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Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The path of guidance is one, while the paths of misguidance are many

• "Whoever lives will see much differing…" and holding fast to the rope of Allāh

• "I have left you with that which, if you hold to it, you will never go astray": the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah

• Worship is only accepted when it is sincere and in accordance with the Sunnah

• Many claim the Book and the Sunnah; the proof must be understood as the best generations understood it

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 24/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth: "Fear Allāh wherever you are, follow a bad deed with a good deed that will wipe it out, and treat the people with good character"

• Three pivotal pieces of advice from the Prophet ﷺ

• Taqwā is not restricted to a time or place

• Major and minor sins: good deeds wipe out the minor sins, while the major sins need repentance

• Good character: speaking well to the people, enjoining good and keeping brotherhood

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Continuing the discussion of the paths the Shayṭān takes to lead people astray

• First: kufr and shirk and enmity towards Allāh and His Messenger

• Then bidʿah, then the major sins

• The minor sins, which can destroy a person when they pile up

• Being busied with permissible things, and with a lesser good deed instead of a better one

• Example: reciting Qurʾān between the adhān and iqāmah when another action is better at that time

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth: when the servant sins a black spot is placed on his heart; if he repents and seeks forgiveness it is removed

• The consequence of persisting in sin: the heart becomes covered

• Enjoining good and forbidding evil begins with oneself

• The one whose heart is covered rejects guidance when it comes to him

• The virtue of sincere repentance: it brings the servant closer to light and guidance

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: Paradise and the Fire disputed with one another

• Paradise is entered by righteous actions, and the Fire by falling into what angers Allāh and following one's desires

• Knowledge is for acting upon, not merely for covering

• Affirming the Attribute of the Foot for Allāh without likening it to the creation, rejecting it, distorting it or asking how

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 19/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah: "Whoever stands (in prayer) in Ramaḍān out of īmān and hoping for reward, his previous sins are forgiven"

• An encouragement for Muslim men and women to stand in prayer at night in Ramaḍān

• Fasting by day and the Tarāwīḥ prayer by night

• ʿUmar's statement about the Tarāwīḥ in congregation: the revival of an established Sunnah, not a blameworthy bidʿah

• The number of rakʿāt prayed, and the breadth of the matter

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 18/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah: "Whoever dies owing fasts, his walī fasts on his behalf" (al-Bukhārī and Muslim)

• Shaykh Zayd: a proof that fasts may be made up on behalf of the deceased

• The difference between a vowed fast and the obligatory fast of Ramaḍān

• The vow is a debt, so the next of kin fasts in its place

• The one who was negligent in making up his fasts and the one who was unable before he died

• The same applies to one whose illness prevents him from making up the fasts

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 17/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, topics chosen from the speech of various scholars, taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• A general advice and question-and-answer sitting after the Tarāwīḥ reminder

• How to remain steadfast once Ramaḍān ends: it begins with knowledge

• Attending the circles of knowledge and reading the books of the scholars

• Establishing the obligations before the voluntary actions, such as spending on one's family

• Questions: falling out with a brother, and the whispers of the Shayṭān and the strength of the adhkār

• The steps by which the Shayṭān misleads: kufr, bidʿah, major sins, minor sins and the permissible

• Calling with both encouragement and warning: worshipping Allāh between fear and hope

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 16/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• The traveller may take the concession and not fast; whoever prefers to fast, there is no sin upon him

• Ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās: the very elderly person may leave the fast and feed a poor person for each day

• Taking the concession is better, but it is not permissible to reject it

• The elderly and the one with a lasting illness do not make up the days; they give fidyah

• The one who breaks the fast due to a passing illness or travel makes up the days later

• Not rebuking the traveller who breaks his fast

Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 15/3/24

Ramaḍān Reminders 1445H: nightly reminders after Tarāwīḥ, explaining aḥādīth from the Book of Fasting of al-Muḥarrar by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (raḥimahullāh), with the explanation of Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), taught by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh)

• Ḥadīth: "Whoever feeds a fasting person will have the like of his reward, without anything being decreased from the reward of the fasting person"

• Shaykh Zayd: an encouragement for Muslim men and women to help others break their fast

• The virtue applies whether the fast is obligatory or voluntary, and whether the person fed is rich or poor

• The fasting person who forgets and eats or drinks: his fast is not broken

• Allāh has pardoned this Ummah for mistakes, forgetfulness and what they are forced into

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 14/3/24