Posted Jan 29, 2012 by Aboo Thaabit with No Comments
This is the exam for those of you who attended the Nawaaqid al-Islaam class on wiziq (see previous post for details). Please answer these questions and email the answers to ismaiil_84@msn.com
Do not be worried, your marks will not be shared or made public, go on and test your knowledge!
EXAM:
Instructions: There is no specific time limit, the only condition I ask of you is to not cheat, once you have started the exam, do not go back to your notes, check in the Qur’aan, internet etc. You are however allowed to revise BEFORE starting the exam and reading the questions, but once you start the exam you are only allowed to rely upon what you know. And I do realize that I will not be able to tell who has been honest or not whilst answering the questions, but I think highly of you so please do not cheat yourselves. May Allaah make it easy for you all.
1. a) In this book the Shaikh mentions 10 things that nullify a persons islaam, we mentioned two reasons during our class why he only restricted himself to these 10, what are these two reasons?
b) We mentioned four conditions that scholars say have to be met in order for a muslim to be declared a kaafir after he has fallen into clear kufr, one of these were that the person has to be baaligh (age of puberty) and ‘Aaqil (sane) what were the three other conditions?
2. a) Who has the right to declare are muslim a kaafir in Islaam?
b) If a person says ”I don’t know whether the non muslims will end up in hell or not” what is the ruling concerning such a person? Answer with evidence.
3. a) Why is Magic haraam in Islaam? Answer with evidence
b) In the class you learned about when the scholars say, ”Whoever does such and such an act is a kaafir” is it then allowed for me to take that statment and go to my cousin (as an example) who might be doing that particular act and call him a kaafir? Why/Why not?
4. a) Are you allowed to have a non muslim friend? Does this not fall underneath loving the non muslims?
b) Give an example of knowledge that is obligatory upon all muslims to know individually, and then give an example of knowledge that is only obligatory upon the muslim community as a whole to know.
5 a) Why did the two Angels teach mankind magic if it is such an evil thing? Answer with evidence
b) Some people say Khidr who met Prophet Moosa is alive until this day, is that true? Answer with evidence
Posted Jan 09, 2012 by Aboo Thaabit with 1 Comment
This is the new class that will be held shortly inshaaAllaah. Please invite family and friends and gain the reward, increase your Islamic knowledge today!
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DATE: FRIDAY13TH JANUARY AND 14TH PLUS 15TH INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND, FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY.
TIME: 9PM GMT (CLASS WILL BE FOR ONE HOUR)
VENUE: REGISTER ON WWW.WIZIQ.COM AND SEARCH FOR “NAWAAQID AL-ISLAAM WITH ABOO THAABIT”
COST: FREE!
TAUGHT BY: ABOO THAABIT STUDENT AT THE ISLAAMIC UNIVERSITY IN MADEENAH (BASED UPON SHAIKH AL-FOWZAAN’S EXPLANATION)
Posted Dec 20, 2011 by Aboo Thaabit with No Comments
Here are some quotes from the famous book Jaami’ul Bayaan al-’ilm wa fadhlihi by the great scholar Ibn ‘AbdilBar
1. Aboo Hurayrah: ”It is more beloved for me to sit a little while, learning my religion, than for me to pray the entire night up until dawn” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1. page 60]
2. al-Hasan al-Basree: ”The scholar is better than the one who is Zaahid (very religious) and worships a lot” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1. page 61]
3.‘Umar bin al-Khattaab: ”That one thousand worshippers who fast during the day and pray during the night, all die, is easier to bare than the death of one single scholar who understands the halaal from the haraam.” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1. page 65]
4. Sufyaan ath-Thawree: ”There is no deed better than seeking knowledge – if the intentions are pure” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1. page 63]
5. al-Azdi: ”I asked Ibn ‘Abbaas about Jihaad whereupon he replied ‘Do you wish to know something better than Jihaad? Build a Masjid and teach the people their obligations in Islaam and the Sunnah’ “‘ [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 76]
6. ‘Umar bin ‘AbdilAzeez: ”He who acts without knowledge, causes more harm than benefit” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 66]
7. ‘Abdullaah bin al-Mubaarak: ”Allaah gave Prophet Suleymaan a choice between either knowledge or power, and he chose knowledge above power. And because he did that Allaah granted him power as well.” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 114]
8. al-Hasan al-Basree: ”The entire world is a place of darkness except the gatherings of the scholars!” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 114]
9. Luqmaan al-Hakeem: ”O my dear son, seek knowledge whilst you are still young, seeking knowledge at an old age is difficult” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 174]
10. Sufyaan ath-Thawree: ”Knowledge will bring honour to you in this world and the hereafter” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 118]
11. az-Zuhree: ”Knowledge is a treasure, the key to that treasure is asking questions” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 176]
12. Sa’eed bin al-Mussayib: ”I would travel days and nights in search of one single hadeeth” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 188]
13. Imaam Maalik: ”Knowledge is not gained until one tastes poverty (ie seeking knowledge is not easy)” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 194]
