As Salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullaahAs Salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu
In class, our brother Abu Yusuf Khaleefa mentioned that the Sunnah is divided into 5 categories which are:
1. The Sunnah connected to Creed (Aqeedah), What The Prophet (SalAllaahu alayhe wa sallam) believed.
2. The verbal Sunnah, What The Prophet (SalAllaahu alayhe wa sallam) said and stated.
3. The physical Sunnah, The Prophet’s (SalAllaahu alayhe wa sallam) actions.
4. The approved Sunnah, The things The Prophet (SalAllaahu alayhe wa sallam) approved of by way of silence.
5. The Sunnah of abandonment, What The Prophet (SalAllaahu alayhe wa sallam) abandoned (left off doing for the pleasure of Allaah).
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As Salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuhu
AREAS OF APOSTASY
Regarding the areas of apostasy , our brother (Abu Yusuf Khaleefa) said that the Scholars of Islam has mentioned that apostasy from faith can take place from one of four areas:
1. It could be a CREED or a belief that one holds which will invalidate one’s faith that cause the person to become an apostate.
EXAMPLE:
If a person was to believe after believing that none has the right to be worshipped except for Allaah, that someone along with Allaah created along with Allaah. Or that someone other than Allaah is entitled to supplication. This will invalidate a person’s faith, even if they did not perform the action.
Another example, we know that the Muslim (man and woman) are to pray 5 times a day, which is known by way of necessity amongst the Muslims, an obligation. Now after a person becomes Muslim and then they believe that the 5 prayers are not obligatory after having knowledge, this will invalidate their Islam, because to believe that the 5 prayers are not an obligation on us is denial of that which is in the Qur’an and of the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad SalAllaahu Alayhe wa sallam.
2. It could be a STATEMENT that one makes with his tongue that will cause a person to apostate.
EXAMPLE:
Is that a person curses Allaah or curses the Messenger of Allaah, this will invalidate one’s faith, making mockery of the religion, making mockery of something that is legislated. Even though the person could be playing around. It can not make mockery of the legislation of Allaah’s rules and regulations.
3. It could be an ACTION that is done which can cause the person to apostate.
EXAMPLE:
That a person prostrates to an idol, or a person supplicates to the dead, calling upon the dead, desecrating (doing something foul) to the Qur’an…these actions will invalidate a person’s faith.
4. The matter of DOUBT
EXAMPLE:
Someone having doubt whether the Prophet Muhammad SalAllaahu alayhe wa sallam is the last Messenger or not after believing that he is and later expressing to be unsure whether he is the last Messenger or not. This doubt will invalidate a person’s faith.
With regarding the one who wants to enter into the fold of Islam, if the person has doubt regarding the statement that none has the right to be worshipped except for Allaah, then they have not entered into the fold. As long as the doubt is present, this will prevent them from truly entering into the fold. The doubt has to be removed. The person entering when saying “La illaha illaAllaah”, they have to make this statement with surety.
Allaah, the Exalted, states in Sura Al-Hujarat (49:15):
“Only those are the believers who have believed in Allaah and His Messenger, and afterward doubt not but strive with their wealth and their lives for the Cause of Allaah. Those are the ones who are truthful.”
This is a proof that doubt invalidates one’s faith. When carefully examined, in this verse, Allaah Subhana wa at ala has made it a condition for the truthfulness of their faith or the faith of those who claim belief in Him and His Messenger, is that they do not have doubt.
Doubt is from the characteristics of the hypocrites.
DESCRIPTION OF HYPOCRISY
Allaah, The Exalted, states in Sura Al-Baqarah (2:8-10):
“And of mankind, there are some (hypocrites) who say, ‘We believe in Allaah and the Last Day’ while in fact they believe not.
They (think to) deceive Allaah and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves and perceive it not!
In their hearts is a disease (of doubt and hypocrisy) and Allaah has increased their disease.
A painful torment is theirs because they used to tell lies.”
