Tafseer atTakathur and Intro to Ramadhan by Yasir Qadhi

asSalaam ‘alaykum,

Br. Burhanuddin sent me this lecture alhamdulillah. His message is quoted below.

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 Assalamualaikum Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu

Here is an Mp3 of the Jummah Khutbah that Shaykh Yasir Qadhi done on his last visit to Cardiff, so please download it: http://www.4shared.com/file/33574426/5f4e2a94/Tafseer_Of_Surah_At-Takathur__An_Introduction_To_Ramadhan.html

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Jazakallah Khair
Wassalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu”

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Imitation of Famous Reciters by Qari Nomani

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahmatullah,

Just listen and enjoy! Subhan Allah!

Blind Student Reciting Quran

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahamtullah,

Got this from my MSA mailing list.

 

Abu Zahirah Abdullah Smith: Events in Houston 02/22 to 02/23

asSalaam ‘alaykum wa Rahamtullah,

We have an exciting week coming up for Houston, about which I am too excited about. We are having a speaker come down from Daytona Beach, Florida insha’Allah. His name is Abu Zahirah Abdullah Smith, a graduate form the Islamic University of Medina. He graduated fromt he College of Hadith with honors, ranking #15 in his class. He is also Hood‘s buddy while they went to school together. And the weekend is action packed, and I don’t have too much work either. Well to start off the first Event is on Thursday at 1.00 to 2.30 PM. It is a da’wah event for non-muslims (usually a lot of muslims end up coming which is also awesome) for Black History Month. The Flier:

MSA @ UH presents…

A LEGACY OF CONTRIBUTIONS
1:00 – 2:30PM at UH – Pacific Room UC
Free Food!

Then following this we have our monthly thursday night dinners where all the MSA peeps get together to just eat and have fun. The event itself is at Maghrib.

Then we move onto friday. We have the jumu’ah khutbah by Abdullah Smith and then followed by a talk by him: Tafseer of the last 3 verses of Surat alHashr a little after the jumu’ah khutbah. Followed by the Qur’an Competition.

Friday Night he will be speaking at a sister’s only halaqa at a Sister’s house.

Saturday is the class on hadith studies by Abdullah Smith again. He will be explaining a 34 line didactic poem written by Imam alBayquni (d. 1080 AH) on hadith terminologies. It is one of the msot popular traditional texts int he field of hadith studies and is taught all over the Muslim world. Insha’Allah I am working with one of the brothers to have a Live online class with this with not only audio feed but video feed as well. Insha’Allah I am really excited about this and I will post the information when itis available to me. Until then here is the flier for the explanation of Mandhumat alBayquniyya event:

You will recieve the poem in arabic and it’s translation for free for attending this event, insha’Allah.

Just for the record all this brought to you by the MSA @ the University of Houston. You can ask one of our elders, Amad or his wife Umm Reem or Irtiza Hasan, more about the legacy and history of our MSA.

Types of Kufr (Disbelief): Imam Ibn Katheer

Types of Kufr (Disbelief)
Imaam ibn Kathīr (rahīmahullaah – b. 701 AH – d. 774 AH)
Adapted from ‘Tafseer ibn Katheer’

The Qur’ān uses the word Kufr to denote people who cover up or hide realities. The Qur’ān uses this word to identify those who denied Allāh’s favors by not accepting His Dominion and Authority. Kufr thus is an antonym for īman or disbelief in Allāh and a Kāfir is a non-believer. This type of Kufr is called Kufr al Akbar or major kufr. There are many types of Kufr al Akbar:

1. Kufrul ‘Inād: Disbelief out of stubborness. This applies to someone who knows the truth and admits to knowing the truth and admits to knowing it with his tongue, but refuses to accept it and refrains from making a declaration. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says:

أَلْقِيَا فِي جَهَنَّمَ كُلَّ كَفَّارٍ عَنِيدٍ

Throw into Hell every stubborn disbeliever
[Sūrah Qāf (50), Ayah 24]

2. Kufrul Inkār: Disbelief out of denial. This applies to someone who denies with both heart and tongue. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: They recognize the favors of Allāh, yet they deny them. Most of them are disbelievers. [Sūrah Nahl (16), Ayah 83]

3. Kufrul Kibr: Disbelief out of arrogance and pride. The disbelief by the devils (Iblīs) is an example of this type of Kufr.

4. Kufrul Juhūd: Disbelief out of rejection.This applies to someone who acknowledges the truth in his heart, but rejects it with his tongue. This types of kufr is applicable to those who calls themselves Muslims but who reject any necessary and accepted norms of Islām such as Salāt and Zakāt. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: They denied them (Our Signs) even though their hearts believed in them , out of spite and arrogance. [Sūrah Naml (27), Ayah 14]

5. Kufrul Nifāq: Disbelief out of hypocrisy.This applies to someone who pretends to be a believer but conceals his disbelief. Such a person is called a Munāfiq or hypocrite. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: Verily the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of Hell. You will find no one to help them. [Sūrah An Nisā (4), Ayah 145]

6. Kufrul Istihlāl: Disbelief out of trying to make Harām into Halāl. This applies to someone who accepts as lawful (Halāl) that which Allāh has made unlawful (Harām) like alcohol or adultery.Only Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā has the prerogative to make things Halāl and Harām and those who seek to interfere with His right are like rivals to Him and therefore fall outside the boundaries of faith.

7. Kufrul Kurh: Disbelief out of detesting any of Allāh’s subhānahū wa ta’ālā commands. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: Perdition (destruction) has been consigned to those who disbelieve and He will render their actions void. This is because they are averse to that which Allāh has revealed so He has made their actions fruitless. [Sūrah Muhammed (47), Ayah 8-9]

8. Kufrul Istihzaha: Disbelief due to mockery and derision. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: Say: Was it at Allāh, His signs and His apostles that you were mocking? Make no excuses. You have disbelieved after you have believed. [Sūrah at Taubah (9), ayah 65-66]

9. Kufrul I’rādh: Disbelief due to avoidance. This applies to those who turn away and avoid the truth. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of his Lord’s signs but then turns away from them. Then he forgets what he has sent forward (for the Day of Judgment) [Sūrah Kahf (18), Ayah 57]

10. Kufrul Istibdāl: Disbelief because of trying to substitute Allāh’s Laws. This could take the form of:

(a) Rejection of Allāh’s law (Sharī‘ah) without denying it

(b) Denial of Allāh’s law and therefore rejecting it, or

(c) Substituting Allāh’s laws with man-made laws. Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: Or have they partners with Allāh who have instituted for them a religion which Allāh has not allowed. [Sūrah Shūrā(42) V. 8] Allāh subhānahū wa ta’ālā says: Say not concerning that which your tongues put forth falsely (that) is lawful and this is forbidden so as to invent a lie against Allāh. Verily, those who invent a lie against Allāh will never prosper. [Sūrah Nahl (16) V. 116]

(Alternate Spellings: Kathir, Katheer)

Virtue of Reciting Surat Al Mulk

As Salām Alaykum Wa Rahmatullāhi Wa Barakātuh,

I remember over three, almost four years ago, a brother, May Allāh have Mercy on him and Forgive him, gave a lecture at the masjid and he mentioned a hadīth that really caught my attention, and recently I decided to find the hadīth that he mentioned just to assure myself that it was authentic and thanks to IslamQA there was a question just dealing with this issue. The fatwa (link is at the bottom) starts off by mentioning a brief history of fabrication of hadīth to make people read the Qur’ān by fabricating virtues for them. And then Shaykh Salih al Munajjid (hafidhullāh) mentions some weak and fabricated hadīth for reading or reciting Sūratul Mulk or Sūrat As Sajdah between Maghrib and ‘Ishā as a vituous act of worship. Here is the excerpt on reading Sūratul Mulk in general and before going to sleep.
“And concerning the virtue of Sūrat al-Mulk, it is narrated that it may be recited when going to sleep or in general. Al-Tirmidhī (2891), Abū Dawūd (1400) and Ibn Mājah (3786) narrated from Abū Hurayrah (may Allāh be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: There is a sūrah in the Qur’ān, with thirty verses, which will intercede for its companion [the one who recites it] until he is forgiven: “Tabārak allādhī bī yadīhi’l-mulk (Blessed be He in Whose Hand is the dominion)” [Sūrah al-Mulk 67]. Al-Tirmidhī said: This is a hasan hadīth.

