When death approached Abu Hurairah (radiyallaahu-anhu) he cried; so he was asked: ”What makes you cry?” He said: ”After isolation, the scarcity of provisions (for the hereafter by way of good deeds) and a major obstacle (i.e. the questioning in the grave and the standing on the day of judgment), then the place of descent will either be paradise or hell.” [Source: Sifatus Safwa 1/694]
Shaikh Rabee bin Haadee’s Speech Concerning Yahyah al-Hajoori
See Link: http://www.salafitalk.com/entries/43-Our-Position-Towards-Shaikh-Yahyah-al-Hajoori-amp-His-Followers
Question:
How can a person become strong in Eemaan–fulfilling the commandments of Allaah and fearful of His Punishment?
Answer:
This can be (attained) by way of recitation of Allaah’s Book–studying it, pondering upon its meanings and rulings. And by studying the Sunnah of the Prophet (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) — having knowledge and awareness of the affairs of the Islamic legislation by way of it, acting upon what that necessitates and adhering to it in creed, actions and speech. And to be extremely mindful of (Allaah’s absolute knowledge of whatever you do and wherever you may be), to (nurture) the heart upon awareness of His Greatness, remembrance of the hereafter and what is found in it of recompense, reward, punishment and the severity of its affairs. And to keep the company of those whom (you) know amongst the righteous people and keep away from the people of evil and corruption.
[Fataawaa Lajnah Ad-Daa-imah 1/360: Quoted in Fataawaa Al-Mar’atul Muslimah page27: publishers Daar as-Sahaabah]
Imaam Ibnul Qayyim (rahimahullaah) stated in As-Sawaa-iq Al-Mursala 3/1038 about Bishr Al-Marreesee a head of the Mutazilah that he said to his companions: ”If they (i.e. Ahlus Sunnah) bring evidence against you by way of the Qur’an, then seek to prove them wrong by way of erroneous interpretation. And if they bring evidence against you by way of the narrations (of the Messenger), then repel those narrations through disconfirmation.”
Shaqeeq Al-Balkhiy (rahimahullaah) said:
”The signs of repentance are: [a] Weeping over what has preceded (of sins); [b] fear of falling into sin, [c] keeping way from evil companions; [d] and accompanying the good people.
[Nazhatul Fudalaa 711]
Imaam Dhahabi (rahimahullaah) stated in Siyar from Abdur-Rahmaan Ibn Mahdi (rahimahullaah) from Taawoos (rahimahullaah) who said: I heard Ibraaheem Ibn Adham (rahimahullaah) saying: ”A person who loves fame cannot be truthful to Allaah’’
[Siyar A’laam Nubulaa7/393]
Question:
What are the obligations a woman is to fulfil in order to become a female Muslim who adheres to her Religion?
Answer:
It is obligatory upon a person– be it a man or woman– to enter into the fold of Islaam and testify that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah; (he/she should) establish the five daily prayers, pay the zakat, fast the month of Ramadaan and perform the hajj if the means to that is made possible. And (he/she) should believe and adhere to the pillars of Eemaan and they are: Belief in Allaah, belief in His Angels, belief in His Books, belief in His Messengers, belief in the last day and belief in the pre-decree—its good and evil. (And he/she) should fulfil all the remaining obligations and keep away from the forbidden things. So by way of this (a person) becomes a true Muslim.
[Fataawaa Lajnah Ad-Daa-imah 11/17; quoted in Fataawaa Al-Mar’atul Muslimah page25: publishers Daar as-Sahaabah]
الملخص الجميل
في
بيان منهج الشيخ ربيع
في
الدعوة والجرح والتعديل
[A beautiful abridgment in clarifying Shaikh Rabee’s methodology in calling to Allaah and in Jarh Wat-Tadeel]
Publishers: Daar Imaam Ahmad Egypt
2 Vols
Question
A man hit an animal and broke its hand, and thereafter the animal died; what is the ruling on this?
Answer:
We do not know which animal it is, and whether it is one of importance or of a valuable price. So what is intended here is that you are not held responsible except that it is impermissible for you to punish an animal. You have sinned in the sight of Allaah and it is incumbent upon you to repent. As for kaffaara (i.e. a prescribed act of expiation for this sin of yours), then there is none incumbent upon you.’’
