Ibn Taymiyyah Dawah Centre - ITDC

As salamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu,

تَقَبَّلَ اللّهُ مِنَّا وَ مِنْكُمْ.

Eid mubarak to you and your family..May Allah give us hidayah, protect us from this disease, provide us peace and health.

Ameeen

What about those who harm their neighbours intentionally?

May Allah guide all of us, Aameen!

The more I read the 'Saheehain' (Bukhari and Muslim), the more I come to the conviction that there are so many Ahaadith in these two books from which one can derive and deliver reminders, admonitions, and sermons, that one should limit himself to them, instead of searching out Ahaadith of questionable authenticity from other books.

Wallah, many a times when I read through them, I come across Ahaadith and I'm like: Wow, this seems new to me, never read it before! (although I have, supposedly, read or studied both of them completely)

There is so much in them, one could spend a decade or more delivering admonitions from them, without repetition.

Many a times I hear a speaker mention a weak Hadith from Tabaraani or Hakim, or a Hasan Hadeeth from al-Albaani's "Silsilah Saheeha", although there is a better worded Sahih Hadith in the Saheehain that suffices in its place.

O speakers, read the Saheehain, there is so much in them, only if you but knew!

اللهم قد بلغت، اللهم فاشهد

PS: I'm not talking about evidences of Fiqh and law; not all of them are found in Saheehain. I am taking about general admonitions and reminders.

PS 2: As for those who have the ability to discern Saheeh Hadith from weak ones, they ofcourse can quote Ahaadith from other then the Saheehain. But since most speakers don't, it is better to stick to the Saheehain.

Via Ustaad Nabeel

|Ad-Da' wa Dawaa'- The Disease and the Cure|
Lecture 01 (in Kashmiri Language) by beloved Ustaad Manzoor Ahmad (Hafidhahullah)

The Disease and the cure [الداء والدواء] (Dars No.01) by Ustaadh Manzoor Ahmad Mir The Repenting Sinner

The Excellence of Adhan, standing in first row and Fajr/Isha Prayer

💐Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "Were people to know the blessing of pronouncing Adhan and the standing in the first row, they would even draw lots to secure these privileges. And were they to realize the reward of performing Salat early, they would race for it; and were they to know the merits of Salat after nightfall ('Isha') and the dawn (Fajr) Salat, they would come to them even if they had to crawl.''

📚[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

Commentary: This expression 'to crawl' is used to illustrate the high merit of praying 'Isha and Fajr in congregation in the mosque. This Hadith also urges to make best to occupy the first rows, as the 'Angels of Mercy' pray for the Imam first, then for those who pray immediately behind him in the first row, then those behind them, and so on. The Hadith also points out the excellence of Adhan and the great reward of the person who pronounces it.

Truth with Manners!

Must Read!

What Do I Do If I Find Out My Favorite Preacher Is Corrupt? The 5 Stages of Grief

It is very traumatic to find out that the person you've been listening to for years has changed or is now expressing increasingly deviant views.

If you recognize this deviance, consider yourself one of the fortunate ones. Most of the fans of the person won't even understand the problem because their entire source for learning Islam is the preacher himself. So these fans don't even have an objective measuring stick needed to know what is or isn't corruption. Their understanding of Islam completely depends on whatever the celebrity teaches. If he changes, they change.

I have gone through this trauma myself. People that I thought were upright scholars of deen that I loved and respected turned out to be unabashed sell outs. It wasn't one or two "off the cuff" remarks that made me realize this, but an extended pattern of behavior, associations, and private correspondence. When I talked with the preachers in question about these issues, rather than assuage the worry, they compounded it by doubling down, excusing their behavior, making ugly accusations against me, accusing me of disloyalty, etc.

What I have seen is that when fans of celebrity compassionate imams find out about corruption and deviance, they go through the 5 stages of grief.

Stage 1: Denial

The first thought is, "This is nothing." The fans don't want to hear anything bad about the preacher. So they ignore all the evidence and try to shield themselves from seeing anything incriminating so that they can maintain the pristine image of their beloved preacher. Sadly, many do not leave this stage, no matter how much evidence there is.

Stage 2: Anger

In this stage, the fan lashes out at anyone pointing out the corruption/deviance. It is very sad to see these individuals because you can hear it in their voice how tortured they are. They view the celebrity as a family member. Sometimes they love the preacher more than their own family members. But they also are confused and can sense that something is not right. This contradiction causes mental anguish and they release this frustration by lashing out at others and defending the preacher at all costs.

Stage 3: Bargaining

Eventually the fans cannot deny that there is something off with the preacher. By now, multiple independent sources have brought up the same problems and the preacher himself has done nothing to satisfactorily address the issues, much less resolve them. Sometimes he might even double down. The fans start to bargain with themselves: "Well, there has to be an explanation. It must have been out of context, it was an innocent slip," etc. They tell themselves, "Ok, so maybe he did make a mistake. But so what? No one's perfect!" They bargain with themselves, "I'll just take the good and leave the bad. No problem."

Stage 4: Depression

This stage hits like a ton of bricks. The previous stages of coping could not stop the inevitable realization. Now they have reached full-on grief and it can be very ugly. For some, their Islam is threatened. They have so closely associated Islam with this preacher that they transfer feelings of betrayal to Islam itself or ulama and scholarship as a whole. Some fans, in their grief, make dramatic pronouncements like: "I will NEVER listen to another scholar again!" This stage can last for weeks or months.

Stage 5: Acceptance

If Allah wills, the now ex-fans reach a stage of maturity. They now understand that not every preacher today is trustworthy, to say the least, and some of them may have the external trappings of traditional Islam when in reality, they are nothing more than faux-traditionalist wolves. They have moved past blind fandom and start to distinguish between the feel-good fluff version of Islam taught by compassionate imams from the kind of Islam taught by traditional scholars for centuries. They may have scars, but the healing process is well underway.

An excellent example comes from the Sahabi Salman al-Farsi. He spent his early adulthood leaving the religion of fire-worship to become Christian. He would find a Christian scholar to study with, learn all that he could until the scholar would die and then he would move to study with the next scholar. In some cases, he found out that one of the Christian scholars he was studying with was corrupt, literally stealing from people. He didn't give up or say, "Well, we can only follow the dead!" He moved on and sought the truth. Eventually that led him to RasulAllah ﷺ and he became one of the greatest Companions, may Allah be pleased with them all.

Be like Salman. If one preacher burns you, there are many righteous scholars in our day and age who stick to the truth and don't sell out. Seek them out and Allah will guide you to Him bi idhnillah.

Via Daniel Haqiqatjou

Three deeds which will benefit you even after death!

20 years since the illustrious Shaykh, Al-'Allāmah, Al-Faqeeh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-'Uthaymeen (رحمه الله) passed away.

This is the heritage and treasure of knowledge he left behind (approximately recorded):

‎156,925 pages

‎180 Books

244 volumes

‎7000 hours of audio

‎30,166 Fatawā
(Islamic verdicts)

Authorships in following Topics:

36 Books on Tafseer and Sciences of The Qur'ān.

18 Books on Hadeeth and its Sciences

28 Books on 'Aqeedah (Belief)

56 Books on Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence)
Foundations of Fiqh, and Principles of Fiqh

‎2 Books on Seerah (Biography) of The Prophet* (صلى الله عليه وسلم)

‎17 Books of Fatawā
(Islamic verdicts) and Sittings

‎6 Books on The Arabic language and its sciences.

‎4 Books on the Mannerisms of the student of knowledge

‎13 Books on General subjects.