🔹The Ruling on Taking a Loan out for University – Shaykh Muhammad Bazmul

▪️Questioner
Is it permissible for a person who wants to study at university in the West to take out a loan for this purpose?

▫️Answer: Shaykh Muḥammad Bāzamūl:
Yes, a Muslim may take out an interest-free loan in order to study in the West, with the aforementioned conditions, namely, that he is able to openly declare and practise his religion and that neither he nor his reputation is at risk. Otherwise, if he is unable to openly declare and practise his religion and he and his reputation are at risk, it is not permissible for him to stay in the West to begin with as long as he is able to leave.

▪️Questioner:
The loans here are interest-based?

▫️Answer:
Shaykh Muḥammad Bāzamūl:
No, it is not permissible to take a loan with interest in order to study, which is why my initial answer had the constraint “interest-free loan”. Loans with interest on the other hand are illegitimate. This loan is not permissible for the purpose of study or anything else because it is a transaction involving interest, and the Messenger ﷺ cursed the one who deals in interest. Allāh cursed the one who consumes interest and the one who enters into transactions involving interest. We ask Allāh wellbeing for ourselves as well as for you.

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Ibn Taymiyyah said:Truth is like pure gold:each time it is put through a purification process,it increases in quality;
falsehood is like an impure[metal] with a shine:when it is put through a purification process,its corruption becomes apparent
[Al-Jawaab al-Saheeh, vol.1, pg.88]

“The foundation of every good in this life and the next: fear of Allāh [ﷻ].”

Sh. Ibn Taymiyyah | Jāmi’ al-Masā’il (v. 9 p. 179)

⚠ How to deal with a calamity, when you're afflicted with it:

Shuraih (Radhi'Allāahu Anhu) said:

إِنِّي لَأُصَابُ بِالْمُصِيبَةِ فَأَحْمَدُ اللَّهَ عَلَيْهَا أَرْبَعَ مَرَّاتٍ أَحْمَدُ إِذْ لَمْ يَكُنْ أَعْظَمَ مِنْهَا وَأَحْمَدُ إِذْ رَزَقَنِي الصَّبْرَ عَلَيْهَا وَأَحْمَدُ إِذْ وَفَّقَنِي لِلِاسْتِرْجَاعِ لِمَا أَرْجُو مِنَ الثَّوَابِ وَأَحْمَدُ إِذْ لَمْ يَجْعَلْهَا فِي دِينِي

If I am afflicted with a calamity, then I praise Allāah four times. I praise him that it was not worse than it was. I praise him when he provides me with patience to bear it. I praise him when he guides me to supplicate appropriately and hoping for reward, and I praise him for not making it a calamity in my religion.

[Source: Siyar A’lām al-Nubalā’ 4/105]

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The problem with the youths of today is, as soon as they have learned something new, they think that they know everything.

▶ Shaykh Al-Albani

UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE BEFORE POSSESSING IT

"It is [also] essential to write down an extract [of the material] after memorising it and then repeat it often, for this [method] is indeed profitable. But the student should not write anything unless it is fully understood"

~ Imam al-Zarnuji رحمه الله

[Ta’alim al-Muta’alim, p. 26]

Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله تعالى said:

“The Shaytān wants mankind to be excessive and wasteful in all his matters.”

‎ [تفسير الكبير ٥/٢٤٧]

Victims of Backbiting – Take Comfort in the Wisdom of the Salaf ❤

In the Name of Allaah, the Most Gracious, the Ever-Merciful…

It has been narrated that one of the great imaams of the early Salaf (pious predecessors), ‘Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Mahdee [d.198] (may Allaah have Mercy on him), said:

لولا أني أكره أن يعصى الله لتمنيت أن لا يبقى أحد في المصر إلا اغتابني! أي شيء أهنأ من حسنة يجدها الرجل في صحيفته لم يعمل بها؟

“If I did not hate that Allaah be disobeyed, I would have wished that there was no one left in the whole city except that he has backbitten me! What is more rewarding than a man finding a good deed (written) in his book for something he did not even do?!”

Source: Siyar A’laam An-Nubalaa’ (9/195-196), Risaalah printing

ELABORATION

“If I did not hate that Allaah be disobeyed…”

Meaning that backbiting is haraam, and to wish that the Muslims would backbite would be wishing that Allaah be disobeyed. However, to stress the benefit of being backbitten, he goes on to say:

“…I would have wished that there was no one left in the whole city except that he has backbitten me!”

