Seeking Knowledge for Actions -  Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami

[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

[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.

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[24/12/2022] Three Fundamental Duties of the Seeker of Knowledge - By Uways At-Ṭaweel حفظه الله. The SalafiPublications Winter Conference at Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

- The obligation of seeking knowledge. 
- The first fundamental duty of the seeker of knowledge: The duties related to himself/herself.
- 1. Seeking knowledge to gain closeness to Allāh.
- The necessity of sincerity in seeking knowledge.
- ‘Abdullāh Anṭākī (رحمه الله) on the impossibility of gathering between sincerity and showing off.
- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on the three categories of patience as it relates to obedience.
- Statements from Isḥāq b. Khalaf, Sufyān ath-Thawrī and Ma’mūn (رحمهم الله) regarding yearning for leadership.
- The reason there is more benefit in the statements of the Salaf than ours.
- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on three statements that absolute caution should be taken regarding, those who were afflicted by them and how they should be used.
- 2. Purification of the heart.
- Making time for affairs related to purification of the heart.
- The similitude of the guidance and knowledge Allāh sent the Prophet ﷺ with.
- 3. Not allowing shyness or arrogance to prevent one from learning.
- Examples from the Ṣaḥābah regarding not allowing shyness to prevent one from seeking knowledge and asking questions.
- Following the example of our scholars in benefitting from those on our level, those more knowledgable and those less knowledgeable than ourselves.
- 4. Patience in seeking knowledge.
- Encouragement from the Messenger ﷺ for the one who finds difficulty in reciting the Qur’ān.
- The great blessing of patience. 
- 5. Being cautious regarding those who are obstacles in the path of seeking knowledge.
- Ahlul-Bid’ah and social media “influencers” are a hindrance. 
- The perils of sitting with the people of innovation.
- A warning against the deceivers who claim to be with the scholars of the Sunnah, and an example from Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) in this regard.
- That which determines if a person is truly the student of a Shaykh.
- 6. Being open and ready to retract and make tawbah when one makes a mistake.
- Examples of the humility of the Salaf in this regard.

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