All Good Lies in Following the Salaf – Conference 2016

Great Admonitions from the Companions, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh), at the Cardiff Conference 2016: All Good Lies in Following the Salaf

• All good is in following the Salaf, i.e. the Companions

• Seeking knowledge is worship of Allāh, and teaching knowledge is charity and a form of nearness to Allāh

• Knowledge keeps you company when you are alone and beautifies you amongst your friends

• The angels aspire to be in the company of those who seek knowledge

• Allāh has not bestowed upon the servants a blessing greater than knowing the meaning of Lā ilāha illā Allāh

• The importance of patience and gratefulness to Allāh

Recorded at the Cardiff Conference 2016

al-Lāmiyyah of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Hasan as-Somali (hafidhahullāh)

• The ruling on testing people on their ʿaqīdah

• Is it permissible to study the Arabic language from innovators?

• “We have books, why should we return to the scholars?”: the correct stance

• The importance of seeking knowledge and asking Allāh to be firm

• The belief of Ahlus-Sunnah regarding the Companions, and their virtues

• Who are the Shīʿah and the Nawāṣib?

• The ruling on slavery in Islām; an encouragement to the youth to learn a trade and avoid drugs

• Is anyone who teaches from the books of the Salaf a Salafī?

The speaker gave a strong encouragement to memorise the text. You can find it online at: http://www.aqidah.com/creed/ar...

Recorded at the Cardiff Conference 2016

Recorded at the All Good Lies in Following the Salaf Conference (2016).

The Virtues of Knowledge, a live telelink with Shaykh Khālid adh-Dhufayrī (hafidhahullāh) from Kuwait, at the Cardiff Conference 2016: All Good Lies in Following the Salaf

• What is the intent behind knowledge?

• The virtues of knowledge

• Allāh will raise those who acquire it, but it requires effort: attending lessons, lectures and conferences, and reading widely

• Imām al-Bukhārī selected the ḥadīths of his Ṣaḥīḥ from over 300,000 ḥadīths that he memorised

• Knowledge is the inheritance of the prophets

• Knowledge does not benefit unless it is sought from its correct sources: the Qurʾān, the Sunnah and the major scholars known for it

• A strong encouragement to seek knowledge from the major scholars and to stick to them

Recorded at the Cardiff Conference 2016

al-Lāmiyyah of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Aḥmad an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Hasan as-Somali (hafidhahullāh)

• A brief revision of the previous day; the benefits of studying ʿaqīdah, which makes a person firm

• The dangers of the belief that the Qurʾān is created

• The belief of Ahlus-Sunnah regarding the Names and Attributes of Allāh, and the most important principle regarding them

• A refutation of those who reject Allāh’s ascension over the Throne

• Will the believers see Allāh? What is the proof?

• The attribute of nuzūl (descent) of Allāh

• The correct belief regarding the scales on the Day of Judgement

The speaker gave a strong encouragement to memorise the text. You can find it online at: http://www.aqidah.com/creed/ar...

Recorded at the Cardiff Conference 2016

Recorded at the All Good Lies in Following the Salaf Conference (2016).

The Distinguishing Characteristics of the Salafī, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh), based on the works of Shaykh ʿAbdullāh adh-Dhufayrī (hafidhahullāh), Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Bukhārī (hafidhahullāh) and other mashāyikh, at the Cardiff Conference 2016: All Good Lies in Following the Salaf

• The Salafi daʿwah is the call of raḥmah (mercy) and takes one out of ignorance into light

• It is based on the Qurʾān, which guides to “that which is most right and just” (al-Isrāʾ 17:9)

• Imām Mālik: “Whoever claims there is a good innovation has claimed that Muḥammad has betrayed the message”

• Adhering to the Sunnah and taking disputes back to it, whatever the circumstances; relying upon the narrations of the Ṣaḥābah

• The dangers of not sticking with the scholars; allegiance and disownment is for the sake of Allāh alone

• The fruits of Salafiyyah: Allāh makes you firm, and how the Salaf remained firm in the face of trials

• The religion is built upon two foundations: Taḥṣīl and Taḥdhīr

Recorded at the Cardiff Conference 2016

The Importance of Clinging to the Sunnah, a live telelink with Shaykh Ḥasan al-Bannā (raḥimahullāh), at the Cardiff Salafi Conference 2016, translated into English. A short, heartfelt admonition that holding to the Book and the Sunnah is an individual obligation and the life of the heart.

