A word from one of the brothers before Shaykh Al-Albani.
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The questioner: My master, praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may blessings and peace be upon the trustworthy messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and upon his family and all his Companions. We ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) first to make this sincere for His noble face (Glorified and Exalted is He).
Another questioner: Amen.
The questioner: And we ask Him likewise to save us through Islam.
The Shaykh: Amen.
The questioner: Because since we abandoned our Islam here until here, we have been in the same state of humiliation.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: As you know, the nation has become one of humiliation, degradation, submission, and surrender to the established reality. So it lived a life like the life before it, when Islam and its people were afflicted, and only a very few remained. And by Allah, we seek nothing behind this except to be among the saved!
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner: And that means, as you know, the saying of our beloved (peace and blessings be upon him) in the authentic hadith:Sahih Muslim 1920.
The Shaykh: The Messenger of Allah spoke the truth.
The questioner: So we search for this group, and when we look through the pages of the Book of Allah, from its beginning to its end, I find in the Book of Allah only two parties. The first party is the party of Allah.
The Shaykh: (Glorified and Exalted is He).
The questioner: And they are the saved on the Day of meeting Allah.
The Shaykh: O Allah, make us among them.
The questioner: And the second party is the party of Shaytan.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: But as you know, since the fourth century of the Hijrah, when the trials and misguidances began and the nation split away from the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: (peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner: So the cause of that was their strife over this world and reaching for the debris they seek from it, until we now see in this time what is said about them—that they are scholars—but we do not say that. They flatter and stand at the doors of the sultans. And as you know, we do not want to clarify other conditions, because we are not in the position of criticizing people, and perhaps they are better than us in the sight of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) in what a person reads from books, and perhaps you have a share in them in this library. We do not want to split as the Jews and Christians split and differ, but rather we want the one and only path that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) followed.
The Shaykh: Give it with the right hand, may Allah bless you.
The questioner: With the right hand, my brother, with the right hand, O Faruq.
Another questioner: Pour it on the left.
The questioner: Pour it on the left and give it with the right hand.
Another questioner : Yes, well done.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you with good, yes.
The questioner: So we want to start where the Beloved (peace and blessings be upon him) started. We start with the first step that leads us to the pleasure of Allah in the end, if Allah wills. And this is the one path that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) explained in the hadith narrated by Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him), as you know, my master, where he said:
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not die until he informed you about everything. There is no bird that flies with its wings in the sky but he informed you of its news.
The Shaykh : (Peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner: Or a shepherd who strikes with his staff in the mountain paths to feed his sheep, but he informed us of its news (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So he left us on the white, clear path.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward him with good.
The questioner: Which is such that its night is like its day. And we bear witness that he conveyed the message, fulfilled the trust, and advised the nation.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner: And we ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to let him drink from his pool.
The Shaykh: Amen.
The questioner: And to give us a drink with His noble hand, a drink after which we will never thirst again, until our end is Paradise.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner: And the truth of the matter, my master, is that a person is happy when he sees people like you.
The Shaykh : Excuse me, may Allah bless you.
The questioner: Preserved, knowledgeable, and fresh, if Allah wills. And we ask Allah to benefit you with knowledge.
The Shaykh: Amen.
The questioner: And to benefit us likewise with what we learn.
The Shaykh : O Allah, amen.
The questioner: So it is not my right to speak in your presence, because I am a student, and a student does not precede his teacher.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
The questioner: But I always ask permission from whoever is older than me in age, because when a questioner asked in Makkah al-Mukarramah during the time of Hajj in a certain year, and I think it was 1977, a questioner came to ask a scholar who was sitting. The scholar hesitated to answer, meaning he did not give the answer quickly, because one must be deliberate. So one of those sitting said: Why did you hesitate? He said: O this one, perhaps he isThe questioner : more knowledgeable than the one being asked. Perhaps he has more knowledge than me!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So there must be a comparison, and knowledge does not come except through learning. And as you know, my master, knowledge has conditions. The first condition is that we learn it, and the second condition is that we apply it in reality to ourselves.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: And the third condition is that we convey it to people, and the fourth condition is that we be patient with the harm in it. This is the call of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: (peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner: And for its sake he was afflicted in the path of Allah. So we truly, I do not say this as flattery as I mentioned before, but I say it as a truth that we are now in need of those who teach people their religion. And this religion is not limited to a specific place or a specific time.
