Abu Malik spoke about those who hold fast to the Book and the Sunnah, and about the trials occurring today.

Abu Malik: Indeed, praise is to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, seek His forgiveness, and seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our souls and from our bad deeds. Whom Allah guides, none can mislead, and whom He leaves to mislead, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows, the truest speech is the Book of Allah, the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the worst of matters are those newly invented. Every newly invented matter is a religious innovation, every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire. I do not think that any one of us, we who claim for ourselves, or who are claimed by others, to be upon the methodology of the Book and the Sunnah, whether we are in Amman, Jordan, or in any other country of the Muslim lands, but that each one of us knows that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not leave the world and join the Exalted Companion until he had explained to us a sufficient explanation, detailed for us a sufficient detail, and informed us of every matter of this world and the Hereafter by which happiness is written for the Muslim if he binds himself to this path, and by which he is saved from the misery that befalls its people, refuge in Allah, or which leads them to the destiny of the Hellfire. This is a great blessing that it is obligatory for us always to thank Allah for His favor upon us with it, and to increase with it the sending of prayers upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and this is a right that Allah has obligated upon us in His Book. I say this while we are now living through great events, tremendous trials, and numerous calamities that look upon us with their sharp, pointed horns from all our regions, and they almost threaten us and warn us, and each one of us is in his own home and the bottom of his house. Safety from these great events and these tremendous trials is not achieved by confronting them so that a person defends himself, or so that one of us defends himself from them, with a weapon by which he thinks he is capable of repelling and returning them. Nor is it achieved by looking at them from near or far, as if he is saying to them or to some of them: "Come to me before I come to you." Nor is it achieved by delving into them without clear evidence and guidance. Repelling these trials is not achieved by any of this or what is similar, resembling, or imitating it. Rather, the way out of these trials and these events should be in accordance with what we are upon, and to which we have bound ourselves: the methodology of the Book and the Sunnah. That we bind ourselves, as we bind ourselves to the etiquette of food and drink, and to the rulings of prayer, Hajj, zakah, and fasting, and to knowing the lawful and the forbidden, and how one of our earnings can be pure and sincere, avoiding clear forbidden things and doubtful matters. Likewise, even more so, so that all of that is safe for us and we are aware of our affair, that we learn how to save ourselves from these trials, especially if they mix with us, impose themselves on us, and become a refuge for us in our homes, walk with us in our streets, sit with us in our mosques, and move with us wherever we go. At that time, it becomes obligatory for each one of us to know how to repel these trials from himself, if he has not been touched by them from near or far, or if there is still a temporal or spatial distance between him and them that allows him to take precautions for himself or be cautious for himself, so that he knows how to escape their sparks and their harm. And here I remind you of the hadith of Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) which came in Sahih al-Bukhari when he said: The hadith is known to you, but I wanted to clarify that for many people, good has become evil and evil has become good, until we have come to hear or read from the effects of these trials, in which a person can no longer discern, with the ignorant, what he can discern with the righteous and with the people of knowledge and their students. We have come to hear strange and wondrous things, such as there being a call for seeking victory or for bringing down victory or seeking rain of victory, and that a night is celebrated in such a place or in such a mosque, and that the guest of i'tikaf in this night is so-and-so or so-and-so. This is what some of the trials or these calamities have produced. If the people of knowledge were the ones consulted, or their opinion was taken, or they were asked for advice in these matters that are happening and occurring in our arena and in our land, and their sparks or harms almost snatch us from near or far, many of us would have been saved. But the salvation we want has hardly been attained by a small or sufficient share except by a few, even among those who bind themselves or claim for themselves that they are people of the methodology of the Book and the Sunnah. It is not hidden from a person of insight and reason that few people are qualified to explain the entrances and exits of these trials and to clarify the places of strength and weakness in them. Not everyone, or not every person, can say a decisive word in this trial, unless he has encompassed a great deal of the speech of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) by which he can know how to recognize their entrances and exits, so that he avoids reaching the middle of the road in them and being unable to return to one of their entrances or reach one of their exits. And from here, we have come to see and hear many people speaking words that have no basis in the religion of Allah, and they transmit from books whatever moves and crawls, and they speak of falsehoods as they speak of the truths of Islam, and they equate these with those. And this, by the Great Allah, is a catastrophe among the catastrophes that we should beware of and warn people against. The scholars have multiplied, the callers have multiplied, the inciters have multiplied, and the encouragers have multiplied, and you see in every gathering and valley a group of people, one of whom says to them: "Do this," and they do it; "Leave this," and they leave it. Until when the intelligent person from those who have insight, who is skilled in the matter and knows the issues of knowledge, and who seeks the truth from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), finds nothing for himself like silence to take refuge in or to hold fast to its edges. And I do not wish to prolong this introduction here, and my Shaykh has honored me, may Allah reward him with good, by allowing me to speak to you with such an introduction before what you will hear from my Shaykh, may Allah reward him with good, of precious knowledge and decisive issues by which a person sees where he should be and how he should be, from what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has given him of knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah, and what Allah has opened for him. If one like Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani were in a people other than in this country or elsewhere, in a country that knows the right of scholars, people would travel to him from all corners of the world. But he is among us and resides among us, and people speak of his knowledge, his books, his investigations, his narrations, his takhrij, and his derived issues, in which he has perhaps brought much that no scholar has preceded him in. And yet, we are stingy with ourselves to sit with him, or for people to come to him in this country, these large crowds that frequent the arenas and mosques to hear heated speech, from which a person can hardly hold onto any benefit except the least of the little and the easiest of the easy. After this, I can only say: May Allah reward our Shaykh for us, and may Allah bless him and in him, and prolong his life, and benefit the Muslim community with him, and reward him for what he has presented to them with the best reward. And let my Shaykh allow me now to return to the session after we pray 'Asr, if Allah wills. And peace be upon you.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
Abu Malik: These days, we hear the word jihad on the tongues of many people, whether they are leaders or common people. There is no doubt that jihad is the head of the camel of Islam, and it is the path that paves the way for the beliefs, laws, and pillars of Islam to prevail on earth. This is a matter that is not hidden from anyone, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, in the past or the present. However, there is no doubt that while the matter is apparent in its extreme, in its reality it is absent from many people: the conditions that must be met for this jihad to be the path that a Muslim or a group of Muslims follows to exalt the word of Allah on earth. Many of the questions before us address this topic, and the first question is: