Don’t Expect Anything from the Rāfiḍah
November 4, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allaah have mercy on him, said about the Rāfiḍah, “Their allegiance to the Jews, Christians and the polytheists [mushriks] and their helping in the killing of Muslims is something well-known to the scholars and the layman. Such that it has been said that never did a Jew and a Muslim fight, or a Christian and a Muslim, or a mushrik and a Muslim except that the Rāfiḍī was with the Jew, the Christian and the mushrik.”
Minhāj as-Sunnah, 3/452.
On Drinking from Kawthar
November 2, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh Ṣāliḥ as-Sindī said, “The closer you are to the Sunnah the closer you are to drinking from his fountain [Kawthar] ﷺ.”
Sharḥ al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah.
He is Closely Counting Every Single Thing They Do
November 1, 2023 § 2 Comments
Allaah said, “So do not be in haste against them ˹O Prophet˺, for indeed We are ˹closely˺ counting down their days.” [Maryam:84]
Aṭ-Ṭabarī said, “He عزّ ذكره is saying, ‘We only delay their destruction so that they can increase in sin. We are counting every single one of their deeds and adding them up—even the [very] breaths they take so that We can repay them for it all. And We have not left speeding up their destruction for any good that We have intended for them.’”
“Is it Him?” · Cursed of Old
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim mentions, “Ibn Isḥāq mentioned from ʿAbdullah ibn Abī Bakr who said, ‘Someone told me from [the Mother of the Believers, the Prophet’s ﷺ wife] Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥuyay that she said, ‘I was the most beloved of my father’s children to him and likewise to my uncle Abū Yāsir [both of whom were Jews]. When Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ came to Medinah they both went to him in the morning and later returned in the evening.
So I heard my uncle say to my father: ‘Is it him?’
He replied: ‘Yes, wallāhī.’
He said: ‘Do you recognise him and affirm it?’
He said: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘So what do you feel about him?’
He said: ‘Enmity for him, wallāhī, as long as I live.’’
[Then Ibn al-Qayyim said] so this Nation under Allaah’s Wrath [الأمة الغضبية] is well-known of times old for its enmity to the Prophets.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 47.
The Rāfiḍah and Jerusalem
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Rāfiḍah were one of the greatest reasons the Christians in the past were able to capture Bait al-Maqdis, until the Muslims were able to take it back from them.”
Minhāj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah, 7/414.
The Nation Under Allaah’s Wrath
October 28, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, “The nation under Allaah’s Wrath, the Yahūd: liars, slanderers, betrayers, deceivers, tricksters, murderers of Prophets, consumers of the forbidden, of usury and bribes, having the most malicious conscience of all nations, the most defective of them in character, the furthest removed from mercy, the closest to punishment, their very habit is hatred and malice, their custom enmity and hostility, a house of magic, lies and deceit, they hold no sanctity for anyone who opposes their disbelief and denials even if a Prophet, they honour not the bonds of kinship or treaties with the believers, nor [even] does anyone who agrees with them get any rights or pity, there is no justice or fairness for anyone who goes along with them, no serenity or peace for anyone who mingles with them, no love of good towards someone who might utilise/employ them, nay—their most intellectual is the most vile, their most truthful the most fraudulent, the one having a sound breast among them—and far be it that such a person be found from or among them—is not a Jew in reality, the most distressed among creation, the darkest houses and the most rotten courtyards, the wildest in character, their greeting is a curse, meeting them is misfortune, their inner-garment is anger, and their outer hatred.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 15.
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October 25, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ḥabīb al-Fārisī said, “It is pure bliss for a man who, upon dying, has his sins die with him too.”
Ḥilyatul-Awliyā, vol. 6, p. 152.
What Do You Expect when They Wanted to Stone Some of the Greatest of all Prophets to Death?
October 24, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said about the Jews, “Allaah split the sea in two for them and saved them from their enemy yet their feet hadn’t even dried when they said to Mūsā, “Make for us a god like their gods.” He replied, “Indeed, you are a really ignorant people!” [Al-Aʿrāf:138] … and even though they had witnessed signs and wonders they wanted to stone Mūsā and his brother Hārūn to death on numerous occasions even though revelation was still being revealed among them!”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 303.
What Can You Expect from the Murderers of Prophets?
October 23, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said about the Jews, “Murderers of Prophets. They murdered Zakariyā and his son Yaḥyā and many other Prophets—to such an extent that they killed seventy in one day and then set up a market at the end of the day as though they had done nothing.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 48.
Only Allaah Knows
October 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, ‘Part of Allaah’s Mercy to His servant is that He tests him with a trial which he can’t disclose to others and nor can he find anyone who can understand it fully/properly—so that his heart doesn’t become attached to anyone else instead of Allaah who he goes and complains to.’
