The Importance of Asking for a Suitable Mahr

"I always say that; a woman should ask for dowry and she should ask for dowry that will make the man think two and three and ten times about divorcing her. If you go and pay one dollar to marry a woman, he’s going to say: “what the heck, I’ll divorce her any day and get another one for another dollar”, if she asks for $5,000, she may not need it, but she asks for $5,000, that’s going to make the man [think], you know, it took a lot of time to gather this money and pay it for her. So, the woman should be wise and we should teach the woman about this in the future. The Prophet صلی ﷲ عليه وسلم said:

أقلهن مهورا أكثرهن بركة

The least in dowry is the most in baraka.

What is that mean? I just told you, you should ask for a large amount of dowry. Not a large amount, but if you got someone who’s coming to you, who’s a car station worker, he has saved up $10.000 maybe ask for $8,000. Cut him some slack. However, don’t go around — he has $10,000 and go and ask him for $20,000, which he could never do. Then that becomes a problem. But he has some amount of money saved, then ask so he can feel he’s getting married. The hadith “the lowest in their dowry is the most in barakah” means [regarding] the Mahr of those around them. Meaning: the Yemeni girls – and I always use this example – are going around for $20,000, some of them, $15,000 to $20,000 . That’s the average dowry men pay for a Yemeni woman. The average, from what I know. A respectable woman comes, says: “no, I don’t want to have $15,000, I’ll take $8,000”. That’s أقلهن مهورا.

She doesn’t go: “Oh, $15,000, no I take a Mushaf, or a dollar”. No, that’s not the right way to do it! Then if he divorces her, she regrets it. If he divorces her when she has the $8,000, no he’s going to think about it, it’s going to be a major problem."

— Shaykh Ahmad Musa Jibril (حفظه الله)

Both Ukraine & Russia have Muslim blood on their hands, may Allah destroy both.

Muslims spare their tears for the muwahideen massacred, and to the rest they say:

فَكَيْفَ ءَاسَىٰ عَلَىٰ قَوْمٍۢ كَٰفِرِينَ
“how can I have sorrow for the disbelieving people” 7:93

— Shaykh Ahmad Jibril (حفظه الله)

Two ways the night may be spent:

1.
يَسْتَخْفُونَ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلَا يَسْتَخْفُونَ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ وَهُوَ مَعَهُمْ إِذْ يُبَيِّتُونَ مَا لَا يَرْضَىٰ مِنَ ٱلْقَوْلِ ۚ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ مُحِيطًا

“They conceal [their evil intentions and deeds] from the people, but they cannot conceal [them] from Allah, and He is with them [in His knowledge] when they spend the night in such as He does not accept of speech. And ever is Allah, of what they do, encompassing.” [An Nisā’]

2.

وَٱلَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًا وَقِيَـٰمًا

“And those who spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing [in prayer].” [Al Furqān]


ۖ وَٱللَّهُ يَكْتُبُ مَا يُبَيِّتُونَ ۖ

Bad experiences with Muslim men who use culture/misinterpretations of Islāmic texts to oppress their women and abuse them is not an excuse for anyone to sympathize with or support Feminism (an ideology that is rigged with Kufr). Stop tying to solve the problem by adopting new -isms and instead return to your religion and propagate and proclaim it. If you really believe Islām is perfect, you wouldn’t feel the need to use other than it to solve a problem amongst those who claim to be adherents to it.

Additionally, a bad experience with an ex husband should be accepted as being the Qadr of Allāh for you or your own mistake in not choosing properly. These things happen, may Allāh protect our sisters, there’s no shame in it, it teaches us lessons. BUT don’t let it become a wound through which you allow feminism and liberalism (OR sympathy to these ideologies and their proponents) to seep into your heart.

Some sisters, SubhānAllāh, they never even experienced anything, but just hearing stories of horrible men convinces them that feminism is the answer to the suffering of women in the world. Lā Ilāha Illa Allāh, is Islām not perfect and complete?! Are Allāh and His religion not sufficient for us? Do you seek honor through the ideologies of the Kuffār who Allāh hates? You should know that honor is found with Allāh and in obedience to His commands. The answer to the suffering and the oppression any woman may face is in The Book you’re throwing behind you’re backs for a cheap ideology that propagates every type of Fisq and Fāhishah.

