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Is the Innovation or the Innovator in the Fire?
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Questioner: Shaikh, since we’re on the topic of innovations, may Allah reward you with good, what is the meaning of the saying of the Prophet ﷺ in more than one ḥadīth, ‘… every newly invented thing is an innovation and every innovation is misguidance and all misguidance is in the fire,’ what does ‘… in the fire …’ refer to? Does it mean the innovation along with the person who does it? And is the time he will spend in the fire in correlation to the action that he did? Or does it mean that the innovation itself will be in the fire but not the person who does it?

Al-Albaani: The person is meant, because firstly the innovation itself is not a body but rather a meaning embodied in some people. Secondly, the innovation is not something that has been given the responsibility of following Islam [taklīf] such that it should be burnt in the fire.

This ḥadīth is exactly like the other saying of the Prophet ﷺ, ‘The lower garment of the believer should reach the middle of his calves. There is no harm in what is between that and the ankles, what is lower than that is in the Fire,’ i.e., the person wearing it like that is in the fire not the lower garment itself … an innovation is something that is personified in a person by him innovating it in the religion.

So when he invents something new, then due to him having done so, his innovation leads him to the fire.

Clear?

Questioner: In correlation to the action that he did.

Al-Albaani: Yes.

Al-Hudaa wan-Nūr, 527.

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The Outstanding Sister

"The Shaikhah, Mūḍī bint ʿAbdullah al-Jalham, Allaah have mercy on her, d. 2016, she was born in ʿUnaizah. Her father passed away before she got married, so she took on the responsibility of raising her seven younger brothers. A short while after she got married she suffered burns [in a fire] in which a great part of her body was burnt and due to which she had to stay in hospital for a number of months. Yet despite these problems and difficulties she kept on studying and outdoing others. She had memorized the Qurʾān and the two Ṣaḥīḥs. Then she started following the lectures of the major scholars, Ibn Bāz, Ibn ʿUthaimīn and al-Fawzān. She was sharp and intelligent, quoting Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim by heart, citing the volume and page [she was taking from]. Then she started to give daily lectures to women except on Fridays, doing so for twenty-two years, even when ill. Such that in 2013 she got gangrene in her foot which had to be amputated half way up to her shin, then she started gradually losing her sight and had to stay in hospital for a number of months, but that didn’t stop her from giving her lectures since she used to leave the hospital every Sunday to give a dars on ʿaqīdah and then go back to the hospital. They counted the number of books that she taught and it came to seventy-five, amongst which were explanations of chapters from Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Kitāb at-Tawḥīd a number of times, al-Wāsiṭiyyah three times, and Sharḥ as-Sunnah of al-Barbahārī.

She passed away and she hadn’t even turned sixty."

ʿAjāʾib wa Asrār min Siyar al-ʿUlamā maʿal-ʿIlm, p. 30.

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Shaikh ʿAbdur-Razzāq al-Badr, Allaah protect him, said:

“But take note of a point here: every time you leave your house a shaiṭān is there waiting for you to come out.

Every time.

Every time you leave your house there is a shaiṭān waiting by your house—he has no other job except to wait for you to come out, and his mission and aim is well-known.

And he has helpers.

So when you say:

بِسْمِ الله، توكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله، وَلا حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إلاَّ بِالله

Bismillāh. Tawakkaltu ʿalallāh. Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwta illa billāh.

“In the name of Allaah. I trust in Allaah. There is no might and no power but with Allaah.”

You are protected from his evil and that of his helpers and this shaiṭān then turns to his aids and brothers and tells them to lose hope in you, saying, ‘What are you going to do with a man who has been guided, defended and protected?’

That is why it is not fitting for a Muslim to deprive himself of this profound good and excellence, so he should make sure to say this great dhikr:

بِسْمِ الله، توكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله، وَلا حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إلاَّ بِالله

Bismillāh. Tawakkaltu ʿalallāh. Wa lā ḥawla wa lā quwwta illa billāh.

“In the name of Allaah. I trust in Allaah. There is no might and no power but with Allaah.”

Sharḥ al-Wābil aṣ-Ṣayyib, lesson no. 22.

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Quran, duaa, dhikr, sadaqah, all good deeds, the time is now.

Ibn ‘Abbas reported God's Messenger as saying, “There are no days in which a good deed is more pleasing to God than these ten days.” On being asked whether not even jihad in God’s path were as pleasing, he replied, “Not even jihad in God’s path, except when a man goes out in person with his property and loses both life and property.”

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Al-Albaani On Predatory Beasts Chasing Women

“… The Shaitan seeks to tempt her …,” commenting on this ḥadīth, the Imaam said:

“Namely, he rises up and looks at her and takes interest in her because she has employed one of the means for him to gain authority over her: which is her leaving her home.

This is regarding the Jinn devils, so how about the ones from mankind, especially when the human devils in this age of ours are more harmful to a woman than a thousand Jinn ones, because most of today’s youth have no marūʾah*, no dīn, no honour, no humanity, exposing themselves to women in a grievous manner, base/vile, despicable, degenerate, so the rulers, if they are Muslim, must discipline these depraved sinners and predatory beasts.’”

* Explaining marūʾah, ʿUthaimīn said , “… actions and speech that people do not criticize …” Ash-Sharḥ al-Mumtiʿ 11/108]

At-Taʿlīq ʿalat-Targhīb wat-Tarhīb, 1/186.

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