When someone is backbitten or slandered, naturally he feels disturbed and upset, and even a sense of loss. So people need someone to point out that there is a great amount of good in being the focus of people’s backbiting. This advice of Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Mahdee seems to be from the idea of mutually advising each other to have patience, as mentioned in Soorah Al-‘Asr.

This may have been in response to his hearing that some people were talking about him, or possibly someone was complaining to him about having been backbitten, and Allaah knows best. He says that if it were permissible to wish for others to fall into disobedience, he would have wished that they all would have backbitten him, and then he clarifies the reason for saying this:

“…What is more rewarding than a man finding a good deed (written) in his book for something he did not even do?!”

Since the one who backbites someone (in other than the permissible, sometimes obligatory, forms of backbiting) forwards to that person his good deeds or will be made to be accountable for bad deeds of his victim(s), as mentioned in the hadeeth of al-Bukhaaree Muslim (no.2581):

إِنَّ الْمُفْلِسَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي يَأْتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِصَلَاةٍ، وَصِيَامٍ، وَزَكَاةٍ، وَيَأْتِي قَدْ شَتَمَ هَذَا، وَقَذَفَ هَذَا، وَأَكَلَ مَالَ هَذَا، وَسَفَكَ دَمَ هَذَا، وَضَرَبَ هَذَا، فَيُعْطَى هَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ، وَهَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ، فَإِنْ فَنِيَتْ حَسَنَاتُهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُقْضَى مَا عَلَيْهِ أُخِذَ مِنْ خَطَايَاهُمْ فَطُرِحَتْ عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ طُرِحَ فِي النَّارِ

“The bankrupt one from my nation will come on the Day of Judgement with deeds of prayer, fasting, zakaat, yet he comes after having insulted this one, maligned that one, taken the money of another, spilled the blood of someone, or hit someone else. So some of his good deeds will be given to this one and that one. If no good deeds remain before his account is settled, their bad deeds be taken and cast upon him, then he will be cast into the Hellfire.”

And we ask Allaah for protection.

So then his statement, “…a good deed (written) in his book for something he did not even do,” seems to be referring to what is mentioned in the hadeeth that the one who is maligned will be given some of the good deeds of the one who maligned him.

And Allaah knows best.

Written by: Moosaa Richardson

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The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said:

“The virtue of the scholar over the devout worshipper is like my virtue over the lowest of you...”

📚 Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb (77) of al-Albānī

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
What is your opinion on the call for nationalism which believes that belonging to a race or language takes precedence over belonging to a religion, and these groups claim that they do not oppose religion, but they give nationalism precedence over it. What is your opinion of this call?

He replied: This is a jaahili call, and it is not permissible to join it or encourage those who promote it. Rather it must be put an end to, because Islamic sharee’ah opposes it and rejects it. We should refute their specious arguments and claims with that which makes the truth clear to those who seek it. Islam is the only thing that preserved Arabness in language, literature and culture. Rejecting Islam leads to destroying Arabness in language, literature and culture. Hence the daa’iyahs should strive their utmost to call people to Islam just as the colonialists are striving their utmost to destroy it.

It is a well known principle of Islam, that no Muslim has any excuse for not knowing, that the call for Arab nationalism or any other kind of nationalism, is a false call, grave error and blatant evil; it is a bad jaahili attitude and a plot against Islam and its followers.
That is due to many reasons that we have explained in a separate book ennoscriptd Naqd al-Qawmiyyah al-‘Arabiyyah ‘ala Daw’ al-Islam wa’l-Waaqi’(Criticism of Arab Nationalism in the Light of Islam and Reality). Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (4/173).

The Shaykh (may Allaah have mercy on him) also said: One of the greatest of evils and follies is to compare Islam to Arab nationalism. Does nationalism that is devoid of Islam have any characteristics that qualify it to be counted among the ranks of Islam? Can there be any comparison between the two?

Undoubtedly this is the gravest insult to Islam and a denial of its principles and wise teachings. How can any sound mind compare between nationalism and Islam when, if Abu Jahl, ‘Utbah ibn Rabee’ah, Shaybah ibn Rabee’ah and other enemies of Islam were alive, they would be among the most prominent supporters and greatest proponents of nationalism. Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn Baaz (1/320, 321)

Narrated Jubair ibn Mut’im: The Messenger of Allah (SAW), said: "He is not one us who calls for Asabiyah, (nationalism/tribalism) or who fights for Asabiyah or who dies for `Asabiyah." [Sunan Abu Dawud (Vol. 2, pg. 753) No. 5121]

SubhanAllah

Ibn al-Qayyim said,
❝When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allaah alone, Allah will take care of all his needs & take care of all that is worrying him. He will empty his heart so that it will only be filled only with love for Him.❞
📚al-Fawaa’id (p.159)

Shaykh al-Fawzān حفظه الله: "Nasheeds are not Islamic. They are like music. They should be shunned and not sold." [Al-Khutab Al-Mimbariyyah 3/184]
Shaykh Sālih al-Fawzān حفظه الله: "Nasheeds are from the signs of the Soofis and Hizbis." [Fatawaa Ala Hawaa - 05/05/34]

Shaykh al-Albanî [رحمه الله]: "Nasheeds may be performed in the manner of songs & performed like the customs of western music." [Tahreem Alaat al-Tarb]

Shaykh al-Albanî [رحمه الله]: "This is a new mistake, and imitation of the non-muslims and immoral people."
[Ibid]

Shaykh 'Abdul Muhsin al-'Abbaad said,
"A person should spend his time with what will give him good in return in this life and the life after this. Let him occupy himself with remembrance of Allaah, read the Qur'aan and beneficial books. Moreover, it is also fine to listen to beneficial poetry which urges to noble character and good adab. But as for these Anasheed which are listened to in these times, and which are sung in choirs to thereafter be recorded and sold, one should neither listen to them nor care about them (i.e one should ignore them)."
[al-Qawl al-Mufeed fee Hukm-il-Anaasheed, Page 70]

Imām Shāfi'ī [رحمه الله] said:
"Thagbīr (Anāshīd) were created by heretics to distance people away from the Qur`ān."
[مجموع الفتاوى لإبن تيمية ١١\٥٣٢]

Sh. Sālih al-Fawzān حفظه الله said:
"There's no such thing as 'islamic nashīd', this is the innovation of sūfīs, it is not permissible to promote them."
[مجلة الدعوة (١٦٣٢)]

Sheikh Fawzān Hafidhahullah said,
"Nasheeds are not Islamic. They are like music.
They should be shunned and not sold."
(Al-Khutab Al-Mimbariyyah, (3/184)

Shaikh Ibn ‘Uthaimeen’s said: “Whoever leaves something for Allaah, Allaah will replace it with something better!”

Source: Tafsir of Surah al-Kahf (p. 66)

|| PrRoTeCt YOUR Good Deed!!! ||

Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
The things that spoil and cancel out good deeds are too MANY to list. What matters is NOT the deed; what matters is PROTECTING the deed from that which would spoil it and cancel it out. End quote.

[Al-Waabil al-Sayyib (p. 20)]

Masjid Us-Sunnah Twitter:

Shaykh ʿUthaymīn:
“Strive to keep company with good people. They show you the right way if you err & guide you if you are misled. They remind you if you forget & teach you if you don't know. All of these are from the factors which causes īmān to increase.”

(Exp Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhārī)

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#Hijama is linguistically derived from the word “Hajm” which gives the meaning sucking and known in English as #Cupping_Therapy.

Hijama (Cupping Therapy) is among the #Prophetic_Medicines where the Prophet SallallahuAlaihiWasallam mentioned it as

“If there is any good in any of the remedies you use, it is in cupping.”
(760, Silsilathus Sahihah of Al-Albani )

And He SallallahuAlaihiWasallam further said

“I did not pass the night of Isra by the angels except they said ‘O Muhammed, order your nation with cupping.”
(2802, Sahih Sunan Ibn Majah of Al-Albani)

Which shows the importance and the virtue of this #medication which the Prophet SallallahuAlaihiWasallam practiced during his lifetime.

