You considered, O Shaykh, that your session after the night prayer is a session of knowledge, and that it is not obligatory to go out for the prayer, even though the hadith indicates that it is obligatory to go out for the prayer except...
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The questioner : Regarding our current topic of the night prayer, you graciously stated that we consider it a session of knowledge and do not go out for the prayer, even though the hadith we know, yes, is that one who has an excuse of fear or illness...
How does this extend to the topic of a session of knowledge?
The Shaykh : Of course, this is a deduction, following the scholars of hadith who were in the session and attended the midday prayer, and among them were great imams like Ahmad and Ali ibn al-Madini, and others... it appears
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : ... the midday prayer
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : So Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) answered that we are currently in worship. He understood it with his jurisprudence, and this is what appeared to us last, that the scholarly session, meaning the one where the gathering is dispersed by its conclusion, is considered an excuse when going to the mosque. This is one of the matters where, of course, there is no explicit text, and the general public cannot understand it, let alone state it. Here, the Qur'anic text is[An-Nahl 16:43], and our problem today is also among the problems that the young people raised on insight, on the Book and the Sunnah, imagine that every matter has a detailed evidence specific to it. And one of my brothers, perhaps... with us in the morning.
The questioner : Yes, ... .
The Shaykh : As soon as he asks such and such, and what is the evidence? Such and such, and what is the evidence?
The questioner : ... Okay.
The Shaykh : But when he asks me on the phone, that is his style, but when he asks me face to face, that is not his style.
So I notice that I give an answer, of course, but the evidence is not what they imagine. I explain it to him, I tell him, but I do not think he...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I mean, can I say that it is an innovation of the present age, the century of asking for evidence with the question? What is your opinion, you Salafis?
The attendees: This is strange, our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Heh
The questioner : We learned that... we demand, meaning we remain... .
The Shaykh : ... you demand, you learned that you walk on insight and you know the evidence for every matter.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : But it is not that he directs every question... and what is the evidence?
The questioner : In a word, he demands... .
The Shaykh : What is he always saying? Heh heh
The questioner : Yes, may Allah honor you.
The Shaykh : So for example, if I answer you with our previous question, if you ask me what is the evidence? I will mention to you what I told you... .
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : But you said to me, what is the evidence? After I have mentioned to you that it is a matter of such and such, do you see how?
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : But your duty as a questioner to the people of knowledge is to ask.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Not that you combine the question with demanding evidence, because many of the matters, I now know myself completely that I have not studied the science of inheritance, I have the main points, but if a complex matter is presented to me and I ask a scholar, let us suppose he says this is the quarter, this is the eighth, but if I asked him what is the evidence, I would be lost because I... .
Another questioner: I swear to you, the whole table, the whole department table, heh heh
The Shaykh : This is jurisprudence; some of it has an explicit text from the Book and the Sunnah, and the other things do not have an explicit text. The student of knowledge must ask if there is doubt or suspicion in his heart about the answer: please, what is the evidence? The Salaf, when asked this question that we are now recording, whether it is permissible or not permissible, such and such happened, what is your opinion?
He gives the opinion and then concludes his speech by saying, "If I am right, it is from Allah, and if I am wrong, it is from myself," yes.
Meaning that he does not have an explicit evidence on the matter; this thing is a deduction from him. Who wants to participate in these things? The questioner? Most people do not know, they... therefore, the truth is that we are now in a surge, in a leap, meaning instead of falling on safety, they will fall into the abyss, were it not for these guidelines and... and the blessings and the like, otherwise people are now in chaos, and it is dangerous that it has appeared in society now that one who does not understand anything tells you, "This is my opinion." This phenomenon did not exist at all. Why did it not exist? Because the people of knowledge were dead in their minds, and they used to follow the fathers and grandfathers who taught them.
Now, what is the reaction? Now everyone says, "I am not me, who are you?"... etc. So the summary is that this matter has no text, of course, the apparent texts are contrary to it, but this is something that arises in the heart of the pious, scrupulous, God-fearing jurist, and he sees that this current gathering is what takes precedence over that gathering that will be.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : Perhaps you remember the hadith, for example, when Imam Abdullah ibn Abbas, the scholar of the Ummah, was delivering the sermon. He was delivering the sermon after the afternoon prayer; I do not remember now, before the sunset prayer. In any case, the sermon continued until after the sunset prayer. Voices started coming out of the assembly: "Prayer, prayer!" They said, "Woe to you, this is the style we used today, I seek refuge in Allah, this is being strict, etc..." Everything is smooth, everything is gentle. With this smoothness, it became in teaching like the spoiled boy who has never been slapped, as we said before.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : It became... it became that he does not pray because he has not been slapped in the path of Allah, he... does not pray. He said, "He does not do this, he does this, he wants to kill, he wants to slaughter" "In summer you lost the milk" in a place like hardship... etc. Voices from here and there: "Prayer!" He said to him "Woe to you, do you teach me prayer? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined the sunset and night prayers" for neither travel nor rain. So he assessed the situation he was living in and found for himself that he had a dispensation, even if the congregational prayer was missed.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : And I... between the two prayers, the sunset prayer and the night prayer
The questioner : ... Yes
The Shaykh : I wonder, assessing the situation and evaluating it, can the public... hear me while I am speaking... Therefore, justice in thinking, we need it today... and we always remember, every time you remember the phrase, say our Lord, Mighty and Majestic,[Az-Zumar 39:9] We no longer think about this verse. The reason is we entered arrogance, we entered arrogance, meaning [Az-Zumar 39:9] meaning I am among those who know, so then
The questioner : Heh
The Shaykh : Why am I assessing... I know more than him, meaning as I speak... on this occasion, the second congregational prayer, that I was a student of knowledge, a young student of knowledge, my beard had not yet grown as they say, I was working in the shop. The call to prayer, stand up and pray with the congregation... the afternoon prayer... I missed the congregational prayer, the second congregation... there is no imam, this is all self-talk... you do not find a good imam, you do not like yourself, you are a student of knowledge. This is a personal story, a student of knowledge, and on this... the congregation ended and the time was still in my hand, but when I knew that there was no second congregation... .
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : .... The important thing is that this upbringing, we keep going around it, purification and upbringing... who wants to raise them? What do I tell you? I used to say, no... the dregs of all the centuries are in the lack of purification and lack of upbringing. Who now wants to renew this upbringing so that all Muslims, their scholars and their ignorant, their jurists and their common people, etc., are as it was in the beginning? This requires, considering that it is a building, more years than the years of destruction, because it is destruction. What do you think? These years were centuries, centuries of destruction. How much do we need to build? People think the issue is just culture.
A company is... the schools are producing evildoers, they are not producing righteous youth, ... where are they going...
Two young men passed by the car like this, yes, we... prayed the midday or afternoon prayer, "Allah, the Kingdom, the Nation" is being sung while he is walking, "Allah, the Kingdom, the Nation," and it became a question of whether this is shirk (associating partners with Allah) or not. How is this shirk? One of them stood up and said, "Okay, if he says Allah, then the Nation, then the King, this means, apparently, he has exited from it being shirk." We told him also that it is not permissible, because there is no "Nation" in Islam, and then mentioning the King is sufficient with the mention of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. And without what is said, "Allah, the Kingdom," let him say "Allah, then the King." Okay, what is this King? If it were said "then the Caliph," and Allah, the situation is the same, because the Caliph rules with what Allah has revealed. And so, our problem is a problem.
The questioner : Our Shaykh... we are afflicted at home now
The Shaykh : ... Yes
How does this extend to the topic of a session of knowledge?
The Shaykh : Of course, this is a deduction, following the scholars of hadith who were in the session and attended the midday prayer, and among them were great imams like Ahmad and Ali ibn al-Madini, and others... it appears
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : ... the midday prayer
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : So Imam Ahmad (may Allah have mercy on him) answered that we are currently in worship. He understood it with his jurisprudence, and this is what appeared to us last, that the scholarly session, meaning the one where the gathering is dispersed by its conclusion, is considered an excuse when going to the mosque. This is one of the matters where, of course, there is no explicit text, and the general public cannot understand it, let alone state it. Here, the Qur'anic text is
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمونThe questioner : Yes, ... .
The Shaykh : As soon as he asks such and such, and what is the evidence? Such and such, and what is the evidence?
The questioner : ... Okay.
The Shaykh : But when he asks me on the phone, that is his style, but when he asks me face to face, that is not his style.
So I notice that I give an answer, of course, but the evidence is not what they imagine. I explain it to him, I tell him, but I do not think he...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I mean, can I say that it is an innovation of the present age, the century of asking for evidence with the question? What is your opinion, you Salafis?
The attendees: This is strange, our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Heh
The questioner : We learned that... we demand, meaning we remain... .
The Shaykh : ... you demand, you learned that you walk on insight and you know the evidence for every matter.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : But it is not that he directs every question... and what is the evidence?
The questioner : In a word, he demands... .
The Shaykh : What is he always saying? Heh heh
The questioner : Yes, may Allah honor you.
The Shaykh : So for example, if I answer you with our previous question, if you ask me what is the evidence? I will mention to you what I told you... .
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : But you said to me, what is the evidence? After I have mentioned to you that it is a matter of such and such, do you see how?
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : But your duty as a questioner to the people of knowledge is to ask.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Not that you combine the question with demanding evidence, because many of the matters, I now know myself completely that I have not studied the science of inheritance, I have the main points, but if a complex matter is presented to me and I ask a scholar, let us suppose he says this is the quarter, this is the eighth, but if I asked him what is the evidence, I would be lost because I... .
Another questioner: I swear to you, the whole table, the whole department table, heh heh
The Shaykh : This is jurisprudence; some of it has an explicit text from the Book and the Sunnah, and the other things do not have an explicit text. The student of knowledge must ask if there is doubt or suspicion in his heart about the answer: please, what is the evidence? The Salaf, when asked this question that we are now recording, whether it is permissible or not permissible, such and such happened, what is your opinion?
He gives the opinion and then concludes his speech by saying, "If I am right, it is from Allah, and if I am wrong, it is from myself," yes.
Meaning that he does not have an explicit evidence on the matter; this thing is a deduction from him. Who wants to participate in these things? The questioner? Most people do not know, they... therefore, the truth is that we are now in a surge, in a leap, meaning instead of falling on safety, they will fall into the abyss, were it not for these guidelines and... and the blessings and the like, otherwise people are now in chaos, and it is dangerous that it has appeared in society now that one who does not understand anything tells you, "This is my opinion." This phenomenon did not exist at all. Why did it not exist? Because the people of knowledge were dead in their minds, and they used to follow the fathers and grandfathers who taught them.
Now, what is the reaction? Now everyone says, "I am not me, who are you?"... etc. So the summary is that this matter has no text, of course, the apparent texts are contrary to it, but this is something that arises in the heart of the pious, scrupulous, God-fearing jurist, and he sees that this current gathering is what takes precedence over that gathering that will be.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : Perhaps you remember the hadith, for example, when Imam Abdullah ibn Abbas, the scholar of the Ummah, was delivering the sermon. He was delivering the sermon after the afternoon prayer; I do not remember now, before the sunset prayer. In any case, the sermon continued until after the sunset prayer. Voices started coming out of the assembly: "Prayer, prayer!" They said, "Woe to you, this is the style we used today, I seek refuge in Allah, this is being strict, etc..." Everything is smooth, everything is gentle. With this smoothness, it became in teaching like the spoiled boy who has never been slapped, as we said before.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : It became... it became that he does not pray because he has not been slapped in the path of Allah, he... does not pray. He said, "He does not do this, he does this, he wants to kill, he wants to slaughter" "In summer you lost the milk" in a place like hardship... etc. Voices from here and there: "Prayer!" He said to him "Woe to you, do you teach me prayer? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) combined the sunset and night prayers" for neither travel nor rain. So he assessed the situation he was living in and found for himself that he had a dispensation, even if the congregational prayer was missed.
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : And I... between the two prayers, the sunset prayer and the night prayer
The questioner : ... Yes
The Shaykh : I wonder, assessing the situation and evaluating it, can the public... hear me while I am speaking... Therefore, justice in thinking, we need it today... and we always remember, every time you remember the phrase, say our Lord, Mighty and Majestic,
Are those who know equal to those who do not know?
هل يستوي الذين يعلمون والذين لا يعلمونAre those who know equal to those who do not know?
هل يستوي الذين يعلمون والذين لا يعلمونThe questioner : Heh
The Shaykh : Why am I assessing... I know more than him, meaning as I speak... on this occasion, the second congregational prayer, that I was a student of knowledge, a young student of knowledge, my beard had not yet grown as they say, I was working in the shop. The call to prayer, stand up and pray with the congregation... the afternoon prayer... I missed the congregational prayer, the second congregation... there is no imam, this is all self-talk... you do not find a good imam, you do not like yourself, you are a student of knowledge. This is a personal story, a student of knowledge, and on this... the congregation ended and the time was still in my hand, but when I knew that there was no second congregation... .
The questioner : Yes
The Shaykh : .... The important thing is that this upbringing, we keep going around it, purification and upbringing... who wants to raise them? What do I tell you? I used to say, no... the dregs of all the centuries are in the lack of purification and lack of upbringing. Who now wants to renew this upbringing so that all Muslims, their scholars and their ignorant, their jurists and their common people, etc., are as it was in the beginning? This requires, considering that it is a building, more years than the years of destruction, because it is destruction. What do you think? These years were centuries, centuries of destruction. How much do we need to build? People think the issue is just culture.
A company is... the schools are producing evildoers, they are not producing righteous youth, ... where are they going...
Two young men passed by the car like this, yes, we... prayed the midday or afternoon prayer, "Allah, the Kingdom, the Nation" is being sung while he is walking, "Allah, the Kingdom, the Nation," and it became a question of whether this is shirk (associating partners with Allah) or not. How is this shirk? One of them stood up and said, "Okay, if he says Allah, then the Nation, then the King, this means, apparently, he has exited from it being shirk." We told him also that it is not permissible, because there is no "Nation" in Islam, and then mentioning the King is sufficient with the mention of Allah, Mighty and Majestic. And without what is said, "Allah, the Kingdom," let him say "Allah, then the King." Okay, what is this King? If it were said "then the Caliph," and Allah, the situation is the same, because the Caliph rules with what Allah has revealed. And so, our problem is a problem.
The questioner : Our Shaykh... we are afflicted at home now
The Shaykh : ... Yes