Lectures – Ustādh Rayaan Barker

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

• Laylat al-Qadr is the most virtuous night of the year: the Qurʾān was revealed in it, Allāh decrees the coming year in it, and it is better than a thousand months (over 83 years)

• Shaykh al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) on its great status and the descriptions Allāh has given it

• Whoever strives throughout the last ten nights will attain its reward, even if he does not see its signs (Shaykh Ibn Bāz, raḥimahullāh)

• Iʿtikāf in the masjid, and its permissibility for women where it is safe and dignified, as the wives of the Prophet ﷺ did after him

• This may be our last opportunity: following the Prophet ﷺ in striving in these nights and waking our families

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

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

Healing in Light of the Qurʾān and Sunnah, a lecture by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• Afflictions wipe away the sins of a Muslim, and Allāh raises a person by way of illness

• Seeking cure by the Qurʾān, legislated ruqyah; using remedies is permitted but not ḥarām remedies

• Tawakkul has two parts: reliance upon Allāh and taking the means

• Diseases are of two types, of the heart and of the body; the heart's diseases are doubts and desires

• Conditions of ruqyah: recited in Arabic by a person of sound ʿaqīdah, with Shaykh Fawzān and Shaykh Ibn Bāz on how to perform it

• Whoever wears an amulet has fallen into shirk, and ḥarām things such as intoxicants cannot be used as a cure

• Honey (an-Naḥl 16:69) and ḥijāmah as cures

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 20/3/17

Istiqaamah, between two extremes, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• The verse "Those who say: Our Lord is Allāh, then are upright" and the angels' glad tidings of Paradise for them

• Istiqāmah is the middle path between negligence and extremism, and Shayṭān tries to pull people to either side

• Do not exceed the limits of the religion; stay firm upon Tawḥīd and be consistent in obedience in every situation, not only among practising people, and being honest and just with everyone, including non-Muslims

• "Fear Allāh wherever you are, follow a bad deed with a good one, and treat people with good character"

• True īmān is belief in the heart, speech of the tongue and action of the limbs, and we ask Allāh in al-Fātiḥah for the straight path

• Remain firm until death: "Worship your Lord until certainty comes to you"

Recorded at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent on 17/3/17

Protect Yourselves and Your Families from Extremism, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• The dangers of extremism and how to protect yourself and your family from it

• The evil actions of the Khawārij come from their desires, not from Islām, the Prophet ﷺ or the Salaf

• The Khawārij are an ancient sect that split off from the main body of Muslims

• Parents should be wary and teach their children the correct Islamic creed and methodology to save them from extremism and chaos

• Bring the youth to the scholars and seek knowledge from its proper sources, not from those with deviated ideologies

Streamed LIVE at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent on 24/3/17

Know Allāh in Times of Ease and He will Know you in Times of Difficulty, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• Benefiting from the great Ḥadīth of the three men trapped in a cave and the actions they devoted to Allāh

• Know the greatest adversity and how to prepare for it

Recorded at Masjid al-Furqān, Stoke-on-Trent on 31/3/17

Advice to Parents and Children, a lecture by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh), at the Saturday School

• Children are a blessing and a test, and a responsibility to nurture strongly and in detail

• Luqmān's advice to his son: to know Allāh, to establish the prayer consistently, and to enjoin good and forbid evil

• Luqmān taught his son to be good with people, humble and moderate in walking, and soft in voice

• Parents should help rectify their children's hearts and keep them from wasting time in front of the TV and games

• What they learn in the madrasah should continue at home; parents should affirm and revise their work and show them good manners

Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester

Diseases Of The Heart And Its Cures, a lecture by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• How the heart uses and controls the limbs like a master controlling his slaves; whoever knows his true heart knows Allāh

• The heart is what the messengers addressed, so a person should take time to reflect on it

• The Ḥadīth: “There is a piece of flesh in the body; if it is sound the body is sound, and if it is corrupt the body is corrupt: it is the heart”

Recorded in Manchester

Take Care Of Your Heart And Religion, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Rayaan Barker (hafidhahullāh)

• A reflection upon the Salaf, from the Ṣaḥābah and those after them

• How the Salaf strove towards improving themselves in the religion

• A chance to reflect on ourselves and our actions

• How we should protect and preserve our religion and our hearts

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