The Shaykh: Perfect.
The questioner: Because as you know, my master, the call of Islam encompassed all of place and time.
The Shaykh : And praise be to Allah.
The questioner: So it was not restricted, as previous calls were, to a specific time and place. This is a favor from Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). And likewise a favor from Allah is that He chose us to be followers of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner: So this is a grace from Allah, and it requires from us
The Shaykh: gratitude.
The questioner: gratitude.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So I sometimes read in magazines that may be published in Saudi Arabia, and there is one that I might show you.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: Regarding the Wahhabi movement, what it has and what it lacks in this time.
The Shaykh: Good.
The questioner: Specifically, what is this movement, its method of calling, its manner. And if I wanted to read to you a few lines, would you allow me this? I would read on the basis that we are not critics, but rather we must be advisors, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: But may Allah bless you, I asked you a question and I requested from you an answer to it.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: As for the topic of reading, I have no objection at all, but within the limits of what has reached you regarding the call of the Book and the Sunnah.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And it is today widespread, praise be to Allah, in the Islamic world. And leave aside the call called the Wahhabi call, because it originated from Najd and then spread and dispersed to other Islamic lands. We refused to attribute ourselves to anyone other than the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). And I think I concluded my summarized and summarizing speech of my lecture yesterday, in which you were present, with two concise words: We do not worship except Allah, and we do not worship Allah except by what Allah has prescribed on the tongue of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). This is the call that I summarized with these two words, and I detailed its core before this summary: the Book and the Sunnah, and what the righteous Salaf were upon. So my question, may Allah bless you, revolves around whether you have an observation that would benefit us. And I do not say this in humility, because I will say, or I will benefit you with it.
Because a Muslim either benefits or is benefited, that is it. So if you have, may Allah bless you, an observation regarding this call, and leave aside the Wahhabi call, why? And I am telling you now frankly, when you mention the Wahhabi call and what it has and what it lacks, and you may read in one magazine or another, your mention of the Wahhabis makes me feel that we belong to this call.
Another questioner: Amen.
The questioner: And we ask Him likewise to save us through Islam.
The Shaykh: Amen.
The questioner: Because since we abandoned our Islam here until here, we have been in the same state of humiliation.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: As you know, the nation has become one of humiliation, degradation, submission, and surrender to the established reality. So it lived a life like the life before it, when Islam and its people were afflicted, and only a very few remained. And by Allah, we seek nothing behind this except to be among the saved!
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner: And that means, as you know, the saying of our beloved (peace and blessings be upon him) in the authentic hadith:
A group of people from my Umma will always remain triumphant on the right path and continue to be triumphant (against their opponents). He who deserts them shall not be able to do them any harm. They will remain in this position until Allah's Command is executed
لا تزال طائفة من أمتي ظاهرين على الحق لا يضرهم من خالفهم حتى يأتي أمر اللهThe Shaykh: The Messenger of Allah spoke the truth.
The questioner: So we search for this group, and when we look through the pages of the Book of Allah, from its beginning to its end, I find in the Book of Allah only two parties. The first party is the party of Allah.
The Shaykh: (Glorified and Exalted is He).
The questioner: And they are the saved on the Day of meeting Allah.
The Shaykh: O Allah, make us among them.
The questioner: And the second party is the party of Shaytan.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: But as you know, since the fourth century of the Hijrah, when the trials and misguidances began and the nation split away from the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: (peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner: So the cause of that was their strife over this world and reaching for the debris they seek from it, until we now see in this time what is said about them—that they are scholars—but we do not say that. They flatter and stand at the doors of the sultans. And as you know, we do not want to clarify other conditions, because we are not in the position of criticizing people, and perhaps they are better than us in the sight of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) in what a person reads from books, and perhaps you have a share in them in this library. We do not want to split as the Jews and Christians split and differ, but rather we want the one and only path that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) followed.
The Shaykh: Give it with the right hand, may Allah bless you.
The questioner: With the right hand, my brother, with the right hand, O Faruq.
Another questioner: Pour it on the left.
The questioner: Pour it on the left and give it with the right hand.
Another questioner : Yes, well done.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward you with good, yes.
