[29/04/2024 - 03/04/2024] Introduction to Studying the Dīn of Allāh - By Abu Idrees Muhammad Khān حفظه الله. Masjid As-Sunnah An-Nabawiyyah, Aston, Birmingham, UK.

Part 1: Virtues of Knowledge

- Reminder regarding sincerity. 
- Reflecting upon what we have prepared for the grave.
- Aḥadīth that highlight the virtues of knowledge.
- Receiving the reward of a complete Ḥajj by going to the masjid in order to learn or teach knowledge.
- Glad tidings for the one who threads a path to seek knowledge. 
- Reaching the rank of a mujāhid by way of seeking knowledge.
- The ranks of those who seek knowledge.
- Benefits from Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) regarding the āyah, “Allāh bears witness that Lā ilāha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), and the angels, and those having knowledge (also give this witness); (He is always) maintaining His creation in Justice. Lā ilāha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.” [Sūrah Āli ‘Imrān 3:18]
- The great difference between the learned person and the one who is ignorant.
- The raising of the ranks of the people of knowledge.
- Attaining goodness through seeking knowledge, and a threat for the one who has no knowledge/understanding of the religion. 
- How people fight each other for familial inheritance vs their attitude towards the inheritance of the Prophet ﷺ. 
- The most valuable inheritance on the face of the earth, and striving to take a portion of it. 
- The benefits of seeking knowledge and being from its people after death and in the hereafter. 
- Aḥādīth that illustrate the virtue of the scholar over the devout worshipper. 
- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on the greatest virtue regarding those who possess knowledge.
- Statements from Imām ash-Shāfi’ī (رحمه الله) regarding the virtue of seeking knowledge.
- Imām Aḥmad and Ḥasan b. Sālīḥ (رحمهم الله) on our need for knowledge.

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