Ibn Hajar said in al-Talkhīs (1/234), “al-Bukhārī stated that there is a problem with it in al-Tarīkh al-Kabīr by noting that it is not known that ‘Abbās al-Jashamī (who is the one who narrated it from Abu Hurayrah) heard it from Abu Hurayrah.”

It was classed as hasan by al-Albānī in some places and as sahīh in others. See: Sahīh Sunan Ibn Mājah, Sahīh Sunan Abī Dawūd. Before him al-Mundhirī said: It was narrated by Abū Dawūd, by al-Tirmidhī, who classed it as hasan and this version was narrated by him, and by al-Nasā’ī, Ibn Mājah, Ibn Hibbān in his Sahīh, and by al-Hākim who said its isnād is sahīh.

Al-Tirmidhī (2892) narrated from Jābir (may Allāh be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) did not sleep until he had recited “Alif‑Lām‑Mīm. The revelation…” [Sūratul Sajdah 32] and “Has there not been over man a period of time…” [Sūratul Insān 76] Classed as sahīh by al-Albānī in Sahīh al-Tirmidhī.”

May Allāh’s Peace and Blessings be upon the Prophet, his family, and companions.

Fatwa: Virtues of reading Sūrat As Sajdah, al Mulk or al An’aam

Related Links:
Read Qur’ān – imaanstar.com
Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr

Amazing Quran Recitation: Lil’ Kid!!! Masha’Allah!!!

Masha’Allah!! I am speechless!!!

Praise Be to Allah!

Purification of the Soul between Sunnah and Innovation: Muhammad alShareef – Part 1

Purification of the Soul between Sunnah and Innovation
Part 1
Transcribed from a lecture by Muhammad AlShareef and Ali At Tamimi
The following is Part 1:Muhammad AlShareef

We once went for hajj, and as you know how chaotic hajj usually is. There was this one brother who came to Medina with us and it was his first time doing hajj. The brother said that he just wanted to along with us. And that hajj we reached Muzdalifah in 15 minutes, it was the easiest time I had getting to Muzdalifah. It was a due to a new system the Saudis had applied, alhamdulillah, it was the new shuttle bus system. We had gone onto one of the first buses and at the time we arrived it was Salaatul Maghrib and Muzdalifah was empty. We prayed and did what we had to and we lied down to sleep and the brother that tagged along said to us, after all that we had gone through and the easy time to get to Muzdalifah, he said “I don’t like this, it’s too easy. It’s just too easy. I can’t feel the Hajj!” At that time it made me angry because we shouldn’t go looking for hardships in the religion. And very often many people while studying Islam they say I can’t feel it. In actuality this feeling is something that comes from the inside. The taqwaa is something that comes from within oneself. In this place that we live in we think that maybe someone has to come and force this taqwa on us, or force this spirituality down our throats. Taqwaa is part of what we do, and we have to work for it.

This lecture, as far as the Sunnah aspect is concerned is divided into three sections.

1. 5 Symptoms of weakness of eeman
2. 5 Causes or reasons for the weakness of eeman
3. 5 Ways to combat your weakness of eeman

Five Symptoms of Weakness of Eeman

1. Simplicity we apply to committing sins

How easy it is for one of us to commit sins. Also you see the way someone would show off their sins. They would go around and say look I committed this sin, I committed this sin. As the Prophet (Sal Allahu Layhi Wa Sallam) said, “All of my Ummah will be forgiven except those people who announce their sins! Allah has hidden the sins they commit at night and they come out and announce to the people that I committed such and such and such and such!” This is the Prophet (Sal Allahu Layhi Wa Sallam) saying that these people won’t we forgiven.

2. Feeling of Hardening of the Hearts

As Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,

ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُم مِّن بَعْدِ ذَلِكَ فَهِيَ كَالْحِجَارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً

“Their hearts are hardened like the rocks, and even harder than rocks” (Suratul Baqarah S.2 V.74)

Allah is talking about how the hearts of some of the Jews have been hardened like rocks. And not only are they hardened like rocks but in fact harder than rocks.

3. Being lazy in our Obedience to Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la)

Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,

وَإِذَا قَامُواْ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ قَامُواْ كُسَالَى

“When they get up for the salaah, they get up lazily” (Surat An Nisaa S.4 V.142)

Meaning that when they get up they are delaying the time to get up and pray, if the prayer is at 8:30 they’ll get up at 8:00 to pray the previous prayer. Allah describes him as being a hypocrite. Imagine someone who is not even praying?

