Individual Lectures – Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid

Questions and answers with Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh): Tawḥīd, following a madhhab, innovations, the Ṣūfī ṭarīqahs and more

1. Why is Tawḥīd divided into three categories?
2. What answer do you give to a person who says you must follow a madhhab?
3. Is taking interest permitted for a house, credit card or student loan, and can you go to Ḥajj with a debt?
4. What is the Islamic position on the Mawlid?
5. If a husband and wife stop communicating for up to a year, what is their position Islamically?
6. Are women allowed hairstyles that imitate the disbelievers?
7. Can the jinn affect a righteous person?
8. Did the Muslims enslave Africans?

Allāh raises scholars in every time, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• In every era Allāh raises imāms who stand for the truth and preserve the religion

• The people of knowledge and ḥadīth are the saved sect, the Jamāʿah, in the ḥadīth of the 73 sects

• Imām aṣ-Ṣābūnī on the standing of the scholars and the signs of Ahl as-Sunnah

• No Salafī claims his place in Paradise is already secured

• Salafiyyah is the pure daʿwah of the Companions, free from pollution

Advice Regarding 'Punish A Muslim Day', a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• Take care with unexpected or suspicious parcels in the post

• Sisters should avoid walking alone, especially after Maghrib or on quiet streets

• Behave well in public, because people see you as a representative of Islam

• Do not carry weapons; a personal alarm is a sensible precaution

• Take the means of safety and trust in Allāh, but do not live in fear

Eating healthy is the way to be, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh) on the importance of eating healthy food

• Fast food and processed food are packed with sugar, corn syrup and additives

• The rise of diabetes and cancers linked to modern diets

• Sugary drinks, even those marketed as healthy, should be cut out

• Simple swaps: jacket and sweet potatoes, coconut oil, eggs fried in butter, no margarine

• Move from a sugar- and starch-based diet to salad and protein, ideally organic

Advice To The Salafis of Moscow, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• Ahl as-Sunnah in Russia are few, but the people of truth are not measured by numbers

• Faces that brighten and darken on the Day of Judgement: Ahl as-Sunnah and the people of innovation

• The straight line and the divergent paths, each with a devil calling to it

• The ʿaqīdah of Ahl as-Sunnah on qadr, intercession and accepting authentic narrations

• Enjoining good and forbidding evil, and the scholars who warned against the deviant groups

Islam's Reply To Extremism – Question & Answer Session, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

1. What about Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses and Khomeini's fatwā?
2. Can there be unity between the Sunnīs and the Shīʿah?
3. Is it permissible for a small group of Muslims to retreat when far outnumbered?
4. Dr. Qaraḍāwī gave a fatwā for Palestine only because they have no weapons and no aid, so where are the Muslim armies?
5. Do Muslims, Christians and Jews believe in the same God?
6. What about weapons of mass destruction, given that catapults were used in early Islam?

Islam's reply to extremism, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• A non-Muslim given safety in a Muslim land may not be harmed

• The Prophet ﷺ entered Makkah peacefully, with no looting or killing

• There is one Qurʾān and one Sunnah for every land; suicide bombing only enrages the enemy against the Muslims

• The man who fought bravely yet was from the people of the Fire

• Imām Aḥmad, an-Nawawī and Ibn Taymiyyah on fighting the Khawārij

The Greatest Of All Needs Is Tawḥīd, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The Qurʾān is the final revelation, and Tawḥīd is its central message

• Tawḥīd in one's actions: prayer, supplication, sacrifice, living and dying for Allāh alone

• For thirteen years in Makkah the revelation focused on Tawḥīd before hijāb or the ban on alcohol

• Outward worship is only sound when Tawḥīd is present, whatever a person's name

• Calamities befall the Muslims because of their neglect of Tawḥīd

• Allāh's promise of security and establishment for those who worship Him alone

Who Are The Saved Sect?, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• The Saved Sect is a name from among the names of Ahlus-Sunnah, such as Ahl al-Ḥadīth

• They are those who hold on to the Sunnah

Recorded in Manchester

Terrorism is Never Islamic Q&A, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

1. What are the sources of extremism?
2. How do you recognise someone affected by the ideology of the Khawārij?
3. How do we remove the humiliation upon the Muslims?
4. Does Saudi Arabia support terrorism?