Al-Wābil aṣ-Ṣayyib, p. 35.
ُThe Future is for Islaam · “And ˹Remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord Declared that He Would Send Against them Others who Would Make them Suffer Terribly Until the Day of Judgment.”
October 20, 2023 § Leave a comment
“And ˹remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord declared that He would send against them others who would make them suffer terribly until the Day of Judgment. Indeed, your Lord is swift in punishment, but He is certainly All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [Al-Aʿrāf:167]
Ibn ʿAbbās said, “He would send against them others who would make them suffer terribly …”—Muḥammad ﷺ and his Ummah all the way up until the Day of Judgement.”
Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī, vol. 9, p. 102.
“Cursed were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of David and of Jesus, the son of Mary. That was because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed.” [Maaʾidah:78]
October 16, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn ʿAbbās said, “They were cursed with every tongue. Cursed in the time of Moses (alaihis-salām) in the Tawrāh. Cursed in the time of David (alaihis-salām) in the Zabūr. Cursed in the time of Jesus (alaihis-salām) in the Injīl. And cursed in the time of Muhammad ﷺ in the Qurʾān.”
Mujāhid said, “They were cursed by the tongue of David and so become apes. And they were cursed by the tongue of Jesus and turned into pigs.”
Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī.
They Use White Phosphorus on the Muslims in this Life, in the Next—Skin so Thick it will Take a Journey of Three Nights to Cross it, Allaah will Make it Like that so that they can, “… taste the Punishment.” [Nisaa:56]
October 15, 2023 § 2 Comments
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ضِرْسُ الْكَافِرِ أَوْ نَابُ الْكَافِرِ مِثْلُ أُحُدٍ وَغِلَظُ جِلْدِهِ مَسِيرَةُ ثَلاَثٍ.
The Prophet ﷺ said, “The molar tooth of an unbeliever or the canine teeth of an unbeliever will be like [Mt.] Uhud—and the thickness of his skin will be the distance of three nights travel.”
Muslim, no. 7185
Sins Like Mountains
October 13, 2023 § 2 Comments
يَجِيءُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِذُنُوبٍ أَمْثَالِ الْجِبَالِ فَيَغْفِرُهَا اللَّهُ لَهُمْ
وَيَضَعُهَا عَلَى الْيَهُودِ وَالنَّصَارَى
The Prophet ﷺ said, “On the Day of Resurrection some Muslims will come with sins like mountains, but Allaah will forgive them—and place the sins on the Jews and the Christians.”
Muslim, no. 7014
He ﷿ will Give You a Jew or a Christian to Save You from Hell
October 12, 2023 § Leave a comment
إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ دَفَعَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ يَهُودِيًّا أَوْ نَصْرَانِيًّا فَيَقُولُ هَذَا فَكَاكُكَ مِنَ النَّارِ
The Prophet ﷺ said, “When the Day of Resurrection comes, Allaah ﷿ will give every Muslim [either] a Jew or a Christian and then say—‘This is your ransom from the Fire.’”
Muslim, no. 7011
Sending Salaah on the Prophet ﷺ
October 6, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ʿUthaimīn, “If someone gave you directions to a place you wanted to get to you would see that as a favour he did for you—so what about the Prophet ﷺ who showed you the path to Paradise? It’s his right that you send salaah on him ﷺ.”
Fatāwā Nūr ʿalad-Darb, 12/210.
““May Allaah pardon you ˹O Prophet˺!” ﷺ
September 29, 2023 § Leave a comment
Allaah ﷿ said: “May Allaah pardon you ˹O Prophet˺! Why did you give them permission ˹to stay behind from jihad˺ before those who told the truth were distinguished from those who were lying?” Surah Tawbah 9:43
As-Samarqandī said: “If He had begun His address to the Prophet ﷺ by saying, “Why did you give them permission ˹to stay behind from jihad˺ …” it would have been feared that the Prophet’s heart would have burst open due to the mixture of fear and respect inspired by awe and reverence [haiba] of this Statement of Allaah’s, only that out of His Mercy, Allaah the Most High informed him ﷺ of His Pardon so that his heart ﷺ would settle and then after that He said, “Why did you give them permission ˹to stay behind from jihad˺ before those who told the truth were distinguished from those who were lying?””
Baḥrul-Ulūm, vol. 2, p. 52.
Slipping Away
September 23, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh Ṣalih al-Fawzān said, “We are not scared that this religion will [ever] be lost. What we are scared of is us ourselves slipping away from it and becoming lost. For we have no honour, no status, no value except through this great religion which Allaah blessed us with.”
Liqā Maftūḥ, Jāmiʿatul-Imām, March 28, 2018.