4. Imperfection in a person’s Ibaada

He isn’t really doing things properly. He might be fasting but he is sleeping throughout the day, and his zakaat is not proper, or he is not coming for taraweeh. In the Quran, Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ

“Verily they used to race to the goodnesses” (Suratul Anbiyaa S.21 V.90)

This is the characteristic of the pious Muslims. And the Prophet (Sal Allahu Layhi Wa Sallam) said, “Allah does not accept the dua’a of someone who is ghaafil (heedless)!” Ghaafil here means someone who is just not caring about what kind of dua’a he is making, his heart might be somewhere else, and his mind might be somewhere else. At the end of the dua’a he doesn’t even know what he was asking Allah for. He doesn’t have any concentration as to what he is asking for. He doesn’t know the a to b to c of anything that he said.

5. There is no effect when we listen to the Qur’an

As Allah says in the Qur’an,

لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ

“Had it been revealed upon a mountain, it would have cleft asunder and crumbled from the fear of Allah” (Suratul Hashr S.59 V.21)

And now you see that you have the Qur’an divided into many parts and that is good because you might be using it to memorize, but sometimes it’s all together and wrapped in a cloth just collecting dust. We all now what it’s for, it’s for a Qur’an Khani. The only time it comes down is when someone dies. And as Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,

إِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ الْمَوْتَى

“You cannot make the dead hear” (Suratun Naml S.27 V.80)

And Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,

كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ

“A book that we revealed to you blessed” (Surat Sad S.38 V.29)

and the people read it in Qur’an Khanis and they we want the blessings to go to this person. As the ulemaa of tafseer said it’s almost as if someone is asking why is this book blessed? And Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) says,

كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ

“A book that we revealed to you which is blessed so that you may contemplate over its verses.” (Surat Sad S.38 V.29)

This is the reason the Quran is blessed and revealed so that a person will hear the Qur’an, listen to it, and follow what’s in it. And that is the guidance that Allah (Subhaanahu Wa Ta’la) will guide him in this dunya and resurrect him in the hereafter.

To be continued………..

UPDATE: Part 2: Five causes or reasons for weakness of eeman

Week 5: the bountiful doors of asking FORGIVENESS

Qur’an, from the story of Nuh with his people:

“Next I appealed to them publicly; then I broadcast it to them and confided with them privately, proclaiming: ‘Seek forgiveness from your Lord; He is so Forgiving. He causes the sky to send torrents down upon you and He supplies you with wealth and children, and grants you gardens and even grants you rivers.”[Surah Nuh (78) V. 9-12]
[Lessons from these verses] Whatever you are seeking in life, knock on the doors of forgiveness and they will both open.
[Suggestions on how to implement this verses] http://DiscoverU.mfbiz.com in the “Free Stuff” section

With best wishes to see you succeed at the highest level!

-Muhammad Alshareef

Legacy of Abu Bakr: Compilation of the Qur’an

Legacy of Abu Bakr¹: The Compilation of the Qur’aan² after the Battle of Yamaamah³

Compiled from the Abu Bakr As Siddeeq CD Series⁴ by Imaam Anwar Al Awlaki⁵ and the AlMaghrib Institute Seminar entitled Conquest: History of the Khulafaa⁶ by Ustadh Muhammad alShareef⁷.

