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A Concise Summary of the Seerah of the Prophet - Sallallahu 'Alaihi Was Salam - Year by Year.

[Lesson 9] - From 7th To 11th Year AH  The Life Of The Prophet In Years By Shaykh Abu Hakeem Bilal

Readings from the book 'Al Fawaa'id' (A Compilation of Benefits) of Imaam Ibnil Qayyim Al Jawziyah (Ramadhan 2025)

Benefits From Al Fawaa'id (Humility) 1

Benefits From Al Fawaa'id (Humility) 2

Lesson 2 - The Beneficial Means to a Happy Life | Shaykh Dr. Abdul-Khaliq Madi

— PART 2 — Abū Iyaad—Points 1-6 —08.08.25 — Summer Conference 2025.

- An example of the truthfulness and justice of Ahlus-Sunnah when refuting those who oppose the truth. 
- The Qur’ān is the Speech of Allāh, uncreated from every aspect.
- How the Jahmiyyah entered Greek philosophy into Islām and thus deviated regarding the Attributes of Allāh.
- Their denial of the Speech of Allāh, and the implications of this belief. 
- The belief of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamā’ah regarding the Speech of Allāh. 
- The false argument of the Christians who liken the Qur’ān to their belief regarding Jesus. 
- What is intended when it is said that the Qur’ān is the Speech of Allāh and is not created. 
- The impossibility of an attributing leaving someone and becoming a separate entity. 
- The distinction between the medium of conveyance and what is being conveyed. 
- The approach of the Mu’tazilah and Ashā’irah as it relates to their denial of the Qur’ān being the Speech of Allāh. 
- How the Ashā’irah play games with definitions to make it appear as if they believe in the kalām of Allāh. 
- How the Mu’tazilah convinced the rulers it is shirk to believe the Qur’ān is the Speech of Allāh and is uncreated, and the trials endured by the Muslims and scholars due to this.
- Allāh’s establishment of the truth upon the tongue of Imām Aḥmad (رحمه الله). 
- Other scholars who refuted and debated with the innovators in this time. 
- Al-Qadar, its good and evil is from Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic.
- The reason why denial of al-Qadar entered into the ummah.
- Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamā’ah’s belief in al-Qadar. 
- Proof from the Qur’ān and Sunnah that everything is written. 
- The levels of al-Qadar. 
- Clarification that there is no contradiction in saying Allāh is the Creator of the actions of the servants and the servants are the one who do their actions. 
- The reason the Qadariyyah are likened to the majūs. 
- The deviant beliefs of the Jabariyyah. 
- Clear proof from real-life experience that man has free will.
- The best of this ummah after its Prophet ﷺ is Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq, then ‘Umar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, then ‘Uthmān b. al-‘Affān, then ‘Alī b. ‘Alī Ṭālib (رضى الله عنهم), and they are the Rightly Guided Caliphs. 
- The reason this issue is included in the affairs of belief.
- Groups that went astray in this regard. 
- Evidences for the virtue and excellence of Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthmān and ‘Alī (رضى الله عنهم). 
- Examples of books written about the virtues of the Companions.
- And to invoke the Mercy of Allāh for all of the Companions of Muḥammad ﷺ and to withhold from speaking about the disputes that occurred between them.
- The political grievances of the Khawārij, Rawāfiḍ and Nawāsib, and their false interpretations of the events that occurred between the Companions. 
- Clear proof from the Qur’ān that Allāh is pleased with the Companions of the Messenger ﷺ. 
- How the Companions spread Islām and saved nations from disbelief. 
- What caused the people to enter into Islām, and the lies and propaganda spread by the enemies of the religion. 
- The purpose of jihād, and our rejection of terrorism. 
- Clarification that none of the Companions acted based on hawā and they all sought the Face of Allāh with their ijtihād. 
- The reality that only a small number of Companions were involved in the fighting. 
- And then the ten whom Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ named and bore witness that they will be in Paradise, and his speech is the truth.
- Ḥadīth of the ten promised paradise. 


2 Points 1 to 6 by Shaykh Abu Iyaad

Shaykh ‘Abdulilah—Points 17-22—09.08.25—Summer Conference. 