Fāṭimah Daughter of Imām al-Birzālī
June 9, 2023 § Leave a comment
Fāṭimah daughter of al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad bin Yūsuf bin Muḥammad, Ummal-Ḥasan, daughter of our Shaikh, the Imām ʿAlamud-Dīn al-Birzālī.
Her father, Imām al-Birzālī, said, “I took her along to the gatherings of the study of ḥadīth when she was three days old. She had memorised from the Qurʾān and performed Ḥajj and studied ḥadīth from Shaikhs, the number of Shaikhs she heard from reaching 185. She wrote out Ibn Taymiyyah’s Al-Aḥkām and also a complete copy of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī by hand herself which she completed a few days before her death.”
And this copy of Bukhārī of hers is in Damascus and is one that is relied on and quoted from.
Her father continued, “She performed Ḥajj and heard ḥadīth on the way to the Ḥijāz and herself narrated ḥadīth in the two Ḥarams.
She was a blessed woman, guarding her obligatory and optional prayers. She used to strive and was eager in doing good deeds. She had compassion and khair and intelligence and knowledge and good which never left her. She was married for about five years and never left her house, I only ever saw things from her that would please me. When I would see her praying I would become pleased and say, ‘I hope that Allaah benefits me through her,’ because she used to pray a complete ṣalāh and strive in making duʿā. She never once asked me for anything from the dunyā not even to buy anything she might need. I benefitted from her in this dunyā and I hope Allaah will benefit me through her in the Hereafter.”
She passed away in the year 731 hijrī at the age of 24, raḥimahallāh.
ʾAʿyān al-ʿAṣr wa ʾAʿwān an-Naṣr, vol. 4, pp. 30-31.
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ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAwn when He Would Get Angry
June 3, 2023 § 2 Comments
“ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAwn wouldn’t get angry. If someone did happen to anger him he would say, ‘May Allaah bless you. (Bārakallāhu fīk).’”
Ḥilyatul-ʾAwliyā, vol. 3, p. 39.
Shaikh ʿAbdur-Razzāq al-Badr said, “Would that we would take heed of this and compare it to what we do and say when we get angry. He used to say this great duʿā to someone who made him angry, so what would he say when happy and relaxed? It is true strength and firmness that he contained himself like this when angry.”
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June 2, 2023 § Leave a comment
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Stealing Donkeys
May 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
Bashār ibn Burd said to Hilāl ibn ʿAṭiyyah who was a friend of his, “Hilāl, will you listen to me if I give you a piece of advice specifically for you?” Hilāl replied, “Yes!” Bashār then said, “There was a time when you used to steal donkeys, then you repented from that and became a Rāfiḍī [shīʿah]—go back to stealing donkeys, wallāhī it’s better for you than becoming a Rāfiḍī.”
Wafayāt al–ʾAʿyān, vol. 1, p. 425.
Abud-Dardā and Umm ad Dardā
May 26, 2023 § Leave a comment
Abud-Dardā said to Umm ad-Dardā, “When I become angry then make me happy. And when you become angry I will make you happy—if we are not like that then how quickly we will part.”
Al-Ajwibah al-Balīghah, p. 33.
Imām adh-Dhahabī’s Humility
May 26, 2023 § Leave a comment
This is a page from the book, Dhail Dīwān aḍ-Ḍuʿafā of Imām adh-Dhahabī, which is a work where he wrote about narrators, weak ones, abandoned ones, trustworthy ones etc.
Under the names that begin with the letter م he wrote:
“Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Ghāfiqī: he has a bad memory, he is not precise and nor is he mindful of Allaah [muttaqī]. May the Most High forgive him.”
He was talking about himself, Imām adh-Dhahabī is Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān al-Ghāfiqī, raḥimahullah.
The Man from Banī ʿAbs and the Porter
May 26, 2023 § Leave a comment
A man from Banī ʿAbs went to the al-Madāʾin market and purchased a large amount of goods and then looked for someone to carry them for him. He saw a man standing in the market and called him and said, “Carry these for me, may Allaah have mercy on you.” So the man came and picked up his wares and started to walk next to him.
Every time they passed by a group of people they looked at the man who was carrying the goods and said, “As-Salāmu ʿalaika, O Abū ʿAbdullah!”
So the man from Banī ʿAbs was surprised at this porter who was carrying his goods and who all the people of the city knew and who the nobles and dignitaries feted and revered and respected and who they gave this most respectful of salāms to.
So he said, “Who are you, may Allaah have mercy on you?” He replied, “I am just one of Allaah’s slaves.”
Then they passed by another group of people and they said to the man carrying the goods, “As-Salāmu ʿalaika, O Abū ʿAbdullah!” So then the man from Banī ʿAbs took one of them by his hand and said, “Who is this man?”
