What is your advice to the leaders of the Afghan mujahideen after their victory over the communists? And the Shaykh’s reminder on the importance of learning the Arabic language
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The questioner: Praise is to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, seek His forgiveness, and seek His guidance. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our own selves and from the evil of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides is the rightly guided, and whomsoever He leaves astray, you will find no guiding friend for him. And I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows, we thank Allah (Mighty and Majestic) first for granting us the meeting with the virtuousThe Shaykh : Muhammad al-Albani, the scholar of his era, for we came from Bahrain longing to see you and to see our brothers in Allah. Then, our questions concern the Afghan jihad first. Among them is the first question: After the great victory and conquest achieved by the Afghan mujahideen specifically, and by Muslims in general in Afghanistan, what is your advice to the leaders of the mujahideen to establish a solid Islamic state that rules by the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)? And also your advice to Muslims in general regarding the current situation and the near future,
The Shaykh: Before answering the question, I must remind my brotherThe questioner : the virtuous, if Allah wills, of some matters in the context of religious advice. First, he should pay attention to correcting his tongue so that he does not err, at least, in narrating the hadiths of his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). For the scholars of the science of hadith terminology have alerted readers and students in this science to the necessity of learning the Arabic language and its etiquette to the extent that they correct their tongues and are saved from pronouncing the Prophetic hadith in a way that distorts it from what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) pronounced. It is not permissible to make the nominative case accusative, or the nominative genitive, or the accusative nominative, or the like, because such things change the meaning intended by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The scholars say that all words, whether they are Qur'an, hadith, a statement from a Companion, a wise man, or the like, these words are molds for meanings. The words themselves are not the objective; rather, they are means of expressing what is in the heart of the speaker in these words. Because such things change the meaning intended by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is advice that I hope will have its good effect, if Allah wills, in the heart ofThe questioner : so that he may be able, in the future, to narrate the hadiths of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) pronounced them. What caught my attention and motivated me to offer such advice is that the sermon our brother delivered before his question is the sermon known among scholars and jurists as the "Sermon of Need" (Khutbat al-Hajah), which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught his Companions. During your recitation of this sermon, many linguistic and grammatical errors occurred. If this had been the speech of any human being, it would not have prompted us to remind you of such a matter. But this is the speech of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and the speech of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) should have an impact on our hearts different from the impact of any other human speech. This is the first piece of advice,
The Shaykh: Before answering the question, I must remind my brotherThe questioner : the virtuous, if Allah wills, of some matters in the context of religious advice. First, he should pay attention to correcting his tongue so that he does not err, at least, in narrating the hadiths of his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). For the scholars of the science of hadith terminology have alerted readers and students in this science to the necessity of learning the Arabic language and its etiquette to the extent that they correct their tongues and are saved from pronouncing the Prophetic hadith in a way that distorts it from what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) pronounced. It is not permissible to make the nominative case accusative, or the nominative genitive, or the accusative nominative, or the like, because such things change the meaning intended by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The scholars say that all words, whether they are Qur'an, hadith, a statement from a Companion, a wise man, or the like, these words are molds for meanings. The words themselves are not the objective; rather, they are means of expressing what is in the heart of the speaker in these words. Because such things change the meaning intended by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is advice that I hope will have its good effect, if Allah wills, in the heart ofThe questioner : so that he may be able, in the future, to narrate the hadiths of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) pronounced them. What caught my attention and motivated me to offer such advice is that the sermon our brother delivered before his question is the sermon known among scholars and jurists as the "Sermon of Need" (Khutbat al-Hajah), which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught his Companions. During your recitation of this sermon, many linguistic and grammatical errors occurred. If this had been the speech of any human being, it would not have prompted us to remind you of such a matter. But this is the speech of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and the speech of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) should have an impact on our hearts different from the impact of any other human speech. This is the first piece of advice,
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