During the Battle of Yamaamah, the Muslims were being pushed back by the army of Musaylimah Al Khaddhaab⁸, and it seemed as if they were about to lose. Until the Muslims in order to uplift the spirits and restore hopes in the hearts of the Muslims, started to compete with each other by measuring which group of Muslims was going to fight the fiercest in the battle. The Muslims divided themselves into groups based on different criteria. For example there were groups like the Ansar⁹, the Muhajireen¹⁰, the people of this tribe and the people of that tribe, the people form this country, and the people from this region or this city, etc. The way they would encourage each other was that they would call out on the top of their voices, “Ya lil Ansar, Allah Allah!! Al Karrah ‘ala Adaillah”, which meant, “Oh Ansar!! Allah! Allah! Attack the enemies of Allah!!” They would see each other fighting and try to fight better and fiercer than the other group that they saw. The amount of courage and bravery these men had might have passed away when these men passed away. I do not think we can ever understand how much they wanted to please Allah by “giving it all they got”. An example of this is the man from the Ansar, who was wounded on the left leg and he couldn’t get up and walk, and Ibn Umar¹¹ used to nurse the wounded and injured in the army. The Ansaree¹² man, was being treated and he heard one of his people call out “Oh Ansar! Allah! Allah! Attack the enemies of Allah!”. And as soon as this man heard his people calling upon them, he left the tent by using one hand to dig his sword in the dirt and pulling him towards the battle. And when the sahaaba¹³ saw this they asked the man, “Where are you going?” and the man, whose name was Aboo Aqeel, went into the battle after telling the others, “My people have called, and I am going to respond to the call even if I have to crawl! They have called me to attack the Enemies of Allah!”. And Aboo Aqeel went into the battle and fought with one hand without protection. During his last moments on the battle field, after the battle had ended, he was laying down and he asked Ibn Umar, “Who does this day belong to?” and Ibn Umar replied, “Rejoice for indeed the enemy of Allah was killed”. Aboo Aqeel said “Alhamdulillah!¹⁴” and he passed away, a martyr for the sake of Allah, Insha’Allah¹⁵. One of these groups that testified to their Iman¹⁶ by fighting like no other group was the group of the Huffadh¹⁷, the group of the memorizers and the preservers of the Qur’an. The group of the Huffadh was a battalion that numbered up to 500 people. And they were so fierce at their fighting that they were the ones that were in the frontline of the Battle. They were the ones that were going head on against the enemy. And on this day, it has been narrated that over 80 of the huffadh had died.

The news reached the Muslims that many of the huffadh of Qur’an were martyred on that day, Insha’Allah. Upon hearing this Umar¹⁸ (Radi Allahu Anhu) went to Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) and told him that, “Qur’an is something that is in the hearts of the people, when the people go away the Qur’an goes away. We must do something in order to preserve the Qur’an, we should compile it into a book.” Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) at first didn’t agree with this, he raised the issue that this was something that the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) had never done and he said “How could I do something that the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) had never done!” Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) feared that this might fall under an innovation (bid’a). Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) and Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu) discussed the matter for a while and at first Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) was opposed to the idea but then Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu) finally convinced him that we must do this, and Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) agreed.

So Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) sent a message to Zayd Ibn Thabit Al Ansaree¹⁹ (Radi Allahu Anhu) that the Khaleefah²⁰ wants to meet him. Zayd (Radi Allahu Anhu) himself narrates that when he was called upon by Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) to meet him, he went to the Khaleefah and saw that Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu) was sitting next to him. And Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu) came to him and said that many of the huffadh were killed during the Battle of Yamaamah, and they wanted Zayd Ibn Thabit (Radi Allahu Anhu) to take the responsibility of compiling the entire Qur’an into a mus’haf²¹. And the first thought that popped into the Zayd Ibn Thabit(Radi Allahu Anhu)’s mind was that this was “This was something that RasoolAllah (Sal Allahu Laayhi Wa Sallam) didn’t do, therefore how could I do it!” But then Zayd (Radi Allahu Anhu) thought about it again and he came to agree with Umar Ibn Al Khattab (Radi Allahu Anhu) that this was something that they needed to do. So Zayd agreed to take the responsibility to ensure that the Qur’an was collected and compiled. Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) told Zayd (Radi Allahu Anhu), “The reason I am giving this job to you is that you are a young man, you are mature, and we trust you, and you used to write the Revelation for RasoolAllah Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam.”

Zayd Ibn Thabit (Radi Allahu Anhu) said, after AbuBakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) asked him to do this, “If Abu Bakr were to have placed a mountain on my shoulders it would be lighter in weight than the mission that he gave me”. Zayd Ibn Thabit (Radi Allahu Anhu) was a scholar of the Qur’an even though he was at a very young age at that time. So he said, “I had to go around collecting Qur’an from the hearts of men and I had to go around collecting all the manuscripts of the Quran, I used to collect the palm leaves, flat white rocks (tablets), shoulder bones of camels, and leather pieces that they used to write the Qur’an on.” In order to ensure that the Qur’an they compiled was authentic, they would ask all the Sahaaba who heard the Qur’an and memorized it with the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) to recite it to Zayd Ibn Thabit (Radi Allahu Anhu) and they required that there be two people that know that same verse. The only exception that was made in this matter was that of Aboo Khuzaymah²² (Radi Allahu Anhu), who was the only one who knew the end of Surat At Tawbah because the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) said about Aboo Khuzaymah (Radi Allahu Anhu) that his testimony is equal to two testimonies. And in following the Sunnah of RasoolAllah (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) they accepted Aboo Khuzaymah (Radi Allahu Anhu)’s testimony as double and included that part in the Qur’an.

