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How Do We Welcome Ramadan  | Abu ‘Atiyah Mahmoud bin Muhammad 

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

My fellow Muslims, perceive that a guest was coming to you and this guest was one of great nobility, one who gives and one having much khair with them. What would be your position, how would your feelings towards this guest be, and how would your actions welcome them?

Without a doubt, we would make many preparations to receive this guest and how to achieve and gain from the good they had with them.

Now, here we are as Muslims about to welcome a great guest and this guest is none other than, the month of Ramadan. The people meeting the month of Ramadan they have different categories and they have different ways of welcoming this month. 

From them are those who find the month of Ramadan equal to other months and they continue how they were, 

 If they had a shortcoming in worship they continue with their shortcomings. 

If they were sinful they continue with their sins 

If they were doing wrong they continue treading that path they were upon 

The month enters and the month exists and there was no change in their life and it is as if, they have been told the keys to Jannah you have them wa’audhubillah.

And then, 

From the people are those who the month of Ramadan enters upon them, 

They take advantage of this opportunity  

They strive in rectifying their souls 

They strive in implementing the khair that will enter them into Jannah 

These are the ones who are successful. This month of Ramadan it’s an opportunity and we Muslims should feel happy when welcoming the arrival of this month. About this blessed month, Allah az wa Jal tells us in the Quran:

“O you who believe! As-Saum (the fasting) has been prescribed for you as it has been prescribed for the people who came before you, so that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious).  {Al-Baqarah 2:183}

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The Conference: Interesting topics, that I think is relatable to everyone. We all talk about changing for the better and improving from the previews condition to the next stage in imaan, in knowledge, and in khair but often we stay stuck. However, once we’ve established that we need to make changes in our life, the next step is identifying which areas to target and if we constantly hit hurdles, we need to closely examine our environment. What factors could be working against us?

And if it’s true, that we want to change, then and we will persist, and we will succeed. That’s how every success ever achieved always happens.

قَدْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ زَكَّاهَا

Indeed he succeeds who purifies his ownself (i.e. obeys and performs all that Allah ordered, by following the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds).

وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ دَسَّاهَا

And indeed he fails who corrupts his ownself (i.e. disobeys what Allah has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism or by following polytheism, etc. or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds). 

 (Quran 91:9-10)

وَمَا تَوْفِيقِي إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ ۚ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَإِلَيْهِ أُنِيبُ

And my success is not but through Allah. Upon him, I have relied, and to Him, I return.

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Here are some good books for a New Muslim and beginners to benefit from:

1.

Title: Important Lessons For The Muslim Ummah

Author: Shaykh Bin Baz

Translator: Khalid A. Al-Awadh

Reviser: Dr. Saleh as-Saleh

View / Download

2.

Title:  The Explanation Of The Fundamentals Of Islamic Belief

Author: Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen

Translator: Dr. Saleh as-Saleh

View / Download

3.

Title: This Is Islaam

Author: Shaykh Saalih Al-Shaykh

View / Download

4.

Title: Take Your Beliefs From The Qur’aan And Sunnah

Author: Muhammad Ibn Jameel Zainoo

Translator: Sameh Strauch

View / Download

There are more, but these are good beginning books.

Mentioned by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan Abu Sulaymaan

TorontoDawah

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رَبِّ ابْنِ لِي عِندَكَ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ

My Lord, build for me near You a house in Paradise.

This is a response to those on Tumblr, who say that “you should stay away from Toronto Dawah and Masjid Muqbil” and so forth… “because they are the students of Shaykh Yahya al Hajooree and they defend him.”

The clip above is a question asking Shaykh Fawzan, about whether we should take knowledge from Shaykh Yahya Al Hajoori. Shaykh Fawzaan states in the audio, that he has heard only good of Shaykh Yayay and this and advising one to benefit from where there is a benefit.  The audio is from January 2017. 

To add to this, some people talk for the sake of it, wallah! We live in a time where people sound like a distorted tale of Chinese whispers. If they hear so and so said this about this person or this shaykh they don’t even attempt to verify the “second-hand information” given out to them. As a result, they end up spreading lies, to deceive and cause damage.

The Example ‘inserted below’ is from the many examples of how some of them either lie and deceive or just simply get lied to and deceived and then simply blind follow their whole point is, “I heard” and this is what their whole arguments is based upon. If one was to take a close look at it and plus the youtube videos of Abu so and so said.  

After some individuals made it widespread that Sh. Fawzaan had warned against Shaykh Yayah, people like the sister above who I have hidden her name out of respect and wishing for her what I would wish for myself. She clearly passed on a distorted tale of Chinese whispers and as a result, she responded with the above without verification Wa Allahu Musta'an.