We are a nation honored by Islām, and seeking honor through any other lifestyle or ideology will only bring us more humiliation and oppression.

INTENTION

"Niyyah is essential for ordains, where one is ordered to do something, and it’s a pre-requisite for reward when leaving the prohibitions. Leaving zina (fornication) for example. Someone had the opportunity (to do zina), he left it. Because he left it he didn’t get any sins, but in order to attain the reward he needs to have the Niyyah that he left it for Allāh’s sake. So, in ordainments the Niyyah makes the matter accepted, and the Niyyah gives reward to those who leave prohibitions."

- Al-Shaykh Al-Imām Ahmad Musā Jibrīl (حفظه الله تعالى)

People don't understand the immense value that's being offered in these unreleased classes of Furu Al-Fiqh, by Shaykh Ahmad (حفظه الله تعالى). This was an unprecedented and monumental undertaking that no one had even attempted in the English language. We ask Allah to make it a Sadaqa Jaariyah for him, and the one(s) who assisted him, until the Day of Judgement.

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله وبركاته

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TRANSCRIBED: 10 | Explanation of Furū' Al-Fiqh | Shaykh Ahmad Musā Jibrīl (حفظه الله)

Lecture 10 Trannoscription in Word Document Format, to assist those who wish to make their own outlines, notes, etc.

One of the tricks of the Shaytaan that the youth allow themselves to be fooled with when their Imaan dips is the extreme hope in the fact that since their Aqeedah is good, the sins they do aren’t as serious. They use their correct Aqeedah as a justification for themselves to fall into certain matters by comparing themselves with those who are upon Baatil creeds and are sinners, so they have a mentality of “Well, hey, at least I’m not as bad as that guy/girl because s/he’s coupling sins and corrupt Aqeedah” “I’m just low on Imaan, so I’m doing xyz, but my Aqeedah is sound still”

While it’s true that many sins with correct Tawheed is better than no sins with corrupted Tawheed, we need to understand a concept:

Sins lead to weakening of Imaan, and when the Imaan becomes weak, one becomes more susceptible to doubts regarding their principles. It’s very possible that one moment you let yourself slip into a sin, no matter how “small” it may be, that you lose your Aqeedah due to it. That one sin may weaken your faith to the point that you lose the Yaqeen and Istiqamah that you had upon your principles due to it.

Your Aqeedah is not an excuse to slack off just because it’s rare to possess such beliefs. Perhaps your slacking off and indulging in sins that you belittle will be the reason that Allah decides that you actually don’t deserve this Aqeedah, or it may be the reason that he takes away the light of faith from your heart and leaves you to wander in darkness.

If anything, this Aqeedah should push you harder to hold yourself to the highest standards in regards to obedience of Allah in every matter. Your gratefulness to Allah is displayed through your obedience to Him and your consciousness of His boundaries. So don’t take guidance for granted, show Allah your appreciation for this great Ni’mah (blessing) by striving your hardest to stay away from everything he forbid and racing towards everything He loves and orders.

السلام عليكم و رحمة الله وبركاته

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TRANSCRIBED: 11 | Explanation of Furū' Al-Fiqh | Shaykh Ahmad Musā Jibrīl (حفظه الله)

Lecture 11 Trannoscription in Word Document Format, to assist those who wish to make their own outlines, notes, etc.

There are matters that you deem to be far off, impossible dreams, with every avenue to achieve them closed off upon you, but once your forehead hits the ground and you whisper your desires into the dust, you heart surges with confidence that Allāh will move mountains out of your way to give you what your soul yearns for. There’s nothing too difficult for a Lord who raised the sky without pillars and Who holds the heavens and Earth in place lest they move away. How can one not believe with firm conviction that he will be answered when Allāh Himself says أستجب لكم (I WILL respond to you)? And who is more truthful in speech than Allāh?

How could you be shy to raise your hands to your Creator and ask for ANYTHING, when He سبحانه is shy to let you put your hands down without granting you your wish?

How often we buried the seeds of our desires in the dust beneath our faces, and rose from prostration only to see trees growing right before our eyes...

HAUNTED SOULS

Every reminder we write and post should be aimed at ourselves first and foremost. If we can't take our own advice, and it doesn't hit us deeply every time we read it over, how can we expect others to be effected or moved by it?

It should be an admonition to ourselves that we're simply reflecting upon out loud so that others who hear may benefit as well inshā'Allāh, but we ourselves should be the primary recipients of what we preach and advise others regarding.

As the saying goes, when you point one finger at others, there's three pointing back at you. How shameful it is, that every time we post reminders or advice, we search into our own selves and find that remnants and traces of the diseases that we claim to detest reside silently within the abysses of our conscience? Shine a light into your soul, and you'll be surprised at what evil lurks in the darknesses and corners. Listen to your own thoughts, and you'll hear them cackling silently at you in mockery: You preach so boldly against these vices, but what a petty fool you were to believe yourself to be pure of them.

May Allah cleanse our hearts from Nifāq and 'Ujb, and grant us victory in the everlasting and torturous battle against Riyā', the most elusive enemy that our souls face. How many times we mistakenly declare victory over it, only to be struck with a blow from a direction we never expected, and buckle to our knees once more in utter defeat.

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله

Biography

Shaykh ‘Abdul Jabbār Shākir was born in 1976 in a small rural village called Qila Kalar Wala near Sudagarpur Pakistan. His late father, Muhammad Yūsuf, was a religious man, who had 5 sons, 3 of which were Huffādh of The Noble Qur’an. Shaykh ‘Abdul Jabbār’s younger brother was a Mujāhid who attained martyrdom in Kashmīr. He lost his mother at the tender young age of 7, and his father passed away in 2013, one year before Shaykh ‘Abdul Jabbār Shākir’s arrest.

After completing high school (which is completed around 16 years old in Pakistan), his father enrolled him into the well known university Jami’ah Salafiyyah in Faisalabad to pursue knowledge of The Qur’an and Ahādith. He studied there for 7 years, gaining knowledge and studying from various well known scholars in the area, among whom was Mawlana Muhammad Sharīf, who had the noscript of Ustadh al-‘Ulamā’ (the teacher of the ‘Ulamā’), who Shaykh ‘Abdul Jabbār studied very closely with. In his student days, he became known as an eloquent, powerful, and influential speaker. He graduated from the university with impressive marks.

After graduating, he further sought to quench his thirst for knowledge, so he applied and was accepted to Madīnah University in Bilād Al Haramayn, and with his great love for the Messenger (ﷺ), he took his place in the faculty of Hadīth. He studied and gained knowledge of Ahadīth for 6 years in Madinah. During his time there, he independently studied Ilm al-Hadīth from Shaykh Al-Albāni and Ibn Bāz was also one of his teachers. He gave Durūs a number of times in Masjid An-Nabawi and was granted the ability to make Hajj every year and ‘Umrah many times during his stay in The Holy Land. He had an exceptional memory and memorized the entire Qur’an, from cover to cover, in just 2 months. He remained in Madīnah from 1996-2002, and then returned to Pakistan.

Upon his return to the homeland, he began to deliver Jumu’ah Khutab in his hometown and his wisdom and great insight in his preaching began to gather large congregations. In 2005, the people of Sialkot nearby invited him to move there and begin his Da’wah activities in their locality. He accepted the invitation and moved and settled in Sialkot permanently. He began giving Khutbahs in the Masjid of the Two Minarets in Aminabad road, a Masjid that originally had a small Jama’ah, but once he began to preach, the Masjid space became insufficient to hold the attendees. He was known for his excellent manners and sincerity in character, having no ulterior motives behind his excellent treatment of the Muslims. People who met him once couldn’t help but have deep affinity and respect for him. He spent 8 years preaching and calling to Tawheed, Sunnah, and following the Sahabah in Sialkot and there’s hardly a Masjid in the city in which he didn’t deliver Durūs. Aside from Sialkot, he frequented many other cities for Da’wah and spreading ‘Ilm. He began Durūs to teach the entire Qur’an, Ayah by Ayah, in 5 different Masājid and had finished only half of the Qur’an in each Dars (before his arrest) yet hundreds of the people, mostly youth, had changed their lives around due to them and began to lead lives devoted to Allāh. He always spoke out firmly against any evil and wrongdoing, but he was not known to ever publicly and directly criticize any individual, nor to ever stir up any Fitnah between any groups, and he preached with great Hikmah. He was part of the council of seniors for Ahl al-Hadith Markaz of Pakistan.