Individual Lectures – Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid

What is a Muslim?, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• A Muslim is one who submits his will to Allāh, not a worshipper of Muḥammad ﷺ

• Abraham, Moses, Jesus and the prophets of the Children of Israel were all Muslims

• Earlier prophets were sent to particular nations, and Muḥammad ﷺ to all mankind

• Not every Muslim is perfect, but a true Muslim submits fully to Allāh

• Muslim Spain and its learning while Europe was in the dark ages

• Why random evolution cannot explain creation

Salafiyyah: the path of the Ṣaḥābah, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• Salafiyyah means following the way of the Companions

• The Companions are to be praised, never criticised

• Allāh threatens whoever follows other than the path of the believers

• Salafiyyah revolves around obeying Allāh, obeying the Messenger ﷺ and following the Companions

• The Jamāʿah is the scholars who follow the Sunnah, not simply the majority

• Groups such as Jamāʿat at-Tablīgh and the Ṣūfī orders hide their innovation behind a madhhab

Characteristics of the strangers, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The passing of Shaykh Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), and how knowledge is lost with the scholars

• The scholars protect the religion, while misguided leaders lead others astray

• The rise of the Khawārij, the Shīʿah and the Ṣūfīs

• The trials of the imāms of the Sunnah, such as the inquisition over the createdness of the Qurʾān

• Abu al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī leaving the ʿaqīdah of the Muʿtazilah

• The early scholars of ḥadīth gathering and travelling to seek knowledge

Know that the Jamāʿah is what the Companions were upon, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The foundations of the religion: following the Companions and abandoning innovation

• The Companions did not differ in ʿaqīdah, and the religion is not opened up to argument

• The Khawārij, old and new: declaring the rulers disbelievers, then making their blood lawful, then rebelling

• The ḥadīth of Ḥudhayfah: cling to the Jamāʿah of the Muslims and their ruler, and hear and obey

• How the Companions understood Allāh's Names and Attributes, and the Ahl al-Ḥadīth who follow them

Freedom of women through Islam, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• How women were treated in other cultures and before Islam

• A woman keeps her own wealth and is not obliged to spend it on her husband or family

• Women share in the reward of worship, such as the gate of ar-Rayyān for those who fast

• So-called liberation in modern society is really enslavement and indoctrination

• Islam honours the mother and gives a great reward for raising daughters

Al-Istiqāmah and Q&A, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The āyah “Those who say our Lord is Allāh, then remain upright”, and ʿUmar's explanation of it

• The Straight Path the Prophet ﷺ drew in the sand, and the divergent paths around it

• Salafiyyah is statement and action, outward and inward, not lip service

• The steadfastness of the Salaf, and the scholars who did not yield under imprisonment and persecution

• Taking criticism of individuals from the scholars who know them in detail

• Questions and answers on the criticism of callers and those who defend the heads of ḥizbiyyah

The position of the Salaf in refuting Ahl al-Bidʿah, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The Prophet ﷺ warned of a time when bidʿah and misguidance would spread

• The Companions' severity towards innovators, and loving and hating for the sake of Allāh

• Good intentions do not excuse opposing the Sunnah

• The early Salaf forbade sitting with the people of desires and commanded sticking to the Jamāʿah

• Imām Mālik and the imāms warned against the people of innovation by name, as sincere advice

The evils of extremism, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The biblical prophets are prophets of the Muslims too, and extremism did not come from them or from Islam

• The Prophet ﷺ forbade killing women and children, even in battle

• The Treaty of Ḥudaybiyah and the ten years of peace it brought

• ISIS, al-Nuṣrah and the ideology of Bin Laden and al-Ẓawāhirī

• The Salafīs are the furthest from the jihādī takfīrī ideology and never revolt against the Muslim rulers

Believe in Allāh then be upright (short excerpt), a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• ʿAqīdah is the foundation of the religion; without sound belief the religion is not upright

• Allāh commands us to follow the Straight Path: the Qurʾān and the Sunnah as the Companions understood them

• The ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd: the Prophet ﷺ drew one straight line and divergent paths to its right and left

The liberation of women through Islam, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• Before Islam, female infants were buried alive, and Islam abolished it

• Forced marriage and confiscating passports are cultural practices, not Islam

• ʿĀʾishah was a teacher, a muftiyah and among the greatest narrators of ḥadīth

• Men and women have different roles and rights in society, and both must cover their ʿawrah

• How constant media drip-feeding builds hatred of Islam