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[The Scholars Mentioned That Shirk Will Occur in This Nation]

May Allâhu Taâlâ have mercy on you, ponder upon the statements by the Shaykh Rahimahullâhu Taâlâ! Ponder upon him explicitly stating that idol worshipping occurred in his era! Ponder upon him explicitly stating -after mentioning the story of Danyâl- that the later generations who were the people of his era, took the graves of those who did not come close to him in rank, virtue, and righteousness as idols! Ponder upon him explicitly stating that the later generations who were the people of his era would fight for Danyâl with swords and worship him besides Allâh had they found him! When you ponder upon these, it will become clear to you what the majority of people are upon of worshipping other than Allâh, supplicating to them, seeking help from them in adversity, relieving distress, and delivering from sorrow, being sincere to them in worship in times of adversity, relieving of distress, and delivering from sorrow, and being sincere to them in worship in times of adversity while embarking on a ship and in other than that, which the early Mushrikûn did not do. As Allâhu Taâlâ informed about them with His statement,

"So when they embark on a ship, they invoke Allâh, having their faith purely in Him. But when He saves them (and brings them) to the land, in no time they associate others with Him." (al-Ankabût, 29/65)

Also, Allâhu Taâlâ's statement,

"Say: Tell me if the punishment of Allâh comes to you or the Hour befalls you, would you invoke other than Allâh, if you are truthful? Rather, Him alone you will invoke and if He wills, He would remove that (distress) for which you invoke Him, and you would forget those you associate with Him." (al-An'âm 6/40-41)

May Allâhu Taâlâ have mercy upon you! Ponder upon what Allâh mentioned about these polytheists sincerely devoting supplication to Him in times of adversity! Then ponder upon what I mentioned to you regarding what the polytheists do in our era! When you ponder upon these, the strangeness of Islâm that the Nabî Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam brought in these times will become clear to you. If the statements of the people of knowledge and their explicit statements pertain to associating partners to Allâh prevailing and being accepted in these times... Again, if the statements of the people of knowledge and their explicit statements pertain to associating partners to Allâh prevailing over the majority of souls and the fewness of those who are saved from it; rather the fewness of those who do not have enmity towards those who disapprove of Shirk, then what do you think of this era your live in? It is well-known that the issue only increases in severity and strangeness. It is narrated in the authentic Hadîth on the authority of Rasûlullâh Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam that he said,

"There does not come a time except that what is after it is worse than it."

Al-Bukhârî recorded it in his Sahîh on the authority of Anas Radiyallâhu Anh.91

However, the matter is as the Shaykh Rahimahullâhu Taâlâ said,

"Whoever has the slightest information regarding what Allâh sent His Messenger Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam with and what the people of Shirk and innovations practice today regarding this field and others, will know that between the Salaf and them is a distance further than the distance between the east and the west."

This is the very tribulation which Ibnu Mas'ûd Radiyallâhu Anh said regarding,

"How will you be when a tribulation engulfs you, upon which the elderly grows old and the youth grow upon? People will adopt it as a Sunnah, and when it changes, it will be said the Sunnah was changed!"92

And Allâh knows best.




91- With similar wording, al-Bukhârî, Hadîth no. 7068

92- With similar wording, al-Hâkim, al-Mustadrak, Hadîth no. 8570.
#3

The Meaning of Tâghût

Allâhu Taâlâ said,

"And verily, We have sent among every nation a Messenger (proclaiming): Worship Allâh (alone), and avoid (worshipping) the Tâghût." (an-Nahl, 16/36)

(Imâm) Mâlik Rahimahullâh and others from the Mufassirûn (scholars of Qur'ânic Exegeses) said,

"Tâghût is everything worshipped other than Allâh."8

Umar Ibn'ul Khattâb and Ibnu Abbâs Radiyallâhu Anhum said,

"Tâghût is the Shaytân."9

Ibnu Kathîr said,

"This is a really strong (good) opinion. Because this opinion encompasses every aspect of what the people of Jâhiliyyah (pre-Islâmic era) were upon from worshipping idols, seeking judgement from them, and requesting help from them." Ibnu Kathîr mentioned this while commenting upon the statement of Allâhu Taâlâ,

"So whoever disbelieves in the Tâghût and believes in Allâh..." (al-Baqarah, 2/256)10

An-Nawawî Rahimahullâh said,

"Al-Layth, Abû Ubaydah, al-Kisâ'î, and the majority of the scholars of language said: Taghût is everything worshipped other than Allâhu Taâlâ."11

Al-Jawharî said,

"Tâghût is the shaytân and every main-figure in deviation." End quote.12

What these and similar verses from the Qur'ân encompass of commanding worshipping Allâh alone Who has no partners and forbidding worshipping other than Him, is the meaning of Lâ Ilâha Illallâh (there is no -true- deity -worthy of worship- except Allâh)!




