant you all more than what you ask for us.
بارك الله فيكم

Summaries and notes from an explanation of the book will be translated and posted here, إن شاء الله.

“As for the knowledge of interactions, it pertains to the states of the heart, including fear, hope, contentment, sincerity, truthfulness, and other matters. This is the knowledge by which the scholars were elevated. When this knowledge is actualized, their virtues become well-known, such as Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Abū Hanīfah, Mālik, Ash-Shāfi’ī, and Ahmad.”

• Mukhtasar Minhāj Al-Qāsidīn, p. 24

تَوَاضَع لِرَبِّ العَرشِ عَلَّكَ تُرفعُ
Humble yourself to the Lord of the Throne, so that you may be raised;

لَقد فَازَ عبدٌ لِلمُهَيمِنِ يَخْضَعُ
Verily, a servant who submits to Al-Muhaymin has succeeded.

وَدَاوِ بِذِكرِ اللهِ قلبكَ إِنَّهُ
Treat your heart with the remembrance of Allāh for it is

لَأَعلَى دَوَاءٍ لِلقُلُوبِ وَأَنفَعُ
The most high and beneficial treatment for the hearts.

وَخُذ مِن تُقَى الرَّحمنِ أَمنًا وَعُدَّةً
Take from the piety of Ar-Rahmān security and provision

لِيَومٍ بِهِ غَيرُ التَّقِيِّ مُرَوَّعُ
For a Day when the impious will be in immense fear.

وَبِالسُّنَّةِ المُثلى فَكُن مُتَمَسِّكًا
And to the exemplary Sunnah, hold on

فَتِلكَ طَرِيقٌ لِلسلامةِ مَهْيَعُ
For it is the path to safety, clear and wide.

— As-Sarsarī رحمه الله

** طبعة مكتبة دار البيان

“… So if Allāh wants good for His servant, He opens for him the doors of repentance, regret, brokenness, humility, need, and seeking His help, sincerity in turning to Him, continuously turning to Him in plea, du’ā, drawing closer to Him with as many good deeds as possible— enough to make a sin a reason for his mercy, to the point that the enemy of Allāh would say: I wish I had left him and not made him fall into the sin!

This is the meaning of what one of the Salaf has said: A servant may commit a sin by which he enters Paradise and performs a good deed by which he enters Hellfire.
They said: How so?
He replied: The servant may commit the sin, and then it continues to be before his eyes with fear of it, with regret, broken, crying, shy from his Lord تعالى, bowing his head between His Hands, broken-hearted to Him, so that sin becomes the reason for the happiness of that servant and his success, until that sin becomes even more beneficial for him than many good deeds because of what comes along among the causes for the happiness and success of a servant, until that sin would be a reason that he would enter Paradise.

Meanwhile, he may perform a good deed, but considers it a favour to his Lord, becomes arrogant with it, and looks to himself with pride, becomes infatuated with himself because of it, looks down on others because of it, and says: I did this, I did that. This becomes a cause of arrogance and self-admiration, pride and a sense of superiority, which would be the cause of his destruction. So, if Allāh wants good for this poor soul, He tests him with something that would break him, humiliate his neck, and minimize his self-view to himself, and if He wants other than that for this servant, He lets him be proud and arrogant, and that is true forsaking which leads to his downfall.”

• Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله | Al-Wābil As-Sayyib p. 8

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#كل_عام_وأنتم_بخير ...
إِظْهَار السرُور فِي الأعياد من شَعَائِر الدّين…
(ذَٰلِكَ وَمَن يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهَا مِن تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ)

#عيدكم_مبارك …
تقبّل الله منّا ومنكم…
أدامَ عليكم المسرَّات...
وأسعدَ بالخيرات قلوبَكم...
وغفرَ الله ذنوبَكم...
ووفَّقكم لأحسن الأعمال…
وحقَّق لكم صالحَ الآمال...

