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Make the Most of the Last Ten Nights, a Jumuʿah khuṭbah by Ustādh Abdul Hakeem Mitchell (hafidhahullāh) • Allāh swears by time in the Qurʾān, which shows its importance: time is a blessing to be used in His obedience • "Be keen on what benefits you and seek the help of Allāh": no good deed is done except by the tawfīq of Allāh • Ramaḍān is the month of fasting, night prayer and recitation of the Qurʾān, and its days pass quickly • Whoever has done well should continue, and whoever has fallen short should not despair, for the last ten nights and Laylat al-Qadr are still ahead • The Prophet ﷺ made iʿtikāf in the last ten days until Allāh took his soul: stay in the masjid if you can, and do not waste the time socialising Recorded on 29/3/24 (19 Ramaḍān 1445)

Taqwā, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh) • "We have instructed those who were given the Book before you, and you, to have taqwā of Allāh", and "Fear Allāh as He should be feared, and do not die except as Muslims" • What is forbidden is left entirely, while what is commanded is done to the best of one's ability: the example of Ḥajj for the one who is able • "Fear Allāh and know that you will meet Him", and the Fire whose fuel is men and stones • "Fear Allāh wherever you are": in public and alone, as a child behaves when the parent is watching • The definition of taqwā: placing a shield between yourself and Allāh's anger and punishment, and Ibn ʿAbbās on the people of taqwā • ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb falling ill for a month after hearing "The punishment of your Lord will surely come" • Taqwā is leaving what Allāh forbade and doing what He made obligatory; the verse of al-birr describes the people of taqwā • Taqwā in speech, in differences between brothers ("Fear Allāh and set right matters between you"), with one's wives, and in dealings with money • The fruits of taqwā: beneficial knowledge, a way out of every difficulty, provision from where one does not expect, blessings from the heavens and the earth • Crossing the Ṣirāṭ according to one's taqwā, Allāh saving those who feared Him, and Allāh being with the people of taqwā • This life is play and amusement, and the promise of Allāh is true Recorded in Reading

Hold Fast to the Rope of Allāh Altogether and Do Not Become Divided, a lecture with questions and answers by Shaykh Abu Idrees Muhammad Khan (hafidhahullāh) • The verse "Hold fast to the rope of Allāh altogether and do not become divided" is quoted even by those who oppose the Sunnah, and what it really commands • The causes of splitting: the People of the Book took what suited them and left the rest after clear proofs came • Why we call ourselves Salafī and not only Muslim: every sect claims Islām, and the ḥadīth of the seventy-three sects • The word Salaf used by the Prophet ﷺ, al-Bukhārī, az-Zuhrī and the imāms: the Salafī methodology is nothing new • Obeying the Messenger ﷺ is obeying Allāh: Ibn Masʿūd and the woman who could not find the curse on tattooing in the Qurʾān • Understanding the Qurʾān and the Sunnah upon the understanding of the Companions, who witnessed the revelation and were promised al-Ḥusnā • "I am a safeguard for my Companions": following and not innovating, from al-Barbahārī and al-Ājurrī • How the people of innovation hide themselves, with an account of meeting followers of Anwar al-Awlaki and their misuse of verses to justify suicide bombing • Questions: the label "Wahhābī", following a madhhab and blind following, and permissible differences of opinion • Ibn ʿAbbās: "I say to you the Messenger of Allāh said, and you say Abū Bakr and ʿUmar said?" Recorded in Middlesbrough

A reminder to the students of the Salafi School by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh) • Sincerity and truthfulness to Allāh, and seeking His help in every prayer: "You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help" • The path to Paradise needs patience and steadfastness, humility, and Tawḥīd and the Sunnah • Learning is for action: the more you know of Allāh's names and attributes, the more you fear Him and the closer you come to Him • You learn so that you are good to your parents and neighbours and become a guide, with the reward of everyone who follows you • Health and free time: don't waste the summer on games and phones • The prayer is light; be grateful for guidance, and if you are grateful Allāh will give you more • Charity with yourself as well as your wealth, and gentleness, which beautifies everything it is in Streamed LIVE on 26/7/25

Advice and Reminder during Ramaḍān, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh), based on khuṭbahs of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) • The danger of fasting becoming a habit rather than an act of worship as Ramaḍān goes on • How Allāh distinguished this month: fasting made obligatory, with even the sick and the traveller making it up and the elderly feeding a poor person • The Qurʾān revealed in Ramaḍān, on Laylat al-Qadr, which is better than a thousand months • Ramaḍān as mercy, forgiveness or freedom from the Fire for three types of people • The month of patience: in obedience, in keeping away from the forbidden, and with the decree • The gates of Paradise opened, the gates of Hell closed and the devils chained, and the one who reaches Ramaḍān and is not forgiven • The example of the trader at the end of his season: the believer takes account of what he gained in Ramaḍān • The Salaf spent six months asking Allāh to accept their Ramaḍān and six months asking to reach the next; Allāh only accepts from the people of taqwā, and the definition of Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb • The sign that a fast was accepted is that the person is better after Ramaḍān • Ar-Rayyān, fasting being for Allāh, fasting and the Qurʾān interceding, and Ramaḍān to Ramaḍān expiating what is between them • The blessing of suḥūr, hastening to break the fast, the reward for feeding a fasting person, and Zakāt al-Fiṭr given before the ʿĪd prayer Recorded in Teesside during Ramaḍān 1431H (2010)

