Al Muhajireen : March 2013

Monday, March 4, 2013

Live Lecture! Shaykh Hasan Al Alaywah: The Good Companion And The Vile Companion

Bismillaah wa -Alhamdulillaah wa Salaatu wa Salaam 'alaa Rasulillaah 'amma ba'd

On Monday 4^thMarch 2013, Muwahhideen Publications will host a LIVE tele-link lecture with Shaykh Hasan ibn 'Ali ‘Alaywah (May Allaah Preserve Him). The Shaykh is a student of Ash-Shaykh Muqbil al-Wadi'ee and is a teacher at Dar-ul-Hadeeth, Shihr, Yemen. This event will be broadcast LIVE in Masjid Ibn 'Abbaas, Tobago, two masaajid in Trinidad, Masjid ul Khaleefah and Masjid us Sunnah, and six masaajid in the U.S. Masjid Al-Bukhaari, Florida, Masjid Ibn 'Abbas, Georgia, Masjid Uthaymeen, New Jersey, Masjid Nur Allaah, New York, Masjid as-Sahabah, Ohio and Masjid Tawheed, Michigan.

This lecture event will be translated LIVE into English by Hisham Abouzeid, Inshaa Allaah.

Our Noble Prophet Muhammad (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,

"The example of a good companion and a bad companion is like that of a seller of musk and the one who blows the blacksmith's bellows. As for the seller of musk, then either he will grant you some, or you buy some from him, or at the very least you enjoy a pleasant smell from him. As for the one who blows the blacksmith's bellows, then either he will burn your clothes, or you will get an offensive smell from him." [Related by al-Bukhaaree (4/323) and Muslim (no.2628), from Abu Moosaa al-Ash'aree radiallaahu 'anhu.]

He (sallaAlaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) also stated,

"A person is upon the religion of his friend, so let one of you look to whom he keeps as a friend." [Hasan: Related by Abu Dawood (no.4812) and others, from Abu Hurayrah radiyAllaahu 'anhu. Imaam an-Nawawee authentcated it in Riyaadhus-Saaliheen (no.174).]

Abu Sulayman said:

“The Prophet’s (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) statement that one follows the religion of his friend, means, befriend only he whom you are pleased with his religious conduct and honesty, for if you take such a person to be your friend, he will direct you to his religious nature and honesty. Furthermore, do not compromise in religion or risk befriending those who are unacceptable religiously or in their mannerism.” [Al-’Uzlah, p510]

Shaykh Hasan ‘Alaywah (hafidhahullaah) will offer some advice on this ever pertinent issue and enlighten us on the characteristics of the good companion as well as that of the vile companion so by the Permission of Allaah we may practice caution regarding those we take as close companions because they undoubtedly have a profound effect on us

We ask Allaah to grant us good companions who will aid us in righteousness and that He protects us from vile companions who will bring us nothing but loss.

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Wa Billaahi Tawfeeq

Wa SallAllaahu wa Sallaama wa Barak 'alaa Nabiyanna Muhammad wa 'alaa 'Alyhi wa Sahbyhi wa Sallam

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Aiding The Religion of Allah

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ramzaan al Haajiree

Allah has mentioned, "If you aid Allah, He will aid you and he will plant your feet firm.”

Allah, in this verse, has made it clear that He aids the one that aids his religion - so what is the meaning of this? So how does the servant gain the aid of Allah ? How does he seek the aid of Allah? How is the aid of Allah obtained?

It is obtained by six matters:

1. He aids Allah by establishing Tawheed
2. He aids Allah by warning against and being cautious of shirk
3. He aids Allah by being established on the Sunnah
4. He aids Allah by warning against Bid’ah
5. He aids Allah by establishing acts of worship and acts of obedience
6. He aids Allah by staying away and distancing himself from the major sins and acts of disobedience

So if he fulfills these matters he will receive the aid of Allah.

He aids the muwahhiddeen - the one who are upon tawheed. He aids those who make ittibaa - who follow the sunnah. Those who remain upright upon the deen of Allah.

"If you aid Allah, He will aid you and plant your feet firm"

One’s feet are not planted firmly with bid’ah, sins, and transgression. So you, the one who wants the aid of Allah, it is imperative that you fulfill these matters. And this path does not have any crookedness in it.

Allah has said, "This is my straight path so follow it, do not follow the divergent path so that you may receive piety."

And forever remain firm so that you be granted success - to be upright on the religion

Allah mentioned, so stay upright as you have been commanded to be upright.
Whoever claims to be upon istiqaamah without responding to Allah and the affair of Allah that is not istiqaamah, that is not uprightness rather that is deviancy because the one who opposes the deen of Allah is under the threat of Allah in actuality.

Allah said, Let those be warned those who oppose His command that a fitna will overcome [them].

Those who innovate in the religion, their actions will be returned back to them - or they will not be rewarded for them.

The Prohet (saaws) said Whoever innovates in our religion, it is not accepted of them and it will be rejected.

That is the deen of Allah. Having ikhlas (sincerity) and worship. And they were not commanded except to worship Allah and that they establish the prayer and pay zakah and this is the upright deen.

One does not obtain aid with anything greater than fulfilling the deen. One of the greatest reasons to be overcome is to commit shirk. And that is the promise of Allah in the earth. The promise of Allah will take place!

Allah has promised those who have iman that He will establish them in the earth as He established those before them and that He will establish for them their deen and that He will change their condition of fear to a condition of safety so as long as they worship Him and not commit shirk.