كما نسأله أن يعيد هذا العيد علينا وعليكم وعلى الأمة جَمعَاء بالخير واليُمن والسعادة، والعِزِّ والنصر والتمكين للإسلام والمُسلمين…

Some rulings related to Dhul-Hijjah, sacrifices, and ‘Arafah below:

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A message to one who is afflicted with a trial:

“Some pains in life cannot be alleviated by the warmth of some people, nor by their eloquence in comforting us.

For some pains were created to bring us closer to Allāh, created so we may prostrate and draw near to Him جل وعلا, created to inform us that within the heart, there are fragments that no one has the power to mend except Allāh, to whisper in our pains with the voice of certainty: ‘No one possesses the comfort but Allāh.’

He takes care of your affairs while everything around you is filled with misfortune, and when all hands around you disappear…

We only need to mend our relationship with Allāh, so that life may blossom into a spring of happiness for us.

O Allāh, draw us nearer to You, for whoever chooses Your closeness has never been let down.

As you read the Qur’ān, search for yourself. After every āyah, you will find what addresses and means you, you will find what benefits and encompasses you, you will find a cure that heals you.”

— Shared

“The Best of the Days of the Dunyā”

It is among the great blessings of Allāh سبحانه وتعالى that He has given us life to witness these ten days once more. If you wasted these days last year, strive to use them well this year, and if you’ve done good last year, strive to do even better this year!

Useful resources:
- Article: The First Ten Days of Dhul-Hijjah
- Channel: Dhul-Hijjah Beneficials
- Post: Schedule for completing the Qur’ān
- Post: Calendar for Dhul-Hijjah
- Post: Important dates of Dhul-Hijjah
- Posts: Virtues of the Day of ‘Arafah

Read, prepare, and start taking action now! Remember, one only gets this chance once in an entire year, could anyone be sure that they will reach next year?

May Allāh assist us all in worshipping Him in the best and most complete way in these blessed days.

A story (The night prayer🌌)

“When night falls, there is nothing sweeter than conversing with Allah, experiencing His comfort, generosity, and responsiveness. I became addicted to performing two rak’ahs every night, reciting Surah Al-Fatihah and Surah Al-Ikhlas, even before I fully understood what night prayer (Qiyam al-Layl) was. I would ask Allah with all my being, thinking only of Him, crying before Him, and praying to Him. I swear by Allah, my whole life was filled with light, both internally and externally, and I would eagerly anticipate nightfall the next day so I could pray.

My requests were answered. In short, if Allah loves you, He will draw you to Him in the simplest ways. If He wants something for you, He will show you all the paths, even if you are blind. Do not underestimate the power of two rak’ahs at night for the sake of Allah. And my everlasting advice; keep your affairs secret.”

الجنّة - “تثبيتًا للعاملين وتشويقًا للمشتاقين"
• الشيخ خالد الراشد -فك الله أسره-

Jannah…

“In it is the Messenger ﷺ, in it are the Noble Companions رضي الله عنهم,

On its door, we will part with sorrows, pain, and worries,

They will leave us without return, calamities that have crushed the hearts and burned the souls for a long time,

And a single dip in it will make us forget all the distress, gloom, and hardship of life we endured in this world, as if it has never harmed us with its claws, ever..

There, we will be joyful and delighted with what Allāh has prepared for us of lasting and enduring bliss that never diminishes or disappears,

And in it are those who preceded us and whose meeting made our hearts burst with longing, our deceased, our mهrtyrs, our companions on the path, and those who preceded us in faith..

O Allāh, we ask You for Paradise, O Allāh, grant us and our brothers/sisters Al-Firdaws without reckoning..."

— Shared

ومن العجائــبِ والعجائب جمةٌ
And among the astonishing matters, and those are abundant,

قــربُ الـدواءِ ومـا إلـيهِ وصـولُ
Is how near the cure is, yet beyond our hold.

كالعِيسِ في البيداءِ يقتُلُها الظّما
Like the camel in the desert dying of thirst,

والــماءُ فوقَ ظُـهورها مَحـمـولٌ
But it’s carrying the water on its back!

