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

• Fasting is beloved to Allāh, with the reminder from Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh): renew the intention that we fast to please Him and to draw near to Him

• Patience upon the hunger and thirst of fasting, which are difficulties borne in the path of obedience

• Fasting means guarding the tongue, the sight and the hearing from the ḥarām, not only leaving food and drink

• Looking at ḥarām images corrupts the fast: a person can end the day with only hunger and thirst and no reward

• If one may not answer abuse with abuse while fasting, how can he himself be abusive to people?

• The state of the fasting person should differ from his state when not fasting: he should keep even further from what Allāh has made ḥarām

Streamed LIVE at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent on 13/6/17

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

• The punishment of the grave is established by the Book of Allāh, the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ and the consensus of the scholars

• The Barzakh: the grave as the stage between this world and the Hereafter, and the three stages of a person's existence (the dunyā, the grave and the ākhirah)

• The questioning in the grave: the hypocrite, who lived among the Muslims for worldly benefit, can only say "I heard the people saying something so I said it", and a window to the Fire is opened for him

• The affairs of the unseen cannot be grasped by reason: two people may lie in the same grave, one punished and the other in bliss, each unaware of the other

• The punishment reaches the deceased wherever he died, buried or not

• It is denied only by the people of misguidance and innovation, while the people of īmān believe in it and seek refuge in Allāh from it

Streamed LIVE at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent on 11/6/17

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

• The statement of the two imāms against saying "I am a believer in truth": the correct saying is "I believe in Allāh with certainty", while hoping, not claiming, to have perfect īmān

• "Allāh only accepts from those who have taqwā" (5:27): we cannot claim that our deeds are accepted, so we stand between hope and fear, which is the way of Ahl as-Sunnah

• The Murjiʾah as misguided innovators, and the ḥadīth of the seventy-three sects

• The irjāʾ of the jurists: defining īmān as only the statement of the tongue and the belief of the heart, removing actions from it, and claiming that īmān does not increase or decrease

• The importance of studying ʿaqīdah in detail, and of implementing what we learn with sincerity

Broadcast LIVE on SunnahRadio on 19/12/20

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Returning to the book after a long break, and why every Muslim should study it

• Knowledge-based actions are higher in status than actions built on ignorance

• Zakāh purifies the heart and the wealth, and is paired with the prayer in the Book and the Sunnah

• The ḥadīth of Muʿādh sent to Yemen: invite them to the testification, then the prayer, then the charity taken from their rich and given to their poor

• The benefits of zakāh: it does not harm the rich, it benefits the poor, and it is due only on wealth held for a year

• The categories of those entitled to zakāh, including the poor, those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and freeing slaves

Streamed LIVE on 8/5/16

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing the pillar of the prayer and beginning the third pillar of Islām: zakāh

• Zakāh is proven by the Book of Allāh and the Sunnah, and it is the third pillar of Islām

• The ruling on one who denies its obligation

• It was made obligatory in the second year after the Hijrah and continued in the time of the rightly guided caliphs

• Zakāh as showing good to the creation of Allāh, and the verse "Take from their wealth a charity" (at-Tawbah 9:103)

Streamed LIVE on 6/3/16

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Completing the section on the prayer with a portion of al-Mulakhkhaṣ al-Fiqhī by Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh)

• The final tashahhud and sending ṣalāh upon the Prophet ﷺ, and the evidence that he always did it: "Pray as you see me pray" (al-Bukhārī)

• The obligatory statements of the prayer, such as "Rabbanā wa lakal-ḥamd" for the imām and the one praying alone, and "Subḥāna Rabbiyal-Aʿlā" in prostration

• The sunan of the prayer, such as placing the right hand over the left on the chest

• The ḥadīth of the twelve rakʿahs of the regular prayers, and how many of us fall short in the prayer

Streamed LIVE on 21/2/16

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap of the conditions of the prayer, including removing impurity and facing the Qiblah

• The intention is a condition: it is in the heart, paired with the particular prayer, and must continue throughout it

• The ḥadīth of ʿUmar, "Actions are only by intentions"

• The pillars of the prayer, beginning with standing in the obligatory prayer, and sitting or lying down for one who cannot stand

• The takbīrat al-iḥrām and the proofs for its obligation from the Book, the Sunnah and consensus

• Prostration upon the forehead on the ground, with the evidence from the Qur'ān and the Sunnah

Streamed LIVE on 31/1/16

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Beginning the conditions, pillars, obligations and sunan of the prayer, which is establishing the prayer as perfectly as one is able

• The prayer as a means of thanking Allāh for His blessings

• Covering the awrah for men and women: "Take your adornment at every masjid" (al-Aʿrāf 7:31)

• Facing the Qiblah, with the rulings for one who sees the Kaʿbah and one who is far from it

• The conditions must continue from before the prayer until the salām: if one is cut off the prayer is invalid

Streamed LIVE on 3/1/16

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• Recap: the two testifications are the foundation of the religion and must not be underestimated

• Allāh has chosen this religion for us, and we must not die except as Muslims

• The second pillar of Islām: establishing the prayer

• The story of the night journey and how the fifty prayers were reduced to five

• The prayer expiates sins, "Protect the prayers, and the middle prayer", and its abandonment as the dividing line between a person and disbelief

• Establishing the prayer means praying as the Prophet ﷺ prayed

Streamed LIVE on 13/12/15

Important Lessons for the Muslim Nation by Shaykh Ibn Bāz (raḥimahullāh), taught by Shaykh Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan (hafidhahullāh)

• The importance of mothers learning the foundations, as the first teachers of the children of the Ummah

• Continuing the explanation of the testification that Muḥammad ﷺ is the Messenger of Allāh

• The intellect is a tool from Allāh, but it does not enter into the affairs of the unseen

• How the Companions followed the Prophet ﷺ even in small matters, such as taking off their sandals in the prayer when he did

• No action is accepted unless it is sincere for Allāh and in accordance with the Sunnah: "the best in deeds" (al-Mulk 67:2)

Streamed LIVE on 22/11/15