Verily the Reminder Benefits the Believers – Conference 2015

The Importance of Seeking Knowledge, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh)

Recorded at the Verily the Reminder Benefits the Believers Conference (2015).

• Based on a lecture by Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) on the importance of Sharīʿah knowledge, given at a dawrah

• Gatherings of knowledge have a great effect in every land, as people come to learn what the scholars derived from the Book and the Sunnah

• Knowledge is life: worship and obedience, for which man was created, cannot be done as Allāh is pleased with except by knowledge

• Sūrat al-ʿAṣr mentions four things: īmān, which needs knowledge, and knowledge must be learned; then righteous deeds upon the Sunnah

• Then enjoining one another to the truth and to patience: it is not enough to rectify oneself without rectifying those around you

Khawaarij Terrorists, Young in Age, Foolish in Mind..., a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

• Who the Khawārij are: whoever rebels against a Muslim ruler

• Their prayer and worship impress people, yet they pass out of the religion

• Extremism (ghuluww) destroyed those who came before us

• Dhul-Khuwayṣirah, the siege of ʿUthmān, and ʿAlī's stance towards the Khawārij

• The scholars of old and of today never differed over the Khawārij

• Daesh twist Qurʾānic verses to justify their crimes

Recorded at the Verily the Reminder Benefits the Believers Conference (2015).

Questions & Answers, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahid (hafidhahullāh)

1. What stance do we take regarding the airstrikes in Syria?
2. Can you declare a person a kāfir just by looking at what he has done?
3. What advice do you give the youth on clinging to the religion in this environment?
4. What about talking about the issues of al-walāʾ wal-barāʾ?
5. What advice do you give to those who say Saudi Arabia is not doing enough to support the migrants?

Recorded at the Verily the Reminder Benefits the Believers Conference (2015).