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Practical Advices on Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

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Chapter on Patience (Sabr) - Lesson 1

Khutbah: Fear of Entering into Shirk

[Lesson Six | 17/05/2025] Selected Benefits from Madārij Al-Sālikīn of Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله– By Shaykh Abu ‘Iyaad Amjad Rafīq حفظه الله. Monthly class at Masjid Salafi, Small Heath, Birmingham, UK.

Some points discussed during this lesson:

- Recap of the previous lesson.

- Explanation of how al-Fātiḥah is a shifā’ (cure and healing). 

- The two types of cures contained in Sūrah al-Fātiḥah.

- How al-Fātiḥah is a cure for the hearts. 

- Two principles/foundations of all diseases of the heart: corruption in knowledge (فساد العلم) and corruption in intent (فساد القصد). 

- Two fatal diseases that stem from these two principles: misguidance (الضلال) and anger (الغضب). 

- Examples of how diseases of the heart return to Fasād al-‘Ilm and Fasād al-Qaṣd. 

- The cure for Fasād al-‘Ilm.

- The greatest, most obligatory supplication upon every servant to make. 

- The cure for Fasād al-Qaṣd. 

- How Fasād al-Qaṣd leads to corrupted objectives and corrupted means to reach those objectives.  

- Steps taken by those who seek temporal objectives to reject the truth.

- The eventual, inevitable regret and ruin of these types of individuals. 

- The outcome of the one who has good intent and lofty objectives but takes incorrect means.

- Six components contained in the medicine إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ.

- Two further diseases of the heart that lead to ruin and destruction, without fail: showing off (الرياء) and arrogance (الكبر).

- Repelling and curing riyā’ with يَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ and kibr with إِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ.

- The reason al-Ghamm (sorrow/grief) overwhelms the heart, and how to prevent it from settling in the heart. 

- Using this knowledge to diagnose ourselves and treat the diseases that may afflict us. 

- How al-Fātiḥah is a cure for the body.

- The one for whom the Qur’ān is a cure. 

- Utilising the Sunnah, principles of medicine and personal experience to illustrate how al-Fātiḥah is a healing for the bodies. 

- The Sunnah

- The ḥadīth where one of the Companions (رضى الله عنهم) performed ruqyah (using Sūrah al-Fātiḥah) on a chief from the pagan Bedouin Arabs when he was stung.

- A necessary factor that must be present within the one receiving the medicine.  

- Principles of Medicine 

- How the fiery rage of certain creatures becomes embodied in their sting. 

- Countering diseases with their opposites. 

- Preserving health by its like.  

- A ḥadīth that highlights the powerful effect of emotions on health and disease. 

- Experiments and research on psychogenic illnesses.

- Three affairs that necessitate healing when they come together.

- Personal Experience

- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on the amazing effect of al-Fātiḥah in relieving him of painful illnesses.

-  Summary of the lesson.

- The connection between sins and physical ailments.

6 Madārij As Salikīn By Abu Iyaad 17052025

Health Advices of the Prophet ﷺ by Shaykh Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis

The khuṭbah at Masjid al-Furqān (TROID), Toronto, Canada (2024/08/02). Shaykh Sālim Bāmiḥriz discusses the the dangerous of falling into heinous sins and the importance of repentance and steadfastness upon Islām.

Repelling Sins

[06/06/2025] The Importance of Choosing Good Companionship - By Abu Khadeejah ‘Abdul Wāḥid. 

- Mankind’s innate nature to love and enjoy the companionship of others.
- The varying levels and types of people in relation to their manners and adherence to the dīn. 
- “Close friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous.” [Sūrah az-Zukhruf 43: 67]
- “And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, ‘Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way. Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken so-and-so as a friend. He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Shayṭān to man, a deserter.’” [Sūrah al-Furqān 25: 27-29]
- The story of how wicked companionship caused ‘Uqbah b. Abī Mu’īṭ to return to paganism after embracing Islām.
- Examples of how ‘Uqbah harmed the Prophet ﷺ, the du’ā of the Prophet ﷺ against him, and his evil outcome along with the other chiefs of Quraysh.  
- How evil companionship caused Abū Ṭālib to die upon paganism despite the Prophet’s ﷺ earnest call for him to accept Islām. 
- The similitude of a righteous companion and a wicked companion.
- Al-Adhīmabādī (رحمه الله) on the meaning of a man being upon the religion of his close friend. 
- The two types of souls created by Allāh, and the reason why we are inclined to some people and repulsed by others. 
- The fruits of good companionship and harms of wicked companionship.
- “And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and for Paradise that is as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous.” [Sūrah Āli ‘Imrān 3: 133]
- Clarification that sinners are advised and called to good, but not taken as companions. 
- Advice to the youth to fear Allāh, strengthen their īmān and keep good companions. 


The Importance of Choosing Good Companionship By Abu Khadeejah

[19/06/2025] The Conditions, Pillars & Requirements of the Prayer

The Pillars of the Prayer are Fourteen.

The main points covered in this lesson:
The Tenth Pillar: Following a sequential order between all of the pillars - الترتيب
The Eleventh Pillar: The Final Tashahhud - التشهد الاخير 

Shaikh Abdul Muhsin:
‎– الترتيب - Following the Sequential order of the pillars.
– The proof for this is the Hadīth of the man who prayed badly.

Shaikh Muhammad Aman Al-Jāmi:
– A detailed explanation regarding the issue of what to do with the hands when one returns from the bowing - Ruku’u. Do the hands remain by the side or do they go back on to one’s chest.
– Imam Ahmad: How should one deal with this issue of varied understandings of the positing of the hands after returning from the Ruku’u.
– Shaikh Al-Albāni’s position regarding on where to place the hands after Ruku’u.
‎– الترتيب - Following the Sequential order of the pillars within the prayer.
– The Prophet ﷺ said “Pray as you have seen me praying.”
– In the hadīth of the man that prayed badly, the Prophet ﷺ explained each pillar one by one in sequential order.
– What one needs to do if they miss a pillar during the prayer.
– The Eleventh Pillar: The sitting for the Final Tashahhud - التشهد الاخير.
– This refers to that which is recited in the final sitting after the second prostration in the last Raka’ah.
– The sitting in the final tashahhud is part of the pillar.
– The way one can sit according to the Sunnah in this final tashahhud which is known as - التورك Tawarruk.
– The manner in which the issues of Fiqh - Islamic Jurisprudence should be studied, and how these issues always return back the authentic textual evidences.
– For the affairs of Fiqh the shaikh Advises to study books such as Umdat-ul Ahkām and Bulugh-ul Marām

Questions:
– How do we deal with rising Islamophobia in the UK?
– Who has the right to lead the Prayer in a gathering?
– Is it Haram or Makrooh to wear shorts that expose the knees?
– What is the ruling on cursing the non-believers?
– What is the ruling regarding spending equally on one’s wives that live in different countries?

27 Conditions Pillars and Obligations of the Prayer By Abu Idrees

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