Individual Lectures – Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan

Taqwā, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• "We have instructed those who were given the Book before you, and you, to have taqwā of Allāh", and "Fear Allāh as He should be feared, and do not die except as Muslims"

• What is forbidden is left entirely, while what is commanded is done to the best of one's ability: the example of Ḥajj for the one who is able

• "Fear Allāh and know that you will meet Him", and the Fire whose fuel is men and stones

• "Fear Allāh wherever you are": in public and alone, as a child behaves when the parent is watching

• The definition of taqwā: placing a shield between yourself and Allāh's anger and punishment, and Ibn ʿAbbās on the people of taqwā

• ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb falling ill for a month after hearing "The punishment of your Lord will surely come"

• Taqwā is leaving what Allāh forbade and doing what He made obligatory; the verse of al-birr describes the people of taqwā

• Taqwā in speech, in differences between brothers ("Fear Allāh and set right matters between you"), with one's wives, and in dealings with money

• The fruits of taqwā: beneficial knowledge, a way out of every difficulty, provision from where one does not expect, blessings from the heavens and the earth

• Crossing the Ṣirāṭ according to one's taqwā, Allāh saving those who feared Him, and Allāh being with the people of taqwā

• This life is play and amusement, and the promise of Allāh is true

Recorded in Reading

Hold Fast to the Rope of Allāh Altogether and Do Not Become Divided, a lecture with questions and answers by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The verse "Hold fast to the rope of Allāh altogether and do not become divided" is quoted even by those who oppose the Sunnah, and what it really commands

• The causes of splitting: the People of the Book took what suited them and left the rest after clear proofs came

• Why we call ourselves Salafī and not only Muslim: every sect claims Islām, and the ḥadīth of the seventy-three sects

• The word Salaf used by the Prophet ﷺ, al-Bukhārī, az-Zuhrī and the imāms: the Salafī methodology is nothing new

• Obeying the Messenger ﷺ is obeying Allāh: Ibn Masʿūd and the woman who could not find the curse on tattooing in the Qurʾān

• Understanding the Qurʾān and the Sunnah upon the understanding of the Companions, who witnessed the revelation and were promised al-Ḥusnā

• "I am a safeguard for my Companions": following and not innovating, from al-Barbahārī and al-Ājurrī

• How the people of innovation hide themselves, with an account of meeting followers of Anwar al-Awlaki and their misuse of verses to justify suicide bombing

• Questions: the label "Wahhābī", following a madhhab and blind following, and permissible differences of opinion

• Ibn ʿAbbās: "I say to you the Messenger of Allāh said, and you say Abū Bakr and ʿUmar said?"

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“Do the People Think That They Will Be Left to Say ‘We Believe’ and They Will Not Be Tried?”, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The trials of the Companions such as ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir at the hands of Quraysh

• The Prophets were tested: Ibrāhīm cast into the fire, and the harm done to the Prophet ﷺ

• Those who enjoin the good are opposed, yet Allāh's aid comes to the people of the Sunnah

• Check yourself and what you are upon; do not fear the lies spread about the callers to the Sunnah

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The promise of Allāh is true & leaving something for the sake of Allāh, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The principle: whoever leaves something for the sake of Allāh, Allāh replaces it with something better

• Examples from the Companions, including one who set a condition before giving his pledge to the Prophet ﷺ

• Holding back one's anger while able to act on it, and the reward for it

• The man called by a woman of beauty and status who refuses for fear of Allāh

• Charity does not decrease wealth, and it purifies the giver

• The promise of Allāh to aid the believers is true, and the lessons of the Battle of Uḥud

Save yourselves and your families from the Hell Fire, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The Fire as the punishment of Allāh, and the sins and love of this dunyā that lead people to it

• Trials as a test from Allāh, and good tidings for the patient

• The worth of Paradise compared with this world

• "All of you are shepherds": learning the religion in order to teach and protect the family

• Prevention is better than the cure: monitoring what children watch, use and absorb online

• Building a good Islāmic home: no arguing in front of the children, gentleness and wisdom like the Salaf

• Not exposing people's sins and shortcomings, while making clear errors in ʿaqīdah and manhaj

The Day of Resurrection, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Belief that the body will be raised and brought to account

• An overview of death, the barzakh, the reckoning, Paradise and the Fire

• Descriptions of the Hellfire and its gates

• Applying the warnings to ourselves, whatever our station

• The food of the people of the Fire, including the tree of Zaqqūm

• The value of time, from Sūrah al-ʿAṣr

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A Ramaḍān reminder on the taqwā of Allāh by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• How fasting builds taqwā: knowing Allāh sees you and the angels are recording

• Allāh's command to fear Him as He deserves to be feared, and Ibn Masʿūd's explanation

• ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz: taqwā is leaving what Allāh forbade and doing what He obligated

• If we kept even a quarter of our Ramaḍān effort all year, what could we reach?

• Taqwā as the key to all good

Reading

Marital Harmony In Islām, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Harmony, tolerance and patience in marriage

• The importance of seeking knowledge

• The wisdom behind marriage

• How to select a righteous spouse

• How to achieve a happy marital life

The reality of this world, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The virtue of the speech of Allāh over all other speech

• This world as play, amusement and adornment, as described in the Qurʾān

• How Shayṭān causes doubt to stop a person from acting

• The tests of this life, and the Prophets being the most severely tested

• The benefit of this world: a place to do good, and not delaying good deeds

• A small place in Paradise is better than the world, and the believer dipped once in Paradise forgets all hardship

Reminder after Tarāwīḥ, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• How quickly time passes, and how little of this life remains compared to the nations before us

• The Hour draws near while people turn away heedlessly

• The ḥadīth of the Prophet ﷺ saying "Āmīn" three times on the minbar

• Wretched is the one who reaches Ramaḍān and is not forgiven

• The many means of forgiveness in Ramaḍān, and the accepted duʿāʾ of the fasting person

• Encouragement to make the most of the remaining nights

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/5/19