• Allah said, "O you who believe, respond to Allah and the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life, and know that Allah comes between a man and his heart, and to Him you will be gathered" (al-Anfāl 24); the believers, with knowledge and faith, are the leaders of the Ummah.

• The life of the heart is the life of the person, the family and the Ummah, and nothing gives it life except the Book of Allah and the Sunnah, "the truest speech is the Book of Allah and the best guidance is the guidance of Muḥammad ﷺ".

• The Prophet ﷺ said there is a piece of flesh which, if sound, the whole body is sound, and if corrupt, the whole body is corrupt, and that is the heart; the hearts of the servants are between two fingers of the Most Merciful, who turns them as He wills.

• Allah bore witness to His oneness along with the angels and those of knowledge (Āl ʿImrān 18), and the Prophets left behind no dirham or dīnār but knowledge, so whoever takes it has taken a great share; the scholars are the heirs of the Prophets.

• If someone calls you a "Wahhābī", say you follow the Book and the Sunnah and the Prophet ﷺ, taking knowledge from more than one scholar, each strong in a field such as tafsīr, ḥadīth or tawḥīd, all united upon the foundations of Ahl as-Sunnah.

• Faith is belief in the heart, speech on the tongue and action with the limbs, increasing with obedience and decreasing with sin, so wanting to be a believer is not enough without taking its means: sitting with the scholars and students, reading and acting.

• "Whoever lives among you will see much differing, so hold to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs, bite onto it with your molar teeth, and beware of newly invented matters, for every innovation is misguidance"; the Sunnah is the Prophet's sayings, actions and tacit approvals.

• The Ummah will split into seventy-three sects, all in the Fire except one, those upon what the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions were upon, and whoever claims the Sunnah without acting upon it is not from its people.

• In every generation trustworthy carriers of this knowledge remove from it the distortions of the extremists, the false claims of the liars and the interpretations of the ignorant, such as changing "istawā" to "istawlā" or saying Allah's hand means His power, while the ḥadīth of charity says Allah takes it in His right hand and nurtures it.

• "If they believe as you have believed, they are guided" (al-Baqarah 137), and "Do not dispute, lest you lose courage and your strength depart" (al-Anfāl 46); the Ummah split because it left the way of the Companions.

• The Book and the Sunnah cover every part of life: kindness to parents, eating, sleeping, dealing with people, raising children, neighbours, entering the toilet and the home, and hearing and obeying the ruler even if he is an Abyssinian slave, and "Protect yourselves and your families from a Fire" is only achieved through them.

• He advises Muslims in Europe and America to learn with proper manners in the lessons, love the scholars and students, build an organised community life with marriage and the mosque, raise their children at home, and live out the religion so that people come to love Islām.

Recorded in Cardiff

Recorded at the All Good Lies in Following the Salaf Conference (2016).

The Life and Legacy of Imām Aḥmad (Part 1), a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh), based on the works of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Hādī (hafidhahullāh), at the Cardiff Conference 2016: All Good Lies in Following the Salaf

• “Allāh will exalt those of you who believe, and those who have been granted knowledge” (58:11); the scholars are the inheritors of the prophets

• The phrase “Imām of Ahlus-Sunnah” in the unrestricted form refers to Imām Aḥmad

• His lineage and kunyah; raised as an orphan by his mother; the age he began seeking knowledge

• Allāh made the Sunnah manifest through Aḥmad and crushed innovation

• During the trial only four people remained with him; his torture, and the physician's words about the lashes on his back

• ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī: “No one has achieved as much as Aḥmad after the death of the Messenger”

• His pursuit of knowledge: “By Allāh I will continue to seek knowledge until the grave”, and walking on foot from Baghdad to perform Ḥajj

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Recorded at the Cardiff Conference 2016