Knowledge & Propagation

QUESTION: Sheikh, is bayyah(pledge of allegiance) an innovation? My friend’s brother said that it is shirk, is it?

Innovations, Knowledge & Propagation

10 Jan

ANSWER: If you mean bayyah to scholars (which is mostly done in the subcontinent) then this is not permissible as its an innovation. Bayyah is only given to a Muslim ruler.

QUESTION: Dear Sheikh, Can you mention the names of some real Salafi scholars from whom we can take fatawas, whose are alive today?

Knowledge & Propagation

06 Jan

ANSWER: Sheikh Abdul kareem Al Khudair, Abdurrahman Al Barrak, Sami Alsugair, Salih Al Fowzan.

QUESTION: If someone says something in Islam which he knows is most likely true but later finds out it was not true, has he done the major sin of lying against the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and Allah, what can he do if he falls in this situation?

Knowledge & Propagation

04 Jan

ANSWER: If he said what he thought was right at the time, he made a mistake and it was unintentional. If he can correct that information to those who were misinformed, that would be good. Otherwise, there is no sin on him in Sha Allah as long as he had repented and showed remorse for […]

QUESTION: Do the scholars have the job of the prophets?

Knowledge & Propagation

02 Jan

ANSWER: Every Muslim is a messenger of the Prophet to spread Islam, enjoin good and forbid evil.

QUESTION: I heard a scholar say that you dont get rewarded if people accept Islam from your dawah. You get rewarded from Allah’s mercy because you gave dawah. My question is: Doesn’t this contradict the hadith which states that if someone accepts Islam at your hands then you will get all the reward for his good deeds? How do you reconcile this?

Knowledge & Propagation

19 Dec

ANSWER: What this scholar said is totally wrong. The prophet (ﷺ) said: I swear on Allah, it will be better for you that Allah should give guidance to one man through your agency than that you should acquire the red ones among the camels.

QUESTION: Can I volunteer at a masjid by teaching quran/heping masjid that I know supports tabligh jamat or might have ashari, etc beliefs though nothing I do there contributes to do with tabligh jamat or corrupt aqidah.

Knowledge & Propagation, Sects

05 Dec

ANSWER: You should avoid teaching there as that would bring students to their other deviant aqeedah classes. Go and teach in a masjid that follows the sunnah.

QUESTION: We are from India residing in Jeddah. Interested in joining Zad academy but noticed that its only inarabic. How Non Arabs like us can join the academy and learn . Please guide

Knowledge & Propagation

21 Oct

ANSWER: We are in the process of making it available in English and other languages but this requires a lot of funding which is under process.

QUESTION: Sheikh, in this world we have a lot of different opinions with scholars so am so confused because some says different so I want to know like which book should I read to have a real knowledge of Islam and our prophet n all that stuff i really want to know the specific book with authentic stories of prophet Muhammad’s pbuh how he lived with others and his life so if you kindly assist

Knowledge & Propagation

14 Oct

ANSWER: In english you can refer to tafseer Ass’idi, and if not possible then tafseer Ibn Katheer. Read books like ‘Kitab at Tawheed’ by Mohammed Ibn Abdul Wahab. ‘Beautiful names and Attributes of Allah’ by Muhammad bin Salih Al Uthaimeen. You will get the English translation of these books. You can read the seerah (Biography) […]

QUESTION: What I meant in my question about people in hijab openly doing sinful things is how do I tell the kaafir people that haraam is haraam and without backbiting; (especially if they specify a known person) can I just be straightforward saying that they are sinful or do I say “Maybe they do not know the ruling, but it is not permissible” or do I say something else?

Knowledge & Propagation

09 Oct

ANSWER: You simply say Islam forbids that and Islam is not judged by Muslims, rather by sharia rules.

QUESTION: A sister has a question, if her mom or sister has a guests must she also salam them even though they are at her house, but they are not her guest, or when family come over, aunts, cousins (girls, and little boys), uncle must she give them salam evey time they come. She is a student of knowledge that doesn’t like to waste her time

Knowledge & Propagation

30 Sep

ANSWER: She is an ignorant student of knowledge that is misrepresenting Islam and tarnishing its reputation by her actions! She needs to learn the basics of knowledge and to just imagine what the prophet salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam would have done in similar situations. Of course giving salam to such people who are mahram […]

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