Istiqaamah

StrengthTreadingStraightPath By Abu Muadh

Remaining Steadfast With Righteous Companions By Abu Hakeem

Determination & Endeavour in Islām - By Ḥasan As-Ṣomālī حفظه الله. Masjid As-Sunnah, Bradford, UK.

Some points discussed during this lesson:

- Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) on how determination and zeal allows a person to attain completion.
- Two things that determine our levels with Allāh.
- Allāh’s description and praise of Ibrāhīm, Isḥāq and Ya’qūb (عليهم السلام).
- The four categories of people as it relates to knowledge/understanding of the truth and determination to implement the truth.
- The group of people deserving of leadership in the religion and are not in a state of loss.
- The meaning of Imām ash-Shāfi’īs (رحمه الله) statement regarding Sūrah al-‘Aṣr.
- Āyāt and aḥadīth that show the importance of striving with our time, wealth and bodies for the Sake of Allāh, desiring the hereafter.
- Allāh’s rebuke of the mushrikūn and His praise for the believers.
- Allāh’s encouragement for us to compete with one another in good.
- The difference between envy and competing with one another in good.
- Examples of how the Companions would compete with one another.
- The similitude of two people who compete with one another in good.
- A warning against being lazy and making the worldly life one’s goal.
- The fruits of making the hereafter one’s primary goal.
- A brief glimpse at the dedication of the Salaf.
- Dispelling the notion that a person is too old to learn/ seek knowledge.
- Asking ourselves, “What have we sacrificed for the truth?”
- ‘Umar b. ‘Abdil ‘Azīz (رحمه الله) on what he would sacrifice to have every bid’ah extinguished and every Sunnah implemented.

Determination & Endeavour in Islām By Ḥasan As-Ṣomālī

How To Remain Steadfast Upon The Sunnah|Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis|Stoke

[27/07/2018] The Affairs That Keep You Strong In Your Religion – By Abu Khadeejah ‘Abdul Wahid حفظه الله. Khutbah at Masjid As-Salafi, Birmingham, UK.

Some points discussed during this Khutbah:
- The Muslim’s need for knowing the reasons that bring about firmness in the dīn.
- The reason the scholars have written treatises on the affair of thabāt.
- Affairs that bring about thabāt:
1. Understanding and acting upon the Qur’ān.
2. Righteous deeds.
3. Pondering over the lives and trials encountered by the Prophets and their followers.
4. Following the footsteps of the Prophets in calling to Allāh.
5. Recognising the inheritors of the Prophets and having love for them.
- The importance of keeping the heart firm and the means of doing so.
- The recompense is in accordance to the deed.
- The necessity of returning to the major scholars in times of fitan, and a firm warning against the youth putting themselves forward.
- How to identify a person of Sunnah.
- The reason why the scholars of Sunnah are hated/reviled.

Istiqaamah

Timothy Pike