Individual Lectures – Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali

The wisdom behind the descent of Ādam (ʿalayhis-salām) from Paradise to the earth, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh), from Ibn al-Qayyim's Miftāḥ Dār as-Saʿādah (raḥimahullāh)

• Every decree of Allāh carries a wisdom, whether or not we can see it, just as a car maker's choices have reasons the driver may not know

• Tasting the toil and hardship of this world makes the believers value Paradise all the more, for things are made clear by their opposites

• Paradise is not a place of commands and prohibitions, so the rank earned by obedience, patience and sacrifice is gained only in this world

• The names of Allāh (al-Ghafūr, ar-Raḥīm, al-Muḥyī, al-Mumīt, al-Malik) need an abode in which their effects appear, and the angels were told "I know what you do not know"

• Īmān in the unseen, the prophets, the martyrs and the friends of Allāh could only emerge from a life of trial

• ʿUbūdiyyah (servitude) is the highest station: the Prophet ﷺ chose to be a slave and messenger, and Allāh calls him His ʿabd at the Isrāʾ, in the call and in the challenge

• Desire and anger are part of our make-up, and Ādam's trial with Iblīs prepares his children to be on guard against the enemy

• Allāh's joy at the repentance of His servant (the ḥadīth of the man and his lost mount) requires sin and tawbah to occur in this world

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 3/4/15

The Journey of the Wretched Soul to the Hellfire, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• Sins come between a person and guidance

• The wretched soul at death and in the grave: “This is your Day which you were promised”

• The disbelievers driven to Hell in crowds and its gates opened

• The food of the people of the Fire, and their despair

Salafi Centre of Manchester, 26 March 2016

Loving the dunyā, a reminder by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• The reality of our lives and of this worldly life, and its status with Allāh

Unity upon the Sunnah, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• The false paths to unity offered today: military coups against the rulers, the Tablīghī "tours", and the slogans of the Ikhwān and ISIS

• The linguistic meaning of the Sunnah, and its wider meaning with the early scholars: whatever conforms to the Qurʾān, the Sunnah and the way of the Companions in belief and worship

• Why most of what the Salaf wrote under the title "as-Sunnah" concerns ʿaqīdah

• A neglected feature of the Salaf: warning against innovation and keeping away from it and its people

• True unity comes only by gathering upon the Sunnah and supporting the masājid established upon it

Streamed LIVE on 3/7/16

The Hellfire and the justice of Allāh, a khuṭbah by Ustādh Abu Arwa Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• "Fear the Fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers"

• The descriptions of the punishment of the Fire in the Qurʾān

• The fear the Companions had of the Fire, and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb's state at his death

• Allāh is praised even for the punishment He sends down: "So the last remnant of those who did wrong was cut off, and all praise is for Allāh"

• Ibrāhīm (ʿalayhis-salām) asking Allāh to keep him from idol worship

• The ongoing grief of the people of the Fire, and their regret over wasted youth

Recorded in Bradford