2022 Summer Conference Masjid As Salafī

Birmingham conference 2022

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[26/08/2022] Paradise Is For The Strangers - National Conference 2022 - By Abdulilah Lahmami حفظه الله. Khutbah at Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Some points discussed during this Khutbah:

- “Indeed Islām began as something stranger…”
- The statement of Shaykh Ibn Bāz (رحمه الله).
- How the Prophet ﷺ warned against all innovations.
- “Those who rectify what the people corrupted…”
- Those who have a good ending…
- Those who abandon all transgressions.
- Who are the happiest people on the Day of Judgement?
- The singular path to paradise.
- Understanding the Shahādah.
- The statement of Sufyān At-Thawrī (رحمه الله) regarding bid’ah.
- Those who the Prophet ﷺ described as “my brothers”.
- Allāh is sufficient for the believers.
- Imām Sa’dī (رحمه الله) upon Allāh aiding and protecting the believers.
- The scholars are the inheritors of the Prophets (عليهم السلام).
- Living during the “days of deception”.
- The revival of the Dīn.
- The sufficiency of the Qur’ān and the Sunnah.
- Who are the people of rectification?
- The Paradise that the believers are promised.

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Paradise Is For The Strangers By Abdulilah Lahmami

- The importance of recognising what will lead us to salvation.
- Splitting into groups and parties is to oppose the uṣūl of the dīn. 
- How the Prophet ﷺ described the divergent paths, and the path he commanded to follow. 
- Narrations where the Prophet ﷺ clarified that there are misguided groups. 
- The phenomenon today that people claim the straight path is not known from the deviant paths. 
- Allāh’s threat to those who oppose the straight path. 
- The false claims/ideas for unity by the people of misguidance, and that which truly unites the ummah. 
- The singular, unchanging ‘Aqidah and Manhaj of Ahlus-Sunnah throughout the ages.
- Imām Baghawī (d.516) and Ibn Kathīr (d. 774) on the statement of Allāh, “This is My Straight Path…”
- The firm rebuke of the Messenger ﷺ of the divergent paths and how the deviant groups disparage the Salafīs for saying the same.
- Strong statements from Ibn ‘Umar and Ibn ‘Abbās dispraising the Qadariyyah. 
- The Prophet’s ﷺ description of the callers to the doors of the Hellfire.
- The reason there is so much weakness in the ummah today and how to achieve rectification. 
- The love of Ahlus-Sunnah for Mu’āwiyah and Ahlul-Bid’ah’s hatred of him.
- A trait of Ahlul-Ḥaqq.

Part 1 This Is My Straight Path So Follow It, And Do Not Follow The Other Paths By Abu Khadeejah

[26/08/2022] Part 1: Unity Upon The Usūl Of The ‘Aqīdah Ahl Al-Sunnah - From A Lecture By Shaykh Al-Fawzān. - National Conference 2022 - By Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq حفظه الله. Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Some points covered during this lesson:
- The intent of Ahlul-Bid’ah when they falsely distinguish between ‘Aqīdah (creed) and Manhaj (methodology).
- The meaning of ‘uṣūl’ with the Salaf.
- Imām Sa’dī and al-Baghawī on the verse, “…All the praises and thanks be to Allāh, Who has guided us to this, never could we have found guidance, were it not that Allāh had guided us!…” [Sūrah al-A’rāf 7:43]
- Ways to achieve a good end, with evidence:
- maintaining istiqāmah in the religion
- having a good thought/opinion of Allāh
- at-Taqwā
- aṣ-Ṣidq
- Tawbah
- being constant in righteous deeds
- remembering death
- fearing all of the asbāb that cause an evil end.
- Reasons for an evil end:
- persistence upon sins (which leads to the sealing of the heart)
- delaying tawbah
- love and pursuit of the world.
- Being grateful for guidance to Islām and the Sunnah and not taking it for granted.
- How the confused Muslims and non-Muslims see Islām.
- Allāh’s guarantee of the continuance of Islām.
- The obligation of having knowledge of the correct Islām.
- Plots of the enemies of Islām to split the Ummah in the time of the Messenger ﷺ.
- Allāh and His Messenger’s legislation of unity.

Part 1 Unity Upon The Usul Of The Aqidah Ahl Al Sunnah By Abu Iyaad

[26/08/2022] The Six Stages of Seeking Knowledge According to the Scholars of the Sunnah – National Conference 2022 – By Uways At-Ṭaweel حفظه الله. Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Some points covered during this lesson:

‘Abdullāh Ibn al-Mubārak, Sufyān ath-Thawrī, Ibn al-Qayyim and as-Safārīnī (رحمهم الله) on the stages of seeking knowledge.
The reason for choosing this topic.
The First Stage: Correct intention.
Statements from the Salaf regarding the importance of sincerity and correct intention in seeking knowledge.
Ayyūb as-Sakhtiyānī on the one who seeks fame.
Ibn al-Qayyim on the high level of truthfulness.
Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī’s advice for the student of knowledge.
Nine means of attaining sincerity (in seeking knowledge):
Having the intention to worship Allāh upon insight and remove ignorance from oneself.
Knowing that seeking knowledge is worship.
Having the intention of achieving the supplication of the Messenger ﷺ.
Seeking to be raised in status with Allāh.
Hoping to be from the people of khashyah.
Reflecting upon the fact that there is reward in the sittings of knowledge.
Seeking to be from the best and most noble of people to Allāh, not the people.
Intending to transmit the Sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ to the one who is ignorant regarding it. 
Intending to be from those whom the creation makes du’ā/seeks forgiveness for.
The Second Stage: Listening attentively and remaining silent.
Three things the student of knowledge must incorporate:
Taking this knowledge from the scholars who benefit him.
Reading.
Researching.
A ḥadīth from the Messenger ﷺ that encourages listening attentively.
An-Nawawī and as-Sa’dī on the difference between listening attentively and remaining silent.
Attentive listening that brings about a lot of good:
Ears that are fully attentive to the one speaking.
A heart that is awake and attentive.
Contemplating on what one is hearing.
Statements from ash-Shāfi’ī and al-Aṣma’ī regarding remaining silent and listening attentively. 
Allāh’s dispraise of those who do not listen.
Those who fall short in listening (with acceptance).
The example of Mūsā (عليه السلام) regarding listening with reflection.
Wahb b. Munabbih on the etiquettes of listening.

Part 1 The 6 Stages of Seeking Knowledge According to the Scholars of the Sunnah By Uways Taweel

[26/08/2022] “Allah Is The Wali Of Those Who Believe. He Brings Them Out From Darkness Into Light” – National Conference 2022 – By Abu Idrees Muhammad Khān حفظه الله. Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Some points covered during this lesson:

Benefits from the āyah, “Allāh is the Walī (Protector or Guardian) of those who believe. He brings them out from darkness into light.” [Sūrah al-Baqarah 2:257]
Reminding ourselves that every created being is in need of another but Allāh is not in need of any of His creation.
Being blessed with the wilāyah of Allāh, its fruits and how it is attained.
The great importance of correct ‘Aqīdah. 
Al-Baghawī, aṭ-Ṭabarī, as-Sa’dī and Ibn Kathīr regarding Allāh’s wilāyah and Him being sufficient for His servants.  
Āyāt regarding the wilāyah of Allāh.  
That which will return strength to the Muslims.
Having firm belief that nothing can stand in the way of Allāh’s Aid.
The promise of Allāh that He will wage war against those who show enmity to His awliyā.
How the Prophets met their problems/hardships. 
The need to constantly beg Allāh for thabāt (steadfastness).
Āyāt that show the truth is one and the deviant paths are numerous.
The darkness of kufr and shirk.
Reflecting upon our state before we were guided. 
The darkness of ignorance.
Carrying this knowledge with sincerity and how self-amazement can destroy a person.
Glad tidings for the awliyā of Allāh in this life and the hereafter. 
What our intention should be when seeking knowledge. 
Benefits from the āyah, “Is he who was dead (without Faith by ignorance and disbelief) and We gave him life (by knowledge and Faith) and set for him a light (of Belief) whereby he can walk amongst men, like him who is in the darkness (of disbelief, polytheism and hypocrisy) from which he can never come out? Thus it is made fair-seeming to the disbelievers that which they used to do.” [Sūrah al-An’ām 6:122]
The outcome of insincerity.
Striving to be a person who calls to good.

Allah Is The Wali Of Those Who Believe He Brings Them Out From Darkness Into Light By Abu Idrees

[26/08/2022] Part 1 - “…But They Never Changed In The Least!” (Sūratul Aḥzāb v.23) – National Conference 2022 – By Abu Hakeem Bilāl Davis حفظه الله. Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Some points covered during this lesson:

The sickness of ignorance, and its cure.  
The story of the Battle of the Confederates and benefits found therein. 
The types of munāfiqūn present in the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
Those in our time who do as the confederates did, in teaming up against the Salafīs.
Āyāt regarding the Battle of the Confederates.
Mu’jizāt that occurred during this time.
The example of the Messenger ﷺ and his Companions (رضى الله عنهم) regarding patience and being certain of the promise of Allāh. 
Remaining firm and upright upon the covenant of Allāh. 
The Salaf on that which constitutes true misguidance.

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Part 1 But They Never Changed In The Least By Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis

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