Benefits from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, a lesson by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh), from the words of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) and Shaykh Ibn ʿUthaymīn (raḥimahullāh) • Al-Fātiḥah is the greatest sūrah in the Qurʾān: the ḥadīth "I will teach you the greatest sūrah in the Qurʾān before I leave the masjid" • Reciting al-Fātiḥah at gatherings, sermons and occasions without evidence is an innovation; acts of worship rest on proof • The three categories of Tawḥīd in the sūrah: Rubūbiyyah, al-Asmāʾ waṣ-Ṣifāt, and worship in "You alone we worship" • There is no prayer without al-Fātiḥah, and what the one unable to recite it says instead • The three positions on the one praying behind the imām, and why reciting it in the quiet prayers and listening in the loud prayers is the most balanced • Its many names (Umm al-Qurʾān, ar-Ruqyah, as-Sabʿ al-Mathānī, aṣ-Ṣalāh), and that many names indicate the nobility of what is named • The Companion who recited it as ruqyah over the chief stung by a scorpion, and a warning about today's paid ruqyah centres • It is seven āyāt, and the stronger view that the first āyah is "al-ḥamdu lillāhi Rabbil-ʿālamīn" • The guidance of direction and the guidance of tawfīq, which belongs to Allāh alone • Those who earned Allāh's anger (who knew and did not act, foremost the Jews) and those astray (who acted upon ignorance, foremost the Christians, and the people of innovation) Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 21/4/25

The Importance of Tawḥīd, a lecture by Ustādh Abu Rayhaanah Yahya (hafidhahullāh), based on the words of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (hafidhahullāh) • Tawḥīd must be spoken about constantly, clarified, learned and acted upon, because happiness in this life and the next is attained through it • Its definition: singling out Allāh with all worship and abandoning the worship of everything besides Him; hardly a sūrah of the Qurʾān is free of it • The false claim that the Muslim world has no need to learn Tawḥīd, and the Companions new to Islām who asked for a tree to hang their weapons on for blessing • Knowledge is taken away by the death of the scholars, so Tawḥīd must be given the utmost attention • Calling people to good manners or to leave alcohol and zinā without Tawḥīd is a building without a foundation, bound to collapse • The Prophet ﷺ spent thirteen years in Makkah calling to Tawḥīd, and sent Muʿādh to call first to the testimony that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh • The polytheists affirmed Tawḥīd ar-Rubūbiyyah; the dispute between the Messengers and their people was over Tawḥīd al-Ulūhiyyah • Worship of the heart, tongue and limbs, and the two conditions for a deed to be accepted: sincerity and following the Sunnah • Every innovation is misguidance: Ibn Masʿūd and the people counting stones in the masjid • Those who earned Allāh's anger and those who went astray, the deeds of the disbelievers like scattered dust and a mirage, and ʿaqīdah as the head of the body • Sūrat al-ʿAṣr: belief, righteous action, advising one another to the truth and to patience Streamed LIVE at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 11/1/25

In Defence of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdil-Wahhāb (raḥimahullāh), from the explanation of The Conditions of the Prayer by Shaykh ʿAbdul-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād (hafidhahullāh), translated and explained by Shaykh Abdulilah Lahmami (hafidhahullāh) • The false claim that Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdil-Wahhāb made takfīr of Muslims, and Shaykh ʿAbdul-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād's defence of him • The general ruling (whoever commits shirk is a mushrik) and the specific ruling on an individual, which only comes after the proof is established • His own words in ad-Durar as-Saniyyah: "If we do not declare a disbeliever the one who worships the idol at the grave of ʿAbdul-Qādir … due to their ignorance … Glory be to You, this is a great slander" • His letter to the people of al-Qaṣīm (explained by Shaykh al-Fawzān) and his statements in Majmūʿ Muʾallafāt that blanket takfīr is a slander of his enemies • He did not rebel against the Ottomans: their rule did not reach Najd, and shirk had spread at the graves, as with the domes over al-Baqīʿ • Calling upon other than Allāh, even as "intercessors", is shirk (Sūrat Yūnus 18); shirk is the greatest sin, and the people most deserving of the Prophet's ﷺ intercession are those who say lā ilāha illallāh sincerely • The Takfīrīs cut and paste from Nawāqiḍ al-Islām and ignore its ending, and ignore the principle in The Six Fundamental Principles on hearing and obeying the rulers • Hearing and obeying the rulers in good, not rebelling with the tongue or the sword, the example of Imām Aḥmad, and advising the ruler in private; "the Religion is sincere advice"

Recorded at the Bolton conference, Saturday 31 May 2008.

Sixty Names of the Qurʾān, from the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, a lecture by Shaykh Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (hafidhahullāh) The first few minutes of this lecture were not recorded. • The many names of the Messenger ﷺ, and of the Qurʾān, show their status: the more names a thing has, the greater its nobility • The names of the Qurʾān all refer to one thing, yet each carries its own meaning • Al-Muṣḥaf and al-Qurʾān: the Muṣḥaf is the whole written Qurʾān between two covers, from al-Fātiḥah to an-Nās • Al-Furqān: it separates truth from falsehood, Tawḥīd from shirk and the Sunnah from innovation, with the explanation of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah • Ibn Taymiyyah's parable: the guidance is the directions to Makkah, and the clear proofs are the landmarks along the way • Al-Kitāb and its descriptions: guidance for those who have taqwā, sent down with the truth, wise, mighty and upright • Al-Hudā, aṣ-Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm, adh-Dhikr, al-Bashīr wan-Nadhīr, and al-Muhaymin, which safeguards the truth of the earlier books Recorded at The Salafi Centre of Manchester on 22/6/19, the evening before the Manchester Summer Conference 2019