Taken from a khutbah, November 2019
Masjid Ash-Shura, Norfolk, VA

Celebrating the Prophet's Birthday is NOT FROM ISLAM

PART 1 | The Types of Hearts - by Allāmah Rabee al-Madkhali (رحمه الله) - Ustādh Abu ʿAbdur-Raḥmān Hilāl (حفظه الله)

The Status of Patience by Ustadh Skander - Jumuah Khutbah 12/09/25


●From the rewards and benefits of having good thoughts about Allāh.

●The deep insight of the wife of the Prophet (peace & blessings of Allāh be upon him) Khadeejah and how she comforted him.

●From the noble qualities our Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him).

●Having good thoughts of Allāh when making du'ā.

●Have certainty that Allāh will answer your supplications.

●Having good opinion and thoughts of Allāh at the point of death.

●Having bad thoughts of Allāh leads to destruction and ruin.


Jumu'ah Khutbah 19/09/2025  No believer has been granted a gift greater than having a good opinion of Allāh

[22/09/2025] – The Text: And His Saying, “Say: O People of the Book, come to a word of justice between us, that we will single Allah out with all worship and will not worship anything besides Him, and will disassociate ourselves from everything that is worshipped besides Him. Nor will we take one another as Lords besides Allah by obeying one another in that which involves disobedience to Allah. So if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are muslims, submitting to Allah and making our worship purely and sincerely for Him, and not worshipping anything else besides Him.’” Surah Imran (3): 64
– The proof for the testification that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, is the saying of Allah, the Most High, “There has indeed come to you Allah’s Messenger, from amongst yourselves and known to you. It grieves him that you should suffer. He is eager and anxious for the guidance of those of you who are astray, and that they should repent and return to the truth, and he is full of compassion and mercy for the believers.” Surah Tawbah (9):128. – – The meaning of the testification that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah is: to obey him in whatever he commands; to believe and to testify to the truth of everything he informs of; to avoid whatever he forbade and prohibited; and that you worship Allah only with that which he prescribed.
– Explanation of Shaykh Fawzan
– The background and the reason for the revelation of the ayah in Surah Imran (3):64
– Explanation of Shaykh Uthaymin
– The reason behind the attributes of the Messenger ﷺ mentioned in the ayah in Surah Tawbah.
– Proofs from the Quran to show Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger.
– Explanation of the attributes of a Messenger.
– Explanation of the characteristics of Muhammad’s ﷺ Messengership.
– The requirements of the testification of Muhammad ﷺ is the Messenger.
– Knowledge and understanding of this testification makes it easy to follow the sunnah.
– Examples of when the Messenger ﷺ aided others.
– Difference between following the Messenger’s actions which is based upon proof and the actions of the companions.
– Principle of the Messenger ﷺ not sharing the characteristics of Lordship with proofs from the Qur’an. 
– The Text: The evidence for the Prayer and the zakāt and the explanation of Tawheed is the Saying of Allah, the Most High, “And they were not commanded except that they should worship Allah alone, making the worship and obedience purely for Him, upon the true Religion and free from shirk; and that they should establish the Prayer, and pay the Zakāt – and that is the straight and true Religion
– Explanation of Shaykh Uthaymin:
– Meaning of worship mentioned in the ayah.
– Conditions of worship to be correct.
– Linguistic benefit from the ayah in regards to worship being mentioned generally first, and thereafter specifically.
– Meaning of Deenul Qayyim.
– Proofs to show Religion is the upright and straight Path.
– The evidence for fasting is the Saying of Allah, the Most High, “O you who believe Fasting is prescribed as an obligation for you as it was prescribed as an obligation for those  who came before you, so that you may attain taqwa. Sura Baqarah (2): 183
– Benefits of fasting being prescribed to those before us.
– Tafseer of the ayah in Surah Baqarah specifically how to attain taqwa.
– The Text: The evidence for hajj is the Saying of Allah, the Most High, “And hajj to Allah’s sacred House is an obligation upon those able to perform it; and whoever refuses ad rejects the obligation of hajj to Allah’s House, then Allah has no need of him or any of the creation.” Surah Imran (3):97
– The reason for the revelation of the ayah.
– The conditions of Hajj.
– The importance of fulfilling the obligatory worship and fulfilling the conditions of the worship too.

