[Lesson Eight | 23/08/2025] 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 lessons. 

- An explanation of how al-Fātiḥah comprises a refutation against those who deny that Allāh’s Knowledge is connected to the particulars.

- The reason this issue is discussed. 

- How the misguided philosophers (Aristotle, Plato etc) tried to make sense of the world in the absence of revelation. 

- Examples that explain the meaning of this corrupted statement. 

- The two groups of the Qadariyyah. 

- How misguided Muslims used these ideas to solve what they deemed to be problems they could not understand with their intellect. 

- Clear proof that Allāh has knowledge of the particulars. 

- Seven angles by which the claims of the philosophers and those affected by them are nullified. 

- Ten matters present in al-Fātiḥah that are repeatedly used to refute every false belief and sect. 

- How al-Fātiḥah is a refutation of those who deny/reject the notion of prophethood.

- Ten angles of refutation. 

- How the one who denies prophethood is like the one who denies the Attributes of Allāh or the one who affirms partners for Allāh. 

- The reality of Rūbūbiyyah. 

- The two types of Allāh’s governance of His creation. 

- The three groups the creation is divided into. 

- Refutation of those who deny the resurrection of the bodies to be rewarded or punished. 

- The reality of ar-Risālah. 

- The affirmation of Speech for Allāh. 

- How those who deny Allāh’s Speech negate the messengership of all of the Messengers and resemble the pagan Arabs. 

- How these deviant beliefs lead to pure atheism. 

- Three angles by which al-Fātiḥah refutes those who say the world is eternal. 

- Examples of āyāt in which Allāh is being praised for His actions.

- How Allāh being praised necessitates that He has actions.

- The impossibility of something being simultaneously marbūb and qadīm. 

- An explanation of how al-Fātiḥah comprises a refutation of the Rāfiḍah.

- The one most worthy of being upon the Straight Path. 

- The impossibility that the Companions of the Messenger ﷺ were ignorant of or rejected the truth while the Rāfiḍah knew and acted upon it. 

- The effects of the Companions upon the lands and the people vs the Rāfiḍah. 

- The Rāfiḍah’s intense hate for the Companions of the Messenger ﷺ and Ahlus-Sunnah.

- Sūrah al-Fātiḥah’s refutation of the Khawārij.

- The reason they are called Rāfiḍah.

- The claims of the Rāfiḍah and Khawārij against the four Rightly Guided Calips. 

- The explanation of إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ.

- How al-Fātiḥah is divided. 

- The meaning of al-‘Ibādah, and its two foundations. 

- The two foundations of al-Isti’ānah.

- The connection between tawakkul and isti’ānah. 

- Eight reasons why Allāh put إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ before إِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ.

- Summary of the lesson. 


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[29/09/2025] – The Text: The second level: Imān – and it has seventy odd branches, the highest of them is the saying that ‘None has the right to be worshipped except Allah’, the lowest of them is removal of that which is harmful from the path, and a sense of shame is a branch of Imān. Its pillars are Six: To truly believe in Allah; His angels: His Books; His Messengers; the Last Day; and that you truly believe in pre-decree its good and its evil. The proof for these six pillars is the saying of Allah, the Most High, “It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the east or the west, but rather righteousness is the righteousness of those who truly believe in Allah, and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Books, and the Prophets.” [Surah Baqarah (2): 177]
– Examples of the places where Allah has mentioned the general and thereafter the specific.
– Explanation of Shaykh Ubayd al Jabiri:
– Linguistic meaning of Imān.
– Definition of Imān in the religion.
– Proofs from the Qur’an showing that actions are a part of Imān.
– Hadith referring to Imān consisting of sixty odd branches.
– Benefits from the hadith, specifically how to teach others and the way of giving Da’wah.
– The importance of the order mentioned of the pillars of Imān.
– The significance of each pillar of Imān.
– Linguistic meaning of Qadr.
– The Four levels of Qadr.
– Explanation of Shaykh Uthaymin
– The linguistic meaning of “Bid’u” and “Shu’bah”.
– The meaning of “harm being removed from the path”.
– Definition of Haya.
– The comprehensive meaning of Imān and the general branches of Imān.
– Imān in Allah is comprised of four ways and its evidence.
– Beautiful story of the companion Jubayr Ibn Mut’im in relation to how Imān entered his heart.
– Intellectual example to show that there is a creator that created the creation.

39 Explanation of the Three Principles by Abu Idrees

●The people of knowledge are granted a rank above others.

●The inheritance of the Prophets (peace and blessings of Allah be upon them).

●Everything seeks forgiveness for the scholars of the Sunnah — even the fish in the sea.

●The death of a scholar of the Sunnah leaves a gap that cannot be filled.

●The calamity of the death of scholars.

●How knowledge is taken away.

●The death of the scholars of the Sunnah leads people to take the ignorant as scholars.

●The importance of seeking knowledge from the scholars before they depart.

●The death of the Mufti of Saudi Arabia — Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez aali ash-Shaykh (may Allāh have mercy upon him).

●Those who falsely claim knowledge.

●Honouring our elders and showing mercy to our young.


Jumu'ah Khutbah 26/09/2025  The profound loss in the death of a scholar of the Sunnah.

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Kitāb At-Tawheed: Hypocrites Mistrust Allah (Part 1)

– Explanation of the Belief in the Angels.
– The characteristics of the Angels.
– Ahādith describing the vast number of Angels.
– Belief in the Angels comprises of four matters:
– Existence, their names (specific & general), their attributes & their tasks.
– Explanation and examples of the four matters that comprise the belief in Angels.
– Benefits of the belief and knowledge regarding the Angels.
– Refutations of the misconceptions that deny the existence of the Angels in a physical form.

40 Explanation of the Three Principles by Abu Idrees

A glimpse into the lives of the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him)

'Ā'ishah bint Abī Bakr as-Siddeeq (may Allāh be pleased with her)

Lesson Two The Mothers of the Believers: 'Ā'ishah bint Abī Bakr as-Siddeeq (may Allāh be pleased with her)

A glimpse into the lives of the wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him)

●Hafsah bint 'Umar ibn al-Khattāb (may Allāh be pleased with her)

●Zaynab bint Jahsh (may Allāh be pleased with her)

Lesson Three The Mothers of the Believers:Hafsah bint 'Umar ibn al-Khattāb (may Allāh be pleased with her) and Zaynab bint Jahsh (may Allāh be pleased with her)

39 Explanation of the Three Principles by Abu Idrees

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