The questioner: So we want to start where the Beloved (peace and blessings be upon him) started. We start with the first step that leads us to the pleasure of Allah in the end, if Allah wills. And this is the one path that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) explained in the hadith narrated by Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him), as you know, my master, where he said:
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not die until he informed you about everything. There is no bird that flies with its wings in the sky but he informed you of its news.
The Shaykh : (Peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner: Or a shepherd who strikes with his staff in the mountain paths to feed his sheep, but he informed us of its news (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So he left us on the white, clear path.
The Shaykh: May Allah reward him with good.
The questioner: Which is such that its night is like its day. And we bear witness that he conveyed the message, fulfilled the trust, and advised the nation.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner: And we ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to let him drink from his pool.
The Shaykh: Amen.
The questioner: And to give us a drink with His noble hand, a drink after which we will never thirst again, until our end is Paradise.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner: And the truth of the matter, my master, is that a person is happy when he sees people like you.
The Shaykh : Excuse me, may Allah bless you.
The questioner: Preserved, knowledgeable, and fresh, if Allah wills. And we ask Allah to benefit you with knowledge.
The Shaykh: Amen.
The questioner: And to benefit us likewise with what we learn.
The Shaykh : O Allah, amen.
The questioner: So it is not my right to speak in your presence, because I am a student, and a student does not precede his teacher.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
The questioner: But I always ask permission from whoever is older than me in age, because when a questioner asked in Makkah al-Mukarramah during the time of Hajj in a certain year, and I think it was 1977, a questioner came to ask a scholar who was sitting. The scholar hesitated to answer, meaning he did not give the answer quickly, because one must be deliberate. So one of those sitting said: Why did you hesitate? He said: O this one, perhaps he isThe questioner : more knowledgeable than the one being asked. Perhaps he has more knowledge than me!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So there must be a comparison, and knowledge does not come except through learning. And as you know, my master, knowledge has conditions. The first condition is that we learn it, and the second condition is that we apply it in reality to ourselves.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: And the third condition is that we convey it to people, and the fourth condition is that we be patient with the harm in it. This is the call of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh: (peace and blessings be upon him).
The questioner: And for its sake he was afflicted in the path of Allah. So we truly, I do not say this as flattery as I mentioned before, but I say it as a truth that we are now in need of those who teach people their religion. And this religion is not limited to a specific place or a specific time.
The Shaykh: Perfect.
The questioner: Because as you know, my master, the call of Islam encompassed all of place and time.
The Shaykh : And praise be to Allah.
The questioner: So it was not restricted, as previous calls were, to a specific time and place. This is a favor from Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). And likewise a favor from Allah is that He chose us to be followers of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner: So this is a grace from Allah, and it requires from us
The Shaykh: gratitude.
The questioner: gratitude.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: So I sometimes read in magazines that may be published in Saudi Arabia, and there is one that I might show you.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner: Regarding the Wahhabi movement, what it has and what it lacks in this time.
The Shaykh: Good.
The questioner: Specifically, what is this movement, its method of calling, its manner. And if I wanted to read to you a few lines, would you allow me this? I would read on the basis that we are not critics, but rather we must be advisors, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: But may Allah bless you, I asked you a question and I requested from you an answer to it.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: As for the topic of reading, I have no objection at all, but within the limits of what has reached you regarding the call of the Book and the Sunnah.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: And it is today widespread, praise be to Allah, in the Islamic world. And leave aside the call called the Wahhabi call, because it originated from Najd and then spread and dispersed to other Islamic lands. We refused to attribute ourselves to anyone other than the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). And I think I concluded my summarized and summarizing speech of my lecture yesterday, in which you were present, with two concise words: We do not worship except Allah, and we do not worship Allah except by what Allah has prescribed on the tongue of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). This is the call that I summarized with these two words, and I detailed its core before this summary: the Book and the Sunnah, and what the righteous Salaf were upon. So my question, may Allah bless you, revolves around whether you have an observation that would benefit us. And I do not say this in humility, because I will say, or I will benefit you with it.
Because a Muslim either benefits or is benefited, that is it. So if you have, may Allah bless you, an observation regarding this call, and leave aside the Wahhabi call, why? And I am telling you now frankly, when you mention the Wahhabi call and what it has and what it lacks, and you may read in one magazine or another, your mention of the Wahhabis makes me feel that we belong to this call.
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