PART 2

- Those who commit major sins are subject to the Will of Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic. We do not declare those who face the qiblah (in prayer) to be unbelievers due to their sins—and we entrust what is concealed of their affairs to Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic.
- Proof that all of the Prophets and Messengers (عليهم السلام) warned against shirk.
- The destructive nature of shirk. 
- That which will give us security and guidance.
- The great station of the ‘ulamā’. 
- How the ‘ulamā’ considered the Khawārij.
- The levels of īmān and kufr.
- Proof that the Qur’ān is the Speech of Allāh and is not created.
- A lesson from Abān b. ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān and ‘Abdullāh b. ‘Umar (رضى الله عنهم) on how to respond to the innovators. 
- The danger of speaking about the affair of takfīr without knowledge.
- A ḥadīth that illustrates tasfiyah and tarbiyah. 
- Establishing the proof and not rushing to make takfīr.
- Clarification from Shaykh Muḥammad b. ‘Abdul-Wahhāb (رحمه الله) regarding the claims that he unjustly makes takfīr of the Muslims.
- The conditions for declaring a person to be a kāfir.
- Rebuke of the Khawārij.
- Jihād vs fasād.
- Sayyid Quṭb’s blanket takfīr of the ummah, and how the scholars combat this deviant ideology.
- The takfīrīs’ revilement of the scholars.
- A ḥadīth that is glad tidings for Ahlus-Sunnah.
- Warning against debating with innovators and giving them the opportunity to be famous and spread their doubts.
- The humiliation and destruction of falling into sins. 
- The believer vs the hypocrite regarding how they see their sins. 
- The misguidance of adding a fourth category to Tawḥīd. 
- Clarification that the three categories of Tawḥīd are directly derived from the Qur’ān and is not a matter of ijtihād.
- Examples from the Sunnah of not changing an evil if it will lead to a greater evil.
- The chaos created by not following this principle.
- How ‘izzah is attained.
- Refuting bid’ah and establishing the Sunnah upon justice.
- Glad tidings to those who adhere to this blessed path. 


8 Points 17 to 22 By Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami

Abū Khadeejah—Points 23-27—10.08.25—Summer Conference 2025


- Principles regarding prohibiting and removing evil. 
- The response of Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (رحمه الله) when he was approached by some youth who wanted to rebel against Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf. 
- The end result of all of the rebellions and revolutions of the political agitators. 
- Clarification that prohibiting and removing evil must be done in accordance to what has been legislated in the Sharī’ah. 
- Those who are the tools of Shayṭān used to weaken the Islamic nations.
- Jihād remains in place from the time Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, sent His Messenger ﷺ until the establishment of the Hour behind those in authority from the Muslim rulers—there is nothing that cancels it—and likewise is said regarding Ḥajj.
- The jihād in the time of Makkah. 
- The correct understanding of jihād remaining until the establishment of the Hour.
- Jihād ad-Difā’ vs Jihād al-Fatḥ.
- Examples of the mentality of the kāfir in warfare vs the Muslim. 
- Clarification that Jihād al-Fatḥ does not mean compulsion. 
- How Islām creates the atmosphere of justice such that the people willingly enter into the religion, and remain upon it.
- The reason westerners, communists and socialists fear (the legislated) jihād. 
- The reality that the vast majority of the ummah have deviated in their dīn and dunyā. 
- The only way to exit this cycle of humiliation and misguidance that has come upon the Muslims. 
- The treatment of the Jews under the rule of the Muslims vs the non-Muslims. 
- How the political activists allow bid’ah and shirk but wage war against Ahlus-Sunnah. 
- The fiqh of Shaykh al-Islām Muḥammad b. ‘Abdul-Wahhāb (رحمه الله). 
- The strangeness of Ahlus-Sunnah in every land. 
- Clarification that the only Abrahamic faith is Islām. 
- The true meaning and intent of jihād.
- The obligation and importance of hijrah.
- A ḥadīth that refutes the lies invented by the enemies of Islām regarding jihād. 
- The Zakāh due upon beasts and cattle is to be paid to those in authority from the Muslim rulers.
- The wars of apostasy in the time of Abū Bakr (رضى الله عنه).
- Proof that the ruler has a right to take zakāh. 
- The apparent and hidden zakāh. 
- Clarification that zakāh is not just upon cattle.