14. Imaam ash-Shaafi’ee: ”I was born an orphan (without a father) and my mother was poor so she did not have money to buy paper for me, so I would look for bones of dead animals to write on” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 157]
15. ‘Abdullaah bin Mas’ood: ”No one is born a scholar, knowledge comes with studies” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 200]
16. az-Zuhree: ”Whoever wishes to gain ALL knowledge at once and become a scholar over night, that knowledge will leave him quickly, rather take things one step at a time” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 206]
17. az-Zuhree: ”Knowledge is lost through forgetfulness and no revision” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 213]
18. Aboo Dardaa’: ”The one thing I fear the most about being questioned on the day of Judgment is that it will be said ‘You had the knowledge, but what did you do with it?’ ” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 5]
19. Aboo Dardaa’: ”Why do I see you hungry for food but fed up with knowledge?” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 1 page 305]
20. Qaasim bin Muhammad; ”That my tongue is cut off is more beloved to me that for me to speak without knowledge” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 114]
21. Aboo Bakr as-Sideeq: ”Which sky will shield me and which earth will bare me, if I was to say about the Book of Allaah, that which I had no knowledge of?” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 111]
22. ‘Umar bin al-Khattaab: ”Learn the Sunnah and learn the Arabic language” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 322]
23. Ibn ‘Abbaas: ”He who answers ALL questions is insane! [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 315]
24. Ibn ‘AbdilBar: ”None of the people of innovation interpreted the Qur’aan based upon the Sunnah, this is why they went astray and led others astray too” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 369]
25. al-Hasan al-Basree: ”Few actions according to the Sunnah will always be better than many actions based upon innovation” [Jaami'ul Bayaan al-'ilm wa fadhlihi volume 2 page 372]
TRANSLATED BY: ABOO THAABIT, ISMAA’EEL BIN MUHAMMAD NOOR
Posted Jan 16, 2011 by Aboo Thaabit with 52 Comments
One of the ways of helping your da’wah grow, is to keep up with technology and even though I am young it is sometimes difficult to keep up with all these new gadgets and stuff.
However I am pleased to say that now the da’waah includes blackberry phones as well as iPhones. Meaning that whoever has a blackberry phone and uses the blackberry messenger service can now add Aboo Thaabit and receive beneficial reminders and gems about Islaam, same goes for iPhone/Android users.
This is what you do.
Blackberry users: Add the pin 21C40189 and inshaaAllaah you’ll be receiving reminders shortly (sometimes there is a glitch in the system and you will not receive any broadcasts, please delete me and re add me if you don’t receive a reminder for more than a week)
iPhone/Android users: Download the application Whatsapp (it is very cheap and worth it inshaaAllaah) and then email your number to ismaiil_84@msn.com and you will be added and ready to receive reminders.
For all other people who don’t have any of these smart phones do not despair! The regular SMS service will still be running to the best of its ability. To sign up for that, just check the right hand column and follow the instructions.
Posted Jan 16, 2011 by Aboo Thaabit with 3 Comments
Question: Some people memorize the entire Qur’aan or parts of it, but after a while they forget it, is such a person sinful for forgetting the Qur’aan?
Shaikh Bin Baaz: The correct opinion is that such a person is not sinful, however what is required from that person is to make an honest effort so that he/she wont forget it. The Prophet of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم said
Refresh this Qur’aan (i.e. revise it) for by Allaah it leaves (the hearts of men) quicker than camels leave their shackles.
But what is even more important than the recitation of the Qur’aan is acting according to it and pondering upon its meanings.
Posted Oct 22, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 6 Comments
And from his character in seeking knowledge is that he seeks it whilst being in the state of neglect and forgetfulness. He only seeks the knowledge which his desire calls him towards.
And if it’s said, ‘How is that possible?’
The reply is, his aim in seeking knowledge is not due to him thinking it is fardh upon him or in order for him to worship Allaah by fulfilling His obligations and staying away from the things He has declared unlawful, No! Rather his aim is to become known to the people as a taalib-ul-’ilm (student of knowledge) and so that the students flock around him.
He studies only for Riyaa (showing off) and debates with others in order to be known for his knowledge and eloquence in discussion. If the person he is debating with has the truth with him, it causes him grief. Even if he knows he is wrong he carries on debatting and never declares he is mistaken due to fear of people criticising his mistakes.
He is lenient with giving fatwaa to those he loves and is severe and stern against those who can not benefit him at all. Whoever he teaches knowledge to he expects benefits back from. And if his students can not benefit him in this world but only benefit him in the aakhirah, teaching them becomes a burden upon him (and he sees it as a waste of time).
He anticipates the reward for knowledge he never practised, and is not afraid of the consequences for knowledge he never acted upon. He speaks words of wisdom so it might seem he is from its people, whilst not fearing the evidence being established against him, because he doesn’t practise what he preaches. The more he learns and seeks knowledge the more he shows off and boasts.
If the scholars of his time are many in number and they are mentioned as people of knowledge he wishes to be mentioned with them. If they, the scholars, are asked about a question and he is not asked he wishes he be asked as well, when it was upon him to praise Allaah who just saved him from being asked when others had fulfilled the need.
If it reaches him that any of the scholars made a mistake whilst he got the right verdict, he becomes happy for the mistakes of others, when in reality he should be sad for the mistakes of his brothers. If any of the scholars pass away it makes him happy since now people will be in need of him and his knowledge more.
And if he is asked about a matter that he has no knowledge of, it becomes difficult for him to say ‘I do not know’. If he hears about someone else that is benefiting the people more than he is, he hates him and does not tell the people about him. His pride stops him from admitting his own mistakes, even when corrected by others he will keep on defending his mistake, despite knowing it is a blatant mistake, just so that he might not be looked down upon by the people.
His fitnah (trial) is love for this dunya and being praised by mankind along with status and nobility. He beautifies himself with knowledge as people in this dunya beautify themselves with jewlerry but he forgets to beautify his knowledge with actions.
Posted May 25, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 1 Comment
Sufyaan ibn ‘Uyaynah said:
My father used to work as a money exchanger in al-Koofah and came under debt so he took us to Makkah whereupon I went to the Masjid when suddenly I saw ‘Amr bin Deenaar, and he narrated to me eight hadiths.
I held his donkey whilst he went inside the masjid and prayed, when he came back out I repeated the hadiths to him.
He then said:
BaarakAllaah feek (to me).
Note: The hadith he learnt on the spot where obviously including the isnaad. Notice that he did not waste anytime.
Posted Mar 25, 2010 by Aboo Thaabit with 48 Comments
In our times seeking knowledge seems to have become something only for men, women’s chores involve cooking food and producing children.
This has led to the frustration of many teenage girls, specially in the west. They might have great ambitions in seeking knowledge and teaching it to others, and it is mainly for these sisters I decided to post this. Read more
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Strange deaths
Here is a short compilation of peculiar deaths of past scholars. Keeping in mind that when Allaah makes death difficult upon a person it is a means of cleansing them of their sins so that they may reach the Aakhirah in a better state.
Imaam Muslim:
On the authority of Ahmad b. Salamah:
A gathering of knowledge and revision was held for Abul-Husayn Muslim b. Al-Hajjāj where a hadīth that he did not know was mentioned. He went home and lit his lamp and said to those at home, “no one should enter the house (disturb me).” He was told, “We have been gifted a basket of dates.” He said, “Put it out for me,” so they served it to him. He started searching for the hadīth and taking a date at a time until the morning, by which time the dates were finished and he had finally found the hadīth.
Muhammad b. ‘Abdillāh (one of the reporters of this narration) added, “A reliable companion of ours added that this was the cause of his death.”
Al-Dhahabī, Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā` in his biography of Imām Muslim.
Imaam al-Awzaa'ee:
’Uqbah al-Beirûti: al-Awzâ´i died in his Sauna. His wife went to bring coal to heat the Sauna up.So she left, locking the door but forgot him (inside) until he was found dead. [Tadkhirah al-Huffaadh]
Hammad bin Salamah:
'Abd-Rahmân bin Mahdi said, If it was said to Hammad bin Salamah you will pass away tomorow then he would not be able to increase in his worship.
Yusuf al-Mu´addib said Hammad bin Salamah died in his prayer [Tadkhirah al-Huffaadh].
Safwaan bin Sulaymaan:
Sufyaan ibn ’Uyaynah said Safwân bin Sulaymân swore that he would never lie down until he met Allaah. For thirty years he lived like that. He died sitting. [Tadkirah al-Huffaadh]
Suraarah bin Awfaa:
'Ataab bin al-Muthanaa al-Qushayree said, Bahz bin Hakeem narrated to us saying, Suraarah bin Awfaa lead us in prayer at the masjid of Banuu Qushayr and he read surah Muddathir. When he reached the 8th verse he fell down dead. [Tahdeeb al-Kamaal]
When Ramadhaan arrives the doors of Paradise are flung open and the doors of Hellfire are slammed shut.
Does this mean that one who dies in Ramadhaan enters Paradise without questioning?
Answer:
The situation is not as such. Rather, what this means is the doors of Paradise are flung open as an inspiration to the Muslims to make easy their entry (to Paradise). And the doors of Hellfire are shut to prevent the Believers from sins such that they do not enter (through) these doors. And this does not mean that one who dies in Ramadhaan enters Paradise without questioning, rather those who shall enter Paradise without questioning are those whom the Messenger has described in his statement;
They are the ones who do not steal and do not cauterise and are not pessimistic and in their Lord they put their trust.
[Fataawa Shaykh Muhammad as-Saalih al-Uthaymeen Volume 1, Page 561]