38 Explanation of the Three Principles by Abu Idrees


●The danger of innovation in the religion. 

●The two doors of Shaytān.

●How do you protect yourself from doubts?

●The preservation of the Qur'ān and Sunnah

●The illustrious Imāms of Ahlus-Sunnah have unanimously agreed on not listening to the people of innovation, nor reading from their books.

●Beware of getting close to the innovators.

●The religion will return as something as strange. 

Q&A
●Returning the salam of a caller to innovation, is it allowed?


Lesson Six The 'Aqeedah of Imām ibn Qudamah al-Maqdasī (d.620AH) رحمه الله

Khutbah: The Death of The Scholars

📚 The Three Fundamental Principles

By Shaykh ul-Islam Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdil-Wahhab (رحمه الله)

Explanation of Shaykh Ahmed an-Najmi (رحمه الله)

Read by Ustadh Abdul Rahman Mawsili (حفظه الله)

Delivered on:
27th Sep 2025

The Three Fundamental Principles Lesson 3 - Ustadh Abdul Rahman Mawsili

Biographies of the Wives of the Prophet ﷺ | Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami

[03/10/2025] Advice and Warning to Those Who Find it Difficult to Practice Their Religion - Sh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khān حفظه الله. Khuṭbah at Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.

Some points discussed during this Khuṭbah:

- A heavy topic that should strengthen our resolve to be better Muslims. 

- Five instances when the people will regret and beg Allāh to be returned to the dunyā:

- 1. At the approach of death

- “And spend [in the way of Allāh] from what We have provided you before death approaches one of you and he says, ‘My Lord, if only You would delay me for a brief term so I would give charity and be among the righteous.’ But never will Allāh delay a soul when its time has come. And Allāh is Acquainted with what you do.” [Sūrah al-Munafiqūn 63:10-11]

- “Until, when death comes to one of them (those who join partners with Allāh), he says, ‘My Lord! Send me back, so that I may do good in that which I have left behind!’ No! It is but a word that he speaks, and behind them is barzakh (a barrier) until the Day when they will be resurrected.” [Sūrah al-Mu’minūn 23:99-100]

- 2. When they see the punishment on the Day of Judgement 

- “And warn (O Muḥammad ﷺ) mankind of the Day when the torment will come unto them; then the wrong-doers will say, ‘Our Lord! Respite us for a little while, we will answer Your Call and follow the Messengers!’ (It will be said), ‘Had you not sworn aforetime that you would not leave (the world for the Hereafter).’” [Sūrah Ibrāhīm 14:44]

- 3. When they are brought to the Fire 

- “If you could but see when they will be held over the (Hell) Fire! They will say, ‘Would that we were but sent back (to the world)! Then we would not deny the āyāt (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, revelations, etc.) of our Lord, and we would be of the believers!’” [Sūrah al-An’ām 6:27]

- “Then (again) you will surely see it (in front of you) with the eye of (absolute) certainty.” [Sūrah at-Takāthur 102:7]

- 4. When they are brought in front of Rabbul-‘Ālamīn

- “And if you only could see when the Mujrimūn (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, etc.) shall hang their heads before their Lord (saying), ‘Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back (to the world), we will do righteous good deeds. Verily! We now believe with certainty.’” [Sūrah as-Sajdah 32:12]

- “If you could but see when they will be held (brought and made to stand) in front of their Lord! He will say, ‘Is not this (Resurrection and the taking of the accounts) the truth?’ They will say, ‘Yes, by our Lord!’ He will then say, ‘So taste you the torment because you used to disbelieve.’” [Sūrah al-An’ām 6:30]

- 5. In the depths of the Hellfire

- “Therein they will cry, ‘Our Lord! Bring us out, we shall do righteous good deeds, not (the evil deeds) that we used to do.’ (Allāh will reply), ‘Did We not give you lives long enough, so that whosoever would receive admonition, could receive it? And the warner came to you. So taste you (the evil of your deeds). For the Ẓalimūn (polytheists and wrongdoers, etc.) there is no helper." [Sūrah Fāṭir 35:37]

- The meaning of يَصْطَرِخُون.