He replied, “That is Abū ʿAbdullah Salmān al-Fārisī—[most noble] Companion of the Messenger of Allaahﷺ and the Amīr of al-Madāʾin.”
So the man felt embarrassed and ashamed and said, “May Allaah have mercy on you, I didn’t know who you were, please give me my goods so I can carry them.”
Salmān said, “No, wallāhī, I will carry them right until you get to your house.”
Siyar Aʾlām an-Nubalā, vol. 1, p. 546.
On Ramadaan
March 24, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ʿUthaimīn said, “During the day [in Ramaḍān] you are in a state of worship from Fajr to sunset [because fasting in Ramaḍān] is one of the pillars of Islam and you are carrying it out from fajr to sunset—even if you are asleep, even if you are buying and selling, even if you are talking to your friends, you are all the while engulfed in one of the pillars of Islām, subḥānallāh.”
Jalasāt Ramaḍāniyyah, vol. 1, p. 11.
Ibn Taymiyyah on Seeking Forgiveness
October 25, 2022 § Leave a comment
In the nine volume collection of Ibn Taymiyyah’s works which Shaikh ʿUzair Shams checked and brought to light bi ithnillah, the Shaikh of the Shaikhs of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, said, “A person’s seeking forgiveness from Allaah [istighfār] is more important than all duʿās.”
Jāmiʿul-Masāʾil, vol. 6, p. 277.
A Brief Biography of Shaikh Muḥammad ʿUzair Shams · Part 2 – The Madrasahs He Studied At ·
October 20, 2022 § Leave a comment
Continuing from the last post.
“The Shaikh, may Allaah have mercy on him, had something which many people missed out on in our time, namely, the companionship of scholars and being raised among them, since he started his education with his parents and the scholars from his family. During that time he learnt Urdu and Persian and memorised some juzz of the Qurʾān, Shaikh ʿUzair said, “We used to memorise some juzz of the noble Qurʿān and some didactic poems and poetry in Urdu, the focus with us in India was more on understanding and expression rather than memorisation, that is why we were not familiar with the memorisation of texts and different manāhij as is known in Arab lands.”
The Shaikh also benefitted a lot from his father going to a large number of Shaikhs and different madrasahs. The most important madrasahs that Shaikh ʿUzair studied in were:
1) The first one he mentioned when he was asked about his religious upbringing was his own home, where he studied with his father and some of his brothers, this was in 1960 and he did so for two years at primary school level.
2) Faiḍ ʿĀm Madrasah in Māo, it was the first one he studied in after studying with his parents at home, he joined it in 1962 when he was about six years old and stayed there for three years. In his sixth year at primary he learnt Persian and memorised lots of Persian poetry.
3) Dārul-ʿUlūm al-Aḥmadiyyah Madrasah in Dārbānjā in Bihār in 1967. He only stayed there for a year. He studied grammar and morphology and the fundamentals of Arabic there under his uncle ʿAinul-Ḥaqq as-Salafī in Urdu, and also with Shaikh ʿAbdun-Nūr an-Nadwī who he studied Arabic with in Arabic, and he studied Persian literature with Shaikh Muḥammad Raʾīs an-Nadwī.
4) Dārul-Ḥadīth in Bengal in Murshidabād, he joined it in 1968 when his father moved there to teach so he had to go with him, and it is there that he learnt Bengali, and as such the Shaikh had learnt the following languages: Urdu, Persian, Hindī, Arabic, English and Bengali, then later he also learnt German. The following year he left this madrasah.
5) Dārul-Ḥadīth ar-Raḥmāniyyah in Benares in 1969 for two years where he completed middle school. Here he studied ḥadīth under Shaikh ʿAbdus-Salām ar-Raḥmānī.
6) Al-Jāmiʿah as-Salafiyyah in Benares too where he completed his secondary school education, finishing in 1976. There, under his father, he studied Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and al-Muwaṭṭaʾ. And with Shaikh ʿAbdul-Waḥīd ar-Raḥmānī he studied Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. And with Shaikh Ṣafiyyur-Raḥmān al-Mubārakfūrī he studied the book Ḥujjatullāhil-Bālighah of Shāh Waliyullāh ad-Dehlawī. And with Shaikh Muḥammad ʿĪsā an-Nadwī he studied selected chapters from the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldūn in Arabic. And with Shaikh ʿAbdul-Muʿīd Banārisī he studied Sunan an-Nisāʾī.
7) The Faculty of Arabic at the Islamic University of Medīnah, graduating with a degree there in 1981.
8) The Faculty of Arabic at Umm al-Qura University in Makkah where he obtained a Masters in 1985. Then he studied for a Phd there.”
Part 3 to follow inshaa Allaah.