Allaah reveals some of the traits of the hypocrites of them outwardly displaying good and hiding evil within their hearts. They seek to deceive Allaah by saying one thing with their tongues but hiding another thing within their heart. And they seek to deceive the believers however they only deceive themselves. Allaah knows that what they say with their tongues is not in their hearts and He has exposed the characteristics of the hypocrites to the believers so that they can be aware of them. However, hypocrites are in a state of heedlessness, so their harm returns back to them and are not able to harm Allaah nor the believers who truly believe in Allaah.
Allaah says that in their hearts is a sickness and mentioned by Shaykh Abdur Rahman Ibn Naa’sir As Saa’dee in his tafsir of the Qur’an…
That which is intended by the sickness is sickness of doubt, the conjecture, and the hypocrisy and that is because the heart is subject to two types of sicknesses which removes it from it’s well-being and it’s uprightness:
1. The sickness of false doubts:
The matter of disbelief in the hypocrisy, the doubt, matters of innovation in the religion are all sicknesses of doubts.
2. The sickness of evil desires:
Illegal sexual intercourse (whether fornication or adultery), homosexuality, the love of indecency, acts of disobedience and the committing of these acts are all from the sickness of evil desires.
So in their hearts there is the sickness of doubt and hypocrisy, so Allaah increases them in their sickness. This is an indication that the reward for evil is evil itself. So that which comes as a result of that evil is even more evil if the person doesn’t repent.
So when a person wants to enter into the fold of Islam, it is a must that the person has certainty about the statement of La illaha illaAllaah (That none has the right to be worshipped except for Allaah).
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[ From Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 2/35. ]
Question:
How will the sun be brought close to mankind until it is one mile away from them on the Day of Resurrection without burning them, when if it were brought close now, it would burn the earth?.
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
The believer’s responsibility with regard to reports of the unseen is to accept and submit to them, and not to ask how or why. This is the foundation on which out ‘aqeedah must be built, because this is a matter that is beyond your comprehension. So you have to accept it and submit and say, “We believe. We believe that the sun will be brought close to mankind on the Day of Resurrection until it is one mile away from them. Asking any futher questions about that is a kind of innovation (bid’ah). Hence when Imam Maalik (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked how Allaah rose above the Throne, he said, “Asking about this is bid’ah.” Similarly it is bid’ah to ask about all other matters of the unseen; man's attitude towards them should be to accept and submit.
The answer to the second part of the question, about the sun being brought close to mankind on the Day of Resurrection:
We say that bodies will not be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection in the form in which they were in this world, with their shortcoming and inability to bear that; rather they will be resurrected whole and complete. Hence the people will stand on the Day of Resurrection for a day which is equivalent to fifty thousand years, neither eating nor drinking. This is something which would be impossible in this world. Then the sun will be brought close to them and their bodies will be given the ability to bear its being brought close, as we have mentioned above that they will be able to stand for fifty thousand years without needing food or drink. So their bodies on the Day of Resurrection will be different from their bodies in this world.
From Majmoo’ Fataawa Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 2/35.
| Shaking Hands When Entering Upon Those Who Are Sitting |
| Question: Is there proof from the Book or the Sunnah or action of the Prophet (peace and blessing upon him) for shaking hands when one enters upon those that are sitting? May Allah reward you with good. |
| Answer: I don't know anything of this kind from the Sunnah, for this reason it is not appropriate for you to do so. Some people when they enter a gathering they begin with the handshake from the first person to the last person and this is not legislated from what I know, and shaking hands is only for when meeting one another, as for when entering the gathering, then it is not from the manhaj of the Messenger (peace and blessing upon him or his companions) that they would do that. The Messenger (peace and blessing upon him would come and sit at the end of the majlis (sitting room) and we never heard also that if he sat at the end of the majlis that they would stand up and shake his hand, so shaking hands in this manner is not legislated. I asked about this to those who we rely upon from our Shaykhs, so they said we do not know for this an origin in the sunnah...
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| Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen |
| Bid'ah wa Muhdathaat wa ma la Asla lahaa Pg: 478 |
| Translated by Muhammad Elmi |
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 | Marriage with the intention to divorce |
 | Reference: Fatwa No.38215 http://www.alfawzan.ws/AlFawzan/bookTabs/tabid/70/Default.aspx?mode=title&PageID=38215 |
 | Category: Marriage |
What is the ruling regarding marriage with the intention to divorce, bearing in mind there is no such agreement between the man and the woman, and the woman is unaware of this (i.e. that she is entering a marriage where the man intends - from the outset - to divorce her)?
This is deception on the part of the husband. She did not marry him upon this (intention), (rather), she married him on the basis that this will be a lasting marriage. So if he conceals this intention, then he has deceived her. Deception is not permissible, (and) marriage with the intention to divorce is not permissible for that which entails therein (much) evil and corruption. Now, those who travel to the Far East and get married every night, they marry and divorce, marry and divorce – much evil and corruption has ensued from that, so this is not permissible.
| Translator: Mohammed Akhtar Chaudhry, Abu Abdullaah |
 | Date Published: Friday, 04 September 2009 |
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From an email:
Benefit: The Ruling on Listening to Unknown Speakers?
Shaykh Falaah Ismaa'eel al-Mandakar
| What is the Ruling on Listing to Unknown Speakers and Taking Knowledge from them?
Bismillah al-hamdulillaah wa salaatu wa salaam ‘alaa rasoolillaah wa ‘alaa aalihi wa sahbihi wa man tabi’a hudaahu wa bad. The trails of today are very many. Innovations and mixing up innovators with the people of the sunnah and their outward call to the sunnah and salafiyyah is wide spread, for this reason one should be cautious. ‘Abdullaah ibn ‘Abbaas used to say, if a man said ‘I heard the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) or the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said, we (used to) rush to him and went out to seek him, listening to him, but when the fitnah occurred they began asking about the men (who were narrating the knowledge) like how Ibn Seereen mentioned “we said: name to us your men” meaning they were known by whom they narrated from. So from there they would know if they would listen and accept or refuse and not listen. If that was the case in that time, then our time has more priority. It is a must that one determines and limits those whom he listens to, and from whom he reads from, and who he takes from, and (the works he) issues, and also who he sits with, this is very important. As for being a haatib layl (one who gathers wood at nigh i.e. blindly, heedlessly), listing to everyone and those who are unknown. No, it is feared that a trail will befall this one. Surely from the signs of success from Allaah and wanting good for his slave, it is uprightness and guidance that he helps him to sit, mix with and take from the people of the Sunnah. It is obligatory to have seriousness and diligence towards seeking out that which brings about success and guidance from Allaah, and Allah is the one who grants success. بسم الله والحمدلله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبع هداه وبعد ، الفتن اليوم كثيرة جدا, والبدع كثيرة جدا, وتلبس المبتدعة بأهل السنة وإعلانهم للسنة والسلفية كثير جدا؛ لذلك ينبغي الحذر. وإذا كان عبدالله بن عباس يذكر أنهم كانوا إذا قال رجل : سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم, أو قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم , ابتدرناه ،يبادرونه, يشرئبون إليه, يسمعون منه ، لكن لما وقعت الفتنة صاروا يسألون عن الرجال كما ذكر ابن سيرين: (قلنا : سموا لنا رجالكم). أي يعرفون عمن ينقلون, ومن ثم من خلال النقلة يعرفون هل يسمعون ويقبلون,أم يرفضون ولا يسمعون. فهذا إذا كان في ذلك الزمان, ففي زماننا أولى,لابد أن يحدد الإنسان لمن يسمع, ولمن يقرأ, وعمن يأخذ ويصدر, وعند من يجلس, هذا مهم جدا, أما أن يكون حاطب ليل يسمع للجميع وللمجاهيل ,لا,هذا تخشى عليه الفتنة ، وإن من علامات وصور توفيق الله وإرادته بعبده الخير والصلاح والهداية أن يوفقه إلى مجالسة ومخالطة والأخذ عن أهل السنة ، فالواجب الجد والاجتهاد والتحري استجلابا لتوفيق الله وهدايته ، والله الموفق
Shaykh Falaah Ismaa'eel al-Mandakar |