10 Points 23 to 27 By Shaykh Abu Khadeejah

Uways aṭ-Ṭawīl—Points 28-32—10.08.25—Summer Conference 2025

—PART TWO—

- Fruits of īmān in al-Qadar, with proof from the Qur’ān and Sunnah.
- 1. Being pleased and having certainty that you will get something better
- 2. Expansion of the heart/tranquility
- 3. Patience
- 4. Contentment
- 5. Not having regret over what has missed you
- The Jahmiyyah are unbelievers.
- The figureheads of the Jahmiyyah.
- The isnād of misguidance for the ‘aqīdah of the Jahmiyyah, which goes back to Labīd b. al-A’ṣam, the Jew who performed magic on the Messenger ﷺ. 
- Beliefs of the Jahmiyyah. 
- Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) on the first to negate all of Allāh’s Names and Attributes.
- Textual and intellectual refutation of their doubt that affirming Allāh’s Names necessitates associating partners with Him.
- Their negation that Allāh loves the servants and the servants love Allāh.
- Textual and intellectual refutation of their claim that affirming Allāh’s Attributes is making Him like the creation. 
- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on their three jīms of deviation.
- The angle by which the ‘ulamā deem the Jahmiyyah to be kuffār.
- Their agreement with the Khawārij.
- Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn ‘Uthaymīn (رحمهم الله) on the three categories of Jahmiyyah and the rulings upon them. 
- The Rāfiḍah rejected Islām.
- The linguistic meaning of rafḍ, and its meaning in the books of ‘Aqīdah.
- The two groups of the Shī’ah.
- Deviant beliefs of the Rāfiḍah, quoted from their books.
- Refutation of their claims from the Qur’ān, Sunnah and statements of the scholars.
- The claims:
- 1. The people are slaves to their imāms. 
- 2. ‘Ali b. Abī Ṭālib (رضى الله عنه) and other imāms know the unseen.
- 3. ‘Ali b. Abī Ṭālib is given Rūbūbiyyah explicitly.
- 4. Their imāms are the faces and eyes of Allāh in His creation.
- 5. All of the Companions apostated after the death of the Messenger ﷺ except for four.

12 Points 28 to 32 By Shaykh Uways Taweel

Abū Iyad—Points 33-36—Summer Conference 2025


- The Khawārij shoot out of Islām.
- The meaning of murrāq, and its basis in the Sunnah.
- The two types of khurūj. 
- The matter all of the Khawārij unite upon. 
- The position of Shaykh Ibn Bāz (رحمه الله) regarding the Khawārij. 
- Names and descriptions of the Khawārij. 
- The two categories of the Khawārij (leaders and followers). 
- The motivation of the Khawārij and the excuse they use to cover their real objective. 
- The two types of Khawārij (al-Muḥāribah and al-Qā’idiyyah).
- The two types of Muhāribah, examples of such groups, and how they are to be dealt with by the ruler. 
- The type of debate/argumentation that is permitted in the Sunnah. 
- The reason for the harsh punishment prescribed for the Khawārij.
- Their evil views on Muslim societies.
- The issue of debating with the Khawārij.
- Characteristics of the Qā’idiyyah, how they are to be dealt with, and the spring of this ideology in the modern era. 
- Whoever claims that the Qur’ān is created is an unbeliever with the unbelief that removes him from the religion—and whoever doubts the unbelief of such a person from those who understand this matter, then he too is an unbeliever.
- What is necessitated by the claim that the Qur’ān is created.
- The ruling on the different groups and their positions regarding the Qur’ān. 
- Whoever doubts in the Speech of Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, and withholds regarding it due to doubt, saying, “I do not know whether it is created or not created”, such a person is a Jahmī. As for the one who withholds in the affair of the Qur’ān out of ignorance, then he is taught and accused of innovation [for withholding] but he is not declared to be an unbeliever.
- The reason for these classifications. 
- Schemes employed by Ahlul-Bid’ah to create doubts and spread their poisonous ideologies. 
- The reason for the revelation of the āyah, “O you who have believed, say not [to Allāh 's Messenger ﷺ], ‘Rā’inā’ but say, ‘Unẓurnā’, and listen. And for the disbelievers is a painful punishment.” [Sūrah al-Baqarah 2:104]
- Proof that the voice and the Qur’ān are two different things.
- The tawfīq given to the scholars by Allāh to recognise and close the doors to misguidance.
- How deviants play games in order to avoid clearly stating their positions.
- The importance of returning to the books of the Salaf and the imāms of Ahlus-Sunnah in every era.

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