The original mus’haf that was compiled by Zayd Ibn Thabit (Radi Allahu Anhu) was with Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) during his Khilaafah, it was written on palm leaves. After Abu Bakr (Radi Allahu Anhu) passed away it was handed down to Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu) and then to Hafsa²³ (Radi Allahu Anhu) the daughter of Umar Ibn Al Khattab (Radi Allahu Anhu), after Umar (Radi Allahu Anhu)’s death. Hafsah bint Umar Ibn Al Khattab (Radi Allahu Anhu), the wife of the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam), had the mus’haf in her possession until the Khaleefah of Uthman Ibn Affan (Radi Allahu Anhu)^24,25.

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Footnotes
1. The first Khaleefah (leader) of Islam, after the death of the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). He was the best friend of the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi wa Sallam) and the first adult male to accept Islam.
2. The Qur’aan is defined as: The Qur’aan is the Arabic Speech (kalaam) of Allaah, which He revealed to Muhammad (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) in wording and meaning, and which has been preserved in the mus’hafs, and has reached us by mutawaatir transmissions, and is a challenge to mankind to produce something similar to it. [Az-Zarqaanee, V.1. p. 21]
3. Yamaamah is an area or currently city which is 4.5 Km east of Al Sulaymaniyyah and South East of Riyadh in this map.
4. Click here for more info! Abu Bakr Cd set
5. Anwar Al Awlaki: Biography: Click Here!
6. Enroll for the seminar here!
7. Muhammad alShareef: Biography: Click Here!
8. A man who claimed prophethood during the life and after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). More info on him will be available in this blog soon, InshaAllah!
9. The group of Muslims that helped the migrating Muslims form Makkah to Medeena.
10. The group of Muslims that migrated from Makkah to Medeena.
11. The son of Umar. He was a companion of the Prophet (Sal Allahu layhi Wa Sallm) while still a young boy. He was one of the big scholars amongst the companions of Muhammad (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam).
12. Belonging to the group of Ansar
13. Sahaaba or sing. Sahaabee means a companion of the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam). A Sahaabee is defined as: Someone who has met the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) while believing in him, and remained upon that belief until he died. [Ibn Hajr Al Asqalaanee]
14. Praise be to Allah!
15. If Allah wills!
16. Eeman is defined as: Belief that is composed of acceptance in the heart, statements from the mouth, and actions of the limbs. It increases and decreases. Obedience to Allah increases eeman and disobedience to Allah decreases eeman.
17. Lit. means preservers. In the Islamic sense it could mean when referring to the Qur’aan, someone who memorizes the entire Qur’aan with the proper pronunciation. In the aspect of hadeeth it means something else which will be discussed in another blog, InshaAllah!
18. The second Khaleefah of Islam. He became the leader of the Muslims after the death of Abu Bakr. More info on him inshaAllah soon!
19. Zayd Ibn Thabit Al Ansaree was probably the most knowledgeable sahaabee amongst the sahaaba about the Qur’aan as he was the one that wrote down the Wahy (revelation) directly from the Prophet (Sal Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam)
20. Khaleefah basically means a ruler of Islam, Al Khaleefat Ar Rasool Allah was a title only given to Abu Bakr as he directly followed the Prophet (Sal AllahU Alayhi Wa Sallam) in leading the Muslims. Also known as Caliph.
21. The Qur’aan in a physical compiled book form.
22. A companion of the Prophet (Sal Allahu alayhi Wa Sallam). More info on him soon inshaAllah!
23. She was the daughter of Umar, and the wife of the Prophet (Sal Allahu alayhi Wa Sallam). More info on this soon, inshaAllah!
24. The third Khaleefah of Islam. More info on this soon, inshaAllah!
25. This narration is found in Jami As Sahih of Imam Bukhaari. Volume 6, Book 60, Number 201