Advice for scholarship students in their home countries
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The questioner:
The questioner says: Many scholarship students from the Imam University are present in this mosque. What is your advice to them regarding their home countries?
The Shaykh:
Our advice to them is to fear Allah and to equip themselves with beneficial knowledge. Then, when they go to their countries, they should call their people to Allah and spread knowledge among them. Allah the Exalted said:[At-Tawbah 9:122] This is a general command for all Muslims until the Hour comes: that they come and learn from the scholars in the lands of knowledge, then return to their homelands, call their people, and explain things to them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Perhaps we should conclude this session, if you agree, may Allah reward you, with a prayer for rain, so that Allah the Mighty and Majestic may send relief to the land and the servants.
The Shaykh:
O Allah, amen. O Allah, send us rain. O Allah, send us rain. O Allah, send us abundant rain, and do not make us among the despairing. O Allah, send us abundant rain, and do not make us among the despairing. O Allah, send us rain, not rain of punishment, nor destruction, nor trial, nor drowning.[Al-Baqarah 2:127] O Allah, send blessings and peace upon Your servant and Your Messenger, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The questioner says: Many scholarship students from the Imam University are present in this mosque. What is your advice to them regarding their home countries?
The Shaykh:
Our advice to them is to fear Allah and to equip themselves with beneficial knowledge. Then, when they go to their countries, they should call their people to Allah and spread knowledge among them. Allah the Exalted said:
And it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once. For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.
وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا كَافَّةً فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَThe presenter:
May Allah reward you. Perhaps we should conclude this session, if you agree, may Allah reward you, with a prayer for rain, so that Allah the Mighty and Majestic may send relief to the land and the servants.
The Shaykh:
O Allah, amen. O Allah, send us rain. O Allah, send us rain. O Allah, send us abundant rain, and do not make us among the despairing. O Allah, send us abundant rain, and do not make us among the despairing. O Allah, send us rain, not rain of punishment, nor destruction, nor trial, nor drowning.
"Our Lord, accept [this] from us. Indeed You are the Hearing, the Knowing.
رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا إِنَّكَ أَنتَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-50-منهج أهل السنة والجماعة في الصحابة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:05:24)
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