The clip below is what Shaykh Salih al Fawzan حفظهما الله  said in regards to this kind of deceit and lies that they try to attach to him and other Scholars, 

To reiterate what Shaykh Salih al Fawzan said in the above clip is transcripted below:

“There are some brothers, may Allah pardon them (and guide them). They are afflicted with evil intention/desires against a person, or hatred against an individual from the seekers (students) of knowledge, or the Ulima (scholars, the people of knowledge).

So they ask you a question and you answer the general question. Then they take this answer and put it against that person (they dislike, by name etc.). This is their aim against this person, that you imply to him ( their method of attacking him, because they have hatred for this person, and is against him).

So they say: So and so (scholar) said in this person is this and this, (or he is like this and like that)! And you did not even mention this person by name….or no such a person at all, that you only answer a general question (without mentioning that person name). And they put this on the person that they are against, they say (shaykh) so and so intended this person, and intended a group of personalities, and with this they come with audios, and author books with such claim saying (shaykh) so and so said this, said this person he is like this or he is like that ( claiming shaykh so and so refuted this person or issue a fatwaa against this person), and he answers about this.

And the goal of theirs with this is to cause corruption among the people and to incite problems between the seekers (students) of knowledge. And this is the cause of enmity falling out between the seekers of knowledge.

So we warn you, and we ask you by Allah to keep away from this type of characteristic. And do not be mislead and misguided with this bad dislike characteristic or this bad character becomes of you. So be aware  and extremely cautious of this bad character.”

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As of 2018,

Allamah Sheikh Yahya hajooree is teaching in masjid taqwa in mecca after the intercession made by the Aalim Saleh ala sheikh.✨✨

I am not trying to upset anyone or score points, lest I become misguided due to that. Ibn Abbass said, “knowledge is not sought to argue with the fuqahaa, nor to shame the ignorant or gather the people.

Shaykh Salih al Fawzan حفظهما الله:

“Warning people about misguidance does not cause disunity, rather it creates unity.”

[Manaahij Page 147]

Ash-Shaikh al-Imam Muqbil bin Hadī al-Wadi’ee رحمه الله:

“We are in a time of trials and tribulations (fitan), it’s obligatory to gain understanding (fiqh) of Allah’s religion so that we distance ourselves from the fitan upon insight”.

Alhamdulilah A Conference in West London With Our Brothers Students Of Knowledge Who Benefited From Their Time In Damaaj.

Spread the word and come with your families all are welcome.

Losing your enthusiasm and losing your energy after having قوة after having strength, this is the natural state of the human bean that from a time of power to a time of weakness, as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, “and man was created weak.” (An nisaa, 4:28)

Concerning this matter of fatigue in ibadat, the Messanger (ﷺ) gave an example concerning this, 

Where the companion Hanzalah al-Usaydi رضي الله عنه said,

I went and entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and I said: Hanzalah has become a hypocrite, O Messenger of Allah. 

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)  said: “Why is that?” 

I said: O Messenger of Allah, when we are with you, you remind us of the Fire and the Garden (jennah) until it is as if we are seeing them with our own eyes, but when we depart from you, we attend to our wives and children and businesses, and we forget a great deal. 

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “By the One in Whose hand is my soul, if you continued as you are when you are with me, and continued to remember (Paradise and Hell), the angels would shake hands with you in your homes and on the streets. But, O Hanzalah, there is a time for this and a time for that,” (he said it) three times.

Narrated by Muslim (2750)

Be zealous in what benefits you, when some of us hear that there is a profit in the worldly life, we have enthusiasm and we have energy, however, with greater preference we should be like this with acts of worship. They say that the best worship is to do what will please the Lord at every time in accordance with what that particular time calls for. [Ibn al-Qayyim; ‘Madarij as-Salikin’ (1/188)]

We must seek refuge with Allah from that which takes away our energy and zeal as it came to us from the narration of:

Anas bin Malik رضي الله عنه said,

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "O Allah! I seek refuge with You from helplessness, laziness.”

[Sahih Bukhari - Book 52 - Hadith 77]

With no doubt we all have these moments of fatigue especially in the society we live in today, this lack of enthusiasm and fatigue is caused by sins. It weakens the heart and disobedience continues, to weaken the heart until its life ceases completely. Know that honour lies in the obedience of Allah. Ibn Al-Mubarak said: “I have seen sins kill the hearts. And humiliation is inherited by its repetition.“

Mentioned by: AbdulFattaah Bin Uthman Abu Fajr Student of Dar al Hadith Dammaj Yemen