Among the ad’iyah of the Messenger ﷺ:

اللَّهُمَّ أَنْجِ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Allāhumma anji al-mustad’afīna mina al-muminīn

“O Allāh! Save the weak and oppressed among the Believers.”

[Sahīh Al-Bukhāri 6393]

“There is no doubt that the heart gathers rust, just as copper and silver and their likes rust, and its removal is by dhikr, for it removes the rust until it’s left looking like a clear mirror. So, if one leaves dhikr, the heart becomes rusted, and if he engages in dhikr, the rust is removed.

The heart rusts is due to two matters: negligence and sin. It is polished by two matters: seeking forgiveness (istighfār) and remembrance (dhikr). If negligence prevails most of one’s time, the rust builds up on his heart, and the amount of rust is with the amount of negligence. When the heart rusts, the truth will not be visible in their true form, so one sees falsehood as truth, and truth as falsehood. This is because when the rust accumulated on the heart, it became dark, and therefore truths do not appear as they really are.

If the heart becomes covered with rust and blackens, and becomes stained, its perception and understanding becomes distorted, leading to one not accepting any truth or denying any falsehood. This is one of the biggest punishments of the heart. The root cause of this is negligence and following whims, for they dim the light of the heart and blind its sight.

Allāh تعالى said:

وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَن ذِكْرِنَا وَٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُ وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُ فُرُطًا
And do not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of Our remembrance and who follows his own desires, and whose affair (deeds) has been lost. [Sūrat Al-Kahf 28]

If one wants to take someone as their role model, they should check: are they among the people of dhikr, or are they among the negligent? Is it his whims that control him, or is it the revelation? If it is his whims that control him and he is among the people of negligence, and his state is all loss— this person should not be taken as a role model, and should not be followed, as he leads to destruction.”

• Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله | Al-Wābil As-Sayyib p. 82

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

All praise is due to Allāh.

This channel will be dedicated to the translations of the fatāwa and works of Shaykh Muslim Al-Qahtāni حفظه الله. We ask Allāh to make it beneficial for the Ummah.

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله

O Allāh, have mercy on our brothers and sisters in Rafah, let the strikes be easy on them

O Allāh, they have no power or strength except through You

O ‘Azīz, grant them victory, heal their wounded, accept their deceased as shuhadā

O Allāh, forgive us for our shortcomings towards them…

أَيُّهَذا الشاكي وَما بِكَ داءٌ
O you who complains, while you do not have an illness,

كَيفَ تَغدو إِذا غَدَوتَ عَليلا
How will you be, if you actually become ill?

إِنَّ شَرَّ الجُناةِ في الأَرضِ نَفسٌ
The worst of criminals on the earth is a person

تَتَوَقّى قَبلَ الرَحيلِ الرَحيلا
Who tries to avoid death before death comes to him.

وَتَرى الشَوكَ في الوُرودِ وَتَعمى
And one who sees the thorns on roses, but is blinded

أَن تَرى فَوقَها النَدى إِكليلا
To the drops of dew on those roses crowning them like a wreath.

هُوَ عِبءٌ عَلى الحَياةِ ثَقيلٌ
It is a load on life, a heavy load,

مَن يَظُنُّ الحَياةَ عِبءً ثَقيلا
For one to assume that life is a heavy load.

وَالَّذي نَفسُهُ بِغَيرِ جَمالٍ
And one who does not have beauty in themselves—

لا يَرى في الوُجودِ شَيئاً جَميلا
One who does not see anything beautiful in existence.

Don’t be stingy with yourself when it comes to constantly making tawbah and accompanying istighfār in your days and nights.

Imān increases and decreases, and our hearts harden and become stained because of our sins and shortcomings. The sweetness of ‘ibādah fades away, and in this state, one only longs for the times of high imān in which life was illuminated.

The only cure to this sick heart is tawbah— a pure, sincere tawbah.

Catch yourself now before it’s actually too late, when one is being tortured in their grave for their sins, when one only wishes that they’ve retracted sooner…