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Handful of English Book Studies

Classes for some essential books. Posted 27 Shawwal, 1437 [01/08/2016].

1) Kitaab at-Tawheed (The Book of Islaamic Monotheism)

Taught by Moosa Richardson using Shaykh al-Fawzaan’s explanation: 58 lessons with 237pg PDF summary booklet:  http://www.troid.ca/index.php/aqeedah/tawheed/comprehensive-study/1085-explanation-of-kitaab-at-towheed-class-audio 

Taught in Arabic by Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaydan translation by Mustafa George: 59 lessons: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2012/09/01/kitab-at-tawheed-explained-by-shaykh-saleh-al-luhaidan-mp3ar-en/  

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using Shaykh Al-Uthaymeen’s explanation: 59 lessons: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/22/beneficial-sayings-from-kitaab-ut-tawheed-dr-saleh-as-saleh/ 

2) Usool ath Thalaathah (The 3 Fundamental Principles)

Taught by Abu Talah Dawud Burbank using Shaykh Fawzaan’s explanation: 50 lessons with PDF notes for each lesson:  https://abdurrahman.org/2015/03/05/sharh-usool-ith-thalaathah-shaykh-fawzan-dawud-burbank/ 

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using explanations by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah) and Shaykh Bin Baaz (rahimahullaah): 43 lessons: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/11/06/the-three-fundamental-principles-dr-saleh-as-saleh/ 

Arabic Audio of Usool ath Thalaathah 22m:15s: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/24/usool-thalatha-the-three-principles-arabic-audio-text/ 

3) Tafsir ibn Kathir

Read by Aboo Hakeem Bilal Davis: 98 lessons: http://www.salafisounds.com/tafsir-ibn-kathir-by-abu-hakeem-bilal-davis/

4) Imaam Nawawi 40 Hadeeth

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen’s explanation: 41 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/11/09/an-nawawi-40-hadeeth-dr-saleh-as-saleh/

5) Al-Aqeedat Al-Waasitiyyah

Taught in Arabic by Shaykh al-Luhaydaan, translated by Mustafa George: 20 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/23/aqeedatul-waasitiyyah-of-ibn-taymiyyah-shaykh-luhaydaan/

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem using the explanation of Shaykh Abdul Azeez Rashid: 79 classes: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2013/04/21/sharh-al-aqeedat-il-wasitiyah-of-shaykh-al-islam-ibn-taymiyyah-taqweem-aslam/

6) Usool al-Eemaan (Fundamentals/Foundations of Eemaan)

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem using the explanation of numerous Salafi scholars: 17 classes with 18pg PDF workbook:  http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2014/10/10/the-understanding-eemaan-series-abu-muadh-taqweem-aslam/

7) Kashf al-Shubuhaat (Removal of Doubts)

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem: 14 classes:  http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2012/08/28/kashf-ash-shubuhaat-the-removal-of-doubts-bolton/

Taught by Moosa Richardson: 10 classes, 34pg annotated PDF: https://www.troid.ca/index.php/aqeedah/tawheed/comprehensive-study/1678-explanation-of-kashf-ash-shubuhaat-class-audio

8) Luma'tul I'tiqaad (Sufficiency in Creed)

Taught by Dawood Ibn Ronald Burbank, using the explanation of Shaykh Fawzaan: 66 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/24/explanation-of-lumat-ul-itiqaad-sufficiency-in-creed-dawood-burbank/

PDF 235pgs: Questions and Answer study guide to go with above classes: https://islamthestudyguides.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lumah-questions-and-answers.pdf

9) Usool us-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles)

Taught by Abu Iyaad, using explanations by Shaykh Ahmad an-Najmee and Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree: 29 classes: Extra resources: PDF Mindmaps, Class transcripts, English text:  https://www.troid.ca/index.php/aqeedah/tawheed/comprehensive-study/1563-explanation-of-al-usool-as-sittah-class-audio