Oh you Muslim! The athari, the salafi! Cling to the straight path! And be upright just as you have been commanded. Cling to the Sunnah and to the obedience and stay away from the bidah and the shirk - that will deplete a person from receiving the aid of Allah.

Beware of jealousy and rancor and envy and the yearnings of the soul, and loving to be put forward and being turned to.

Beware of the desires and the doubts, beware of the disputes and differing as they are the greatest of that which splits the ranks.

And do not dispute thus become weak and your strength leave you as Allah said.

Beware of those who come among you and spread ‘he say, she say’.

To be established in the deen of Allah is the great intent of Islam that one strives for.

True eminence, true security, and true tranquility will not be gained except by fulfilling the aqeedah and believing in it. True iman. Just as Allah has said that those who believe and do not cover their belief with oppression, these are the ones who will have security and they will be rightly guided. Those who single Allah out for worship and do not make shirk. They will have complete security in this world and in the hereafter. And [they will have] guidance. Whosoever Allah guided none can misguide him and whoever Allah allows astray none can guide him.

The majority of those who have not been guided are those who had fallen in shirk and that which comes after it from the various forms of misguidance.

They don’t have the guarantee and the promise of Allah because they had fallen in shirk but the one who singles Allah out has the promise of Allah

So beware of changing your colors in the religion. A great evil is that you deem good of what you used to speak of as evil and speak evil of what you used to deem as good.

It has been established in the deen - the dua - Allahumma ya muqaallibal quloobi thabbit qalbi al deenik (Oh Allah, Turner of the hearts, keep my heart firm on your deen)

Oh Allah establish our hearts firm upon that which brings your good pleasure.

With this advice I call myself and yourselves to remain firm on that and be upright upon this and inshallah on that note, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.

We thank Allah and we thank you for hearing the lecture. We thank you, and inshallah, we will meet you.

Translated by Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis
Transcribed by Riffat Sheikh

Live Lecture! Shaykh AbdruRaqeeb Al Ulabi: The Grave - It's Torment And Bliss

Bismillaah wa -Alhamdulillaah wa Salaatu wa Salaam 'alaa Rasulillaah 'amma ba'd

The Noble Shaykh ‘Abdur Raqeeb al-Ulabi (May Allaah Preserve Him) will deliver a LIVE tele-lecture with Muwahhideen Publications on Sunday 3^rd March 2013 regarding the punishment and bliss of the grave. Shaykh ‘Abdur Raqeebis a student of Ash-Shaykh Al-Allaamah Al-Muhaddith, The Imaam of Yemen, Shaykh Abu ‘Abdur Rahmaan Muqbil Ibn Hadee al-Waadi’ee (rahimahullah) and is a teacher in Markaz Dar-ul-Hadeeth in Ma’bar, Yemen. This event will be broadcast LIVE in Masjid Ibn 'Abbaas, Tobago, two masaajid in Trinidad, Masjid ul Khaleefah and Masjid us Sunnah, and six Masaajid in the U.S. Masjid Al-Bukhaari, Florida, Masjid Ibn 'Abbas, Georgia, Masjid Uthaymeen, New Jersey, Masjid Nur Allaah, New York, Masjid as-Sahabah, Ohio and Masjid Tawheed, Michigan.

This lecture event will be translated LIVE into English by Hisham Abouzeid, inshaaAllaah.

It is the firm belief of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaa’ah, which has been corroborated by the texts and the ijmaa’ of Ahlul ‘Ilm, that the punishment or bliss in the grave is a sure reality.

Haanee, the freed slave of ‘Uthmaan (radhiyAllaahu ‘anhu) related,

Whenever ‘Uthmaan (radhiyAllaahu ‘anhu) stood at a grave he would weep until his beard became soaked in tears. It was said to him: Paradise and Hell are mentioned to you, and you do not weep, but you weep over this. So he said: Indeed the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said, “Indeed the grave is the first stopping place for the Hereafter. So if he is saved therein, then what comes after that is easier than that. If he is not saved therefrom, then that which comes after is harder.” [Hasan: Related by at-Tirmidhee (no. 2424), and Ibn Maajah (no. 4267), and it has been authenticated by Shaykh al-Albaanee in Takhreejul-Mishkaat (no. 132)]

An-Naasiree (d.652H) - rahimahullaah - said in an-Noorul-Laami’ (no. 110):

‘‘We have eemaan in the Punishment of the Grave and its Bliss…this is the madhhab of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah. So it is obligatory to have ‘Aqeedah in this.’’

Further evidence for this is found in the well-known hadeeth of Al-Bara’ Ibn ‘Aazib (radhiyAllaahu ‘anhu) where it is stated that it will be said regarding the believing slaves, “…prepare for them a bed in Jannah; clothe them from Jannahand open for them a gate to Jannah. Then there comes to them some of its fragrance and the grave is made wide, as far as they can see.” Conversely, it will be said regarding the disbelievers from mankind, “...prepare for them a bed in Hellfire and open for them a gate to Hellfire. There comes to them some of its heat and hot winds, and the grave is constricted until their ribs are squeezed. [Abu Dawud, Bool on Al-Sunnah,no.4753; and Ahmad, Musnad, vol.4, p.296]

Our Shaykh ‘Abdur Raqeeb al-Ulabi (hafidhahullaah) will admonish us concerning this unequivocal issue based on evidences from the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (sallAllaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) upon the understanding of our Pious Predecessors.

We ask Allaah to grant us bliss in our graves and we seek refuge in Him from its punishment.