Question: In relation to new Muslims, we have them recite the Shahadah after explaining it to them in their language so that they understand it first.Then we have them recite it in the Arabic language. Is there any harm in that? Answer: “This is good. There is no harm in it” [Fataawa Su’aal ‘alal-Haatif (2/698)] Translated by Faisal bin Abdul…
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How to Advise a Layman Who Listens to a Hizbi Speaker? – Shaikh Muhammad bin Hizaam
Question: If I see one of the layfolk listening to a caller from the Hizbis, should I rebuke him? What do I do? Answer: “ Advise him without rebuke. However begin with light speech because sometimes a person loves this caller and is attached to him. And he will not accept your speech on him. However, begin and make him…
Is Asking A Scholar Considered From Treading a Path In Search of Knowledge? – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا يَلْتَمِسُ فِيهِ عِلْمًا سَهَّلَ اللَّهُ لَهُ بِهِ طَرِيقًا إلَى الْجَنَّةِ Whoever treads a path to seek knowledge therein, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise [Muslim] So is asking the Scholars considered from seeking knowledge? Answer: “Yes. It is a means from the means of knowledge. If…
A Poem on the Names of the Day of Judgment – Shaikh Fath al-Qadasi
A Poem on the Names of the Day of Judgment Written by: Abu Abdurrahman Fath al-Qadasi (may Allah preserve him) on (4/6/1431 H.) “And the most common names for the Day of Judgement / Are the Overwhelming (غاشية), and the Hour (ساعة), like the Greatest Catastrophe (الطامة) And the Day of Resurrection’s second blowing of Trumpet (الصاخة), and the Last Day (أخرة),…
Lines of Poetry on the Order of the Marriage of the Wives of the Prophet (ﷺ)- Shaikh Fath al-Qadasi
“The order of the marriage of wives of the Prophet (ﷺ), the guide / Is the following as come to us in Zaad [al-Ma’ad of Ibn al-Qaayim] He (ﷺ) began marriage with Khadeejah, [so] reflect / Then Sawdah, ‘Aisha, Bint Umar (Hafsah) Bint Khuzaimah (Zaynab), then Hind (Umm Salamah), Zaynab [bint Jahsh], / Bint al-Haarith (Juwayriyah) and then Ramlah (Umm…
Advice for Those Who Withdraw from the Live Lessons and Suffice With Listening to Tapes – Shaikh Ibn ul-‘Uthaymeen
Question: Some people suffice with listening to tapes of lectures and withdraw from the sittings of the remembrance of Allah [i.e. the lessons]. What is your advise on that? Answer: “Verily this does not equal sitting in front of the Shaikh and learning directly from him. However, sometimes a person is not free. No doubt sitting in the sittings of…
How Does the Latecomer to the Prayer Sit in the Last Rak’ah Behind the Imam? – Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbaad
Question: We hope from you a clarification on how the late comer to prayer should sit if he finds the Imam in the last rak’ah? Does he supplicate [as if he is in] the first or last Tashahhud? Answer: “If the latecomer comes and the Imam is in the last Tashahhud, then he sits like how the Imam sits and…
[Benefit] Over lining a Word Instead of Underlining it – Umm Abdillah al-Waad’iyyah
Umm Abdillah al-Waadi’yyah (may Allah preserve her) said: “There was a word which I had [written] and it had a mistake in it. So I placed a line below the word. So my father [Shaikh Muqbil may Allah have mercy upon him] said: ‘Shaikh al-Albani (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: ‘The line is written above the word in…