8- Ibnu Wahb, the student of Imam Mâlik, narrated this in his book al-Jâmi fî Tafsîr'il Qur'ân, 2/135, no. 270. It was mentioned in ad-Durr'ul Manthûr (2/22), in the Tafsîr of the Âyah al-Baqarah 2/256, that Ibnu Abî Hâtim Rahimahullâh narrated this as well.

9- This was narrated with the sequence of Ta'lîq (omission of the chain of narration) in Sahîh'ul Bukhârî, the book of Tafsîr, in the Âyah an-Nisâ 4/43. Al-Hâfidh Ibnu Hajar Rahimahullâh narrated that this chain of narration is "Strong." (Ibnu Hajar, Fath'ul Bârî, 8/252) Also, in his Tafsîr, no. 5834-5835, at-Tabarî, narrated this narration and Ibnu Kathîr has extracted it in his Tafsîr, 1/523, regarding the Âyah al-Baqarah 2/256. Likewise, in ad-Durr'ul Manthûr, it is mentioned that al-Firyâbî and Sa'îd bin Mansûr have also narrated this. (as-Suyûtî, ad-Durr'ul Manthûr, 2/22)

10- Ibnu Kathîr, Tafsîr, Dâru Taybah, 1/683.

11- An-Nawawî, Sharhu Sahîh Muslim, 3/18.

12- Al-Jawharî, as-Sihâh, 6/2413.
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#5

Why the Messengers Were Sent

Allâhu Taâlâ sent all of the Messengers with this. Allâhu Taâlâ said,

"We never sent a messenger before you except that We revealed to him, "There is no -true- deity -worthy of worship- except Me, so worship Me (alone)." (al-Anbiyâ, 21/25)

Allâhu Taâlâ also said,

"And ask those We sent before you of Our messengers; have We made besides the Most Merciful deities to be worshipped?" (az-Zukhruf, 43/45)

The first thing all the Messengers were reciting to their people was to say, "Worship Allâhu Taâlâ, you have no deity other than Him."
#6

He said in the book ar-Raddu ala'l Jahmiyyah which al-Khallâl narrated and said, "I wrote this book from the handwriting of Abdullâh the son of Imâm Ahmad, and Abdullâh wrote it from the handwriting of his father," he said therein, "Chapter on the Clarification of what the Jahmiyyah Rejected of Allâh Being Upon the Arsh

Whereas Allâh Subhânahu said,


﴿الرَّحْمَنُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ اسْتَوَى﴾

"Ar-Rahmân did Istiwâ above the Throne." (Tâ-Hâ, 20/5)

We said to them, "Why did you reject Allâh Subhânahu being upon the Arsh?"
Then, the Jahmîs said, "Allâh is below the seventh earth just as He is below the Arsh, He is in the heavens, in the earth[, and in every place."

And they recited,


﴿وَهُوَ اللَّهُ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَفِي الْأَرْضِ﴾

"And He is Allâh in the heavens and on the earth." (al-An'âm, 6/3)]

Ahmad said: Then we said [to them], "The Muslims know of many places wherein there is nothing of the greatness of the Rabb. Your bodies, your insides, the insides of the pigs, toilets, and places of filth are places wherein there is nothing of the greatness of the Rabb. Allâh Azza wa Jalla has informed us that He is in the sky. Thus, Allâh Subhânahu said in the two verses,


﴿أَأَمِنْتُمْ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاءِ أَنْ يَخْسِفَ بِكُمُ الْأَرْضَ﴾

"Do you feel secure that He, Who is in the heaven (Allâh), would not cause the earth to swallow you{, and suddenly it would sway? Or do you feel secure that He, Who is in the heaven (Allâh), would not send against you a storm of stones? So, you will soon come to know how was My warning!}" (al-Mulk, 67/16-17)

Allâh also said,


﴿إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ﴾

"Towards Him ascends the pure word." (Fâtir, 35/10)

[Allâh said to Îsâ Alayh'is Salâm,]


﴿إِنِّي مُتَوَفِّيكَ وَرَافِعُكَ إِلَيَّ﴾

"I will take you and raise you to Myself." (Âl-i Imrân, 3/55)

[Allâh also said,]


﴿بَلْ رَفَعَهُ اللهُ إِلَيْهِ﴾

"Rather, Allâh raised him to Himself." (an-Nisâ, 4/158)173

Ahmad also said in the afore-mentioned book,

"Of the things rejected by the extremely misguided Jahmiyyah is Allâh being above the Arsh. Whereas Allâhu Taâlâ said,


﴿الرَّحْمَنُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ اسْتَوَى﴾

"Ar-Rahmân did Istiwâ above the Throne." (Tâ-Hâ, 20/5)

Allâhu Taâlâ also said,


﴿ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ﴾

"Then He did Istiwâ (established) over the Arsh." (al-Furqân, 25/59; as-Sajdah, 32/4)174

Then Imâm Ahmad cited evidences from the Qur'ân then said,

"The meaning of Allâh Jalla Thanâ'uhu's statement,


﴿وَهُوَ اللَّهُ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَفِي الْأَرْضِ﴾

"And He is Allâh in the heavens and on the earth." (al-An'âm, 6/3)

Allâh says that He is the Ilâh of those in the heavens and the Ilâh of those on earth. He is above the Arsh and His knowledge has encompassed everything below the Arsh. Not a single place is hidden from His knowledge. Allâh's knowledge being in one place while being absent in another is non-existent. This is because of the statement by Allâhu Taâlâ,


﴿لِتَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عِلْمًا﴾

"So that you may know that Allâh has power over all things, and that Allâh has encompassed everything in knowledge." (at-Talâq, 65/12)

Imâm Ahmad said: This is something to be contemplated over with this regard: If a man had a cup made of crystal in his hand which has something inside it, then the sight of the son of Âdam would encompass the cup without the son of Âdam being in the cup. Allâh Subhânahu -and the highest description belongs to Him- has encompassed all of His creation by way of knowledge without being in anything He created."175




173- With similar wording in Ahmad bin Hanbal, ar-Raddu ala'z Zanâdiqah wa'l Jahmiyyah, Dar Gheras, p. 287-290.

174- With similar wording in Ahmad bin Hanbal, ar-Raddu ala'z Zanâdiqah wa'l Jahmiyyah, Dar Gheras, p. 287.

175- With similar wording in Ahmad bin Hanbal, ar-Raddu ala'z Zanâdiqah wa'l Jahmiyyah, Dar Gheras, p. 292-294.
#7

[The Companions Blocking the Ways to Shirk and Innovations]

(Ibn'ul Qayyim Rahimahullâh said in continuation,)

"Ibnu Ishâq mentioned on the authority of Abu'l Âliyah that he said, "When we conquered Tustar, we found a bed, on which was a dead man, who had a Mushaf (book) near his head in the treasury of Hurmuzân. We carried this Mushaf (book) to Umar, who thereupon called Ka'b and he copied it in (translated it to) Arabic. I was the first man of the Arabs to have read it. I read it as I read the Qur'ân. In it was your biography, your affairs, the errors of your speech, and what is yet to come." I (the narrator Khâlid) said, "What did you do with the man?" Abu'l Âliyah said, "We dug thirteen separate graves during the day, then when night fell, we buried him and we leveled all the graves, thereby making it obscure for the people that they may not disclose him." I said, "What did they want from him?" Abu'l Âliyah said, "When the sky withheld rain from them, they would take out the bed and it would rain." I said, "Who did you think the man was?" Abu'l Âliyah said, "Danyâl." I said, "How long ago did he die?" Abu'l Âliyah said, "He died about three hundred years ago." I said, "Hasn't his body changed?" Abu'l Âliyah said, "No, except for a few hairs at the back of his head... The flesh of the prophets is not disintegrated by the earth, nor do predatory animals eat it."

In this parable is what the Muhâjirûn and Ansâr did, of obscuring his grave, so that people would not be tested with him. If the later generations had obtained him, they would have fought for him with swords and worshipped him. This is because they have taken the graves of those who are not even close to him in rank, as idols and appointed custodians for them.

The companions disapproved of what is much lesser than this. This is why Umar Ibn'ul Khattâb Radiyallâhu Anh felled the tree (of Ridhwân) under which allegiance was given to Rasûlullâh Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam."86

"When Umar saw people leaving, he inquired about that. It was said that they were praying in a mosque wherein Rasûlullâh Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam prayed in. Thereupon, Umar Radiyallâhu Anh said: Those who were before you were only destroyed by that which is similar to this. They would follow the footsteps of their prophets, and would take them as churches, and synagogues. Whoever from you enters the time of prayer while he is in these mosques, then he should pray! Whoever from you enters the time of prayer while he is not in these mosques, then he should go and not intentionally pray there!"87

Rasûlullâh Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam disapproved of the companions when they asked him for a tree which they would specifically hang their weapons upon."88

Then, Ibn'ul Qayyim Rahimahullâh mentioned the Hadîth of Dhâtu Anwât (and said,)

"If the companions adopting a tree to hang weapons upon and adhering around it is taking a deity with Allâh, alongside the fact that they do not worship it or ask from it, then what is thought about offering devotion to the grave, supplicating to it, supplicating near it, and supplicating through it? What is the comparison of being tried with a tree in relation to being tried with a grave? If only the people of Shirk and innovations knew! Whoever has the slightest information regarding what Allâh sent His Messenger with and what the people of Shirk and innovations practice today regarding this field and others, will know that between the Salaf and them is a distance further than the distance between the east and the west. By Allâh, the affair is graver than what we have mentioned!

In the Sahîh of al-Bukhârî, it is narrated on the authority of Umm'ud Dardâ Radiyallâhu Anhâ that she said: "Abu'd Dardâ entered upon me in anger. I said: What's wrong? Abu'd Dardâ said, "By Allâh! I do not recognize anything of the affairs of Muhammad Sallallâhu Alayhi wa Sallam in them apart from them offering the prayer in congregation."89

End quote.90




86- Concisely from Ibn'ul Qayyim, Ighâthat'ul Luhafân, Dâru Atâ'ât'il Ilm, 1/368-371

87- Ibnu Taymiyyah, Iqtidhâ'us Sirât'il Mustaqîm, 2/273-274.

88- Concisely from Ibn'ul Qayyim, Ighâthat'ul Luhafân, Dâru Atâ'ât'il Ilm, 1/371.

89- With similar wording, al-Bukhârî, Hadîth no. 650.

90- Concisely from Ibn'ul Qayyim, Ighâthat'ul Luhafân, Dâru Atâ'ât'il Ilm, 1/372-373.
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1445H / 1 RABÎ'UL AWWAL 1445 H
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1 RABÎ'UL AWWAL 1445 H
17/09/2023

Tonight, on the 29th of Safar 1445 (15/09/2023), the Hilâl (crescent) of Rabî'ul Awwal 1445 H was observed however, the Hilâl could not be sighted. Thus, the month of Safar will be completed to 30 days as was prescribed in the Sunnah.

Therefore, the 1st of Rabî'ul Awwal 1445 H will fall on 17/09/2023. And Allâh knows best.
#9

The Reason Behind the Creation of Humans and Jinns

Allâhu Taâlâ said,

"I have not created the jinn and human beings except that they worship Me." (adh-Dhâriyât, 51/56)

When Allâh Subhânahu taught us that He created us only to worship Him, it became compulsory on us to be concerned with what He created us for -in knowledge and in deed. Allâhu Taâlâ said in the verse,

"O people, worship your Lord Who created you and those before you, so that you may become God-fearing." (al-Baqarah, 2/21)

Allâhu Taâlâ also said,

"Worship Allâh and associate nothing with Him." (an-Nisâ, 4/36)

Ibnu Abbâs Radiyallâhu Anhumâ said,

"What is intended with all that is mentioned in the Qur'ân regarding the command of worship is Tawhîd."7




7- Al-Baghawî, Tafsîr, Dâru Taybah print, 1/71, explanation of Sûrat'ul Baqarah, verse 21.
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