And he SallallahuAlaihiWasallam said

Whoever cups on the Seventeenth, Nineteenth or Twenty First, it will be a cure from all the diseases.
(Silsilathus Sahihah of Al-Albani 622)

And also he SallallahuAlaihiWasallam ordered to avoid doing it on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as in the Hadith

‘Cupping on an empty stomach is better, and in it there is healing and blessing, and it increases one’s intellect and memory. So have yourselves cupped for the blessing of Allah on Thursdays, and avoid cupping on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Have yourselves cupped on Mondays and Tuesdays, for that is the day on which Allah relieved Ayyub of Calamity, and He inflicted calamity upon him on a Wednesday, and leprosy and leucoderma only appear on Wednesdays, or on the night of Wednesday.”
(3169, Sahih Al-Jami’ of Al-Albani)

Hijama (Cupping) is the process of applying cups to the essential points on the body removing the air around making it a vacuum.

From among the most common three methods are Wet, Dry and Dry Massage.

Wet Cupping (Hijama) – is the process where small incisions are made on that certain points on the skin to remove the ‘impure/harmful’ blood which lies just beneath the surface of the skin. And this is the highly recommended method in terms of following the Sunnah and where the cure is as per the Hadith
“the cure is in three things ‘drinking of honey, cuts of the cupping’…”
(5680, Sahih Al-Bukhari)

Dry Cupping (Hijama) – is the process just to gather the blood on that certain points without incisions.

Dry Massage Cupping (Hijama) – is the process similar to Dry Cupping but olive oil is applied pre-hand before it is cupped to massage with the movement of the cups.

As for Dry Cupping and Dry Massage cupping, they fall under the general mode and can be practised on any day at any time, there are no restrictions as the wet cupping is the one known to be among the Sunnah and which falls under the restrictions.

[A Summary on Hijama _ The Prophetic Medicine]

From Anas – RadhiAllaahu anhu –
who said:
‘A Bedouin came to the Prophet – sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – and said: ‘O Messenger of Allaah! Teach me some goodness.’

So the Prophet – sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – took him by the hand and said:

” قل: سبحان الله، والحمد لله، ولا إله إلا الله، والله أكبر.

‘Say: ‘Far is Allaah from imperfection, and all praise be to Allaah, and there is none worthy of worship in truth except Allaah, and Allaah is the Greatest.’

(Subhana Allaahi, wal hamdu lillaahi, wa la illaah ila Allaah, wa Allaahu Akbar.)’

The Bedouin counted them on his hand, when he finished he began to reflect then came back to the Prophet.

The Prophet – sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – smiled and said:

‘The desperate one has reflected.’

Then the Bedouin came and said:

‘O Messenger of Allaah! ‘Far is Allaah from imperfection, and all praise be to Allaah, and there is none worthy of worship in truth except Allaah, and Allaah is the Greatest.’ This is for Allaah, what is for me?’

The Prophet – sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – said:

اللهم اغفر لي وارحمني وعافني وارزقني واهدني

‘Say: O Allaah forgive me, and have mercy on me, and pardon me, and provide for me, and guide me.’

The Prophet – sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam – said to him:

‘O Bedouin! If you say: ‘SubhanAllah’, Allaah says: ‘you have spoken the truth,

If you say: ‘Alhamdulillah’, Allaah says: ‘ you have spoken the truth,

If you say: ‘La ilaha ‘illa Allaah’, Allaah says: ‘you have spoken the truth,

If you say: Allaahu Akbar, Allaah says: ‘you have spoken the truth,

If you say: O Allaah forgive me, Allaah says: I have done so,

If you say: O Allaah have mercy on me, Allaah says: I have done so,

If you say: O Allaah give me provision, Allaah says: I have done so,

Then the Bedouin counted it seven times on his fingers, then went away.’

Shaykh al-Muhaddith al-Albaani -Rahimullaah – said :

Collected by al-Bayhaqi in ‘Shuab al-Eemaan’, and this Isnaad is Jayyid (good) its narrators are trustworthy as for al-Hasan bin Tawab; then I had become exhausted searching about him until I found who he was. So I performed a Sajdah to Allaah thankful for His success and I ask Him for an increase in His excellence.’

[Taken from : ‘Silsilah Saheehah’ No. 3336 by the Shaykh al-Muhaddith al-Albaani -Rahimullaah ]
Translated by -Abbas Abu Yahya