10) Usool us-Sunnah (The Foundations of the Sunnah)

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem using the explanation of Shaykh Rabee: 21 classes: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2016/01/02/shaykh-rabees-explanation-of-imam-ahmads-usool-us-sunnah-read-by-abu-muadh-taqweem/

Taught by Abu Khadeejah: 5 classes:  http://store.mpubs.org/explanation-of-usool-us-sunnah-of-imaam-ahmad-by-abu-khadeejah-abdul-wahid/

English Text 178pg PDF: Foundations of the Sunnah Imaam Ahmad:  http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/22/foundations-of-the-sunnah-usool-us-sunnah-imam-ahmad/

11) Sharh us-Sunnah (Explanation of the Creed)

Taught in Arabic by Shaykh Fawzaan, translated by Dawood Ibn Ronald Burbank: 84 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2011/10/01/audio-sharh-us-sunnah-dawud-ibn-ronald-burbank/

Taught by Mustafa George: 8 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2010/12/16/online-class-sharhu-sunnah-by-imam-al-barbaharee-by-mustafa-george-hafidahullah/

12) Fiqhul Ibadaat (Understanding Worship)

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using the explanation of Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen: 6 Classes, 178pg PDF Book: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/12/05/understanding-worship-fiqhul-ibaadaat-qa-format-ibn-uthaymeen-dr-saleh-as-saleh/

May Allaah reward the students and the scholars (past and present) with much good, those who have made these classes free and accessible.

If there are any issues or errors then please do let me know, I will try my very best to rectify them. 

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The Believing Jinn Help The Believers Even Though The Believers May Not Realize It – Shaykh Ibn Baz

Shaykh Ibn Baaz:

The Muslims help their brothers among the jinn to obey Allaah and His Messenger just as they help their human brothers. Humans may help them in some matters without realizing it. They may help them to obey Allaah and His Messenger by teaching and reminding other humans, for the jinn may attend the lessons of humans in the mosques and elsewhere and benefit from them. Humans may also hear some things from the jinn which benefit them; they may wake them up to pray or draw their attention to things which may benefit them or harm them. All of this happens even though the jinn do not make themselves visible to humans. A jinn may make himself visible to some people when pointing them towards something good or something evil. This may happen, although it is rare. Usually they do not appear to humans, although their voices may be heard on some occasions when they wake a person for prayer or tell him of some things. In conclusion, the believing jinn help the believers even though the believers may not realize it, and they love everything good for them.

They may attend lessons, and they love to listen to the Quraan and knowledge, as stated above. The believers among the jinn attend the lessons of humans, at some times and in some lands, and they benefit from the lessons of humans. All of this happens and is well known. This has been clearly stated by many of the scholars whom the jinn contacted and asked about some issues; they told them that they had attended their lessons. All of this is well-known, and Allaah is the One Whose help we seek.

كتاب مجموع فتاوى ومقالات متنوعة لسماحة الشيخ العلامة عبد العزيز بن عبد الله بن باز رحمه الله . م/9 ص/373

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Rest will come in the hereafter..

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Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years go? What would she think of me now?’

Sylvia Plath (via smallyetbeautiful)

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Each and every day I keep mulling over the same questions: How can we safeguard others from the mires and snares of the Khawārij? What more can we do, what other avenues can we take? 

I warned of certain bloggers by name that endorsed and sanctioned callers to extremism and terrorism, but it was ignored for the most part. I was doubted and attacked by those who either hold the same beliefs as the ones I warned about or from those who are simply unaware. This led to further concerns that Muslims at large (save a few) are unsuspecting and oblivious to the harms that these bloggers carry, by extension to how deceptive and manipulative they are.

The following screenshot is from el-qahtani.tumblr, a blogger I warned about earlier. This blog is also recommended (to be followed) by ummomar.tumblr (birds of a feather flock together), another blogger warned about that then feigned innocence about what she was accused of:

This is a snippet from a letter that encourages people to not go to Iraq (because they are being destroyed there, wa Lillāhil-Ḥamd) but to instead attack Saudi Arabia, even applauding the recent attacks there. 

Please stay away from these blogs.

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Advice to Those Who Write On the Internet

By Shaykh Alee ar-Ramlee (حفظه الله)

Translated by Yasin Abū Ibrahīm

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[Source: The blog for Masjid Tawheed wa Sunnah, North Carolina]

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يَا حَسْرَتَا عَلَى مَا فَرَّطتُ فِي جَنبِ اللَّهِ

Oh, how I regret what I neglected regarding Allāh. 

Qur'ān: 39:56

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May Allaah have mercy upon you! Examine carefully the speech of everyone you hear from in your time particularly. So do not act in haste and do not enter into anything from it until you ask and see: Did any of the Companions of the Prophet [may Allaah raise his rank and grant him peace] speak about it, or any of the scholars? So if you find a narration from them about it, cling to it, do not go beyond it for anything and do not give precedence to anything over it and thus fall into the Fire.

Imām Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥaṣan Ibn ‘Alī Ibn Khalf al-Barbaḥārī [d.329Ḥ], Sharḥ as-Sunnah. Translated by Abū Talḥah Dāwūd Burbank. (via ittibaa)

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Friendly reminder to keep trying. No one knows everything and the people that know something learned it just as you’re able to. You’re not worse than anyone. No one is better than you. It’s not a competition. Go at your pace. But go. Don’t remain where you are. Learn. Strive. Work. Do something.

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We each have universes within us. Each with their own worlds and planets. Each with their own storms and sunshines. Each with their own. So how can you understand what I am going through when I see the rain as laughter while you take it as another gloomy day.

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There are three sins from which no one can be saved: jealousy, suspicion and omens. Shall I tell you of what would remove you from this: when you envy then do not hate, when you are suspicious then do not actualize your suspicions, and when you see omens then ignore them.

[Ahmad #1412 #1430 Diseases of the Hearts and their Cures by Ibn Taymiyyah p. 110.] (via pearlsofislam)

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You feel broken right now but believe me, have a little sabr and you’ll see how Allah will heal you in ways you never thought possible. He created you from nothing; just ask Him to to put you back together and you’ll be even better than new. No scar. No wound. Nothing.

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I tell myself that it’s my fault because I’m intense in my emotions; easily softened by droplets of gentleness, easily bruised by gusts of unkindness, and I don’t know what exasperates me most; burdening my heart with your cruelty, or that you can still shatter me.

m-khadija, Exasperation. (via m-khadija)

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Sometimes emotions run high / you exaggerate a situation just so you can yell or scream or take your frustration out on someone / you hurt people and for a moment, it’s okay because they hurt you as well. But please don’t. Please learn to discipline your nafs - to silence it when it wants to shout, to hold on to it when it wants to run, and to check it when it wants to retaliate hurt. You can’t expect growth if each time you err, you tell yourself next time - subconsciously telling your nafs that it’s okay. It’s not. No more errs, no more hurting others. No more. Be a kind person that thinks before they react; from facial reactions to speech to actions and even to thoughts and intentions.

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Whoever tries to uncover the affairs of others and expose them to people will have the hidden affairs of his own household uncovered and exposed to people.

Ja’far al-Sadiq, al-Hilyah (v. 3, p. 196)

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Dear Ramadan, it’s much too soon. Please stay.

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Leaving this month with a heavy heart, lightened by its immense blessings yet weighted by the reality that I will not experience this beautiful, tranquil, rewarding time again until next year, if my Lord wills.

May Allāh allow our names to be amongst those who have benefitted and who will remain steadfast long after Ramadān has departed. May He accept from us (our good deeds) and enable us to live to see many more months of Ramadān in our lifetimes, Ameen!