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Family, marriage, health and mental well-being (Part 3): raising children, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Sara Haroon (hafidhahullāh)

• A simple way to teach children the names of the Mothers of the Believers

• Ibn al-Qayyim in Tuḥfat al-Mawdūd: whoever neglects teaching his child what benefits him has wronged him greatly

• Choosing a good name for the child; the most beloved names to Allāh are ʿAbdullāh and ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān

• The Salaf disciplined their children for swearing oaths lightly; Shaykh Ibn Bāz on not cursing or insulting children

• "The best of you are those who are best to their families": how siblings treat one another

• Correcting children with ḥadīth from the Forty: loving for your brother what you love for yourself, "Do not get angry", leaving what does not concern you

• Forbidding evil with the tongue is not "snitching"

• Speaking to the family about the Hereafter, and teaching the daily adhkār and manners

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 26/2/23

The Precise Verdicts on Deviant Methodologies: questions and answers on the Salafī methodology and the deviant groups, by Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā an-Najmī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The groups: the Ikhwān al-Muslimīn, the followers of Ḥasan al-Bannā

• Their negligence in tawḥīd al-ʿibādah; why "tawḥīd al-ḥākimiyyah" is not a further category

• Their silence over major shirk: calling upon others besides Allāh and circling the graves

• The Prophet ﷺ spent thirteen years in Makkah calling to tawḥīd, not seeking rule

• Their hatred of the Salafī call and its people

• Cooperation with the people of the Sunnah in one's land

Streamed LIVE at the Salafi Bookstore, Moss Side, Manchester on 28/9/25

ʿAqīdat ar-Rāziyyayn, taught by Shaykh Uways at-Taweel (hafidhahullāh)

• The Rāfiḍah: the origin of the name, and their founder ʿAbdullāh ibn Sabaʾ the Jew

• The Zaydiyyah and how the Shīʿah split over Zayd ibn ʿAlī

• Statements from their own books that oppose the Qurʾān, including their extremism over ʿAlī and likening Allāh to His creation

• Their hatred of the Companions, and the virtue of the Companions: "Do not revile my Companions"

• Questions and answers: the Qurʾān recited by the reciter, answering "Are you a believer?", and the sign of the people of innovation: speaking ill of the people of narrations

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 9/1/21

Explanation of al-Mandhūmah al-Ḥāʾiyyah of Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī Dāwūd as-Sijistānī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī, taught by Ustādh Abu Maymūnah Saʿīd Ali (hafidhahullāh)

• The line on seeing Allāh: "Say as he ﷺ said", and the ḥadīth of Jarīr: "You will see your Lord as you see this moon"

• The ḥadīth likens the seeing to the seeing, not Allāh to the moon; guarding Fajr and ʿAṣr as a means to that bliss

• The Jahmī denies Allāh's Right Hand, "and both of His Hands are right, pouring down with blessings"

• The Muʿaṭṭilah: the Jahmiyyah, the Muʿtazilah, and those below them in negation, the Ashāʿirah, Kullābiyyah and Māturīdiyyah

• Allāh has two Hands, mentioned in the dual, the singular and the plural; attributes of the Essence and attributes of action

• Refuting the Mushabbihah from the Revelation, the intellect and what is perceived

• Five angles refuting those who make the Hand mean power or blessing, including "what I created with My two Hands" (38:75)

Streamed LIVE from Oldham on 15/11/25

Silsilat Sharḥ ar-Rasāʾil: Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān's explanation of the short treatises of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning a new treatise: Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb's explanation of the word of Tawḥīd, Lā ilāha illAllāh

• The word that distinguishes between disbelief and Islām, the word of taqwā, the firm handhold, and the legacy Ibrāhīm (ʿalayhis-salām) left among his offspring

• Light on the tongue and heavy on the Scale, yet not mere words: it has a meaning and requirements

• al-ʿUrwat al-Wuthqā: disbelieving in the ṭāghūt and believing in Allāh (al-Baqarah 2:256)

• It makes a person Muslim only with knowledge of its meaning and acting on its requirements

• Those whom Shayṭān has misled about its meaning, and those he has made heedless so that they rarely say it

• All the prophets and messengers were sent with this word, and some of Ibrāhīm's offspring will carry it until the Hour

Sharḥ as-Sunnah by Imām al-Barbahārī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Point 53: all of creation acts by Allāh's Will

• Ibrāhīm's argument with the tyrant: "Allāh brings the sun from the east, so bring it from the west"

• Splitting and differing occur by Allāh's universal Will (irādah kawniyyah) even though He does not love them

• The difference between Allāh's universal Will and His legislative Will (irādah sharʿiyyah)

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 30/11/24

ʿUmdatul Aḥkām by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī (raḥimahullāh): the Book of Fasting, a Ramaḍān three-day workshop shared between several teachers (session 1 of 10, part 2), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The second ḥadīth of the sitting, from Ibn ʿUmar: "When you see it, fast, and when you see it, break your fast; and if it is hidden from you, complete the count"

• The narrator ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar: a Companion son of a Companion, one of those who narrated the most, too young for Badr and Uḥud, present at al-Khandaq

• A principle: a command indicates obligation and a prohibition indicates ḥarām, unless another text shows otherwise

• One trustworthy witness is enough to begin Ramaḍān, while ending it needs two, because one is leaving an act of worship

• When the sky is overcast, completing thirty days of Shaʿbān or of Ramaḍān; fasting on the day of ʿĪd is ḥarām

• The months are established by sighting, not by astronomical calculation

• Questions and answers: a sighting from far away, and following trustworthy reports

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/2/25

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

Principles of the Salafi Methodology (Part 2), the conclusion of the lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) that began in Part 1

• Christianity as a dīn of irjāʾ: Paul as a Jahmī Murjiʾ, and the refutation of faith without works found even in the Book of James

• How the innovators ruin the religion, and why a distorted, altered revelation cannot rectify a society

• Salafīs call to guidance out of sincere concern for people, as every prophet and messenger did; the charge of hatred is false, for the criticism is aimed at the heads of misguidance and innovation, not the common people

• Freedom from the ways of the Murjiʾah, the Khawārij, the Rāfiḍah and the Qadariyyah as a great blessing, and the Salaf's saying about being guided to Islām and kept from the people of desires

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 1/2/19

Ramaḍān Reminders 1438H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• The slave's two great needs: tawḥīd and istighfār (seeking forgiveness)

• Tawḥīd is the right of Allāh over His slaves, the purpose for which He created them: "I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me" (adh-Dhāriyāt 51:56)

• Tawḥīd is the condition for deeds to be accepted: an act done for other than Allāh is rejected

• Every messenger and every revealed book called to tawḥīd alone

• Forgiveness is the right of the slaves over Allāh, and every person needs it

• The conditions of true repentance: remorse for the past, a firm intention to rectify the future, and the means to do so; merely saying "astaghfirullāh" without them is not accepted

Recorded at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent