The Shaykh spoke about the extent to which Muslim youth benefited from his cassettes in Albania and elsewhere.
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The Shaykh : No, so that it is not said that such-and-such a state cares for Islamic peoples. As for us, we spoke in some of the cassettes in the Albanian language.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : One of the Albanian Yugoslavs distributed them; he is currently residing here as a university student. He informed me that these cassettes, whether in Albania or in Yugoslavia, find acceptance among some of the young generation, unlike the mosque imams and unlike the Minister of Endowments, who oppose them.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the effect of these cassettes was that for the first time, someone from Yugoslavia called me on the phone asking about some matters that occur to them there. I found the same problem: they say, "When we attend the mosque to pray, they look at us with contempt and denial, and so on. What should we do? Should we attend the prayer with the congregation, or should we pray in our homes?" I tell them, "Pray the recommended practices in your homes and pray the obligatory prayers in the mosques, and you must be patient and remember. This is how all calls to Allah began; this is how all calls to Allah beganSunan Ibn Majah 3987Hasan (Darussalam) Yes."
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We are talking about the Arab lands, where we are strangers. What can you say about the lands of the non-Arabs? I may have heard that when the wars or the jihad were ongoing between the Afghans and the communists, many of our Arab brothers went from Saudi Arabia, from Algeria, from [others], and so on. They used to disapprove of them pointing with their fingers during the prayer, until it was said that some fingers were cut off. It is said, and Allah knows best, whether this is true or not. As for the disapproval, it certainly occurred. Why, my brother? They are living in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, knowing of Islam only the Hanafi school of jurisprudence!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : One of the Albanian Yugoslavs distributed them; he is currently residing here as a university student. He informed me that these cassettes, whether in Albania or in Yugoslavia, find acceptance among some of the young generation, unlike the mosque imams and unlike the Minister of Endowments, who oppose them.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And the effect of these cassettes was that for the first time, someone from Yugoslavia called me on the phone asking about some matters that occur to them there. I found the same problem: they say, "When we attend the mosque to pray, they look at us with contempt and denial, and so on. What should we do? Should we attend the prayer with the congregation, or should we pray in our homes?" I tell them, "Pray the recommended practices in your homes and pray the obligatory prayers in the mosques, and you must be patient and remember. This is how all calls to Allah began; this is how all calls to Allah began
Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers.
إن الإسلام بدأ غريبا و سيعود غريبا فطوبى للغرباءThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We are talking about the Arab lands, where we are strangers. What can you say about the lands of the non-Arabs? I may have heard that when the wars or the jihad were ongoing between the Afghans and the communists, many of our Arab brothers went from Saudi Arabia, from Algeria, from [others], and so on. They used to disapprove of them pointing with their fingers during the prayer, until it was said that some fingers were cut off. It is said, and Allah knows best, whether this is true or not. As for the disapproval, it certainly occurred. Why, my brother? They are living in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, knowing of Islam only the Hanafi school of jurisprudence!
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