- Qatādah (رحمه الله) on the sole reason we will wish to return to the dunyā. 

- “Those will have lost who deny the meeting with Allāh, until when the Hour [of resurrection] comes upon them unexpectedly, they will say, ‘O, [how great is] our regret over what we neglected concerning it,’ while they bear their burdens on their backs. Unquestionably, evil is that which they bear. And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion; but the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allāh, so will you not reason? [Sūrah al-An’ām 6:31-32]


Advice and Warning to Those Who Find it Difficult to Practice Their Religion By Abu Idrees 03102025

Lesson 10: The One who loves a thing/person besides Allah becomes imprisoned and tortured by it

Brief recap of previous lesson:
Ibn Al-Qayyim says from among the means of bringing about relaxation of the Chest is Inaaba (turning to Allah in repentance) and to love Allah with all your heart;
Different forms of Love, which is permissible and which is impermissible?
Love for Allah expands the chest in spite of the difficulties one may face in life
Look at the example of the life of Ibn Taymiyyah, see Lesson 5
Look at the statement of Shaikh Muqbil, see Lesson 9
Ibn Qayyim says a person in whose heart the love of Allah has settled, then such a person's chest becomes tight only when he sees the people who are idle, lazy and heedless in returning to Allah, those who do not relish in his Worship become an eye sore and mixing with them troubles him as though he has been struck by a fever.
Everyone makes mistakes, the type of heedless people mentioned here are those who do not turn in repentance to Allah
Why do such righteous people feel like this? because they realise it is not possible to guide everyone and so their heart becomes uneasy
For that reason you will find that prison was a form of seclusion for the likes of Shaykh ul Islam Ibn-Taymiyyah
Ibn Qayyim says from the greatest causes of suffocation of the chest is to turn away from Allah and the heart being attached to someone/something other than him, and being heedless of his remembrance
Whoever loves something besides Allah in a manner only befitting Allah (or in an impermissible form), then his heart will be agonised by it, his heart will be imprisoned by it and as a result of this no one will be in a more bitter and ill-tempered state than him
Shaikh Muhammad Amaan Al-Jaami  says Ibn Qayyim mentions a disease in order to describe the cure
Turning away from Allah could lead to apostasy
Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Abdulwahhaab mentions that among the nullifiers of a person’s Islam is him/her turning away from the religion (NOTE: there are different levels of turning away, not all of them lead to Apostasy)
The proof for the above is the verse : “And who does more wrong than he who is reminded of the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of his Lord, then he turns aside therefrom? Verily, We shall exact retribution from the Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, etc.).” [Surah Sajdah (The Prostration) verse 22]
Turning away from the religion of Allah to the extent that someone does not raise his head to study it may form  a basis for apostasy
Shaikh Muhammad Amaan Al-Jaami  says the one who becomes infatuated with his Imam (e.g. sufi “pir”), to such an extent that this love carries humility and debasement, then this is Shirk (associating partners to Allah, Polytheism) as only Allah deserves to be loves in this way
Shirk is the greatest sin of all in Islam
This is because Shirk decreases and makes imperfect the love of Allah
A person who does Shirk such as this, but claims to have eemaan, then this is merely superficial eemaan
Ibn Qayyim says that the one who loves someone/something, at the expense of being obedient to Allah, and turns away from Allah, then he will be tortured by it, grief and sorrow will eat away at his/her soul. Why is this the case?

Remedying the Heavy and Tight Chest

Lesson 10: The One who loves a thing besides Allah becomes Imprisoned and Tortured by it

Calling to the Qur'an and Sunnah, upon the way of the Salaf

Lesson 10: The One who loves a thing besides Allah becomes Imprisoned and Tortured by it

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