Lectures – Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh)

Beacons of Light, a lecture by Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), in Arabic with an English translation

• Strive for knowledge: two types of striving, of the heart (a great desire to seek and spread knowledge) and of the body (travelling, or in our time using the internet to connect with scholars)

• Be with the ʿUlamāʾ: life cannot be upon goodness unless affairs are returned to the scholars, directly or indirectly through their books and tapes

• Study your religion: the reward of the one who spreads knowledge and the one who studies it is the same

• Begin with the most important: rectify your belief through the three categories of Tawḥīd, then the pillars of Islām and Īmān, ḥalāl and ḥarām, and the Qurʾān and Sunnah

• Take knowledge from the people of the Sunnah: the person of innovation is advised, and if he refuses he is left and knowledge is not taken from him, even when it is learned through the internet

• Questions answered: collecting donations after Jumuʿah, reading Qurʾān in janābah, Tarāwīḥ and Tahajjud, and the characteristics of the scholars

Recorded in Manchester

Questions and answers (English translation), a telelink with Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh), translated into English

• A reading from the Shaykh's book al-Ajwibah as-Sadīdah, with his advice to the students

• The one who spreads knowledge is like a man carrying a lantern down a dark street, benefiting himself and others

• Taking knowledge from the books of the Salaf, and staying away from the books of the people of innovation

1. The Christians claim that ʿĪsā (ʿalayhis-salām) is the son of Allāh because he is the Word of Allāh; how is this refuted?
2. Is it permissible to donate one's organs to someone else?
3. How does a woman in her menses perform Ṣalāt al-Istikhārah?
4. Where are the hands placed after rising from rukūʿ, and must the followers do as the imām does if their own opinion differs?
5. Is it permissible to greet the disbelievers on their festivals?

Questions and answers (Arabic), a telelink with Shaykh Zayd al-Madkhalī (raḥimahullāh)

• The original Arabic audio of the telelink; the English translation is a separate track

• A reading from the Shaykh's book al-Ajwibah as-Sadīdah on the virtue of the callers to Allāh and the spreaders of knowledge

• The reward of the one who learns, acts, calls to the Sharīʿah and is patient upon hardship

1. The Christians claim that ʿĪsā (ʿalayhis-salām) is the son of Allāh because he is the Word of Allāh; how is this refuted?
2. Is it permissible to donate one's organs to someone else?
3. How does a woman in her menses perform Ṣalāt al-Istikhārah?
4. Where are the hands placed after rising from rukūʿ, and must the followers do as the imām does if their own opinion differs?
5. Is it permissible to greet the disbelievers on their festivals?