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Mixed emotions.

Posted Sep 22, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 8 Comments

Today is a happy day as well as a sad day (in some ways). It is happy in the sense that tomorrow I will be returning to the city of our beloved Prophet after having been on a summer holiday, however this means I will have to leave my family and dear mother not to mention the few friends I have, behind.

I am sad and excited at the same time, I can’t wait to be back in Madeenah! But saying goodbye is never easy. I do realise how fortune I am, and that many people would (perhaps) cut their little toes off just to be in my shoes (I dont have big feet, it’s just a figure of speech lol) but alhamdulilah no doubt, as soon as you emerge yourself in the knowledge again, you tend to forget your family (in a good way) and you might only get home sick once or twice the entire year.

A brother asked me the other day, what do you miss the most about Madeenah? I didn’t really have to think much before I said, the company of the pious and knowledgeable, because it has a very big effect on you. Whether it be in the Prophet’s Masjid or the University itself, you always have people who love Islaam and are more knowledgeable than yourself and just being in their company brightens up your day a lot.

So if the da’wah slows down somewhat, then please keep in mind I am back studying and might get busy from time to time. I am sure brothers and sisters will understand.

I leave you with some wise words the famous Companion Salmaan al-Faarisi once said:

It is not the Land that makes a person pious, rather it is his deeds that do so.

[al-Maqaalaat]

Recitation during the Friday prayer

Posted Sep 22, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 2 Comments

This is a very common thing amongst khateebs who lead the Friday prayers, and it is not from the Sunnah.

Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd said:

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم always did three things in his recitation in Jumu’ah prayer: he recited al-Jumu’ah (62) and al-Munaafiqoon (63), or al-Jumu’ah and al-Ghaashiyah (88), or al-A’la (87) and al-Ghaashiyah.

Nowadays it has become common for some of them to ignore that which is prescribed and recite whatever verses the imam sees fit, or soorahs of the Qur’aan that are appropriate to the subject of the khutbah.

This striving to recite something that was appropriate to the topic of the khutbah was not narrated from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and was not known among the early generations of this ummah, so adhering to that is an innovation. Similarly, deliberately ignoring what is prescribed and doing something else implies that one believes that there is something missing in what is prescribed and it should be made up, and that may cause confusion to ordinary Muslims. And Allaah knows best.

Tasheeh al-Du’aa’ (p. 319).

Would you have done the same?

Posted Sep 14, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 3 Comments

al-Haafidh as-Sakhaawee – may Allaah have mercy upon him- said in Fat-h al-Mugheeth bi sharh alfiyyat al-hadeeth:

Aboo Ayyoob Suleymaan bin Daawood ash-Shaathakooni was from amongst the biggest Huffaadh (one who memorizes hadeeth), it was narrated about him in a dream a man saw after Aboo Ayyoob had passed away. The man saw Aboo Ayyoob in his dream and said to him, how did Allaah treat (reward) you? Whereupon he replied, He forgave me, so it was said, on what grounds? (i.e. what is it you did to deserve forgiveness)

Aboo Ayyoob said, I was on the road towards Asbahaan one day, when suddenly rain overtook me. I had with me some books (of knowledge) but I could not find any shelter of any sort! So I covered the books with my body (preventing the rain to fall on them) until I woke up in the morning and the rain had stopped, because of this, Allaah forgave me my sins.

al-Aajroomiyyah – part 8

Posted Sep 13, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 2 Comments