[Source: Al-Fataawaa Wad-Duroos Fee Masjid Al-Haraam, page: 925]
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
By Allah it is saddening that we are compelled to use our precious time in rebutting the nonsensical, absurd and at times dumbfounding statements and actions of those attributing an association to knowledge and the scholars.
Certain individuals to this day make every attempt to refrain from speaking the truth, rather they conceal the truth, concerning innovators such as al-Ma’riby, al-Halaby and their likes. With this regard, we witnessed the attempts of one such madeenhdotcom affiliate to maintain a stance of concealing the truth on al-Ma’riby; the audacity of the lie and attempt at deception may disturb some, but we ask Allah to open our hearts to accepting the truth and realising the reality of these individuals.
A certain Madeenahdotcom member claimed in a gathering with myself and other brothers present that he is being lied against and that actually he is “with Shaikh Rabee’ on the issue of al-Ma’riby” in an attempt to refute the reality that he actually holds a very deceptive chamelon-like position on the affair. Upon declaring that statement the other brothers in the gathering appeared to be convinced at the very open and straight forward nature of his declaration, however I was aware of this individual’s deception from having known him for the region of 15 years and spent time with him during the days at Madinah University. I therefore asked a simple question, “In that case you declare al-Ma’riby is an innovator?”, considering he had moments earlier proclaimed he was being lied against and that he is with Shaikh Rabee’ [and Shaikh Rabee’s stance is well known in declaring al-Ma’riby an innovator] it would have been thought that the answer would have been a straight forward “yes, of course”….otherwise how could he possibly declare that he is with Shaikh Rabee’? With great regret however, it appears certain individuals have very little – if any – honour left for themselves, in an absolute disgraced and degraded manner he stumbled and stuttered upon his words, and with a facial expression ridden with outright guilt he demonstrated clearly he was not able to say “yes”[!]. Instead he began to alter the course of the discussion to other statements of the scholars etc…at which point it became clear that actually he was NOT with Shaikh Rabee’ at all and was in fact attempting a pitiful deception!
By Allah, it is an absolute disaster that an individual who proclaims himself as a “student” could engage in such an attempt at deception and in fact lie. He had hoped no doubt that everyone would simply accept his statement at face value and not pursue it further and perhaps did not anticipate the one simple question that exposed his failed attempt at this disgraceful deception. That in of itself is sufficient as an exposition of the deceptive nature of such individuals, however the exposition continued.
The individual [upon realising the attempted deception had failed] then began to quote statements of scholars and advice regarding “not becoming involved” in the issue, and so he adopted the new strategy in the gathering of claiming that he was simply following the advice of scholars and not becoming involved and therefore did not have any position and it was not upon him to speak on the issue; truly amazing bearing in mind just moments earlier he was “with Shaikh Rabee”[!]. However after 2 hours of proclaiming this, he was once again exposed by his own deceptive tongue that was unfortunately for him unable to maintain the deception, in the midst of the discussion it slipped from his tongue that actually he “does not declare al-Ma’riby an innovator!” [أنا لا أبدعه were his exact words since the gathering was conducted in Arabic].
Therefore in the space of 2 hours the following occured:
1- Firstly he proclaimed that he was being lied againt and that he is in fact “with Shaikh Rabee'”…but was exposed when asked very simply if al-Ma’riby therefore is an innovator and he rejected that.
2- Then he moved onto taking the position that it is not upon him to become involved or take a position for the next 2 hours.
3- Finally his third change of colours was to let slip that actually he doesnt view al-Ma’riby an innovator at all! Which nullified the whole of his 2 hour argument that “its not upon him to become involved or take a position” since he had now clearly taken a position! In fact he had TWICE taken a position – even though he spent 2 hours presenting evidences that he should not have to do that – since at the beginning he was apparently taking the position of Shaikh Rabee’ [although that was a blatant attempt at deception].
A catastrophic failure may be one way to describe the pitiful shameless behaviour of this individual, and we may add, pre-meditated, since he was aware this gathering was to potentially occur in advance. From apparently being with Shaikh Rabee’, then taking no position, to finally making a full 180 degree turn into declaring he does not view al-Ma’riby an innovator…all of that in approximately the space of 2 hours[!].
By Allah we ask, was this chameleon-like behaviour the way of the Salaf? Protect yourselves and implement the advice of Shaikh Mohammad bin Haady in distancing yourselves from such deceptive individuals.